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    The document discusses the mission of God and spirituality in mission. It provides several examples of spirituality in mission, including: 1) St. Therese of Lisieux who loved praying for missionaries and desired to go to the missions herself, despite never traveling. 2) James Alberione who had an intense experience with God that illuminated his mission to bring Christ to the world through the fastest means of communication, leading him to found the Pauline family. 3) While individuals may express spirituality differently, the purpose is the same - to proclaim the Word of God as missionaries and join in the work of the Holy Spirit in the world.

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    The document discusses the mission of God and spirituality in mission. It provides several examples of spirituality in mission, including: 1) St. Therese of Lisieux who loved praying for missionaries and desired to go to the missions herself, despite never traveling. 2) James Alberione who had an intense experience with God that illuminated his mission to bring Christ to the world through the fastest means of communication, leading him to found the Pauline family. 3) While individuals may express spirituality differently, the purpose is the same - to proclaim the Word of God as missionaries and join in the work of the Holy Spirit in the world.

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    The document discusses the mission of God and spirituality in mission. It provides several examples of spirituality in mission, including: 1) St. Therese of Lisieux who loved praying for missionaries and desired to go to the missions herself, despite never traveling. 2) James Alberione who had an intense experience with God that illuminated his mission to bring Christ to the world through the fastest means of communication, leading him to found the Pauline family. 3) While individuals may express spirituality differently, the purpose is the same - to proclaim the Word of God as missionaries and join in the work of the Holy Spirit in the world.

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    Edward Christian Enebrad, SSP

    Theology 1 San Carlos Seminary

    Mission: As its foundation and source, the mission of God is the salvation activity of the triune
    missionary God as Jesus Christ is proclaimed, through the blood of his cross, as savior for all. 1
    The church is God’s instrument for his mission that reaches across all barriers (linguistic,
    cultural, religious, ethnic, ideological, socioeconomic, and so forth) in order to introduce people
    to Christ by “announcing the gospel in speech and social action.” 2 Spirituality is not concerned
    just with spiritual disciplines and habits (such as prayer, Scripture reading, church attendance, or
    an ethical list of behaviors). Instead, “spirituality is informed by the Missio Dei and the
    theological reflection of the church.”3 Spirituality in mission is fundamentally connected with
    examining the foundations for mission such as discerning the work of the Holy Spirit,
    discovering what God is doing in the world and joining with him. Missional spirituality is “lived
    in and fuelled by awareness of the missio Dei” as the Holy Spirit enlivens it.4 There are as many
    different ways of expressing spirituality as there are spiritual people. Like, St. Therese of
    Lisieux, the patroness of missions5. She never traveled, but she loved praying for missionaries.
    From a young age St. Therese had the desire to go to the missions. Also, Alberione had an
    intense God experience during the cross over night of the 1900. It was a direct inspiration and
    intellectual illumination. With his experience, his mission was clear; living and giving to the
    world Christ the way the truth and life, with the aid of the fastest and most effective means of
    communication. As a result, certainty and conviction he had regarding his experience of the
    Eucharistic lord, he credits the birth of his foundations (the Pauline family) to the Eucharist. 6 He
    added that spirituality actualized in concrete expression, action, and equally animated by the
    same spirit. The spirit unites the founder and his institutes to Christ in one aspect of his life,
    mission, and mystery. For every charism, Christ is the source of their mission. For Christians,
    spirituality is life according to the life of Christ. Alberione had a thoroughly religious concept of
    the mission which the Lord had entrusted to him. He was as certain that the Lord had manifested
    His will to him as he was that God had spoken to men by means of Sacred Scripture. And the
    will of God was that he dedicates himself entirely to the formation and guidance of apostles of
    the press.7 He had times of greater grace that determined his vocation and particular mission. 8
    Yet, we are different in spirituality as a missionary but our purpose is the same to proclaim the
    Word of God.
    1
    Stephen Bevans and Roger Schroeder, Prophetic Dialogue: Reflections on Christian Mission Today
    (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2011), p 2.
    2
    Robert Gallagher, “Missionary Methods: St. Paul’s, St. Roland’s, or Ours?” in Missionary Methods:
    Research, Reflections and Realities, eds. Craig Ott and J.D Payne (Pasadena, CA: William Carey Library,
    2013), p. 4.
    3
    Robert Webber, The Younger Evangelicals (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 2002), p. 240.
    4
    Darryl Balia and Kirsteen Kim, Edinburgh 2010, Volume II: Witnessing to Christ Today (Oxford:
    Regnum Books, 2010), p. 223.
    5
    Rev. Fr. Paolo O. Pirlo, SHMI, My First Book of Saints, (Sons of Holy Mary Immaculate Quality Catholic Publications), 2014, p.
    228.
    6
    Franca Zambonini and Carlo Cibien, Who is Blessed James Alberione?, (St. Pauls 7708 St. Paul Road, San Antonio Village 1203
    Makati City, Philippines, 2010,) p. 13.
    7
    Luigi Rolfo, SSP. James Alberione Apostle for our Times, (Society of St. Paul, 2187 Victory Boulevard, Staten Island, New York
    10314, 1987), p 115.
    8
    James Alberione, Abundantes Divitiǽ Gratiǽ Suǽ, (Societʽa San Paolo, Casa Generalizia, 1998), p. 36.

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