The first Sunday invited us to recognize that sin breaks, but God recreates; where death expands, grace overflows. On the second Sunday, vocation as gift and call resounded strongly. The third Sunday invited us to be present to accompany life and sustain hope. On the fourth Sunday to walk as sons and daughters of the light.
We are approaching the end of Lent, and the new life that Easter announces is the work of the Spirit who dwells in us. He dwells in each person and impels us to walk together. He is the one who gives unity, fruitfulness and future to the whole body.
The dream of the Charismatic Family is born from this conviction: we do not walk alone, but in communion, sharing mission, gifts and responsibilities. Weaving the dream of the Charismatic Family is not so much an organizational project, but a call to allow ourselves to be led by the Spirit, walking together – laity and Daughters of Jesus – in communion, charism and shared mission. To open ourselves to the Spirit is to dare to build together something new, more evangelical and more fruitful. Lent helps us in this trusting openness.
The Spirit of the one who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you.
Brethren, those who are subject to the flesh cannot please God. But you are not subject to the flesh, but to the Spirit, for the Spirit of God dwells in you. He who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to Christ. Now if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit lives because of the justification obtained. If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also quicken your mortal bodies by the same Spirit who dwells in you. Rm. 8,8-11
Apostolic presences that evangelize and transform.
A yearning shared by the laity and Daughters of Jesus resounds strongly: to weave the dream of the Charismatic Family. The unanimous feeling that emerges from this General Congregation is the conviction that we need to advance with determination in the clarification and understanding of what it implies. To make this desire a reality, we see the need to set up a commission composed of lay people and Daughters of Jesus to jointly promote this discernment. Det. CGXIX n. 26
Question for discernment
How can we grow in communion and co-responsibility to live and transmit the shared charism today?
Ignatian prayer proposal
