The Novitite's Spring Newsletter helps one to understand the value and balance of work and commitment. Spring has finally arrived. In this season God has made His firm commitment to annually bring forth flowers, greenery, colors of all kinds and fresh life into our world. The beauty is outstanding. God is faithful to his commitments. It is a lesson for mankind.
Behind the act of pronouncing vows is something very simple but very beautiful – the desire to give oneself to God without any conditions. We are all called to give something back to God, from whom we have received everything. Religious give back to God just one thing: themselves. But this includes everything else. Religious life is a consecration to God of one’s person, whole and entire. In this Newsletter read about how the religious spends his life living and deepening his consecration through the vows.
The Work of the Novitiate is the formation of religious vocations, that is, religious brothers in particular. Father Kenneth Dean has been the Novice Master for the brothers for ten years, who held down the fort, since the departure of the seminarians, working to keep up the buildings and the spiritual life of the brothers. This first Newsletter gives a great insight of the work and vocation of the brothers at the Novitiate.