"NOT AS I WILL, BUT AS YOU WILL" ---- Imitating Christ within Society....
"As Pope Paul VI said to Secular Insitutes, 'Obedience becomes a testimony of humble acceptance of the mediation from the Church and, more generally, from the Wisdom of God that goversn the world through secondary causes; in this moment of a crisis of authority your obedience converts into a testimony of the Christian order of the universe.'
Obedience lived in secularity, therefore, is an obedience to God, whose will is revealed in the circumstances of life, it is the acceptance of the stable order established by God in creation, in the world, in the Church, acceptance of the structures of society in which we live, respect for laws and positive norms that govern the family, professional environments, and the state.
It is an obedience that is exercised in the proper and active participation in society and not derived from passivity, on the contrary, it requires the exercise of a balanced and constructive criticism, the use of all licit means to improve the structures in which we are inserted, the courage to take a stand, to be consistent, to oppose that which is contrary to the spirit of the Gospel."
-Fr. Kolbe Missionaries of the Immaculata (The Charism: a Gift, a Sign, a Challenge.... in the Heart of the World)
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