Keep Your Eyes Fixed on Christ

St. Comboni wrote, "Those who love Mission must keep their eyes focused on Jesus Christ, loving him tenderly and striving to understand what it means to have a God who died on a cross for the salvation of souls." The contemplation of Christ done with living faith, according to St. Comboni, leads to the joy of offering ourselves, ready to lose everything ~ ready for anything!

To contemplate Christ, the teacher of mission, the Father's missionary who forms his disciples to mission, before sending them on to the missions. Christ, who shows to his disciples, missionary aspirants, what type of "missionary luggage" the need (Lk 9:1) ~ first of all a heart for the missions. Christ the prophet, who does not follow human thinking and tactics but follows the road of "obedience to the Father." who sends him. Christ, who offers his entire life, Christ who brings to an end his mission with the supreme sacrifice marked by it is finished. The contemplation of Christ will inevitably lead us to our consecration to the mission of Christ, to giving ourselves unreservedly to the poorest, just as he did. While contemplating, the disciple of Christ is happy to be part of this project of love, happy to share in the same preferences of Christ, to embrace the choices of Christ and remain faithful to them until death.