Last night it struck me that in religious life, ambition has no place. Ambition in the sense of personal ambition, wherein I am both the focus and reason.
Being the Economer of the province I have asked myself right at the beginning, if I have any plans and ambitions to be achieved during my term in office. Plans, yes. Ambition, no!
The biggest difference between ambition and commitment, I feel is when the ego comes into picture and worse still (or always is the case) at the cost of the other. And as a Salesian religious, if God and the poor, the young are not the focus and reason of my every thought, word and action, then I'm not a genuine religious at all. The yeast is to leaven the flour and ultimately become bread, not to stand out as yeast apart from the bread!
Strangely enough, the first reading of today, as we commemorate the feast of St Francis de Sales is this: working for peace and justice, instead of being filled with jealousy and ambition.
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