RELIGIOUS LIFE—A “MESSY” JOURNEY
“I am disillusioned,” Sister Rupa told me. “What happened?” I asked. “I am upset with what I see happening in religious life. It is so different from what I expected it to be. I had thought it would be a place where we would really love one another, help one another toward holiness and do good together. But what I see is pettiness, backbiting, jealousies and infantile behaviour. I’ve had enough of this. I’ve been thinking of giving up this life.”
Sr Rupa’s lament reminded me of an article in the Review of Religious (1994, May-June, 440-451) by Presentation of Mary Sister Susan Beaudry and Marist Father Edwin Keel entitled “Journeying to God Together.”
In the context of Sr Rupa’s lament I would like to reflect on the first part of Beaudry and Keel’s definition – Journey.
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FR JOSE PARAPPULLY SDB
