Thus I try to be, living in one and the same way in permanent communion with the Lord and with people, my brothers and sisters in the international firm in which I work, being apostolic and contemplative.
Apostolic and contemplative
- It means staying open and sensitive to the evolution of the world and seeing in each person, each worker, each act God’s action and his proposal for us to take part in this action.
- It means to accept being kneaded with all the heaviness of a hard, unfair and dehumanised professional life (routine, redundancy, unemployment…) as well as with the riches (discoveries, conversations, friendship, collective actions). God, indeed, meets us in the heart of this daily life among others.
- It means to be one with suffering, the pain of humanity but also with their aspirations, their deep expectations and also be one with the collective sin of a godless world with new idols (power, individualism, money, possession…). It means gathering all this life together to offer it up to the Church, to witness the message of all this and of my baptism, to entrust God with the cries and labours of humanity, to offer and to celebrate the Glory of the Creator.
- It means to love and do my job well as being part of the mission God entrusts me.
- It means I feel called to pray all the time to give thanks for everything good and to pray about those things that can cause dehumanisation, compromises and conflicts.
The special place of my dedication to God (by Abhijeet Rane, CC)
The Cor Unum Family, in calling me to consecrate all my life totally and definitively invites me to interiorise and unify all my apostolic activities and my entire life to encounter through constant reflexion God who is the essential, leaving me constantly and humbly inhabited by His Spirit, so that he can be revealed. In this way, the Cor Unum Family helps me to consider my work as the special place of dedication to God and my life in the world.
