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Caterina
and Giuditta, profoundly convinced of the
providence of God in human events, lived
their daily life as an experience of the
infinite divine love, which always sustained
and accompanied them in their educative
mission.
"They never lost heart, but trusting
in Him awaited the necessary help from divine
providence".
Guided by the Spirit,
they sought, discovered and gradually realized
the plan of God, and in trustful abandonment
to Him, "the beginning, center and
end of all their actions", they oriented
their whole lives to His greater glory.
The Foundresses accepted
in docility the will of God for them, and
in the "contemplation of the divine
things" they found the strength and
wisdom to conform themselves to the crucified
Christ, "their most loving spouse";
"He alone" was the source of their
consecration lived for the educative mission.
In the imitation of His virtues, above all,
"humility, patience, goodness and charity",
they found the sense and style of their
spiritual maternity in the "guardianship"
of those "souls redeemed by His blood
and entrusted to them as a precious treasure".
Caterina and Giuditta
, moved by the incessant desire to conform
themselves to Christ, accepted with equilibrium
and serenity the events of daily life and
lived even their suffering and hardships
in trust. In their educative plan they committed
themselves to be a living "picture"
of the virtues that they taught.
They loved and invoked
Mary most Holy, as the authentic model of
their imitation of Christ and to her they
entrusted themselves in every need.
In a dynamic fidelity
to the spirit of the origins, following
the example of the Foundresses and of the
sisters who have gone before us and who
have with vitality preserved the charism
entrusted to the Congregation, we express
our apostolic spirituality witnessing in
every situation to the primacy of the love
of God through the educative mission.
We give witness to our
consecration of poverty and of our belonging
to our Institute by wearing the prescribed
habit. Where valid apostolic demands require,
the Superior General may permit the sisters
to wear a simple and dignified dress with
the proper symbol of our charism, in such
a way that our consecration is recognized.
In a total abandonment
to God we live the same sentiments of Christ,
the crucified Spouse, in order to gradually
conform ourselves to Him and to be a credible
sign of His redemptive love.
We reflect on and pray
over personal, community and social events;
we meditate assiduously on the Word of God
in order to deepen our contemplative capacity
and our zeal for the apostolic action, and
to search the ways of the Lord in the signs
of the times.
We live our apostolic
spirituality as a daily asceticism, facing
difficulties and sufferings in the light
of the paschal mystery, with the serenity
and trust of one who places her hope in
God, in the certainty that "the more
we live in Christ the better we can serve
others".
We entrust ourselves
to the tender motherhood of Mary, sublime
example of perfect consecration, in order
to live our vocation in fidelity; like Her
we place ourselves at the service of the
divine plan through a total gift of ourselves.
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