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CHARISM AND APOSTOLATE
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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).
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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.
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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).
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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:
orphanages
for abandoned children or with grave health problems;
nursing
homes for the elderly who lack economic resources
: for the most poor among the poor;
houses to care for the sick with contagious illnesses, unprotected with affordable assistance and are without love; and other sick persons that no one wants to take care of;
small or large clinics and hospitals for the poor, where we will give them human warmth and we will be ambassadors of trinitarian love;
dining rooms for the poor;
houses
of spiritual exercises, specially for the most spiritually in need, who
desire to return to the journey of being good and want to be instructed in
the knowledge and love of the Divine Persons;
houses
for priests where the elderly and the sick will be offered help and
assistance;
colleges,
centers of evangelization and catechetical schools where we will teach, in
love and holiness, children, young people and adults the truth of the Triune
God.