Our spirituality and consecration
OUR SPIRITUALITY Both Charism and Spirituality are properly dealt with in the book “On the footsteps of Don Orione”, and so I invite you to refer to that for a proper formation. But what is the difference between Charism and Spirituality? Our Charism, as we saw above is a free gift from God. From God it comes, God shaped it and entrusted it to us. Now we are called to act upon it to implement it, to make it alive in the Church of today. The way we do so is called Spirituality. We call it spirituality, because it reminds us the word “spirit”. We would think immediately of something outside the world, something opposite to practical or material. This is a wrong way of thinking. The practical and the material are fully involved in it. We speak of spiritual because all our activities have to be “informed”, shaped by the Spirit of God, only then, we can be sure they will be right and “effective”. Just a word about the distinction between “effective” and “efficient”. ...