Operational lines

-          See charisms in the light of the one Gospel of Christ, as words of the one Word.

-          Witness to the communion of holy founders and foundresses on earth as they are living it in heaven.

-          Remember each other in prayer during the liturgical year, when the Church celebrates the memories of founders or the saints of families of consecrated life.

-          Help each other to know the different charisms better, on the level of the particular Church, so as to understand in-depth the subtleties of the great principles of Christian spirituality that they express.

-          Promote a sense of belonging, together, to the Church of the historical Gospel charisms expressed by consecrated life, in order to encourage each other in the universal call to holiness and mission.

-          Witness together to the beauty and complexity of the one Gospel of Christ lived by the saints, especially in the sphere of spiritual ecumenism and inter-religious dialog of spirituality.

-          Visit each other spiritually at times of retreat, spiritual exercises, days of communion of charisms, so as to enrich and incite each other in the common commitment of holiness and visible testimony of the unity within the Church and in the Church for the world.

That way, we can grow in the brotherhood and sisterhood of the Gospel, according to the text of

St. Bernard quoted by VC n. 52, where he confesses his admiration for all the religious families of his time and says he belongs to just one order “with observance, but to all with charity. We all need one another: the spiritual good that I do not have, I receive from others…”