{"id":15594,"date":"2023-04-28T11:08:47","date_gmt":"2023-04-28T15:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.franciscansusa.org\/?p=15594"},"modified":"2023-04-28T11:09:07","modified_gmt":"2023-04-28T15:09:07","slug":"participating-in-christs-redemptive-work-a-novices-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.franciscansusa.org\/de\/participating-in-christs-redemptive-work-a-novices-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"Participating in Christ\u2019s Redemptive Work: A Novice\u2019s Journey"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Participating in Christ\u2019s Redemptive Work:
\nA Novice\u2019s Journey<\/h4>\n

By friar Andr\u00e9 Miller, OFM Conv.<\/p>\n

In tandem with catechumens going through their own \u2018scrutinies\u2019 right now before being baptized on Holy Saturday, we novices are also receiving a type of inquiry called a \u201cscrutinium\u201d from the Minister Provincial before our profession of temporary vows in the summer. One question asked pierces the heart of formation: \u201cWhy do you wish to make vows?\u201d Naturally, it would be expected of a novice to have some sort of answer after almost a year of thinking about it!<\/p>\n

No doubt we have been pondering such a thing, thanks to the structured time and circumstances allotted for meditation, work and communal recreation. All of these components serve as vehicles to explore God\u2019s calling and form a response. Though, when the time came to formulate a concise answer, I was a little stumped! Attempting to cohesively express a deep, interior conviction that was formed through many moments in my discernment and formation ended up being a little harder than I thought. It\u2019s what I imagine to be the feeling of trying to describe shades of red to someone who\u2019s colorblind.<\/p>\n

As I continued to ponder, though, I roughly put together an answer: It\u2019s my best attempt to radically respond to God\u2019s radical love, in the specific ways shown to me, through the \u201ccrazy\u201d method of St. Francis, which is \u2018to observe the Holy Gospel of Our Lord Jesus Christ by living in obedience, without anything of one\u2019s own, and in chastity. The Franciscan life is one of prayer, ministry, and fraternity, and I believe God has offered it to me as a beautiful drama that is the medium for personal sanctification, from which flows the riveting journey of participating in Christ\u2019s redemptive work for the salvation of souls that He thirsts for. As my vocation develops – the deepening of the call and response between my God and I – and I get closer to professing first vows with excitement, nervousness, joy and myriads of emotion, it\u2019s now easy for me to say, \u201cWell, who wouldn\u2019t want to live a Franciscan life?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Participating in Christ\u2019s Redemptive Work: A Novice\u2019s Journey By friar Andr\u00e9 Miller, OFM Conv. In tandem with catechumens going through their own \u2018scrutinies\u2019 right now before being baptized on Holy Saturday, we novices are also receiving a type of inquiry called a \u201cscrutinium\u201d from the Minister Provincial before our profession of temporary vows in the...","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15506,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2023-summer-newsletter-the-power-of-participation"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-29 05:54:15","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franciscansusa.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franciscansusa.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franciscansusa.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franciscansusa.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franciscansusa.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.franciscansusa.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15595,"href":"https:\/\/www.franciscansusa.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15594\/revisions\/15595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franciscansusa.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franciscansusa.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franciscansusa.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franciscansusa.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}