4. An Evangelical Engagement
The written testimony that most completely reflects the spirituality of "FIAT" is the book by Cardinal Suenens The Christian at the Dawn of a New Era. There one finds a Trinitarian theology, openness to the "Fiat" of Mary and the call to evangelization. The book concludes with a prayer for evangelical engagement.
There we find the invitation to allow ourselves to be evangelized and to be formed interiorly through prayer and the liturgical and sacramental life of the Church so that our entire life becomes a daily testimony to the love of the Lord.
Through the voice of its pastors, the Church exhorts us to move forward in the footsteps of those saints, known and unknown, who have gone before us so that, moved by the Holy Spirit, we will have the courage to present the faith clearly to all those who long and search for the true meaning of their lives. That is to proclaim Christ as the Way, the Truth and the Life.
Can our Christian life, however, be complete and authentic without a privileged love for the poorest and an engagement in solidarity with them for peace, justice and conditions for humane, equitable and lasting development? Increasingly our faith helps us to discover ourselves as poor among the poor just as Jesus who identified himself with them (see Matthew 25, 34-40).
The FIAT Association in its own
way responds to the call of John Paul II to the youth gathering at St. James of
Compostella in 1992 during the World Youth Days: "Let us take the path of Mary,
let us engage ourselves with Christ the road of truth and life. Let us become
messengers of the Good News and builders of a civilization of love…"