1 / 16

S.C.B. CHARISM AND IGNATIAN SPIRITUALITY

S.C.B. CHARISM AND IGNATIAN SPIRITUALITY. SISTERS OF ST. CHARLES BORROMEO. THE CHARISM OF THE SISTERS OF ST. CHARLES BORROMEO IS TO INCARNATE THE COMPASSIONATE LOVE OF GOD FOR ALL PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY THE POOR AND THE MARGINALISED THROUGH CHRISTIAN EDUCATION IN ALLL OUR MINISTRIES.

keon
Download Presentation

S.C.B. CHARISM AND IGNATIAN SPIRITUALITY

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. S.C.B. CHARISM AND IGNATIAN SPIRITUALITY

  2. SISTERS OF ST. CHARLES BORROMEO

  3. THE CHARISM OF THE SISTERS OF ST. CHARLES BORROMEO IS TO INCARNATE THE COMPASSIONATE LOVE OF GOD FOR ALL PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY THE POOR AND THE MARGINALISED THROUGH CHRISTIAN EDUCATION IN ALLL OUR MINISTRIES

  4. LOGO –S.C.B. CHARISM C

  5. THE LOGO IS A SYMBOLIC REPRESENTATION OF OUR CHARISM THE WORLD: GOD SENT HIS SON, JESUS INTO THE WORLD WITH A MISSION, WE CONTINUE HIS MISSION OF LOVE AND COMPASSION THE HAND: THE COMPASSIONATE FATHER HOLDS THE WHOLE WORLD IN HIS HAND. THE CROSS: JESUS, THE COMPASSIONATE LOVE OF THE FATHER HEALS AND SAVES BROKEN HUMANITY BY HIS LIFE, DEATH AND RESURRECTION. THE HEART: A SYMBOL OF LOVE AND COMPASSION IS OPEN TO THE WHOLE HUMANITY.

  6. SYMBOLIC MEANING THE HOLY SPIRIT: THE PRESENCE AND POWER OF THE SPIRIT PERMEATES THE WORLD BRINGING HEALING AND WHOLENESS. THE LAMP: THE SISTERS OF ST. CHARLES BORROMEO ILLUMINE THE HEARTS OF PERSONS THROUGH CHRISTIAN EDUCATION IN ALL OUR MINISTRIES. QUOTATION: BE COMPASSIONATE AS YOUR FATHER IS COMPASSIONATE. LK. 6:36 J.B.

  7. RELATIONSHIP WITH THE HOLY TRINITY

  8. SPIRITUALITY

  9. APOSTOLIC CONGREGATION

  10. CONTEMPORARIES ST. IGANATIUS OF LOYOLA ST. CHARLES BORROMEO 1491 - 1556 1538 - 1584 SAINTS OF THE REFORMATION

  11. THE FOUNDATION ST. CHARLES BORROMEO WAS CHOSEN PATRON OF THE CONGREGATION , SINCE ITS FOUNDATION IN 1684 COINCIDED WITH HIS DEATH CENTENARY. ST. CHARLES BORROMEO WAS A GREAT PIONEER IN CHRISTIAN EDUCATION AND A GREAT REFORMER OF THAT TIME. HE CHERISHED THE CHURCH AND LOVED THE POOR. AN AUSTERE MAN, HE LED A DEDICATED LIFE AND SPREAD THE GOOD NEWS OF GOD’S KINGDOM. OUR FOUNDER FR. ADRIEN BRESY WAS INSPIRED BY HIS DEVOUT LIFE AND WISHED THAT THE SISTERS IMITATE THIS HUMBLE AND YET GREAT SAINT.

  12. THEINSPIRATION Since we do not have the writings of our founder, we presume that he was moved by the life of St. Charles Borromeo. The spirituality of St. Charles Borromeo was derived from the spirituality of St. Ignatius.

  13. THE SAINT FOR ST. CHARLES PILGRIMAGES WERE RELIGIOUS EXERCISES. AFTER THE DEATH OF HIS BROTHER FREDERICK, ST. CHARLES WITHDREW AT ONCE INTO A JESUIT HOUSE TO MAKE THE SPIRITUAL EXERCISES UNDER THE DIRECTION OF FR. RIBERA . LATER HE HAD RECOURSE TO THIS PIOUS PRACTICE OF THE SPIRITUAL EXERCISES AT LEAST ONCE EVERY YEAR AND SOMETIMES TWICE. ST. CHARLES HAD A TENDER DEVOTION TO THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY.

  14. THE SOCIETY OF JESUS INSPIRED THE FOUNDING OF OTHER ORDERS DEVOTED TO MINISTERING TO PEOPLE, PREACHING THE GOSPEL, EDUCATION AND INTEGRATING PRAYER WITH ACTION. THE SPIRITUAL EXERCISES IS A PATTERN OF CONTEMPLATION, MEDITATION, PRAYER, INSTRUCTIONS AND EXAMINATION OF CONSCIENCE HIGHLY PRIZED BY ST. CHARLES BORROMEO

  15. CONSTITUTIONS OF THE CONGREGATION OF THE SISTERS OF ST. CHARLES BORROMEO – REVISED 2007 ARTICLE No. 37 : INSPIRED BY IGNATIAN SPIRITUALITY, THE CONGREGATION PROVIDES… ARTICLE NO. 34 : …OUR PRAYER MUST BE, ABOVE ALL, CONTEMPLATION OF JESUS. THIS CONTEMPLATION LIVED OUT ESPECIALLY IN DAILY MEDITATION, HELPS US TO LET OURSELVES BE TRANSFORMED BY HIS SPIRIT AND TO SHOW FORTH IN OUR LIFE HIS LOVE FOR THE FATHER AND HIS TENDERNESS TOWARDS HUMANITY. ARTICLE 37: EXAMINATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS IS DISCERNMENT FACE TO FACE WITH THE LORD… ARTICLE NO. 60: …A SISTER OF ST. CHARLES IS CONTEMPLATIVE IN HER APOSTOLATE AND APOSTOLIC IN HER CONTEMPLATION.

  16. WITH GRATITUDE SISTERS OF ST. CHARLES BORROMEO

More Related