Open to the Future

The opening required by the future is motivated by the tendencies of today's world globalization. The phenomenon of human mobility facilitates the meeting of totally different peoples and cultures in a small geographical space. The tendency to internationality and the changing geography of vocations ever more evident in the Church, require an open heart to new rhythms of life and different styles of being, feeling, thinking, acting...

The future is asking of us the ability to auto-transcend, namely the ability to step out of ourselves, our ideas, even of our aspirations and roles. In other word, it asks of us the ability to live with people who are different.

The future invites us to put on the Spirit of Pentecost ~ which takes concrete shape in attitudes and ways of acting that allow us to speak our language without closing our ears to others; to open ourselves to communion and participation without losing our identity. The future asks us to foster the dialogue between different generations and cultures as a style of life, as a missionary method, but above all as a means to build and protect fraternity. To achieve this we need that basic and ongoing formation, the Comboni Missionary formation, being an international community, is a formation to acceptance and openness toward true interpersonal relationships.

Opening to Others

The future asks to allow ourselves to be guided by the Spirit ~ the one who helps us take seriously the notion that God is the Father and that brotherhood is a necessary consequence in the task of liberation and human promotion (see Lk. 4: 18-19).

We know fully well that poverty and violence, the fruits of injustice will not disappear until one accepts others as brothers and sisters. Humanity loudly demands people who can show us how to live with this attitude. The mission needs missionaries who will be animators and promoters of humanizing processes, so that the hands of individuals and peoples we serve will be less and less extended in the gesture of beggars, but more and more in the gesture of cooperators.