Charles de Foucauld’s Radical Choice…
Charles de Foucauld was not a “perfect”
human being, far from it. His life was a radical choice in service of God and
his “beloved Jesus”. He went out to live
with the farthest away and poorest of peoples. He spent hours in prayer - in
Adoration before the Blessed Sacrament. His days were spent in welcoming
everyone and he became as a “brother” to all who came to his hut.
He did not found a single institute yet
there are religious families of men and women born from the profound intuition
of Charles. They are called as “little brothers” and “little sisters” and
they are spread out in the most remote corners throughout the world. These spiritual
children of the “universal brother” have made their priority the poorest
populations, the most abandoned, farthest from society.
There are also thousands of priests and
laypersons who have discovered through his message a way of living the Gospel
more fully to the ends of the earth, in fraternal sharing, caring for the smallest
among us, and in silent adoration.
There are finally all those who have
discovered the grandeur of this personality and its spiritual dimension that do
not belong to his spiritual family or even to his religion.
Blessed Charles, who through his trials and
errors, his thirst for solitude and for relationships, his great love of God
and of his neighbor, still shows us today the way to universal
brother/sisterhood!
He invites us to leave our frivolousness,
our reassuring boundaries, our small spiritual comfort, to rise to the numbers
of challenges that he confronted without always succeeding. It is up to us to
continue the path that he outlined for us”. (Bishop Claude Rault who had served
in the Algerian Sahara)
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