We are the Church and thus we are responsible
for contributing to its mission through our role as lay Paulines.
Pauline apostles. In
the steps of the Apostle Paul and Fr. Alberione, sustained by our
membership in the Pauline Family and by its spirituality, we seek
to live as lay Pauline apostles in every situation in which we find
ourselves: work, school, family life, our parish and diocesan community,
collaborating through catechetical instruction, liturgical animations,
and the dissemination of Christian-inspired reading material.
In harmony with our particular condition, means
and abilities, we collaborate with the pastoral work of various
communications organisms in the spheres of radio and TV, striving
to form audiences to a critical use of the media. We carry out the
biblical apostolate and also animation activities on World Communications
Day.
We support projects that foster human promotion
and that disseminate the Gospel among the poorest people, especially
in mission lands.
Our Association carries out the Pauline apostolate
in many ways, the most important of which is prayer. We pray, above
all, that the apostolic initiatives of the Pauline Family throughout
the world in the field of communications will be effective. We also
pray for vocations for the Pauline Family and for the Church.
All the forms of apostolic collaboration we perform
as an Association and as individuals are important because they
proclaim the Good News of Jesus Way, Truth and Life, the only One
able to respond to the yearning of individuals and of all humanity
for meaning in life; the only One able to alleviate the deepest
anxieties of people today.
Today more than ever, the Founder would have
wanted lay Paulines to be active in many cities and nations, using
the most rapid and effective instruments of communication: book/magazine/newspaper
publishing; multimedia publishing; the Internet; painting; music;
teaching; collaboration with national and local communications structures
and with the major media; through our presence in all the areas
where ideas are generated and people determine societys behavior
and moral habits; in all the modern areopagi of information and
debate, so as to proclaim the Gospel to everyone. He would want
his Pauline lay co-workers to foster and disseminate values through
their activities as book sellers, as promoters of the good in schools;
as apostles in prisons, in centers of culture and in the field of
information technology, each apostle working according to his/her
charisms and possibilities.
Aware that, for us, communicating the Gospel
is the highest expression of love for God and humanity, we strive
to keep alive
the pastoral spirit we inherited from the Founder:
Love everyone. Think of everyone.
Work with the spirit of the Gospel,
which is a spirit of universality and mercy.
Imitate the spirit of St. Paul the Apostle,
who was always striving to reach
those who had not yet received the light of Jesus Christ.
(J. Alberione)
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