4. Conclusion

To "ricollocare i carismi", we may try to re-express the evangelical counsels in contemporary terms; or we may establish hermeneutical rules for re-interpreting the founding intuitions. A third approach, attempted here, is to share experiences which give rise to reflection and which, when compared with each Congregation's situation, may prove fruitful.

Section 1 opened with a vignette of disagreement which suggests that dialogue, with all its risks, may be the best or even the only way to renew our perspectives, and that the conditions for such dialogue need deliberately to be promoted.

Riding a bicycle, easier to do than to analyze, reveals that real tensions are positive (compared with many negative forms of conflict which we have known); they are a concrete way of finding and using the criteria needed, not only for renewing but indeed for living our religious life.

In section 3, we see the social apostolate, which is neither purely traditional nor wholly new, taking the time and making the effort to re-build (ristrutturare) even as the work goes on.

Situating our charisms well means to return to our origins and regain our road ... with the anxieties and sufferings, the joys and hopes, which true discipleship and true pilgrimage entail.