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

C 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.

FATHERSONSPIRIT RELATIONSHIP WITH THE HOLY TRINITY

CONTEMP- LATION COMPASS- ION CREATION INCARNA- TION REDEMP- TION KINGDOM OF GOD SPIRITUALITY SACRA- MENTS SCRIPTURE

PRESENCE OF GOD CONTEMPLATIVE PRAYER DISCERNMENT- OBEDIENCE DYNAMIC INVOLVEMENT - APOSTOLATE MISSION APOSTOLIC CONGREGATION

CONTEMPORARIES 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 2007 ARTICLE 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.