CHARISM AND APOSTOLATE



1. Charism.




Our charism is trinitarian and seeks to know and love the Holy Trinity and make it known to others, specially the most poor and needy; so that all men, conscious of being infinitely loved by the Divine Persons, can reciprocate the love and give glory and praise to the omnipotent Trinity. Our spirituality consists of: A) to have an awareness of the presence of the Holy Trinity in the soul, discovering the truth of God, who in His inmutable love, lives in the interior of each soul, giving each person all they need to be perfect and obtain salvation. B) to discover, in the same manner, the salvific function of each Divine Person, knowing that He is only one, eternal God, in whose mystery exists three distinct Persons that manifest at each moment the truth of His divine love (CEC 258, 259, 260).



2. Apostolate.




In order to fulfill our salvific mission in the Church, we are messengers of the August Trinity teaching, with the testimony of our austere and prayerful life, and proclaiming with lively voice to those who live in darkness that the Trinity of love is the supreme truth of our faith.

In the Mystery of the Church in the Trinity, we live in truth as children of the Father, brothers and sisters of God the Son and live temples of the Holy Spirit, and we proclaim, as trinitarian messengers, the mercies of the Father, the spousal love of the Son and the salvific fire of the Holy Spirit.

“Go and proclaim the Good News” (Mc 16,15) are the words that the divine Teacher told  to His disciples, and we Allied Descalced Carmelites of the Holy Trinity, will make them alive, taking to souls that God entrusts to us, the trinitarian truths that are our gospel, our credo, our prayer and salvation.

Conscious that God is an abyss of richness and wisdom, but desirous as messengers of the Holy Trinity, to exalt the integral beauty of the Trinitarian Mystery, we recognize the trinitarian dimension of all truth and salvific work and we proclaim that the entire divine design of creation, redemption and santification and each one of its fulfillments proceed from the Father, as the beginning and goal and is fulfilled  in His Son Jesus Christ by means of the Holy Spirit.

“Show us the Father”(Jn 14,8) was the request of Phillip, and by means of him, that of all persons to the Divine Teacher, and as His messengers, illuminated by faith, we will tell persons of today that no one knows the Father except the Son and the Spirit that fathoms the depths of God; but that the Son has been pleased to reveal to us His name of Father and His “benevolent design”, the sublime “Mystery of  His will” as Father, that Christ Himself realized in the “fullness of time”(Ef 1, 3-4.5.9.10) by means of His Spirit.

“We want to see Jesus” (Jn 12,21), was the request of those who came near to Phillip; and we, feeling the urgent need of contemporary man, want to invite him to search for Jesus, who is the Son and Word of the Father, who came down from heaven and by the work of the Holy Spirit became incarnate man of the Virgin Mary (Creed) and made His abode among us; He who revealed to us God as His Father and our Father, and His Spirit as our Paraclete and friend; He who humbled himself obeying even until death and a death on the cross for our sins; and who rose for our justification, by means of the glory of the Father that is His Spirit; and that today, is constituted Lord and glorified Christ, Son of God.

And because we have believed and experienced His love, inviting us - contemporary man, and future generations with our life and words not to have fear, nor distrust Him who is true God and true Man, He who knows better then we the greatness and misery that is in man; but rather that man open himself and seek an actual encounter with Jesus, his God and his friend, because in love He has come to save us sinners and “purifies us of all sin” (Jn 1,29).

Because we know the Spirit that abides in us and we have experienced His dynamic and loving presence, we proclaim to contemporary man, who is anxious in his confusion, loneliness and existential impotence, that the Holy Spirit - who is uncreated love and total gift, out of love makes us brothers of the Son, sons of the Father and temples of His glory; that the Holy Spirit is the protagonist in our spiritual life and apostolic mission, and the one who will transform us in the glory of the image of the Lord Jesus.

“Be merciful, even as your Heavenly Father is merciful” (Lc 6,36). These words of the divine Truth resound in the soul of the Allied Carmelite of the Holy Trinity; and to make them a reality in our journey toward the Father, we will live our specific mission in the Mystical Body of Christ that is His Church, serving all men, but specially the most poor and the sick who are dying, being always for them “the smile of God”.

To fulfill this evangelical mission, and to the extent that Divine Providence will give us the opportunity, we will open when we are required: