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Fidelity to the Institute’s Teaching Vocation

During this year dedicated to the consecrated life and our centenary, we rejoice at the publication of the latest volume of the Alberionian Opera Omnia Series, To the Daughters of St. Paul, prepared by the sisters of our International Secretariat for Spirituality.

In this volume, which covers the period of preparation for Vatican Council II, the Founder states that the Institute of the Daughters of St. Paul has reached maturity, reminds them of basic aspects of the Pauline charism, urges them to live the Pauline spirit with ever-greater awareness and fidelity, and to live and proclaim Jesus Master, Way, Truth and Life with their entire being (mind, will and heart) for the glory of God and the salvation of souls. This is to be done with the maternal help of Mary, Queen of Apostles, and in keeping with the example of St. Paul.

“Teach!” the Founder declares, in a meditation he guided in 1959. “We must give the same wisdom and truths preached by the Church…using modern means: the printed word, cinema, radio, television, records, pictures…according to the spirit of the Congregation” (Med. 21).

It is a ministry that pre-supposes continual progress in order to “travel the paths of the world, spreading the light of God everywhere, carrying out a ministry similar to that of St. Paul. Sow! Sow! Your seed is the Word of God” (Med. 12).