Christopher Columbus set sail with three small ships into the vast body of water of the coast of Spain, thinking, believing that the world, being round, contrary to the popular opinion that it was flat, he could arrive in China. When he landed in the Carribean islands, he still didn't know exactly where he was. Yet today, we honor him as a man of bold daring and of a faith strong enough to carry him half-way around the world, or even less, as we now know the world.
Faith leads us to do, or to attempt the impossible. Forty-four brothers were martyred for their faith on this day in Barcelona in 1936. Their faith journey as Little Brothers of Mary ended abruptly "in mid-stream" we might say, yet they held fast to their faith and their vocation.
These days new generations of the Little Brothers and youth are taking on the challenge to revitalize their faith. Br. Emili Turu, our Superior General is an observer at the Synod on the New Evanglization taking place in Rome; brothers in Africa have met to work on becoming Evangelizers in the mids of Youth, and others are preparing for the Marist Youth Gathering in Rio de Janiero before the World Youth Day next summer. Their theme is Change: Make a Difference, which is a good segue to the WYD theme: "Go, Make Disciples of All Nations." And daily we seek the means to put flesh on the bones of our own faith by our fidelity to prayer and our striving to be and act like Jesus. May we willingly accept God's call to an active, living faith as so many others have done and are doing.
Bro. Rene
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