A Holy Priest Looks at Living Water
Fr Stephen Harney is a Rosminian missionary from Ireland who has been working in Venezuela since the early 1970’s. He is the founder and present leader of Fuente Real Community and does extensive retreat work throughout the world. His relationship with Living Water and its leaders has been a constant source of inspiration from its inception.
Living Water Community is not a story to be told, nor an event to be described: it is an experience to be lived, Living Water is to be drunk.
Living Water Community is a dream come true, a spiritual phenomenon in a secularist world, the kingdom of God among us.
Living Water Community is the civilization of love realized, a paradigm of the Church in the modern world, Vatican Council II in action.
Living Water Community is a stream of love in a world hungry for love, a foundation of life, giving life, an oasis in a dry desert land.
Living Water Community is a little bit of heaven on earth, a well-spring of divine love and mercy for the poorest of the poor, a lighthouse for the spiritually lost.
Living Water Community is a home for the homeless, a hospice for the dying, a center for the hungry.
Living Water Community is a river of thirst-quenching waters, new life for the searchers and the seekers, a haven of hope for the hopeless.
Living Water Community is the work of God’s power and grace, a communal witness to Emmanuel, God-with-us, one of the marvels of the New Pentecost.
Living Water Community is a wonder to behold and a joy to share, one of the surprises of the Holy Spirit, the promise of ages.
Living Water Community is new wine in new wine skins, the fruit of a group of committed Christians living as one, the fruit of a dedicated family living their baptismal vows.
Living Water Community is a spot on the map where Jesus Christ is Lord and Master, the prophesies of Isaiah and Ezekiel fulfilled, what the holy men and women of old longed for and hoped to see.
Living Water Community is family, fellowship and friendship all rolled into one, where inter-personal relationships are happy, healthy and holy, where to live is to give of oneself wholeheartedly and with a big smile.
Living Water Community is a fragrant rose on the dunghill of a sin-sick world, a place of rest in a restless era, a love song sung in the midst of tears.
Living Water Community give what they live, share what they dare, walk what they talk.
Living Water Community is Christ, the same yesterday, today and forever, fulfilling His promise: “…..’If any man is thirsty, let him come to me! Let the man come and drink who believes in me!’ As scripture says, from his breast shall flow fountains of living water.” (Jn 7:37-38)