The Wheel – A Symbol for our new European Province

The Wheel is a symbol of the Trinity, of Community, and also of our new CPS European Province.  During morning prayer on 6 May 2018, Sr. Sarto Stürmer CPS shared her “Wheel Meditation” to begin the historic day celebrating the Inauguration of our new CPS European Province and the Installation of our new EU Province Leadership Team.

Wheel Meditation

Symbol for our new European Province:

Our Const. nr. 702 says: “Our structures support us in our shared mission, foster unity and bind us together as Sisters irrespective of nationalities and cultures.”

Axis = Hl. Trinity
Hub = Provincial Team
Outer rim of the wheel = work and apostolates of the Sisters
Spokes = individual Sister: co-responsible for the connection between apostolate and leadership. Each spoke is important; none may be missing. If the wheel remains turning, the load is never on one spoke alone. The load is shared. It may also be consoling for the hub – the leadership: though on one side is pressure from cares and problems, on the other side are the many that encourage, support and help to carry. To keep a wheel moving, the hub has in its middle a round opening for the axis. Without this opening, the wheel does not function; the opening is the triune God. He is the centre of all, he guides and directs all, also our future as a European Province.

We connect with a wheel the thought of quick movement, the urgency of our call. Jesus says to his disciples:

Go to all the nations and make people to my disciples; baptize them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.
And teach them everything which I have commanded you. Be assured: I am with you always even unto the end of the world.

As we step into the Jubilee Year from December 2024 to 2025,

let us invite God the Holy Spirit to enable us to be real pilgrims of Hope

in our communities and among the people we serve. 

 

Father in heaven,

may the faith you have given us

in your son, Jesus Christ, our brother,

and the flame of charity enkindled

in our hearts by the Holy Spirit,

reawaken in us the blessed hope

for the coming of your Kingdom.

 

May your grace transform us

into tireless cultivators of the seeds of the Gospel.

May those seeds transform from within both humanity

and the whole cosmos

in the sure expectation

of a new heaven and a new earth,

when, with the powers of Evil vanquished,

your glory will shine eternally.

 

May the grace of the Jubilee

reawaken in us, Pilgrims of Hope,

a yearning for the treasures of heaven.

May that same grace spread

the joy and peace of our Redeemer

throughout the earth.

To you our God, eternally blessed,

be glory and praise for ever.

Amen (more…)