TAKING THE RISK OF JOY Festival of San Fermin, Pamplona, Spain Photo: Adam Jones Flickr by: Eloy Roy Written on the occasion of the Centennial of the Foreign Mission Society of Quebec, these lines are addressed to women and men, believers or not, lay or religious people, who, by risking joy , look forward to making a success of their lives. For a hundred years, quite many young people let down their security belts and set off without any capsule, rocket or rover in the direction of distant worlds. Arrived among peoples mostly unknown , and with no more luggage than what they carried in their hearts, they sought to be close to them as Jesus himself would have done. By rubbing shoulders with these peoples, the missionaries little by little discovered their wisdom and beauties. Though u ntil very recently these peoples seemed hardly existing , they soon took root in their hearts. With th