Before the world you are privileged witnesses of this formidable truth: "the Lord is risen and makes himself the traveling companion of the pilgrim man on life's journey, until the paths of time cross the way of the Eternal One, when "we shall see him as he is" (1 Jn 3:2).
Consecrated life thus has a prophetic charism because it extends between the experience of "having seen the Lord" and the certain hope of seeing him again "as he is."