Monday, June 22, 2015

The figure and Role of the Provincial and Custos - Br. Stefan Kozuh



He spoke on two aspects: some aspects of your being and serving the brothers inspired by our constitutions and two tools of animation , namely the pastoral - fraternal visitation and the plan of life and activity of the province.
Brotherhood and minority are original features of the charism given to us by the spirit. They also shape the contemplative and apostolic dimensions of our vocation.
Some essential aspects for the animation of the brothers:
1. In the school of the Holy Spirit by living together as brothers, we search for and fulfill God's will in every event and action.
2. to be father, pastor and animator, who walks before the fraternity, guiding it with word and example, and at times walking behind the brother who has become last in order to find him and lead him back to the fraternal hearth.
3. To be a teacher of prayer, especially contemplative prayer, which is specific to us. you are men of God, dedicating long moments to prayer, asking the Lord continuously for the gift of wisdom that can discern every occasion.
4. To look after the balance between the fraternal life and activity.
5. Be free, serving all, without letting yourselves be manipulated by any group but making yourselves like Paul.
6. Bring joy and enthusiasm to the fraternities, it is this that leads to rebirth. to be able to do this, you have to be a brother who listens, who interests himself in the brothers, who dialogues with them.
7. One of the most current themes today is fraternal collaboration between the circumscriptions of the Order which has the principal purpose of reviving our charism in places where it is passing through a period of crisis.
8. Shabbat, to help grow in the provinces the culture - mentality that one day a week we have the need and right to stop, to have for ourselves. it is not a luxury, it is a need.
9. to know how to think of oneself, to take for oneself time for reflection and personal prayer to be able to truly grasp and pass on the will of God.
10. To have a trusted brother, secretary in whom you trust personally, from time to time there is the need to share with a trusted someone even your loneliness

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