Secularity means that your place is in the world. But it does not mean simply a position, a function which happens to coincide with life in the world and a “secular″ job or profession. It must mean, first and foremost a realisation that you are in the world as your very own field “of Christian responsibility″. (Paul VI, 1972)
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Dedication (c)Kharlamova Lv, Fotolia

Creativity…

«But this special consecration, this special way of belonging to Jesus Christ in virginity, poverty, obedience, does not detract the members of Secular Institutes from the world, nor does it paralyse their temporal action, but gives it life and dynamism, greater realism and efficacy; freeing it of dissatisfactions, interests and quests, which are somehow related to egoism. « Secular consecration »: in opening man and woman to the absolute radicalism of the love of God, they are prepared for a deeper incarnation in the world, for a pure, free purifying and liberating secularity.»

The characteristic of this « new way » of being Church is to live precisely in the world the radicalism of the Beatitudes as the light, salt and leaven of God.

This special consecration does not remove the members of a secular Institute from the world, nor does it paralyze their temporal activity; but it enlivens and energizes it, gives it greater realism and effectiveness, and frees them from the satisfactions of interests and pursuits that are linked to selfishness in one way or another.

What characterizes our life in the midst of the world?

  • Femme à la fenêtre

    Opening oneself to the world

    Gift of God and communion: welcoming our insertion into the world as a gift from God, like Jesus ,we want to share the conditions of existence of the men and women to whom we are sen.

  • Passion for Christ and for all people and diversity: inseparable, our passion for Christ and our passion for people exclude no person and no milieu. No profession is forbidden to us. On the contrary, the richness of the Institute lies in the variety of our backgrounds.
  • Life fully in the world and solidarity: called to be fully in the world, we work to ensure our livelihood, seeking where and how the Lord calls us to solidarity and service.
  • In imitation of Jesus… to the end: the Institute does not withdraw us from the world: like Jesus, who remained in the midst of his own until the Cross, we want to remain to the end with those whose life we share.