Instruments of communion to live out the mission

With the title “Let us strengthen communion that moves us to mission”, the President of the Teresian Association, Gregoria Ruiz, writes her Letter of the Year 2025, addressed to all members, collaborators, friends and people who share the charism of St. Pedro Poveda.

Gregoria Ruiz stresses that we enter 2025 with a heart full of gratitude for the celebration of the centenary of the pontifical approval of the TA that “has awakened renewed energy.. to cherish the vocation, commit to the mission and share the charism.”

Recalling that we are entering a Jubilee Year with the Church, he welcomes Pope Francis' call to be witnesses of hope and underlines the commitment of the TA, “to give witness to God’s faithful love and to work for human and social transformation anchored on the values of Jesus’s Gospel, right where we are and in the very realities we are immersed in.”

The Letter, with a strong call to the profound experience of communion and fraternal love that sends to mission, has a first section in which situations in our world are revealed, such as armed conflicts or “the lamentable state of our common home.”

Gregoria Ruiz then provides answers to these challenges: to create a culture of encounter, to accept “the challenge of an ecological conversion... choose to be happy with little or just enough...” and “to strengthen the communion” that makes the transformative mission effective and credible in the Church and society.

Renewal

“Together with the whole Church in its journey of renewal, the Teresian Association makes every effort to live the spirit of synodality and let it permeate our style of working, of relating, of communicating, of collaborating with others.”, says Gregoria Ruiz.

For this reason, there is also a call to renew the Association, attuning to the Spirit, strengthening the community, living unity and with Mary, “the heart of our Work.”

To close the Letter, the President of the Teresian Association proposes:

In this Jubilee Year 2025, with grateful hearts we will joyfully proclaim “the loving kindness of the heart of our God.” And with complete trust in His grace and mercy we will repeat this prayer:

Lord, your mission of love continues through us; make us your instruments of communion and fellowship right where we are.

Read or download the letter in English (original) or translations into Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese and Catalan.

TA Information Department and TA Translation Team.