Charism

To announce the Gospel from the Covenant of brotherly love,
building disciple communities of salvation, under Jesus' Lordship

The peculiar thing about The Movement of the Word of God is a charism for reading and announcing the Word of God translating it into a significant and testimonial lifestyle. Such an announcement leads to the encounter and the experience of the true and living God of Revelation, who calls to conversion to a life surrendered and reconciled to God, and of brotherly love and community covenant among believers.

From the beginning, what we would later call the charism of the Work arose from grace as a wish to live Jesus' Gospel in our time, with the fidelity of the Acts of the Apostles and the first Christian communities.

This charism is:

Evangelizing
To announce Jesus kerygma-tically and charismatically as Savior and Lord, and to announce the eternal Life of his Gospel.
 

Community building
Developing the covenant of brotherly love in the community and of God´s universal love for all men and women. From the beginning, the charism was lived as a communicational and dynamic spirituality, fit for urban life. God becomes present when the grace of prayer is shared and in the charity of interpersonal relationships, as well as in the testimony of the atmosphere of brotherly love in the group encounters.



... the experience of the true and living God...

Pastoral
Priests, laymen and laywomen, in communion with the hierarchical Church, work at organizing communities like those in Acts 2:42-47 and 4:32-37, developing full pastoral care over personal and community life in the light of discernment.
 

Civilizing
Being a thoroughly evangelizing charism, it is also a civilizing charism that seeks to build up Salvation communities, so as to give origin to civilizing offshoots of a New World, thus serving the needs of society.