"Charism" or Chimera of Regnum Christi?

Synonyms 
3.  dream, fantasy, delusion.

Word Origin & History

chimera 

late 14c., from L. Chimaera, from Gk. chimaira, a fabulous monster (with a lion's head, a goat's body, and a serpent's tail),supposedly personification of snow or winter, orig. "year-old she-goat," from cheima "winter season." Meaning "wild fantasy" first recorded 1587.

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Could not help the play on words...The much vaunted, discussed, and questioned "God Given Gift" and specific characteristic of the Regnum Christi  continues to be the focus of attention, and rightly so.


This Charism, spiritual gift, usually bequeathed by the Founder to his religious order, despite Cardinal DePaolis' a priori affirmations and Legion leadership crowing, is not a foregone conclusion


Nieves Garcia, who was recently described to me by a former RC member as 'a very well known and beloved member; not a director/superior but a gifted recruiter' has this to say on her blog:


In the Movement we talked a lot about our own charisma, but is an issue still to be resolved so far.The dictionary tells us that charisma can be understood in two ways: as the special ability of some people to attract or fascinate or from the spiritual sense as a free gift that God gives some people for the benefit of the community.When I was young I was told that charisma was the recruitment, training and projection of leaders. Years afterwards there was much talk about the effectiveness and charisma, and the last years of the "initiator", talked about that charisma was love.To date it is an issue. I think we should start the reconstruction of the work, humbly opening to a calm reflection on this crucial point. The charisma justifies the existence of a work in the Church.If the charisma is coming from the founder I think it is clear that that it does not exist. Perhaps God may be talking about a deeper reason for being in the Church now, the current members of the Movement, but I get the feeling that it is an issue not yet examined  in depth.

This search is more important than concerns about the identity or spirituality. Charisma is that seed planted in the good soil of an open soul , resulting in a clear identity that develops,  generates a new way of life, and opens up a new spiritual outlook, reviving an aspect of the Gospel, without exclusiveness.

Works are worthless, or territorial programs or marketing strategies, if not springing from a true charisma. You cannot discuss the Constitutions of the Legion, without knowing how they are supported.Charism in a work of the Church,  the rock that holds the building; rock that comes from Jesus Christ, not from men. This is the difference between it and a human enterprise, only human.The definition of charisma is not born from the superiors. One person who lives it is enough to give it life. Maybe that person or group of them, can renew the work from within. They may be lay people, consecrated, or priests. God does not look at ranks or human status. God sees the heart, and gives grace to the humble.How beautiful it would be to open this dialog at this time! Today there are sufficient resources so that everyone can participate.I think this should be the first step. If not taken, everything is turned into pieces of a puzzle with no connection, words in the wind. History and time will show whether or not there was ever charisma.Anyone can propose this reflection, no need to wait "for it to come from on high."  The style of God, is often  different, it usually comes from the bottom up and not vice versa.Are you ready to go?

Original Spanish version:

En el Movimiento hemos hablado mucho acerca del propio carisma, pero es un tema pendiente de resolver, hasta la fecha.

El diccionario nos explica que carisma se puede entender de dos formas: como la especial capacidad de algunas personas de atraer o fascinar o desde el sentido espiritual como un don gratuito que Dios concede a algunas personas en beneficio de la comunidad.

Cuando era joven se me habló que el carisma era la captación, formación y proyección de líderes. Años más tardes se habló mucho acerca de la eficacia como carisma, y los últimos años del "iniciador", se hablaba de que el carisma era el amor.

Hasta la fecha es un tema pendiente. Creo que habría que iniciar la reconstrucción de la obra, con mucha humildad abriéndose a una reflexión serena sobre este punto crucial. El carisma justifica la existencia de una obra en la Iglesia.

Si el carisma venía del fundador, creo que queda claro que no existe. Quizás Dios pueda estar hablando acerca de un motivo más profundo para ser en la Iglesia ahora, a los actuales miembros del Movimiento, pero me da la sensación de que es un tema no profundizado.

