FROM THE HEART OF THE CHURCH
Message from the International Team on Universal Day of The Guide
With the joy of the extraordinary outpouring of the Holy Spirit that we receive, on this day of Pentecost, we greet you from the heart of the Church, as we find ourselves in the Jubilee of the Movements, Associations and New Communities in the Vatican. Here all the Guides of the World, are represented since the Lord granted us the grace of meeting at this event with 360 participants of the TOV Family to live this experience of love and hope. Furthermore, we have permission to share the Vigil and the Eucharist of Pentecost with the Santo Padre Leo XIV, as a sign of adherence and communion with the entire Church, which journeys tirelessly as a pilgrim in constant listening.
We come from different countries, we speak different languages, we have different cultures, but our faith is one, and we live it through this Charism that the Holy Spirit placed in the heart of our Founder, Father Ignacio Larrañaga. We are witnesses of Christ’s love. A love that continues to spread throughout the world, growing every day, because nothing will ever stop it.
The Holy Spirit continues to inspire us and invites us to delve deeper and deeper into the depths of the mystery of the Father’s love. Let us allow Him to continue to act within us and enrich us with His gifts and graces, for without Him we will hardly be able to grasp anything of the greatness of this love, which we are savoring step by step on this unceasing journey toward the final Homeland. For us, the proposal is one: to choose Jesus’ style, prayerful and contemplative, to attain the gift of humility and the emptiness of ourselves, so that He alone may fill all our inner spaces. This will lead us to experience true fraternal love, launching ourselves with an open heart into the arms of our brothers and sisters, even at the risk of not being reciprocated.
Our mission, following in Jesus’ footsteps, is to love, and to do so in a thousand ways and forms, tirelessly, without expecting anything in return, because it is enough to know that we are active participants called to fulfill Jesus’ Golden Dream. Let us make this wish a reality: that everyone may feel that I love them.
Shalom, dear brothers and sisters! Happy and blessed Universal Guide Day!
TOV International Team
My Father will send you the Spirit.
My children, the Poor Man began, pouring out his heart with great emotion, and these would be his last words, the time has come for me to say goodbye to you. Love does not reach its depth until the hour of separation. I am leaving, and when I say goodbye, my love for all of you will reach the stature of a tower on a hill; neither gale nor lightning will be able to strike it down,
What will become of us? Thomas insisted.
will not abandon you like orphans in unknown homes, nor will I allow you to get lost in the ravines of the mountains. Let your heart not be troubled. Do not open your doors to grief and sadness. I am leaving to prepare a home for you in my Father Kingdom, in the center of which I will light a red hearth of love; there we will sit, warm ourselves, and learn the secret of joy that never dies.
I have passed among you, he continued, swift as a star, sowing abundant words. Now, if my words are lost in the wells of oblivion or you find them shrouded in mist, do not worry, my Father will send you a Comforter, who will at the same time be an Enlightener, who will help you remember everything and will dispel the mists from your horizons so that everything I said and did will appear transparent to your eyes.
I will return from the distant land as swallows return in summer, and the wind will scatter Easter songs through the valleys of your souls. I will tear away the shroud of sadness and clothe you in a mantle of glory, and joy will never leave your horizons, hallelujah.
All this, he added, I have explained to you in parables and figures of speech. But the hour is approaching when there will be no more parables. The Comforter I will send you from my Father will flood your eyes with a direct and meridian clarity.
Taken from the book; The Poor Man of Nazareth; Chapter VIII. Subtitle: A Dream of Gold; by Father Ignacio Larrañaga.