INCARNATION
The Institute has its origin in the very heart of God, who so loved the world that He gave His only Son, to instruct us and teach us the way. SR 1:1
The mystery of the incarnation is a mystery of poverty. He was rich but He became poor for our sake (2Cor 8:9)
God willed not only that he should become man but also, that he should become a little child…. Whoever receives a poor and abandoned child, doubly welcomes Jesus Christ. SR 1:2
Christ calls us to Himself to share in His life and unite ourselves with His mission. He invites us to follow Him in the ways in His incarnation, and to recognize Him today, in the poor and the little ones with whom He identified BI 1:4.
Faith is the Mystery of the Incarnation is at the heart of our vocation. BI 1:13
The mystery of the incarnation is a mystery of poverty. He was rich but He became poor for our sake (2Cor 8:9)
God must “become” in us, Jesus must “become incarnate” in us, so that we lead the life He led, suffer, die, rise and ascend to heaven with Him. RR 1.
Let us long and yearn, for a second incarnation to take place within us. Let us trust in God and abandon ourselves to Him alone. RR4
Christ entered fully into our human condition and chose to be born and live as a poor person. BI 28
The Incarnation is the work of the Holy Spirit. If we allow the Holy Spirit to take possession of us, our whole life can become an experience of God. BI 14.
Here lies the real aim of the Eucharist; to complete in us the mystery of the Incarnation, the purpose of which is, to enable all people to share in the divinity of Christ. The Word became flesh. He became a human person with flesh and bones like us, subject to all kinds of weakness like us, so that the life of God could be strengthened in us. RR 9
It was through His angels that God spoke to Moses, Abraham etc and it was through the prophets that He spoke to His people. But since the Incarnation He has spoken to us through His Son. He therefore is the only one we should listen to and follow: MAP 166.
GOD’S LOVE
Let us work for pure love and the greater glory of God. Let us do all that we can to accomplish our duty well and above all with great fidelity. God will be faithful in rewarding us in this world and in the next. But it is not the thought of a reward that should motivate us. It is pure and holy love which should encourage us.
When our hearts and wills are totally at one with those of Jesus, all that we do and suffer will flow from his heart and will, which gives infinite merit to the least acts of love done in the name of Jesus.
This love will give rise to an increase of faith in all the truths of the Gospel and unlimited trust that, whatever is in store for us, God will help us with grace and special protection. We will then be ready to accept the outcome of our work whether good or bad, like a servant who, despite affliction, is determined to carry out God’s will until death, with the help of grace.
Remain at peace in the midst or at the height of your struggles, believing that God truly loves you.
A s e l f – sacrificing person concentrates more effort on the other than on self.
When we say we love Jesus it would only be pretence if we do not love all this people, including our neighbor, the least of whom is this image.
The charitable mistresses will be effective if they pay attention to a deep love for souls, but a supernatural, God giving love for the persons for whom they are responsible, behaving and acting like mothers who, forgetful of themselves, endure everything for their children and who omit nothing that is for their good
Be aware of God looking at you with total love and then hear Jesus asking you, Will you love me?
The institute has its origin in the very heart of God, who so loved the world that He gave His only Son, to instruct us and teach us the way.
Animated by the spirit of love, source of his apostolic zeal, Fr. Barre’ devoted himself courageously to serve God and the church according to the needs of his time.
We must long and thirst for God who is love. We must dispose ourselves and devote all our attention and zeal to the continuous effort of seeking and finding God in simplicity.
If all virtue is inspired by the love of Jesus, we may say that charity takes the first place in the spirituality of Fr. Barre’ or better still, that Christ who is Love must be considered to be the first rule of our lives.
In honouring and imitating our savior Jesus Christ, who with love delivered Himself to accomplish in everything for the good pleasure of His father, they will aim to do all things for the pure love of God.
The Holy Spirit teaches us how to love as Jesus loved. Gradually set free by this love, we become truly ourselves. We then become more aware of the need to help each person to grow in accordance with his or her own innate ability so that, together, we may all become what God wants us to be.
As we grow in this genuine and disinterested love, we will be more ready to accept each person in the mystery of his or her God-given personality. We will then open our hearts to all, giving first place to the poor and the “little ones”
TRUST
Trust completely and you will receive in proportion to your faith.
When we wish to make progress in spiritual life difficulties arise. It is then that we must trust in God’s mercy to have the strength to continue.
Filial trust is an assurance that has its roots in the excessive love that God has for us
Put your trust in Jesus count on his grace and his mercy
The root of trust is the giving of one’s whole self to God.
To live in trust presupposes that we are on familiar terms with God.
Whatever happens be always at peace and trust in God, what you will experience will be in proportion to your faith, your hope, and your love, and even more abundantly than that.