Es más importante esta búsqueda que la inquietud por conocer la identidad o la espiritualidad. El carisma es esa semilla, que plantada en la tierra buena de un alma abierta, da lugar a una identidad clara que permite que se desarrolle, genera un estilo de vida, y abre un nuevo panorama espiritual, vivificando un aspecto del Evangelio, sin excluir nada.

De nada valen las obras, ni los programas territoriales o las estrategias de marketing, si no provienen de un carisma real. No se puede dialogar sobre la Constituciones de la Legión, sin conocer en qué se apoyan.

El carisma en una obra de la Iglesia, es la roca que sostiene el edificio, roca que proviene de Jesucristo, y no de los hombres. Esta es la diferencia con una empresa humana, solo humana.

La definición de un carisma no nace de los superiores. Basta una sola persona que lo viva para que cobre forma. Quizás esa persona o un grupo de ellas, puedan renovar la obra desde dentro. Pueden ser seglares, consagrados, sacredotes. Dios no se fija en rangos o status humanos. Dios ve el corazón, y da su gracia al humilde.

¡Que hermoso sería abrir este diálogo en este momento! Hoy en día existen los medios suficientes para que todos puedan participar.

Creo que este debería ser el primer paso. Si no se da, todo queda convertido en piezas de un gran rompecabezas sin conexión alguna, palabras que lleva el viento. La historia y el paso del tiempo demostrarán si hubo o no carisma alguna vez.

Cualquiera puede proponer esta reflexión, no hace falta esperar "que llegue de arriba". El estilo de Dios, suele ser distinto, suele venir de abajo a arriba y no al revés.

¿Se animan?

"Go Home Marcela, Lourdes, and Yuri!" Regnum Christi Directors/Superiors tell unwitting members

Charity's fruits are joy, peace and mercy. It requires the practice of good and fraternal correction; it is benevolence; increases reciprocity; is always selfless and generous; It is friendship and communion: love is the culmination of all our works. This is the end; to achieve this, we run; We run towards him; Once arrived, it reposamos (S. Augustine, ep) Hol (10.4). (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1829)

Not without some astonishment I hear these days that some women enshrined in the Regnum Christi movement have been "sent" to his home with their families, and that without them apply, "has granted dispensation from their pledges of life consecrated to God". We talk specifically about 3 consecrated women who resided in the city of Monterrey (Mexico). One of them, Marcela with almost 30 years of consecrated life, the other person, Lourdes around 19 or 20 years of consecrated life, the third, Yuri with a few years less as consecrated to God in Regnum Christi.

Have they broken their promises? Have they caused scandals within and outside their own community? Have they committed a civil crime? Have they broken their love of Christ in external and visible way? Do betrayed to the Church, the Pope and his doctrine? As far we know, no. These women, flat and bravely asked accounts for the lack of clarity and awkward communication carried out in recent years in its movement after the scandals of its founder. And following the clarity of the two limited releases by the Holy see in relation to his movement, these women rely on his religious family, had the determination to ask for explanations. What has been the result? They are now at home, we hope that attended and supported by their families, that we do not know if they have certainly supported by the fruitful and continuous prayer of the mystical body of the Church.

The Church had already announced in the communiqué of May 1, 2010: "the Holy Father wishes to assure all the legionaries and the members of the movement Regnum Christi are not going to be alone: the Church has determined to accompany them and help them on the path of purification that awaits them."

Eternal life, to speak, is around the corner. If consecrated persons are not willing to gamble everything for love of God, without assurances either spiritual or psychological, they will hardly receive God's gift of healing, reconstruction and hopeful vision in their vocation for the future. Betting it all on the love of God and the truth,  these three women consecrated to God"apparently" fared badly . We say "apparently" because without doubt, their names longer prints and sealed in the heart of Christ, aspiration should lose sight of any Christian.

