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The season of Lent is a perfect opportunity to return to the Lord with all your heart. Therefore this liturgical season suggests preparing moments of retreat and silence to learn again how to listen to the voice of God.

On the morning of June 25, the bishop of Chiang Rai, Mgr Joseph Vuthilert Haelom, ordained two Betharramites, Br Phanupan SCJ and Br Pichet SCJ, and a religious of the Identes Congregation as deacons.

“We are going through a time in which we feel tested, and experience the need to take stock, to see who we are, what we want to live together and where we are going. (…) It is no longer about refashioning things as they were before... The current crisis has put us at a crossroads and we have a choice ahead of us.” (Fr. Gustavo Agín SCJ)

“So Betharramites who are walking together towards the 2023 General Chapter, do we want to join that dream?…

“Placing ourselves at the service of freedom and responsibility for all implies in turn not allowing gossip, heartbreak, revenge or competition for “the first places” to take root among us (cf. Lk 22. 24- 38). Proximity, availability, trust and reciprocity. Values that cannot be lived without giving each other mutual help, cultivating good dispositions that guarantee them and that lead us to share what we call: true joy.” (Fr Gustavo Agín SCJ).