3 in 1 (three in one) that is what one could say of the
celebration which took place in the Community of the Sons of Divine Providence
of Montalban, in the Philippines.
We celebrated today in the solemnity St. Peter and Paul the
pillars of the Church, the Pope’s Day, the official entrance in the Novitiate
and the Installation of the newly appointed superior of the Community of
Montalban.
This has been the agenda of this June 29, 2017, in the
Community of the Sons of Divine Providence of Montalban. Starting early this
morning with the Morning Prayer, 15 young men, 4 from Kenya, 5 from the
Philippines and 6 from India made their entrance to the Novitiate.
The words of Don Orione addressed to the emblematic Novice
Master of the Congregation, Don Cremaschi resounded at the feat of the Rolling
Hills. It gave to our 15 new Novices to know the meaning of the school in which
they enrolled today. “The novitiate is in any case a test, the novitiate is a
school of religious virtues, it is a holy forge where every novice must fashion
himself, according to the Holy Gospels and the Congregation's own spirit. It is a place where he must separate himself from
the world and from every vain, secular and worldly habit; where the novice
must, with strength and generosity, detach his soul from everything, and not
only from the people most dear to him - loving them only in the Lord - but,
with Divine help he must detach himself even from life, even from his own
self. If he cannot do this he will not
be a good religious.
