Fr. Amelito Racelis, vice-provincial of FIS province described his retreat experience in the homily he delivered during a mass in the retreat:
“During this guided retreat we have been feeding ourselves not only with the Bread of Life in the daily Eucharist but also with the Word of Life that our spiritual guides have been suggesting to us to reflect upon prayerfully. It feels so refreshing, so enlightening, and so nourishing to the soul. I feel like borrowing the words of the Psalmist in today’s liturgy: “How shall I make a return to the Lord for all the good he has done for me.” We are thankful to the team for creating this school, and for organizing an English version of this program especially right here where our spiritual father, Don Bosco, was born and learned the basics of spiritual accompaniment. I feel we are truly blessed to be in this program and I just wish all Salesians, if not at least many more confreres, will be given an opportunity to undergo a formative experience similar to this.”
Furthermore, he added that “this retreat has confirmed for me that one of the traits of a good spiritual guide is his ultra-sensitivity to the Holy Spirit. And our prayer is that hopefully the congregation will soon have many more competent spiritual guides to help young people discover their true vocation in life, help other confreres discern God’s will to persevere in their vocation and thus produce many more saints for the Church and the congregation for the glory of God and the salvation of souls.”
Now the participants are entering the 3rd week of the course accompanied through the places of Don Bosco where he learned to be accompanied, to be discerning, and to follow the will of God.
