The inspiration of Edmund Rice, planted in hearts around the globe, illustrates Jesus’ words about the mysterious power of seed to generate life, to produce new shoots, and to yield fruit. These examples come from Oceania.
The words are Edmund Rice’s. They echo Jesus’ words in Luke 6:38. Here is a story of these words in practice, and an invitation to share similar anecdotes.
Providence and new Presentation ventures in the Americas - A painful closure of one house has proved to be the pruning that led to a series of new shoots among the Presentation Brothers in the Americas. In the process the Brothers’ trust in Providence, in God’s “doing something new”, has been strengthened.
“Our access to God lies through our experience – and through all our experience, not just our peak moments… we find the God of Jesus Christ, the Word made flesh, precisely in, not despite, our everyday human experience.”