Nothing and nobody better than the Gospel and Pope Benedict XVI to help them to look at their conscience with courage and determination; do not fear, here is God, here is the Church and so many good people wishing you to find truth and love, whatever the cost to one and all.  Eternal life, to speak, is around the corner.

Christ taught all: priests, consecrated, lay, to live a radical detachment (' foxes have dens, and the fowls of the air, nests; "..."but the son of man has no where to lay his head" Mt 8.20) in the daily circumstances of their  life.

"In particular, I should like to recall the figure of Saint Thomas More, the great English scholar and statesman, who is admired by believers and non-believers for the integrity with which was true to his conscience, even at the cost of antagonizing the sovereign; who was a"good servant"because he chose to serve God first." "The dilemma that faced Moro in those difficult times, the perennial question of the relationship between what is due to Caesar and what is due to God..." [1]

"Perhaps someone believes that Holiness is not for him." Let me explain. When we are young, we tend to think in people that we respect, admire and which we would like to be. It may be someone that we find in our daily lives and who have a high esteem. Or it may be someone famous. We live in a culture of Fame, which often encourages young people to shape themselves according to the figures of the world of sport or entertainment. I wonder: what are the qualities you see in others that you want for yourself? What kind of person would you like to be really? When I invite you to be holy, I ask that you don't imitate the  second-rate. "I ask that you pursue an limitless goal and that you ignore others."[2]

"I would say that a Church that seeks to be especially attractive would already be a wrong way, because the Church does not work for herself, does not work to increase its numbers and so his own power."The Church is at the service of others: serves not herself, to be a strong body, but it strives to make accessible the proclamation of Jesus Christ, the great truths and large forces of love, love of reconciliation which has presented in this figure and that always comes from the presence of Jesus Christ. In this sense the Church does not seek its own appeal, but must be transparent for Jesus Christ and, that does not exist for its own sake, as a strong, powerful body in the world, which wants to have power, but it is simply voice of another, but transparently leads to the large figure of Christ and the great truths  He has brought to mankind. 


The strength of love, then, is heard, is accepted. The Church should not consider itself, but help to consider the other and see and talk about the other and of the other. It seems to me that, in this sense, both Anglicans and Catholics see that do not serve themselves, but they are instruments of Christ, friends of the husband, as says san Juan, if in both the priority is Christ and not themselves; also bind, because at that time the priority of Christ brings together them and are no longer competing -each one trying to get the greatest number- but are together in bringing the truth of Christ into this world and so are mutually supportive… "[3]"

In turn, the Eucharistic sacrifice of the body and blood of Christ embraces the mystery of the passion of our Lord, which continues in the members of his mystical body, the Church in every age. The large crucifix that stands before us, reminds us that Christ, our great and eternal priest, joins every day the infinite merits of his sacrifice to  our own sacrifices, suffering, needs, hopes and aspirations. By Christ, with him and in him, we present our bodies as a sacrifice Holy and pleasing to God (cf. Rm 12,1). In this regard, we associate ourselves with his eternal offering, completing, as says St. Paul, in our flesh what is missing to the pain of Christ for his body, which is the Church (cf. Col 1.24). In the life of the Church, in its trials and tribulations, Christ continues, according to the great expression of Pascal, still in agony until the end of the world (Pensées, 553, ed. Brunschvicg).[4]

Eternal life, to speak, is around the corner.

