How to Become A Comboni Missionary
How does one become a Comboni Missionary? Well, there is the time of discernment, the application and basic formation process ~ but that is not the answer I am thinking about. The process of becoming a Comboni Missionary is actually on-going ~ day after day, we mature into a Comboni Missionary. Looking at our Rule of Life for the foundation of our consecration, we are reminded that it is an initiative of the gratuitous love of God: an active, effective and creative love of the God-Trinity that comes to us (Rule of Life # 20). So, we grow, with the help of the Trinity ~ moulded and transformed ~ into true Comboni Missionaries. The question then, is: How does the Holy Trinity mould me into a Comboni Missionary, today, here and now?
Our Rule of Life insists on our attention to the world, as an essential attitude of the Comboni way of life and source of the Comboni Missionary prayer. It goes even further and proposes attention to the world as the Comboni Missionary prayer. This kind of attention to our "missionary reality" is an acknowledgment that the God-Trinity is coming to us right here, renewing our missionary call. From reality, we commit ourselves to planning ~ knowing nothing of all this will lead to lasting or practical results unless it springs from joy and gratitude ~ true source of apostolic zeal.
