Christian Brothers West African Assembly, December 2011
Reconciliation is a process through which people move from a divided past to a shared future. It involves finding a way to live that permits a vision for the future. It is in our deep listening to each other that wisdom emerges and that we find a way forward.
Last week another step was taken in "The Way into the Future" when the CLT and a core group of Brothers met at Villa Palazzola, just outside Rome, in an ongoing conversation in discerning future directions -see letter from the Congregation Leader, Br Philip Pinto.
Ensuring and achieving energy for all
2012: The Year of Sustainable Energy for All
A lesson from Janus, slow-moving symbol of the human race, with one face focused on the past and another facing the future, while blindly stumbling through the present.
Though this is not an Edmund Rice initiative, the involvement of the writer is rooted in the spirit of Edmund, and the project itself offers a challenging possibility to Edmund Rice people elsewhere around the world.
The effort to respond to today’s ever-changing challenges keeps generating relevant, practical, and creative new expressions of the Edmund Rice spirit. Here is one example, a story from Australia.