Some events harmonize this new edition: the celebration of the 100 years of the presence of the Carmelite Missionaries in the American Continent, 150 years of the Foundation of the Congregation and the Bicentenary of the birth of Fr. Francisco Palau.
We begin the journey of these pages with openness: “The voice of the Lord continues to call us as missionary disciples and challenges us to direct our whole life from the transforming reality of the Kingdom of God made present in Jesus.” (DA 282)
The history of the world today presents us new scenes and subjects emerging from the new and different realities: |
Economic, human, environmental, cultural impacts, global financial crisis; increased mining activities in nature, anthropological reductionism of educational reforms, displacement by internal wars, natural disasters, human trafficking, new cultures of the youth, human mobility, phenomenon of migration and immigration, global advocacy for peace and social justice, economic solidarity, celebrations of the bicentenaries of Independence of countries in Latin America, current conscientization on environment and climate change, alliances between human beings and environment, search for God outside the traditional institutions, exhaustion of traditional models of Consecrated Life and the lose of significance, challenges of inter-congregational and intercultural (Plan Global de la CLAR 2010). |
