Contemplation of this Mystery impels us to undertake and share any activity and profession in any given ambit and situation, and to do so with a missionary spirit, seeking to be salt, light, and leaven of truth in charity (cf. Eph 4:15).
It is up to the members of secular Institutes to incarnate the Christian message and its tradition in daily life, ever at the service of others for the salvation of the world.

Being and doing are in no way separate from one another, and are actually blended as one: "being present to the world" takes on the sense of "working in the world", and doing so in the ordinary activities of society as such.

As Paul VI repeatedly told us: "Being in the world and thereby committed in secular values is your way of being Church, your way of making the Church present, saving yourselves and proclaiming salvation. Your existential and sociological condition becomes your theological reality".

Being "salt" and "leaven" means:

• to be one with others, Christians and non Christians, who work hard so justice and love may triumph;
• to acknowledge the values of earthly life to be transformed in a creative way according to evangelical criteria and through love;
• to incarnate a Christian style of life in progressive fidelity to the Gospel;
• to accept others as and where they are, and enhance the goodness God has deposited in their hearts (cf. EN 70);
• to respond to God's love with fidelity to His commandments and to the teachings of the Church without succumbing to the way the world thinks; going against currents and fashions without being conditioned in any way whatsoever, and infecting others with a savor for life, optimism and trustfulness;
• to strive to fill the "voids of meaning and sense" which make the existence of humankind so poor and fragile today.