It is my pleasure to introduce to the Institution our first newsletter, which is intended for the entire hospitaller community and was created as a channel for coming together and global growth.
The basis of communication from the perspective of faith can be found in the divine will to communicate His proposal for salvation.It is God who took the initiative to communicate with humankind. The history of salvation shows us how the Word of God has come to human beings “mediated” by an author or a person of divine inspiration. This Word serves to increase the communion of human beings with God, proposing his saving message to a world that does not yet know it.
The Church follows the same communicative principle; as a community of believers, it is simultaneously a creator of communion and of communication. According to the document of the XIX General Chapter, the call to build the Kingdom from our identity encourages us to globalize hospitality. Profound communion in charism drives us to work in a more coordinated fashion, with a systematized organization at all levels and intervention strategies, which lead to complementarity.
We need to implement and strengthen systems of cooperation and exchange between centers, provinces and the Congregation. With this goal in mind, we have started our newsletter “CONTIGO” to share knowledge, experiences, projects, etc. and thus contribute to further enrichment of our mission and hospitaller identity.
It is crucial to enhance the visibility of information in and out of our setting, not only at an institutional level but also as a means for promoting health. “We cannot love what we do not know, and we are only inspired to action and commitment by what we love” (MII2).
Modern technology allows us to share our action and develop more efficient communication channels; this well help us capitalize on and share the experience of so many years of hospitality and to be transmitters of the “good news of God’s healing to the people of today.”
Anabela Carneiro. General Mother Superior
