Responde la Familia Trinitaria
Fr. Albert Anuszewski,
USA Province
1. What does the celebration of these centenaries mean to you from the point of view of your vocation?
With the upcoming centenaries in which we will commemorate the anniversaries of the deaths of both our Founder and Reformer, I believe that it is a prime opportunity to take stock of where we have been and where we are headed as an Institute of Consecrated Life within the Church. As we all know, historically, Orders, Congregations and Societies have arisen at particular moments within the life and history of the Church, many times in order to respond to a particular need, such as our own Order, which was founded to ransom Christian captives from slavery.
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forcing some painful decisions within the Order and has necessitated a rethinking of the future. We see this in the closure of houses and the merging of jurisdictions. Unfortunately, more of this will occur in the immediate future.
Today, in light of this, we Trinitarians of today, face a situation or context that is different from that which
ourselves, honestly and realistically how faithful we are being to our Trinitarian vocation today? Do we have the courage.
How can we be more creative in terms of fulfilling our Trinitarian vocation and ministering to the people of God while we face diminishing numbers in the older jurisdictions of the Order?
Certainly, declining numbers and ageing membership is
The history of our own Order, while filled with many “ups and downs, has had a glorious past as we look at the sheer number of captives that were ransomed over the centuries by the courageous and faith-filled members of the Order.
Given this, we need to examine our own faith and courage as we move further into this Twenty-first century. We must ask