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Fr Gaspar, Superior General and Fr Enrico Frigerio, Vicar General, from India "unveil" and make available to you all the new issue of the NEF that, with this month, resumes its usual publication...

"Safe journey!" After the summer break, the NEF is back again with new energy to accompany you along another year and to share with you the journey of our religious family.

September 14 - Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. In September 1616, some farmers of Montaut saw the cross struck down by a storm. Immediately it was seen to re-erect itself surrounded by a shining light.

After a holiday, NEF returns with the news of our Family.

"I also “dream” but with a reconciled Betharram, simpler, bolder and more committed in community. Let the community be: our home; charity: the sign of our home; the prayer: our oxygen; the Word and the Eucharist: our food; the poor: our friends!”. (Fr Gustavo Agín SCJ)

«Although initially we are full of difficulties, I invite you not to lose the courage that should mark us. Let us raise our eyes to heaven and imagine a Saint Michael who tells us: “These trials in the beginning could be a sign of predestination, God wants it. Courage! Always forward! You never have to wait any longer than when everything seems lost”.» (Fr Gustavo Agín SCJ)

“This morning I went to Igon, and we meditated on these words: ‘The mother of Jesus was standing at the foot of the cross. Such a mother... the mother of such a Son... Standing there not discouraged, on the contrary, courageous, obedient, happy to be there at the foot of the cross upon which her Son is most cruelly nailed. There, though it is daytime, in reality it is the darkness of night. There amidst the rabble, she is there. So resigned... so good even to the tormentor of her Son. (Saint Michael Garicoïts, DS § 125)

“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)

“As young people, you have experienced these days of joy. You have great dreams, but often fear that they may not come true; sometimes you think that you are not up to the challenge, which is a kind of pessimism that can overcome us at times. As young people, you may be tempted at this time to lose heart, to think you fall short, or to disguise your pain with a smile…

“Our Lord calls those he wants at his side, with a single irresistible word: “Follow me”. And so Matthew, leaving the tax table, got up and followed him... What power can a single word contain to attract forever the heart of a great sinner!...