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As outgoing President of CILT, I should address above all the Lay Trinitarians, but we are Family; therefore, as I greet all of you very affectionately, it is to the whole Trinitarian Family that I address these simple but convinced remarks on what we have received and what we expect from the Assembly, In Avila, the great hall was full with representatives of the Trinitarian Family: Men and Women Religious, Nuns, and Lay Members from all over the world. The theme was “Rooted in Christ, growing as a Family.”
All of us were attentive to and concentrated on the contents of the profound and interesting reports which offered, with broadmindedness, open horizons so that in the Trinitarian Family would truly take place a significant leap forward, the fruit of maturity of 25 years of our journey together. Now we are more aware of being a great Trinitarian Family, of what we represent, of how we should operate, and of where we wish to arrive.
To this level of maturity we are led first of all by the spirituality that comes from the Most Holy Trinity. The Most Holy Trinity is union, communion, wholeness, charity. We have understood that in the Trinitarian Family to which each one of us belongs, there is circularity, where each point of the circumference is identical to the others and with the same distance from the centre, Christ. This position makes us humble and at the
same time egalitarian, whether we hold simple positions or high duties of responsibility. All of this leads us to a great opening characterized by optimal relationship, respect, availability, generosity, joint responsibility, aspects that we find in our holy founder John of Matha who gave us the example: He was the first Minister, that is, servant in the model of Jesus Christ in the bosom of a church establishment in which Men and Women Religious, Nuns, and Lay Trinitarians lived side by side in the personal practice of the same charism of redemption and mercy and in the same path of spiritual formation.
Today, the Trinitarian Family wanted to close ranks in order to get nearer to the primitive model, in a modern framework that faces works with instruments updated to the third millennium, in favor of a still more terrible, variegated, and globalized slavery. How do we respond to the modern challenges that the Trinitarian Family interprets and makes hers with the participation of everyone?
From the V Inter-Trinitarian Assembly we have internalized concepts and directions in the theological light of the social doctrine of Church that goes forward with the times; we have heard and welcomed the cry from the suffe-ring humanity; we have shared the mission, of each one of us and of all of us.
Mrs. Teresa Rabitti. Rome (Italy). President emerita
of the International Trinitarian Laity.
Concluded the V Inter-Trinitarian Assembly Avila 2011. Heredity and Expectations