Comboni Missionaries and institutions will on Thursday celebrate the tenth anniversary of the canonization of St Daniel Comboni to remember his holiness and missionaries’ challenges.
The Superior General of Comboni Missionaries Enrique S√°nchez believes the anniversary is a good opportunity for them to pause and give thanks for the gift of the holiness of Comboni who won many people to live the spirituality and beauty of the vocation.
He explained that the anniversary is a special moment when Combonians ask themselves how far Comboni sanctity transformed their personal journey of holiness and how his holiness transformed their lives and made them true men and women of God, entirely consecrated to the mission.
Fr S√°nchez said ‘this celebration becomes an opportunity we cannot miss to ask ourselves how we have lived the gift of the holiness of Comboni in our missionary service, in our experience of community life, in our life witness and in the wholeheartedness and clarity of our options.’
He added that ‘Pope Francis reminded us recently that pastors must be impregnated with the scent of the sheep. It would be very useful, in this time of celebration, to ask ourselves if our lives give off the odour of sanctity of Comboni.’
‘How well our interests are centred upon mission, how much and in what ways we have seen our lives transformed and our missionary commitment improved’, the Superior asked.