MISSION TO THE POOR
REDEMPTORIST SPIRITUALITY
REFLECTING ON THE MISSION TO THE POOR
“Sure that it was god’s will, Alphonsus picked up his courage and started to act; and making the total sacrifice of the city of Naples to Jesus Christ, he offered to live the rest of his days in sheep-folds and hovels, and to die amoung shepherds and country-folk” (A.M. Tannoia, Della vita ed Istituto del Ven. S. di D. Alfonso M. Liguori, I 66).
To understand Redemptorists spirituality towards the poor, it is crucial to have a light of St. Alphonsus concern for distacco or detachment to follow the will and calling of Christ the Redeemer. Alphonsus calling enabled him to realize the kind of life that Jesus had prepared for him. That is focusing toward a new goal. In which confers of today strive to follow. Thus Alphonsus becomes a master of prayer as he saw the great need of discerning on God’s will.
The conversion of St. Alphonsus is not caused by what he saw as a lost case in court, but was more of the injustice and corruption he witnessed happen. Furthermore, his conversion is more consecrated as he submits to Mary our Mother. With this inspiration, Alphonsus opens his heart wherever the Lord will lead him. It is through the help of this conversion that Alphonsus leaves the society he has lived to encounter the poor in the mountains of Scala. Thus a spirit of giving himself to the preaching of the gospel, to the spiritually abandoned develops. This becomes a pre-occupation of his life and so the development of Alphonsian spirituality.
Christ will be the center of Alphonsian spirituality. This can be referred to the scriptures when it says that, “The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners, and recovery of sight by the blind, to set the oppressed free, to proclaim the year of the lord’s favor” (Luke 4, 18-19 New International Version 2011). This scripture becomes the foundational text of
REFLECTING ON THE MISSION TO THE POOR
“Sure that it was god’s will, Alphonsus picked up his courage and started to act; and making the total sacrifice of the city of Naples to Jesus Christ, he offered to live the rest of his days in sheep-folds and hovels, and to die amoung shepherds and country-folk” (A.M. Tannoia, Della vita ed Istituto del Ven. S. di D. Alfonso M. Liguori, I 66).
To understand Redemptorists spirituality towards the poor, it is crucial to have a light of St. Alphonsus concern for distacco or detachment to follow the will and calling of Christ the Redeemer. Alphonsus calling enabled him to realize the kind of life that Jesus had prepared for him. That is focusing toward a new goal. In which confers of today strive to follow. Thus Alphonsus becomes a master of prayer as he saw the great need of discerning on God’s will.
The conversion of St. Alphonsus is not caused by what he saw as a lost case in court, but was more of the injustice and corruption he witnessed happen. Furthermore, his conversion is more consecrated as he submits to Mary our Mother. With this inspiration, Alphonsus opens his heart wherever the Lord will lead him. It is through the help of this conversion that Alphonsus leaves the society he has lived to encounter the poor in the mountains of Scala. Thus a spirit of giving himself to the preaching of the gospel, to the spiritually abandoned develops. This becomes a pre-occupation of his life and so the development of Alphonsian spirituality.
Christ will be the center of Alphonsian spirituality. This can be referred to the scriptures when it says that, “The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners, and recovery of sight by the blind, to set the oppressed free, to proclaim the year of the lord’s favor” (Luke 4, 18-19 New International Version 2011). This scripture becomes the foundational text of