Third principle
The work of recovering, renewing and transforming what has been damaged or diminished.
More than return
Restoration is not nostalgia. Some inherited arrangements were harmful and should not be reinstated. Restoration requires discernment about what deserves recovery, what calls for transformation and what must be left behind.
Where it takes place
Restorative work may touch relationships, human dignity, knowledge, community, ecology and personal meaning. It can include care and repair without claiming that all suffering has a single cause.
A distinct priesthood
The Priesthood of Restoration develops the spiritual and organised dimensions of this vocation through the Restorative Awakening and the Restorers Movement. The wider principle belongs to the whole Nation.
