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The NEF is coming to you today with the smiling faces of Fr. Yesudas Kuttappassery SCJ, Fr. Albert Sa-at SCJ and of six young aspirants in our community of Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam).

“To going out to share” - “This is how St. Michael wanted us to be: religious who love their vocation, who do not remain alone, or asleep, or in gloom, but who persist in sharing with others the same happiness.” (Fr. Gustavo Agín scj)

“Let us help to reform and renew the missionary sense of the whole life and activity of the Church. Let us do it with the testimony of happy religious, bearers of salvation, so that the world may believe in the proclamation and sanctify itself: just as Saint Michael Garicoïts wanted it. Let us plant and water. As for the rest...., as always: the Lord will do it.” (Fr. Gustavo Agín scj)

“Joseph saw Jesus grow daily ‘in wisdom and in years and in divine and human favour” (Lk 2:52). As the Lord had done with Israel, so Joseph did with Jesus: he taught him to walk, taking him by the hand; he was for him like a father who raises an infant to his cheeks, bending down to him and feeding him (cf. Hos 11:3-4). In Joseph, Jesus saw the tender love of God: ‘As a father has compassion for his children, so the Lord has compassion for those who fear him’ (Ps 103:13).

“The Heart of Jesus, spreading the mercy of the Lord that annoints, heals and frees, throws out to us that great invitation this year 2022: to accept us in our helplessness, and especially to accept the others who share this condition of weakness with us.

“We are not alone, we are still alive, the Master shows us the way!

“In a global society, the encounter between people from different cultures is frequent and occurs in the most diverse situations. It is about observing and respecting others, trying not to invade their space. It is like a basic exercise in tolerance that we call “coexistence".

“Lent has begun; we walk through the desert behind the pillar of cloud. There is a penitential tone to our journey. Our horizon is Christ's Easter, as Pilgrims of hope on the path of Peace.

The Betharramite Lay Associates of Italy, from Piazza San Pietro in Rome, remind us that today we celebrate the feast of our Father Saint Michael Garicoïts, and they announce the May release of the NEF!

May 14th, 2016: feast of St. Michael Garicoïts. This issue of the NEF is bringing to you all, religious and laity, our best wishes expressed with the very words of our father, Saint Michael...