Our Profession Cross: Excerpts from a Meditation by one of our Sisters “…The cross tears apart the world, our small world, our large world in which we live. …It would be a cross with this world, would it not be that His cross and the power of His love is stronger. …I bear this cross which reminds me of our world and God’s love in it. I bear this cross as a sign of my determination to give witness to salvation to a broken-down world. Where human misery crosses my way it will become, through my loving gaze, through my tender hand, through my good word, through my open ear, through my friendly gesture, through my courageous steps, upon my weak shoulders, in my warm heart, fertile soil— where from a rose blooms and a womb that gives life to new hope.”
Lord, Jesus Christ, you have taken upon
yourself the cross of this world,
and through your loving sacrifice
broken the power of evil.
You have called me to follow you
more closely, and I have, in my
profession of vows, responded to your call.
Help me to be a sign of hope in our world.
Strengthen me when daily I set out in love
to meet my fellow human.
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