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“We, religious and lay people, nd our happiness in the charism of Saint Michael Garicoits; We want to “give to others the same happiness”, especially to young and adult people who are looking for meaning in their lives.” (Acts of the XXVIIth General Chapter, n. 18)

“To work for our own salvation and perfection, the salvation and perfection of our neighbour, that is our task. To fully involve ourselves in this for us is life; but to do this negligently is to languish; and not to do at all it is to die.” (Rule of life, p. 130)

“Good Father Garicoits lived fascinated by a Jesus who freely gave his divine life to humanity and did so without reservation, without wasting time, without turning back, …continuously and for love. Mystic of the heart of Jesus, he drank from his open side, and taught his own followers to do the same, so that when evangelising, the stream of the water of Life would arise in the mission countries.” (Fr. Gustavo Agín scj)

“In a few days,we will celebrate the 191th anniversary of Father Etchecopar’s birth. (…) So we wish to present once more such an important figure for our Congregation, to the point of having been declared by his brothers “the second founder of the Institute”.

“Betharramite brothers of the third millennium, today the Church also invites us to discern, in mutual listening to that Spirit who leads us prophetically to “pluck up and tear down, to build and plant” (cf. Jer 31:28). Therefore, I invite you to look at ourselves realistically.

“We Betharramites want to walk together, but we will not be able to if we are trapped by our past. It is a past that we have honoured many many times, (why deny it?) But we have felt its weight, mired in great paradoxes that have caused us pain, shame or perplexity.

“The founding Father told us: “We...belong to a community whose origin, purpose and ministries are quite sublime; a community that came to be formed despite our feeble selves – I mean that despite all the obstacles that we put up with, and that we continue to put up with in many ways – a community that finds itself in very intimate circumstances before God, the Church and itself ” (Spiritual Doctrine 243)." (Fr. Gustavo Agín SCJ)

“The Betharramite pilgrimage to Southeast Asia is a reason for renewed hope for the entire Congregation. The charism of Saint Michael lives on among us, and this is a reason for joy—amid the many sorrows we experience— to offer as a tribute in this month dedicated to our founder.” (Fr. Gustavo Agín SCJ)

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