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Final vows reflection
“Come, follow me.” It was the Lord Jesus calling us. These words are the first invitation when we entered the congregation and for us they are the most meaningful sentence because these words of Jesus have led us to the foot of the altar where we Brs. Paul, David, Abhay, Sandip, Bosco, Raja and Selvan have professed our perpetual vows of Poverty, Chastity and Obedience in the congregation of Brothers of the Holy family in Madurai community 24th April 2017. The ceremony was presided by Most Rev. Antony Papusamy Archbishop of Madurai and also many Priests and Religious. The Brother Provincial David Rasero Garcia, our lady of Assumption, Spain: delegate of the Superior General took our perpetual vows. This ceremony was such a definitive and complete giving of oneself is surely a most significant moment of anyone’s life and also has become an act of total surrender of the Brothers to the Heavenly Father who first loved us. In the first reading, young Samuel several times thinks he hears a mysterious call but is not sure of the nature of the call. So too in our lives there was considerable time trying to understand our call and to what it was we were being called. The first to help us in the in the process of discovery were our families. It was they who nourished us with God’s love and steeped us in God’s word. It is they who stood with us this day and brought us to this most important day of our lives. We are forever grateful to them. Then through the subsequenthelp of friends, Professors in the college, Holy family Brothers, spiritual Directors, formation staffs are also rejoicing with us today as we say definitively as did Samuel to lord’s call, “Speak Lord for your Servant is listening.” The identity of Religious Brotherhood in India is still in need of attention and we the brothers will work hard for the values of the Brotherhood life wherever we are sent to. This indeed has been an incredible journey, yet it is only just the beginning! We look back with gratitude on everything we have experienced and look forward with great hope for what is to come. We know God has been guiding us all along and we know that it will be only by His Guidance will we be able to fulfill what we promise. By taking our final vows, we dedicate ourselves to the needs of the poor and allow God to work through us more completely and freely to guide us more and more to building up His Kingdom in the world.