s.c.b. charism and ignatian spirituality

S.C.B. CHARISM AND IGNATIAN SPIRITUALITY

SISTERS OF ST. CHARLES BORROMEO

THE CHARISM OF THE SISTERS OF ST.

CHARLES BORROMEO IS TO INCARNATE THE

COMPASSIONATE LOVE OF GOD

FOR ALL PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY THE POOR AND THE MARGINALISED

THROUGH CHRISTIAN EDUCATION IN ALLL

OUR MINISTRIES

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LOGO –S.C.B. CHARISM

THE LOGO IS A SYMBOLIC REPRESENTATION OF OUR CHARISM

THE WORLD: GOD SENT HIS SON, JESUS INTO THE WORLD WITH A MISSION, WE CONTINUE HIS MISSION OF LOVE AND COMPASSION

THE HAND: THE COMPASSIONATE FATHER HOLDS THE WHOLE WORLD IN HIS HAND.

THE CROSS: JESUS, THE COMPASSIONATE LOVE OF THE FATHER HEALS AND SAVES BROKEN HUMANITY BY HIS LIFE, DEATH AND RESURRECTION.

THE HEART: A SYMBOL OF LOVE AND COMPASSION IS OPEN TO THE WHOLE HUMANITY.

SYMBOLIC MEANING

THE HOLY SPIRIT: THE PRESENCE AND POWER OF THE SPIRIT PERMEATES THE WORLD BRINGING HEALING AND WHOLENESS.

THE LAMP:THE SISTERS OF ST. CHARLES BORROMEO ILLUMINE THE HEARTS OF PERSONS THROUGH CHRISTIAN EDUCATION IN ALL OUR MINISTRIES.

QUOTATION:BE COMPASSIONATE AS YOUR FATHER IS COMPASSIONATE. LK. 6:36 J.B.

FATHER

SONSPIRIT

RELATIONSHIP WITH THE HOLY TRINITY

CONTEMP-LATION

COMPASS-ION

CREATION

INCARNA-TION

REDEMP-TION

KINGDOM OF GOD

SPIRITUALITY

SACRA-MENTSSCRIPTURE

PRESENCE OF GOD

CONTEMPLATIVE PRAYER

DISCERNMENT-OBEDIENCE

DYNAMIC INVOLVEMENT -

APOSTOLATE

MISSION

APOSTOLIC CONGREGATION

1538 - 1584

CONTEMPORARIES

1491 - 1556

SAINTS OF THE REFORMATION

ST. IGANATIUS OF LOYOLA

ST. CHARLES BORROMEO

THE FOUNDATION

ST. CHARLES BORROMEO WAS CHOSEN PATRON OF THE CONGREGATION , SINCE ITS FOUNDATION IN 1684 COINCIDED WITH HIS DEATH CENTENARY.

ST. CHARLES BORROMEO WAS A GREAT PIONEER IN CHRISTIAN EDUCATION AND A GREAT REFORMER OF THAT TIME.

HE CHERISHED THE CHURCH AND LOVED THE POOR. AN AUSTERE MAN, HE LED A DEDICATED LIFE AND SPREAD THE GOOD NEWS OF GOD’S KINGDOM.

OUR FOUNDER FR. ADRIEN BRESY WAS INSPIRED BY HIS DEVOUT LIFE AND WISHED THAT THE SISTERS IMITATE THIS HUMBLE AND YET GREAT SAINT.

THE INSPIRATION

Since we do not have the writings of our founder, we presume that he was moved by the life of St. Charles Borromeo. The spirituality of St. Charles Borromeo was derived from the spirituality of St. Ignatius.

THE SAINT

AFTER THE DEATH OF HIS BROTHER FREDERICK, ST. CHARLES WITHDREW AT ONCE INTO A JESUIT HOUSE TO MAKE THE SPIRITUAL EXERCISES UNDER THE DIRECTION OF FR. RIBERA . LATER HE HAD RECOURSE TO

THIS PIOUS PRACTICE OF THE SPIRITUAL EXERCISES AT LEAST ONCE EVERY YEAR AND SOMETIMES TWICE.

FOR ST. CHARLES PILGRIMAGES WERE

RELIGIOUS EXERCISES.

ST. CHARLES HAD A TENDER DEVOTION TO

THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY.

THE SOCIETY OF JESUS INSPIRED THE FOUNDING OF OTHER ORDERS DEVOTED TO MINISTERING TO PEOPLE, PREACHING THE GOSPEL, EDUCATION AND INTEGRATING PRAYER WITH ACTION.

THE SPIRITUAL EXERCISES IS A PATTERN OF CONTEMPLATION, MEDITATION, PRAYER, INSTRUCTIONS AND EXAMINATION OF CONSCIENCE HIGHLY PRIZED BY ST. CHARLES BORROMEO

CONSTITUTIONS OF THE CONGREGATION OF THE SISTERS OF ST. CHARLES BORROMEO – REVISED

2007ARTICLE No. 37 :INSPIRED BY IGNATIAN SPIRITUALITY, THE CONGREGATION

PROVIDES…ARTICLE NO. 34 :

…OUR PRAYER MUST BE, ABOVE ALL, CONTEMPLATION OF JESUS. THIS CONTEMPLATION LIVED OUT ESPECIALLY IN

DAILY MEDITATION, HELPS US TO LET OURSELVES BE TRANSFORMED BY HIS SPIRIT AND TO SHOW FORTH IN

OUR LIFE HIS LOVE FOR THE FATHER AND HIS TENDERNESS TOWARDS HUMANITY.

ARTICLE 37:EXAMINATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS IS DISCERNMENT FACE

TO FACE WITH THE LORD…ARTICLE NO. 60:

…A SISTER OF ST. CHARLES IS CONTEMPLATIVE IN HER APOSTOLATE AND APOSTOLIC IN HER CONTEMPLATION.

WITH GRATITUDESISTERS OF ST. CHARLES BORROMEO