CONCLUSION

            Perhaps God has tightened our strings, enlarged our heart. He may have opened the horizons of universal brotherhood. He calls us to transform globalization into solidarity, planetary coexistence into dimensions of gestures of love and brotherhood.

            Everything starts off from a renewed commitment in solidarity of Christian spirituality and that of consecrated life, common to all; but also in the exchange of spiritual and material gifts, the golden rule of communion in the Church (cfr. Lumen gentium n. 13), in order to be built up in Christ and in the fullness of gifts of the Spirit which no one has, but together we do possess that fullness if we give them to each other.

            That responds to an extension of the principle of NMI n. 43, of the spirituality of communion, in so far as is possible; and it is possible, from the Church to universal brotherhood, beginning with our institutes:

 - theological and theologal aspect of the other, of others, of the different charisms as reflection of the Trinity who is in me, but who is also in the other as belonging to an ecclesial charism;

 - sense of mutual belonging and concrete help in the dimension of friendship in the one body of Christ; and therefore sharing of joys, sorrows and problems;

 - vision of the positive in the other to accept him and value him as gift of God, a gift for me, besides being gift for the religious family who received him directly;

 - make room for others, also as families, charisms, institutions, and  works, rejecting jealousy, diffidence, one-upmanship, unfair competition which do not help communion and witness, but in the long run weaken the works and apostolic motivation for the Reign of God.

 - Perhaps this is a new task for our time, to live and witness intensely, in order to go before all the other vocations of the Church also, in an active love of brotherhood.

I would like to finish with a beautiful medieval text of a canon regular of the 19^th century who also speaks of communion among charisms:

            “Love in the other what you yourself do not have, so that the other can love in you what he does not have,  so that the good that is accomplished by one is also the other’s good, and that those who are divided by occupations are united in love…If it happens that you cannot reach what another possesses, it is in loving that you will possess it”.

This is an invitation that comes from afar, but today appears urgent and providential for living in a communion of reciprocity, for enriching our poverties with the gift of all, strengthening our frailty with the help of all.  In order to build together in the Church a missionary and apostolic spirituality, presence in the world  of the loving heartbeat (communion and mission) of the Holy Trinity.