A School Faith

Community offers a

Dynamic Context for the release

of the Charism

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Charism – A FocusGives Story, Shape and Form to a Community and to its Spirituality

The Original Dreamthe ‘Why’ for Living

Story of Origins(Deep Narrative)

VisionSymbols - Rituals - Celebrations

EmotionPassion

History - Sayings - Beliefs - Attitudes - MotivationMeaningCharism

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• Look Like?

• Feel Like?

• Sound like????

CHarism

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CHarism

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Once you define a Charism…

You’ve killed

it!

CharismGives

particular Shape to a Community

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Unpacking CharismTogether

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A particular story to enterA language to speakA group to which to belongA way to prayA work/ministry to undertakeA face of God to see.”Marachel

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CHARISM...A Spiritual Homeland

Lived Story

Of an Aspect of the Gospel.8

CharismA Flavour that enhances the Essence

Already thereAnd brings it to LifeFor the Mission of God

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Charism

A Gift bumping into a

Need10

‘CharismAn energy, a dynamic,

a power that cannot

be contained or possessed...

but must

be shared.’ (Leddy)

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CHARISM

Is a Fire in the Eye of God that has touched

our own.Chittister

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CHARISMA Living Passion for a

particular Dimension of the Gospel

(Chittister)

It addresses that which is “missing”!

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Charism

It develops from age to age and dies from age to age…and then grows up again in new ways.

Chittister

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“The Issue of Charismatic

Identity

Is not so much of ‘who founded us? As…‘what have we become together by the Grace of

God?’Schneiders

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Isn’t that something? Rumi (1207-1273)

Ilike when

the music happens like this:

Something in His eye grabs a hold of a

tambourine in me,then I turn and lift a

violin in someone else,and they turn,

and this turning continues;

it has reached you now.

Isn’t that something?

‘Together we will create welcome spaces

for new voices to enter the melody.’

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You don’t have

the Charism!The Charism

has You!

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At the heart of Christian community

Hesed is at workThe Release of the Charism (Group

and Individual) is the dynamic which shapes who we are

becoming by the grace of our Provident God. 18