{"id":2241,"date":"2017-12-14T16:01:23","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T15:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pddm.org\/nella-famiglia-paolina\/"},"modified":"2018-02-14T09:35:57","modified_gmt":"2018-02-14T08:35:57","slug":"nella-famiglia-paolina","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.pddm.org\/en\/nella-famiglia-paolina\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Pauline Family"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row full_width=”stretch_row_content_no_spaces”][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”80px”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”In the Pauline Family ” font_container=”tag:h2|font_size:90|text_align:center|color:%232a516e” google_fonts=”font_family:Alex%20Brush%3Aregular|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal” css_animation=”none”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”15px”][vc_column_text]Urged on by the action of the Holy Spirit, from 1914 to 1959, Father James Alberione founded various institutes united among themselves by the same spirituality and a bond of profound communion: the Pauline Family. \u00a0<\/em>The institutes of the Pauline Family are: five religious congregations, one lay association, and four aggregated institutes.<\/p>\n

Each Institute that the Lord called into existence through Father Alberione is \u201centirely of the Pauline Family\u201d. \u00a0The words of the Founder define this intense bond: \u201cThere is a close relationship, because all are born of the Tabernacle. \u00a0There is one spirit: to live Jesus Christ and serve the Church\u201d and one apostolate: to make<\/strong> Jesus Christ, Way, Truth, and Life known to the men and women of our time<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

He himself narrates his experience as a seminarian which determined his future work and the spirit of the Pauline Family:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe night that divided the last century from the present (the night between December 31, 1900, and January 1, 1901) was crucial for the specific mission and particular spirit in which the Pauline Family would come to light and live.\u00a0 After the solemn midnight Mass in the Cathedral of Alba, exposition and adoration of the Blessed Sacrament followed.\u00a0 The seminarians in Philosophy and Theology were free to remain for as long as they liked.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

Not long before there had been a congress (the first he had attended). \u00a0He had fully grasped Toniolo\u2019s calm but profound and fascinating speech. \u00a0He had read Leo XIII\u2019s invitation to pray for the coming century.\u00a0 Both spoke of the Church\u2019s needs, of the new means of evil, of the duty to combat the press with the press, organization with organization, of the need to get the gospel [message] across to the people, of social issues\u2026 Particular enlightenment came from the Host, and a greater understanding of that invitation of Jesus: – Come to me, all of you – (Mt 11:28)… He felt deeply obliged to prepare himself to do something for the Lord and for the women and men of the new century with whom he would spend his life\u201d. <\/em>(James Alberione, Abundantes divitiae<\/em>, 13-15)<\/p>\n

Revisiting the experience of our Founder over the span of his long life, an organic project is revealed that develops step by step in fidelity to God and to the people of his time: to give Jesus Christ, Way, Truth and Life, to all people with the means that human progress and ingenuity\u00a0 make available over time.<\/strong><\/p>\n

We are grateful to God that we belong to this Family born of the Eucharist, in which we fulfill a Marian ministry of prayerful presence and charity, generating, in the maturity of faith, new apostles of social communication, and with our Eucharistic life we remind all of the primacy of God who is to be adored and thanked.<\/p>\n

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The Institutes of the Pauline Family are:<\/p>\n