Bishop Ken Untener of Saginaw
La oración de la entrada anterior, compartida por Papa Francisco fue escrita por Monseñor Ken Utener Obispo de Saginaw y fue utilizada por el Cardenal John Dearden Obispo de Detroit en las exequias de su amigo Monseñor Utener. Fue atribuída a Monseñor Oscar Romero Obispo de San Salvador. Los tres ya fallecidos, los tres con fuerte compromiso con la cuestión social. Abajo la versión en inglés:
A Step Along the Way
It helps,
now and then, to step back and take a long view.
The kingdom is not only beyond our efforts, it is even
beyond our vision.
We accomplish in our lifetime only a tiny fraction of the
magnificent enterprise that is God’s work. Nothing we do is complete, which is
a way of saying that the Kingdom always lies beyond us.
No statement says all that could be said.
No prayer fully expresses our faith.
No confession brings perfection.
No pastoral visit brings wholeness.
No program accomplishes the Church’s mission.
No set of goals and objectives includes everything.
This is what we are about.
We plant the seeds that one day will grow.
We water seeds already planted, knowing that they hold
future promise.
We lay foundations that will need further development.
We provide yeast that produces far beyond our capabilities.
We cannot do everything, and there is a sense of liberation
in realizing that.
This enables us to do something, and to do it very well.
It may be incomplete, but it is a beginning, a step along
the way, an opportunity for the Lord’s grace to enter and do the rest.
We may never see the end results, but that is the difference
between the master builder and the worker.
We are workers, not master builders; ministers, not
messiahs.
We are prophets of a future not our own. Amen.
