A brief overview of the Pauline Spirituality in the words of Blessed James Alberione and other Pauline sources. Edited by Sr. Margaret Kerry, fsp.

1. The Pauline Charism
A journey of transformation

2. Pauline Charism
The word charism means
gift.
The Pauline Charism is the gift that was given to Blessed
Father Alberione for the Church and thousands of men and
women have followed him in the congregations, institutes,
and lay associations he founded in the 20th Century.
What makes the Pauline Charism unique is it's emphasis
on totality, integrality, living Christ, and communicating
Christ to the world in the field of social communications in
the spirit of St. Paul. Sr. Marie Paul Curley, fsp

3. Paulines involve themselves in the world of communication
by preparing themselves to incarnate
Christ Divine Master of the Way, the Truth and the Life
in the "culture" created by communication media.

4. Speaking the Languages of Today
Following the inspiration of Fr. Alberione to always “go
forward” Paulines are called to be prophets and
pioneers of a integral gospel spirituality in a
communication culture.
For Pauline Priests, Brothers, Sisters and Laity, using
the media is a way to communicate to people of
today with the language of today.

5. Pauline
"You were born of the
EUCHARIST. Your food is the
EUCHARIST. Your spirituality is
the GOSPEL lived in its entirety
as explained by St. Paul. Your
mother and model is MARY."

6. Seven Aspects of the Pauline Charism
The charism is an experience of God lived by the Founder. In
Blessed James Alberione it comprises living:
1. The mystery of Christ the Master, Way, Truth
and Life,
The goal the Founder indicated
to be our first commitment is full
conformity with Christ: to live
Christ Way, Truth and Life with
our whole self: mind, will, heart,
and physical energies, until it is
Christ who lives in us (Gal.2:20).

7. Seven Aspects of the Pauline Charism
The charism is an experience of God lived by the Founder. In
Blessed James Alberione it comprises living:
2. An ecclesial perspective
"We have to take into
consideration the apostles Peter
and Paul, pray to them and
imitate them because they were
supreme pastors in the Church
and because they had great
love for Jesus and for souls.”

8. Enlightenment
“Particular enlightenment came from the Host, and a greater
understanding of the invitation of Jesus: “Come to me, all of you”
(Mt. 11:28).
He had a clear grasp of his own nothingness, while at the same time he
experienced in the Eucharist: “I am with you always; yes, to the end
of time” (Mt. 28:20), and that he could count on the Host, on Jesus,
for light, nourishment, consolation and victory over evil….
He felt an obligation to serve the Church, the people of the new age, and
to work with others in an organized way. His overriding thought was
that one needs to develop the whole human personality: mind, will
and heart.”
From the Autobiography of Blessed James Alberione.

9. Seven Aspects of the Pauline Charism
The charism is an experience of God lived by the Founder. In
Blessed James Alberione it comprises living:
3. A Eucharistic
life
For the young sixteen year old seminarian
James Alberione “a special light came from
the Host.” The call was clear: “Come to
me, all of you!” He felt obliged to do
something for the Lord and the people of
the new century.” He was called to work
with others. After the Pauline congregation
began he heard: “I am with you. From here
I will enlighten.” This promise gave him
hope and direction.

10. Reassurance
“In times of particular difficulty, while examining all his
actions anew…it seemed that the Divine Master
wanted to reassure the Institute, launched just a few
years earlier. In a subsequent dream (1923)…Jesus
Master said, ‘Do not be afraid. I am with you. From
here I want to enlighten. Be sorry for sins.’
The “from here” came from the Tabernacle, and with
emphasis, so as to make it evident that all the light to
be received comes from him, the Master…light for
himself and for all the members. In other words, “I
am your light and I will use you in order to enlighten; I
am giving you this mission and I want you to carry it
out.”
Blessed James Alberione

11. Seven Aspects of the Pauline Charism
The charism is an experience of God lived by the Founder. In
Blessed James Alberione it comprises living:
4. The
Bible
“The writer-apostle must conform to the Bible as the
model book. God created man and knows very well how
his heart is made. God’s Word corresponds to the
deepest needs of the human heart.”

12. The Bible and the Eucharist
“How beautifully does the book of the Gospels lie on the altar! If in
the Most Blessed Sacrament, under the species of the
immaculate Host, there is Jesus Christ really present in Body,
Blood, Soul, and Divinity, in Sacred Scripture there is Jesus
Truth, under the guise of white paper.”
“The Lord has chosen you to bring the Word of God to the world as
did St. Paul.”
Blessed James Alberione

13. Seven Aspects of the Pauline Charism
The charism is an experience of God lived by the Founder. In
Blessed James Alberione it comprises living:
5. Marian devotion
The first devotion
that we find in the
Church,” Blessed
Alberione said, “is
the devotion to the
Queen of Apostles,
as portrayed in the
Cenacle.”

14. Mary, Mother, Teacher and Queen
“You have the sweet mission of gathering the
faithful around Mary, Queen of the Apostles.
You are to reawaken this devotion. . . .
Let us return to the sources. At the sources we
find Mary, Queen of the Apostles, and if it was
so at the beginning of the Church,
there is nothing more certain than to draw from
the ancient Faith.
The water is purer when it is taken from its
source.”
Blessed James Alberione

15. Living the Gospel
Alberione saw Mary as a mother who
cares about everything that concerns
her children. “The Pauline Family strives
to live fully the Gospel of Jesus Christ,
Way, Truth and Life, in the spirit of St.
Paul, under the gaze of the Queen of
Apostles.” Living under Mary’s gaze--this
is the essence of Alberione’s Marian
spirituality.

16. Seven Aspects of the Pauline Charism
The charism is an experience of God lived by the Founder. In
Blessed James Alberione it comprises living:
6. A Pauline pastoral
perspective
“We are called to be St. Paul living today.”
“All must consider St. Paul the Apostle as
the Father, Master, Example and
Founder. In actual fact he is. Through him
the Congregation was born, by him it was
nourished and raised, from him it
received its spirit."
Blessed James Alberione

17. Paul: For me to live is Christ
“Paul is the disciple who knows the Divine
Master in his entirety. St. Paul lives Christ
totally; he probes the profound mysteries
of his doctrine, of his heart, of his sanctity,
of his humanity and divinity. He sees him
as the supreme Teacher, the Host, the
Priest. He presents the total Christ as he
had already defined himself: the Way,
Truth, and Life.”
Blessed James Albeione

18. Seven Aspects of the Pauline Charism
The charism is an experience of God lived by the Founder. In
Blessed James Alberione it comprises living and
7. Evangelizing the culture of today
through the means of
communication. and profound evangelization…
“The world needs a new
There is urgent need for new missionaries, and
numerous ones, for young people full of determination
and enthusiasm so that our press, the Christian press,
may come into all families. Missionaries are needed!
New missionaries for this new and fertile apostolate!”
Blessed James Alberione

19. New Evangelization
In John Paul II’s words, Blessed
James Alberione is “the first
apostle of the new
evangelization.” Not only
because he used modern media
to proclaim the Gospel, but
because, like Paul at the dawn of
Christianity, he heralded in his
person and his message the
central call of the Gospel: total
configuration with Christ.

20. The charism is an experience of God lived by the Founder. In
Blessed James Alberione it comprises living:
•With persons dedicated to God.
Evangelization with the
instruments of social
communication must be
carried out by persons who
have conformed their entire
existence to Christ, who have
modeled their lives
completely on Him, who are
living witnesses to Him, who
have made Him the whole
meaning of their lives.

21. “Authentic holiness is only and always gospel holiness.”

22. Prepared by Sr. Margaret Kerry, fsp
Jan. 2013