Regnum Christi leaders get rid of branches growing on fruitful tree

Translation to follow

Mensaje de una amiga

A LOS LEGIONARIOS DE CRISTO Y MIEMBROS CONSAGRADOS DEL REGNUM CHRISTI

La caridad tiene por frutos el gozo, la paz y la misericordia. Exige la práctica del bien y la corrección fraterna; es benevolencia; suscita la reciprocidad; es siempre desinteresada y generosa; es amistad y comunión: La culminación de todas nuestras obras es el amor. Ese es el fin; para conseguirlo, corremos; hacia él corremos; una vez llegados, en él reposamos (S. Agustín, ep. Jo. 10,4). (Catecismo de la Iglesia Católica, 1829)

No sin cierto estupor escucho estos días que algunas mujeres consagradas en el Movimiento Regnum Christi han sido “enviadas” a su casa con sus familias, y que sin ellas solicitarlo, se “les ha concedido la dispensa de sus promesas de vida consagrada a Dios”. Concretamente hablamos de 3 mujeres consagradas que residían en la ciudad de Monterrey (México). Una de ellas, Marcela con casi 30 años de vida consagrada, la otra persona, Lourdes en torno a los 19 o 20 años de vida consagrada, la tercera, Yuri con unos años menos como consagrada a Dios en el Regnum Christi.

¿Han quebrantado sus promesas? ¿Han provocado escándalos dentro y fuera de su comunidad? ¿Han cometido algún delito civil? ¿Han quebrantado su amor a Cristo de forma externa y visible? ¿Traicionado a la Iglesia, al Papa y su doctrina? Hasta donde sabemos, no. Estas mujeres, llana y valientemente han pedido cuentas por la falta de claridad y torpe comunicación llevada a cabo en los últimos años en su movimiento tras los escándalos de su fundador. Y a raíz de la claridad de los dos escasos comunicados por parte de la Santa Sede en relación a su movimiento, estas mujeres, confiando en su familia religiosa, tuvieron la determinación de pedir explicaciones. ¿Cuál ha sido el resultado? Ahora están en su casa, esperamos que atendidas y apoyadas por sus familias, que no sabemos si la tienen y sin duda, sostenidas por la fecunda y continua oración del Cuerpo Místico dela Iglesia.

La Iglesia ya se lo anunció en el comunicado del 1 de mayo de 2010: “El Santo Padre desea asegurar a todos los Legionarios y a los miembros del Movimiento Regnum Christi que no van a estar solos: la Iglesia tiene la firme voluntad de acompañarlos y ayudarlos en el camino de purificación que les espera.”

La vida eterna, como quien dice, está a la vuelta de la esquina. Si personas consagradas no están dispuestas a apostarlo todo por amor a Dios, desprenderse de seguridades ya sean materiales, espirituales o psicológicas, difícilmente podrán recibir el don de Dios de sanación, reconstrucción y miras ilusionadas en su vocación ante el futuro. Apostarlo todo por amor a Dios y a la verdad, aunque les vaya “aparentemente” tan mal como a estas tres mujeres consagradas a Dios. Decimos “aparentemente” porque sin duda, sus nombres ya estarán grabados y sellados en el Corazón de Cristo, aspiración que ningún cristiano debería perder de vista.

Nada ni nadie mejor que el Evangelio y el Papa Benedicto XVI para ayudarles a mirar a su conciencia con valor y determinación, no teman ahí está Dios, aquí está la Iglesia y tantas personas de bien que desean que triunfe la verdad y el amor, cueste lo que cueste, a unos y a otros. La vida eterna, como quien dice, está a la vuelta de la esquina.

Cristo enseñó a todos: sacerdotes, consagrados, laicos, a vivir un desprendimiento radical («las raposas tienen cuevas, y las aves del cielo, nidos; pero el Hijo del Hombre no tiene dónde reclinar la cabeza» Mt 8,20) en medio de las circunstancias normales de su vida.

