Friday, September 14, 2018
The Love of Christ has gathered the Pauline Family into one Family.
The journey we have accomplished till now has gone through the following stages:
1. a) The analysis of the life, the preaching and some of the writings of Fr. Alberione has shown us that the Founder, in giving life to the different institutions of the Pauline Family, has obeyed a plan that God was manifesting to him gradually, giving light to him step by step. We can meanwhile speak of a precise unitary project of the Pauline Family.
b) In its turn, every Institution of the Pauline Family has assumed the charism en-
trusted to it by the Founder, codifying it in its own Constitutions and the insti-
tute’s official documents.
2. A reading, under a theological perspective, of the unitary project of the Pauline Family has led us to penetrate into the heart of the common heritage, has allowed us to identify its nucleus: everything finds unity and synthesis in the Person of Christ Master Shepherd Way and Truth and Life.
It is how Fr. Alberione enunciates it with the Pauline expression, Instaurare omnia in Christo, and which hewould have wanted to illustrate with an encyclopedia on Jesus Master. It is always the Lord Jesus who is the perfect image of God, one and three (Trinitarian dimension); who allows the human person, given to Him, to reach his perfection in the mind, in the will and in the heart (anthropological dimension); who continues his work of teaching, of example and of grace in the Church (ecclesiological dimension); who shall be possessed definitively by and shall glorify the blessed in heaven (eschatological dimension).
In this third part of our work, what remains that we analyze is the manner with which every individual Institute of the Pauline Family relates with the same Jesus Christ. This reflection shall allow each Institution to see the elements that it has in common with the others and, consequently, discover the elements that differentiate it and recognize them as specific to itself.
In other words: a comparative vision of the essential components shall allow every Institute to identify the aspects that it finds also in other Institutions—we shall call these common heritage – and the aspects that draws its own identity and specificity.
For this last section, the guiding word is that which the Founder has entrusted in AD in the chapter precisely entitled The Pauline Family (AD 33-35): “Congregavit nos in unum.”174 Recalling such words, Fr. Alberione intends to underline that, although there exist in the Pauline Family “separation” and “independence”, we need to put on the first place among them the “kinship bond”, the “close-knit collaboration among them on the spiritual, intellectual, moral and economic levels,” and “the exchange of prayers and help
in many ways and, finally, the “sharing of joys and sorrows, and of the eternal reward.”
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174 “The love of Christ has brought us altogether...” Cf. Roman Missal, Mass of the Lord’s Supper.
The journey we have accomplished till now has gone through the following stages:
1. a) The analysis of the life, the preaching and some of the writings of Fr. Alberione has shown us that the Founder, in giving life to the different institutions of the Pauline Family, has obeyed a plan that God was manifesting to him gradually, giving light to him step by step. We can meanwhile speak of a precise unitary project of the Pauline Family.
b) In its turn, every Institution of the Pauline Family has assumed the charism en-
trusted to it by the Founder, codifying it in its own Constitutions and the insti-
tute’s official documents.
2. A reading, under a theological perspective, of the unitary project of the Pauline Family has led us to penetrate into the heart of the common heritage, has allowed us to identify its nucleus: everything finds unity and synthesis in the Person of Christ Master Shepherd Way and Truth and Life.
It is how Fr. Alberione enunciates it with the Pauline expression, Instaurare omnia in Christo, and which hewould have wanted to illustrate with an encyclopedia on Jesus Master. It is always the Lord Jesus who is the perfect image of God, one and three (Trinitarian dimension); who allows the human person, given to Him, to reach his perfection in the mind, in the will and in the heart (anthropological dimension); who continues his work of teaching, of example and of grace in the Church (ecclesiological dimension); who shall be possessed definitively by and shall glorify the blessed in heaven (eschatological dimension).
In this third part of our work, what remains that we analyze is the manner with which every individual Institute of the Pauline Family relates with the same Jesus Christ. This reflection shall allow each Institution to see the elements that it has in common with the others and, consequently, discover the elements that differentiate it and recognize them as specific to itself.
In other words: a comparative vision of the essential components shall allow every Institute to identify the aspects that it finds also in other Institutions—we shall call these common heritage – and the aspects that draws its own identity and specificity.
For this last section, the guiding word is that which the Founder has entrusted in AD in the chapter precisely entitled The Pauline Family (AD 33-35): “Congregavit nos in unum.”174 Recalling such words, Fr. Alberione intends to underline that, although there exist in the Pauline Family “separation” and “independence”, we need to put on the first place among them the “kinship bond”, the “close-knit collaboration among them on the spiritual, intellectual, moral and economic levels,” and “the exchange of prayers and help
in many ways and, finally, the “sharing of joys and sorrows, and of the eternal reward.”
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174 “The love of Christ has brought us altogether...” Cf. Roman Missal, Mass of the Lord’s Supper.
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