GOING FORTH / TIMOR LESTE

15 Mar GOING FORTH / TIMOR LESTE

Posted at 11:08h in Eucharist by

Revitalizing our living of the Eucharist and its apostolic meaning, has involved the community of Bazartete in a process of going forth.

  • We go forth from our house every day in order to have Adoration in the church, getting out of our easy and comfortable schedule. We changed the location and the schedule in order to adapt it to the time and space in which more people can enter. We expose the Blessed Sacrament in the village church from 7:20 to 8:20 to enable people who participate in the daily celebrations of the Word to be able to stay. Moreover, at this time the students are passing in front of the church on their way to school. This way they can make a visit to Jesus in the Eucharist before going to their classrooms.
  • We go forth from our surroundings, individualism and familiarity to make Adoration. Once a month we organize guided adorations with the schoolchildren.
  • We go forth from our house and our rest. Once a week, we walk long distances in order to carry Jesus in the Eucharist to the sick and elderly who cannot participate in Mass. Each of the Sisters goes to one of the four villages to bring Communion; that way everyone who desires to receive Jesus may do so.
  • We go forth from our comfortable and private atmosphere. When we make our adoration in the community chapel, we keep the door always open for anyone to enter, and for us to be in adoration with our hearts open to the world, its needs, the environment, the climate… In this process of trying to bring Jesus to the people and the people to Jesus, we have had successes and failures. We have also come to the conclusion that it is a never-ending journey, that we have to keep on searching for new forms of encounter. Above all, seeing that more people have access to meeting Jesus in the Eucharist, has renewed us and given new meaning to the efforts we have made – and continue to make – in the concretization of the call to place Christ for the adoration of the peoples, to place Christ for the adoration of the people of Bazartete.

In this process of trying to bring Jesus to the people and the people to Jesus, we have had successes and failures. We have also come to the conclusion that it is a never-ending journey, that we have to keep on searching for new forms of encounter. Above all, seeing that more people have access to meeting Jesus in the Eucharist, has renewed us and given new meaning to the efforts we have made – and continue to make – in the concretization of the call to place Christ for the adoration of the peoples, to place Christ for the adoration of the people of Bazartete.

Carlota Morais, aci

BAZARTETE, TIMOR LESTE