9 “The light shines out in the darkness and the darkness has not overcome it”. John 1:5 Gathering in this 150th year of the founding of your Congregation of Divine Word Missionaries, you are being invited to reflect on ‘Witnessing to the Light – from Everywhere for Everyone’. Such ‘Witnessing’ is central to our call to be missionary, igniting the gift of our Baptism for becoming the hands and feet of Christ in the ordinariness of daily life and beyond. From many places, nationalities and cultures we come, each called to let our light shine within our reality. Both Scriptural Testaments testify to the call to all to witness to the living God. Isaiah reminds the people of Israel that they are “servants whom God has chosen” to be such witnesses. [Isaiah 43:10]. Then John the Baptist comes “to bear witness about the light, that all might believe through him.” [John 1:6], before Acts 1:8 calls all through the action of the Spirit to witness “to the ends of the earth”, as our theme says, ‘from everywhere for everyone’, Witnessing to the Light – From Everywhere For Everyone Sr Monica Cavanagh RSJ
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