HOLY FAMILY CHARISM



Spirituality

A Mystery to contemplate

... that of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph, earthly image of the Trinity, embryo of the Church, opening out into the community of the apostles and first christian communities.

A spirit to be lived

... the Spirit of God Alone lived in the manner of "Jesus, Mary and Joseph who, in their earthly life, loved, sought and desired nothing but God alone. God was the object of all their thoughts, all their desires and all their actions".

Apostolic Aim

A Mission in the Church

To spread and strengthen the faith in all milieus"; with the Church, to announce to the whole human race the good news that "it is called to become the family of God in Jesus"

"To revive the witness of the first Christians who had but one heart and one mind". 

"To bear witness to the Church as Family". 

To be and to create Family, so that by our relationships we may witness that communion among all is possible in Jesus Christ.

To present the alternative of a "New Society" founded on the values lived at Nazareth.

Organisation

Structures

The Holy Family, in the way it is organised today, is the concrete expression of a spiritual inspiration. It is a Spiritual and Apostolic Family that welcomes all vocations and responds to all needs. In this Family, one and diverse, men and women, married and single, children and adolescents, secular priests, consecrated women in the religious and secular states, all live in solidarity and complementarity without distinction of race, caste, culture, vocation or service.

They are united by the same Founder and the same spirit. They are directed towards the same end, that is, the same mission in the Church. In that way the Holy Family revives the experience of the early Church. 

The charism of Fr. Noailles stresses the necessity, the value and the wealth of the complementarity of gifts in the Church.