As Jesus Christ’s disciples we feel asked to distinguish the signs of the times, under the light of the Holy Spirit, to be at the service of the Kingdom, announced by Jesus, who came to us so that everybody will have life and ‘to live it to the full’.

This request for distinguishing the signs is an important call for the girl guides to be clear in their search and to have a deep sense of their being and duty, as women, as a community within History.

Because the Advent we are living in makes us discover, on the way to the crib, the shadows and lights that we have in the reality of our world.

Aparecida says in its 48 issue “In this time of Latin America and the Caribbean it is urgent to become aware of the precarious situation which affects many women’s dignity. Some of them, since they are girls and adolescents they are subjugated to multiple forms of violence inside and outside their homes: slave trade, rape, servitude and sexual harassment; inequalities in the work, political and economic realms, publicity exploitation by the mass media which treat them as a source of profit.” ¹

Being experts on looking at this reality means to be experts on wanting to transform it… and the Movement offers a place, a space, values to be able to do it. It is there where the Reedemer gives himself to us, that’s why living a deep faith implies walking on the transformation of the world.


P. Carlos Gómez O de M
World Chaplain

[1] Aparecida Conclusive Document, 5th Latin America and Caribbean Episcopate General Conference carried out in Aparecida, Brazil -  May 2007

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