“En particular, quisiera recordar la figura de Santo Tomás Moro, el gran erudito inglés y hombre de Estado, quien es admirado por creyentes y no creyentes por la integridad con la que fue fiel a su conciencia, incluso a costa de contrariar al soberano de quien era un “buen servidor”, pues eligió servir primero a Dios. El dilema que afrontó Moro en aquellos tiempos difíciles, la perenne cuestión de la relación entre lo que se debe al César y lo que se debe a Dios…” [1]

“Quizás, alguno opina que la santidad no es para él. Dejad que me explique. Cuando somos jóvenes, solemos pensar en personas a las que respetamos, admiramos y como las que nos gustaría ser. Puede que sea alguien que encontramos en nuestra vida diaria y a quien tenemos una gran estima. O puede que sea alguien famoso. Vivimos en una cultura de la fama, y a menudo se alienta a los jóvenes a modelarse según las figuras del mundo del deporte o del entretenimiento. Os pregunto: ¿Cuáles son las cualidades que veis en otros y que más os gustarían para vosotros? ¿Qué tipo de persona os gustaría ser de verdad? Cuando os invito a ser santos, os pido que no os conforméis con ser de segunda fila. Os pido que no persigáis una meta limitada y que ignoréis las demás.”[2]

“Diría que una Iglesia que busca sobre todo ser atractiva estaría ya en un camino equivocado, porque la Iglesia no trabaja para sí misma, no trabaja para aumentar sus cifras y así su propio poder.La Iglesia está al servicio de otro: sirve no para ella misma, para ser un cuerpo fuerte, sino que sirve para hacer accesible el anuncio de Jesucristo, las grandes verdades y las grandes fuerzas de amor, amor de reconciliación que se ha presentado en esta figura y que viene siempre de la presencia de Jesucristo. En este sentido la Iglesia no busca su propio atractivo, sino que debe ser transparente para Jesucristo y, en la medida en que no exista para sí misma, como cuerpo fuerte, poderoso en el mundo, que quiere tener poder, sino que sea sencillamente voz de otro, se hace realmente transparente para la gran figura de Cristo y las grandes verdades que ha traído a la humanidad. La fuerza del amor, en ese momento, se escucha, se acepta. La Iglesia no debería considerarse a sí misma, sino ayudar a considerar al otro y ella misma ver y hablar del otro y por el otro. Me parece que, en este sentido, tanto anglicanos como católicos ven que no se sirven a sí mismos, sino que son instrumentos de Cristo, amigos del Esposo, como dice san Juan, si ambos realizan la prioridad de Cristo y no la de sí mismos; también se unen, porque en ese momento la prioridad de Cristo los congrega y ya no son competidores, buscando cada uno el mayor número, sino que están juntos en el compromiso por la verdad de Cristo que penetra en este mundo y así se encuentran también recíprocamente…”[3]

El sacrificio eucarístico del Cuerpo y la Sangre de Cristo abraza a su vez el misterio de la pasión de nuestro Señor, que continúa en los miembros de su Cuerpo místico, en la Iglesia en cada época. El gran crucifijo que aquí se yergue sobre nosotros, nos recuerda que Cristo, nuestro sumo y eterno sacerdote, une cada día a los méritos infinitos de su sacrificio nuestros propios sacrificios, sufrimientos, necesidades, esperanzas y aspiraciones. Por Cristo, con Él y en Él, presentamos nuestros cuerpos como sacrificio santo y agradable a Dios (cf. Rm 12,1). En este sentido, nos asociamos a su ofrenda eterna, completando, como dice San Pablo, en nuestra carne lo que falta a los dolores de Cristo en favor de su cuerpo, que es la Iglesia (cf. Col 1,24). En la vida de la Iglesia, en sus pruebas y tribulaciones, Cristo continúa, según la expresión genial de Pascal, estando en agonía hasta el fin del mundo (Pensées, 553, ed. Brunschvicg).[4]

La vida eterna, como quien dice, está a la vuelta de la esquina.

