The
poor Christ is always coming toward us to give himself to us. We never go to
him alone, we always go together. And so our life as monks is lived out in community in an ordinariness that is ultimately transformative for each of us from the novitiate until our last moments in the
infirmary.
As we persevere in community day in day out, we follow
in the footsteps of Jesus. For truly we have no other way to discover that we are
poor men following the poor Christ. And
the deeper our personal awareness of our poverty grows, the more the compassion
and mercy of the poor Christ can flow into us, into our community and into the whole
Church.
Postcard from our monastery of Our Lady of the Valley in Rhode Island. Meditation from a Homily by Father Isaac.