May 29, 2025: What would the Economy of Communion say today if it could speak? Happy birthday, EoC!
Today, I am turning 34! I am filled with gratitude... Gratitude to those who gave me life, gratitude to those who have loved me, cared for me, helped me grow and develop. Everything I am, I have received from love!
34 years old, what a beautiful age!!! I have the strength of youth, the whole world open before me, a future yet to be written. At the same time, I am already in a different phase from the fervor of early youth, with more experience, more maturity, more responsibility, more awareness of the challenges that lie ahead. But it is precisely because of those challenges that I feel driven to move forward, to fulfill my vocation.
I was born for the poor. What does that mean for me today? It means that every form of poverty, war, the environmental crisis, the lack of meaning, the countless sufferings of the world, are not foreign to me but resonate deep within me, awakening in me a strong attraction, an urgency that calls me to act, to love. Wherever I see poverty, wherever I hear the earth crying out, I feel called to give myself completely, to offer the essence of my being, which is communion. Poverty calls for communion, because they are sisters. Accepting poverty is my happiness, my greatest treasure, my only wealth. I am myself only in communion. And to live communion, you need emptiness, an emptiness capable of welcoming. Then I can give myself and Life explodes!
For this year that is beginning, I dream of new encounters, new experiences that will reveal to many their vocation to communion. How I would like to expand our family more and more, that it may always be open and welcoming, self-giving and active, at the service of humanity. More and more communion. And allow me to express a deep desire of mine today: I dream of the company of many of my peers, many young people with whom to share my wildest hopes. I need them to change the world!