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[1] Encuentro con Representantes de la Sociedad Británica - Westminster Hall - City of Westminster
   Viernes 17 de septiembre de 2010

[2] Colegio Universitario Santa María - de Twickenham (London Borough of Richmond) - viernes 17 de septiembre de 2010

[3] E ncuentro del  Papa Benedicto XVI con los periodistas vuelo al Reino Unido - Jueves 16 de septiembre de 2010

[4] Catedral de la Preciosísima Sangre de Nuestro Señor Jesucristo - City of Westminster, Sábado 18 de septiembre de 2010

Why I left the Legion of Christ

blogger seems to be called Luke Clougher and his blog has been around for a year or so

Building on the Ruins of the Old Me: why I left the Legionaries of Christ

Posted on October 19, 2011 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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When I realized I had to leave the Legion of Christ, the floor was ripped right out of my life.

Everything on which I had based my very identity was called into question.  I had become a member of this religious order at fifteen, before having completed high school, and my past seven years had been completely dedicated to learning how to spend the rest of my life as a priest in the Legion.  Now with the fundamental direction of my life suddenly in question, I found myself incapable of the most routine activities of my day; classes, community prayer, mealtimes.  There was no point anymore.

I believe that a person’s vocation is the central kernel of their existence.  Your identity is built around your purpose in life.  God exists outside of time, and he calls you into being in one eternal moment: the whole you, from beginning to end.  And when God calls your name out of the nothingness, he does it for a reason.  I thought I’d found this reason.  For seven years I lived my life for this reason, and then one day, my certainty was gone.

Without my priestly vocation, I was faced once again with the most fundamental questions.  Looking in the mirror I had to ask: who are you, Luke?  Why are you here?

Eight months later I’m still building on the ruins of who I was.  I don’t mean to sound melodramatic or depressing; I’m actually quite a joyful person.  The truth is simply the truth: my identity crumbled and now I’m building a new one.

By now you may be asking: well, Luke, if your vocation to the priesthood was so central to your identity, why did you have to leave the Legion all of a sudden? That would be a very fair question.  I have two answers.  I had known in my heart for some time that I wasn’t cut out for religious life, but I had been afraid to face the facts, choosing rather to view that nagging realization as a temptation against my vocation.  The second reason is that the Legion I had fallen in love with and joined was changing before my eyes.  I had signed on for one thing, and it was becoming something else.

Let me make something clear.  I am still in contact with many Legionary priests and seminarians, and I do not subscribe to the brainwashing, cult accusations leveled at the order.  As someone genuinely concerned for the future of Christianity, Catholicism and the religious life, I would like to share my experience as a Legionary seminarian in all it’s detail, including the personal struggles I had with certain aspects of the Legion’s formation and methodology.

When I read or hear some of the horror stories about excessive control, brainwashing and repression that come from certain former Legionaries, I think of certain moments of difficulty I had, and how easy it would be to tell those stories in terms that would horrify anyone out of context.  If I wanted to, I could use all the right words to push all the right media-hype buttons.  What I would much rather do is something productive, i.e. tell my story exactly as it happened and let you judge the Legion of Christ for yourselves.

This is something I wanted to do back in the Legion, but couldn’t, because I wasn’t allowed internet access to have a blog.  Maybe this is a little piece of the new me…part of my new purpose in life.

A few days before I left the seminary, I wrote these words in my journal:

I believe that:

1. One day I will look at all my present goals and say I fulfilled them.

2. On that day I will make new ones.

3. one day everything will work out.

4. I am a survivor.

Divine Mercy Today

On the left Fr. Neftali Sanchez Tinoco, one of the first ordained Legionary priests, co-founder in Ireland in the early 1960s; he left soon after and returned to his diocese in Michoacan, Mexico, where Maciel recruited him at the age of 12. In this recent photo he looks full of peace.

[From the I st Sunday after Easter]

Today is the Sunday of Divine Mercy. John Paul II died on the eve of this feast day, so beloved by him. It is the marvelous expression of God's love for humanity. We are all sinners. We are all children of God, here in this world to choose good, to let ourselves by loved by God. Sometimes we think that our personal sin distances us from God. The opposite is true: when the soul acknowledges that it has sinned, and experiences its impotence,  it is in that moment of sincere humility that it can be invaded by God's love that comes to meet it, and loves us even more than before. God is vulnerable to our humility.

