| The carism: consecration, secularity, mission |
| The 'charism' is the spiritual gift which distinguishes us in the Church, and which God gave to the Institute at its very origin with the "first idea" of our Foundress. This gift enables us to draw from Christ, the Hope of humankind, the spirituality which animates both our life as consecrated laywomen and our 'mission' among those who suffer.
Three are the essential and inseparable characteristics of the Institute's charism. They are rooted in the Mystery of Christ, and are expressed in our way of being who we are and doing what we do in response to the Lord's call: * consecration, lived as the gift of self in the following of Christ who offered His life in order to bring about the Father's plan of love and salvation; * secularity, whose model is to be found in the incarnation of Christ who, as man and Son of God, shared the daily life of His fellowmen and His times; * the "mission" as participation in the mission of hope of Jesus, who proclaimed the love of His Father to all, reaching out to those afflicted by all forms of suffering, and who, with His Redemption, became our Hope. |