Our mission (Translated automatically)
CHARIS has a threefold mission: to share with the whole Church the experience of ‘baptism in the Holy Spirit’, to work for Christian unity and to serve the poor.
In his address on 8 June 2019 on the occasion of the inauguration of CHARIS, Pope Francis formulated it as follows: ‘Baptism in the Holy Spirit, unity of the Body of Christ and service to the poor are the necessary witness for the evangelization of the world, to which we are all called by our Baptism.’
1) BAPTISM IN THE HOLY SPIRIT:
Pope Francis told CHARIS and the entire charismatic renewal on 8 June 2019: ‘May you share the baptism in the Spirit with everyone in the Church. This is the grace you have received. Share it! Don't keep it to yourself!". Raniero Cantalamessa OFMCap said in his first Lenten sermon at the Pontifical Household in 2021: ‘One of the ways in which the Spirit manifests itself today outside the institutional channels of grace is through what is called “Baptism in the Spirit”’ and ‘Baptism in the Spirit has proved to be a simple and powerful means of renewing the lives of millions of believers in almost every Christian church’.
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2) UNITY OF CHRISTIANS
The preamble to the CHARIS Statute reads: ‘Recognizing that Catholic Charismatic Renewal is part of an ecumenical stream of grace, CHARIS is an instrument established to foster and advance the unity of the Body of Christ, as expressed in the prayer of Jesus (John 17)’.
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3) SERVICE TO THE POOR
"One of the main objectives of CHARIS is to promote service to the poor and social action through the Catholic Charismatic Renewal. (art.3 CHARIS statutes)
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