The Pauline Family 
charismatic-ministerial identity

From a synchronized reading of the charismatic Family heritage, we recognize these elements common to all the Institutes, gathered according to the four coordinates:

1. Christocentric-Trinitarian dimension:

• Jesus Christ Way, Truth and Life is the only way to access the Trinity
• The Trinity is Way, Truth and Life in Himself,  
• Jesus Way, Truth and Life restores in damaged man the image of the Trinity in his mind, in his will, in his heart, and restores man to the primitive beauty, just as how he came out of the creating act of God; hence, man in Jesus Christ is a small Trinity,
• The Holy Spirit, by virtue of whom the Word of the Father took form in the virginal womb of Mary Most Holy, forms Jesus Christ in us. 
• Inasmuch as he is Master and Shepherd, Jesus precedes us by seconding to the will of the Father from the incarnation to glorification.
• Jesus Christ, Divine Master, is the Wisdom of God, the definitive revelation of the Father whom we encounter in the Scriptures;
• Jesus forms us in his school of truth, virtue and goodness;
• Jesus Christ is at the center of the universal history as mediator from and to the
  life of the Most Holy Trinity;
• The Eucharistic mystery is the loftiest expression of the magisterium of Jesus
  Christ; the whole Pauline Family is born of the Tabernacle;
• Our fraternal communion and our spiritual life are fruits of the Trinitarian life;
  The life of every believer, of every Pauline man and woman has as the only goal
  “a great Gloria in excelsis Deo et in terra pax hominibus, in honor of the Most
  Holy Trinity” (AD 183).

2. Anthropological dimension

• The principal commitment of the Pauline man or woman is to allow Jesus Christ to take form in his/her person;
• It is necessary that the whole of the human person be grafted in Jesus Christ: the mind grafted to Christ’s mind; the will, to Christ’s will; the heart, to Christ’s heart;
• We need to establish our whole being, mind, will, heart, body in Christ Way, Truth and Life;
• Jesus Christ Way, Truth and Life formator for piety, study, apostolate, poverty; 
• Jesus-Truth gives light to faith; Jesus-Way establishes hope; Jesus-Life nourishes charity;
• The principle of integrality of the human person is to form “The whole person in Jesus Christ, in view of loving God completely by means of one’s intelligence,will and heart and physical strength. Nature, grace and vocation: everything is for the Apostolate” (AD 100).
• The Pauline apostle (man or woman) gives importance to human sciences: all that is good, amiable and good... (cf. Phil 4:8).
• The Pauline is a person open to the universality of cultures;
• The Pauline is a person aware of his/her poverty with great trust in God in the spirit of the Pact or Secret of Success;
• The commitment of the person is to give importance to creation and to the inventions of science as means of bringing God to man and man to God;
  
  
• Two are the fundamental attitudes of the Pauline: gratitude (Magnificat) and the awareness of his/her own inadequacies (Miserere).

3. Ecclesiological dimension

• The Church, Way and Truth and Life is Mother, Teacher and Guide who teaches,leads and sanctifies: dogma, morals and worship;
• The Pauline Family’s mission is to live Jesus and to serve the Church;
• The Pauline Family qualifies itself through a biblical, pastoral, social, liturgical,catechetical and universal spirit;
• By the measure with which our sense of belonging to the Pauline Family grows,our being Church becomes the visible sign for the people of God;
• The life of our persons and communities is in Christ and in the Church;
• To remain united with the Church is to remain united with Christ: it is thus that we are living and working members in the Church;
• The apostolate is a continuation of the work of Jesus Christ through the Church;
• For the apostolate, three elements are always required: knowledge, that is, the complex of truths to communicate; language, as means of diffusion; technology, as the complex of means that produce speedy and effective fruits;
  The apostle is a witness committed to let himself disappear in order to give voice to God and to present in the first place the doctrine of the Church: he is Way,Truth and Life.
• The building of the Christian community is one preoccupation of the Pauline apostle;
• Consecration introduces one fully into the mystery of God’s covenant with his people;
• In “working for the Church,” the Pauline consecration sees to it that the forces are united and the dedication is complete (cf. AD 24);
• Mary Most Holy, disciple of the Divine Master, is the model of our mission: cooperate with the Church in giving Christ to the world;
• Secret of apostolic efficacy is Mary, way to Christ: “via vitae, via humanitatis’;
• Jesus came as Teacher through Mary, Teacher;
• Mary is the queen of the apostles, Mother of the Church;
• Mary mother, teacher and queen of the apostles is the image of the Church;
• St. Paul is the most faithful interpreter of Jesus Christ and is held as father,teacher, example, founder of the Pauline Family;
• From St. Paul we learn the sense of Church and the Christian vision of the world  and of history;
• From St. Paul, we take the “form” of the apostle:  Christ: “via vitae, via humanitatis’;..
  
  
• The style of the apostle Paul who made himself “all things to all” (cf. 1Cor 9:22)
• solicits us to enter into relationship with the different cultures in a climate of respect and freedom;
• St. Peter has been placed by Jesus Christ as head of the Church, in order to continue being the Way, the Truth and the Life in her;
• The Pauline apostolate is characterized by its fidelity to the magisterium of the Pope.
• Issued from the hands of God, our life, like a journey of trial, must be a preparation for heaven: nourish the thought of paradise by considering things under the “light of eternity”;
• Eternal life is the vision of God in Christ Truth, the possession of God in Christ Way and the enjoyment of God in Christ Life;
• Eternal happiness in heaven is the participation to the eternal joy with the Divine  Master whom we imitated in life;
  Just as we were united, as a Family, in the profession of faith, so shall we be united in suffrage and in intercession;
• The Pauline apostolate undertaken on earth shall be continued in Heaven; ̧ The Eucharistic “visit” in its eschatological dimension anticipates the perfect communion of love with the Master;
• At the end of our life, the Father shall contemplate in us the form of the Son and He shall be pleased;
• Our beatitude in God shall above all be an exaltation of his mercy.

3. Eschatological dimension

• Issued from the hands of God, our life, like a journey of trial, must be a preparation for heaven: nourish the thought of paradise by considering things under the “light of eternity”
• Eternal life is the vision of God in Christ Truth, the possession of God in Christ Way and the enjoyment of God in Christ Life;
• Eternal happiness in heaven is the participation to the eternal joy with the Divine  Master whom we imitated in life;
  Just as we were united, as a Family, in the profession of faith, so shall we be united in suffrage and in intercession;
• The Pauline apostolate undertaken on earth shall be continued in Heaven; ̧ The Eucharistic “visit” in its eschatological dimension anticipates the perfect communion of love with the Master;
• At the end of our life, the Father shall contemplate in us the form of the Son and He shall be pleased;
• Our beatitude in God shall above all be an exaltation of his mercy.