This is a line taken from T.S. Eliot's famous play Murder in the Cathedral. At present, we are between Christmas and Easter, and it is very fitting to ask ourselves what we are going to do in this interim.

     It is easier for us to look at what the others are doing, or to look towards where the world is heading, yet it is better for each and every one of us to take stock of his/her affairs prior to everything else. In this special year for our Society, one can take a closer look at our Founder's lifestyle and may find a source of inspiration in the following statements borrowed from January's editorial of our monthly edition Kalendarju Museumin.

     What can we learn from our Founder?
     What can the following tell us?
     He lived in poverty although he was an heir of a wealthy family;
     Many a times he was considered insane and an imbecile;
     When he dared actualize what the Spirit inspired him, he ended up under fire;
     He hated all superficiality;
     He was an ascetic with his feet firm on the ground;
     He was so absorbed in all that belongs to God and preached nothing but the Truth;
     He hated all self inflation or applause.

    If we really want this year not to remain just as the year of the Founder but to be also our year, then we have no other choice but to imitate him.

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