GIAN Network

Opening ourselves in the light of the Universal Apostolic Preferences generates the desire to renew our identity, the call to conversion is an opportunity to approach the Magis in the accompaniment of migrant populations. It is in them that we discover that God summons us, from his clamor, a people walking, integrating, fleeing, looking for a better opportunity to access rights and a dignified life. As a personal and community call to conversion, it is essential to promote the practice of Spiritual Exercises and Discernment as well as how to proceed, nurture our identity and help us care for people.

In the preferences there is a confirmation of our work of accompaniment, walking with, sharing the journey, but also reinforce the need to be attentive to the background of the causes of migration, pointing to the necessary change of structures and care of the common home. The violation of environmental rights is one of the first causes of expulsion of people and communities today in all parts of the planet.

They invite us to continue learning from migrants and especially from the young people in whom we maintain the hope of change, the creation of a new hospitality culture. They reinforce the call to articulation, to common projects, to transcend concrete apostolates. The call to conversion is also a call to open ourselves to innovate and be flexible to what the context asks of us.

They are therefore a milestone of renewal and impulse, which require greater depth, which do not lead us to a concrete plan, but to put our horizon in the hands of God and allowing the four preferences to penetrate inside and then express themselves in actions out and with others.