If you are reading this, you likely visit the websites of Regnum Christi and the Legion of Christ. So…I’m betting you are aware there has been much news over the past week.
After consulting several soothsayers, some tea leaves and a wise priest, I visited Rome from January 27 to February5, the most likely time for news of the Legion’s new governing team to be announced. Well, actually, I was supposed to go a couple weeks earlier, but the polar vortex disrupted air travel.
Either way, I missed being in Rome for THE big day and had returned to the cubby in my basement where I work when not on the road. And I traded rainy Rome for snowy Chicago.
So…things seem to be moving along nicely at the Extraordinary General Chapter. (No, I wasn’t observing or participating, just working on the communications and with media folk who are watching us.)
The atmosphere is upbeat and hopeful. The Chapter Fathers certainly have a sense of the historic nature of their work. And I get a sense that most are getting tired of meetings and looking forward to going home.
Presumably, they all will be home in the near future, the constitutions will go to the Holy Father and we’ll wake up one morning living in a place like this:
Just kidding. We may have new constitutions. We may have issued the historic communiqué of communiqués. We may have a new General Director and outstanding team of people to work with him.
But we are just passing one point in the long road of renewal. And I’ll let you in on a little secret; this road doesn’t have an end. We all need renewal all the time. That means we’ll find ourselves living in a place more like this:
That’s right. Our home will remain under construction. But we have a solid plan and I believe we have become humbly teachable. That is a good place for a Christian to be.