Humility is the personal expression our our truth; it is soft and silent; source of peace. We all need God's Mercy. All of us. Today is the day for us to realize that we all need love, so we can open up fearlessly to love, as a person and as an institution. 

Today is a day for us to experience that there is always a clear path to take a step forward. We are not alone.

Nieves Garcia, former member of Regnum Christi

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La Iglesia celebra hoy el domingo de la misericordia. Juan Pablo II falleció en la víspera de esta fiesta, tan querida para él.

Es la expresión maravillosa del amor de Dios por los hombres. Somos pecadores, todos. No hay buenos y perfectos y malos y pecadores. Todos somos hijos de Dios, que estamos en esta vida para elegir el bien, para dejarnos amar por Dios. A veces pensamos que nuestro pecado personal nos aleja de Dios. Resulta todo lo contrario, cuando el alma reconoce que ha pecado, experimenta su impotencia y es en ese momento de humildad sincera cuando puede ser invadida por el amor de Dios que sale a su paso, y nos quiere incluso más de lo que nos quería antes. Dios es vulnerable a nuestra humildad.

La humildad es la expresión personal de la verdad, es suave y silenciosa. Es fuente de paz.

Todos necesitamos de la misericordia, todos. Hoy es un día para reconocernos necesitados del amor, para abrirnos a la verdad sin miedo, la verdad personal y la verdad institucional. 

Es un día para experimentar que siempre hay un camino limpio para dar un paso hacia adelante. No estamos solos.

"Leave for the Good of the Legion/Regnum!"

Well did Julius Caesar say, Divide and Conquer.

The most dangerous division/separation is in the area of ideas because it is the hardest to discover. When a dilemma arises between two realities, before opting for one of them, first we have to ask ourselves whether such a division/separation is necessary. 

Some Legion superiors try to insure permanency in the institution by "expelling" one or more members. They justify their actions saying that it is necessary to get rid of some members for the good of the institution. But I ask myself, is there such a thing as an institution without people? Without people there is no institution. And, if that is the case, what is there to defend?

They are asking some consecrated members or Legionaries to "leave the institution" because they are in a stage of discernment after all that has happened. And this seems like a coherent and legitimate attitude for a person who has lived in deceit and is trying to make a wise decision about their life. This is an attitude that should be supported by the "institution". When the assumed well-being of the institution is put before the objective well-being of the people that make it up there is a forced dilemma: institution or person.

Sooner or later the institution will wither away because it did not know how to save its most important asset: people, its members.

Nieves Garcia

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Bien dijo Julio César que la división del enemigo propio el triunfo de su opositor: "Divide y vencerás"

La división más peligrosa es la conceptual porque al ser más sutil es difícil de descubrir. Cuando aparece un dilema entre dos realidades, antes de optar por una de ellas, hay que plantearse si realmente es necesario.

Algunos superiores de la Legión tratan de defender la permanencia de la institución a través de "expulsion" de una o muchas de las personas que la conforman. Se justifican diciendo que para salvar la institución hay que alejar a personas. Me pregunto ¿Acaso existe institución alguna como tal? Existen personas que viven un estilo de vida, y a ese grupo humano se le llama institución. Sin personas no hay institución. Entonces ¿qué se defiende?

Se está invitando a algunas consagradas y legionarios a dejar la "institución" porque están en una etpa de discernimiento, ante todo lo acaecido. Postura coherente y legítima en una persona que ha vivido en un engaño y quiere hacer la verdad sobre la propia vida. Postura que debería estar apoyada "institucionalmente" para descubrir entre todos la verdad de la misma institución. Cuando se opera haciendo prevalecer el supuesto bien de la institución por encima del bien objetivo de las personas que la configuran, se cae en el dilema capcioso: o institucion o persona.

Tarde o temprano la institución irá muriendo porque no supo salvar lo más grande que tiene: sus personas.