Our Spirituality - Our Heart Spirituality
The special gift that founders of religious congregations have been given, is called a ‘charism’. It is passed on to all who follow them. It includes a unique way of understanding the gospel message and is expressed through the spirituality of the congregation.
The charism and the way it is expressed, enriches the Church, the people to whom it is given, and those with whom they work. It gives each congregation its identity, it determines its spirit and its mission in the world.
The gift given to Fr. Chevalier and through him to us, is to see that in Jesus, God loves people with a human heart, and that he is the answer to their hopes, their questionings, their every need.
This is the prism through which we today, see and relate to our world.
Fr. Jules Chevalier wrote that ‘gentleness and strength appear in Jesus in an incomparably striking way’. Our heart spirituality calls us to imitate Jesus, so that everyone we encounter will discover through us, the strength of his love to support them in their fragility, and the gentleness of his love to bring them the compassion and understanding for which they long. We are the hands and feet, and especially the heart of Jesus in our world.
