"Now is our time to be unveiled, to offer ourselves to silence, and to become votaries of peace, forging a global community where none are excluded and all are welcomed to the table of communion. Now is our time to follow the precepts and the sacrifices made by our prophetic ancestors, those men and women who dwelled in the heart of reality where love (is all there) is."
B. Lanzetta
Today we are challenged more than ever before to work together toward building Martin Luther King's "beloved community". True concern for humanity and the earth challenges us to probe our inner lives and to uncover points of spiritual exclusion, violence, superiority, or rejection that wound our souls and diminish love.
The monk within works to sustain a sacred community on earth by bringing the voice of the spirit to matters of common economic, political, ethical, and religious concerns. As engaged practice, it is an orientation towards life that is concerned about the sacredness of, and reverence for, all human and nonhuman life, founded on the locus of the spirit. When we have the courage to face ourselves, we will realize that the real spiritual task begins in searching our own hearts for the inner ground of unity.
"My dear brothers and sisters, we are already one. But we imagine we are not. And what we have to recover is our original unity. What we have to be, is what we are.”