Pauline Family

THE PAULINE FAMILY
Proclaiming Jesus to the world

Pauline Family at World Youth Day 08, Sydney

Pastorelle Sisters and Daughters of St Paul with Fr Allan Winter,
parish priest of Our Lady Queen of Peace Parish,
Payneham, after the Eucharistic celebration 
to remember Blessed James Alberione, Nov. 2010.

 
PAULINE COOPERATORS - men and women who share in the spirit and goals of the Pauline Family, and contribute to its mission in the degree that they can.
The Pauline Cooperators were born in Alba, Italy, on 29 June 1917. Together with the nine Institues of the Pauline Family they share and realise the project of their Founder, blessed James Alberione (1884-1971).

Aware of their Christian vocation and the importance of the Pauline apostolate, the Cooperators seek to bring to the service o fthe Gospel, the best that progress can offer in announcing Christ who is the way, the truth and the life for every human being.

The Cooperators broaden their apostolate by their participation in the Pauline mission. They find in it an opportunity to fulfil their Christian vocation and contribute to the mission by their "prayer, suffering, works and offerings".

"In 1908, I heard the invitation from my spiritual director: we need to seek the help of people. So we started taking care of the Cooperators...Our duty, therefore, is to find people who will join us in the apostolate so as to multiply the good works". (Blessed James Alberione).

The Pauline Mission
The Cooperators are men and women of all ages. They have received from God their specific lay identity: "the world as the place for their vocation in the Church". Because of their presnece, the mission of the Pauline Family reaches many different places and environments.

They are called to carry out the Pauline mission in all its expressions. Some of these include: editing, distribution of books, collaborating in radio and school libraries, promoting Gospel study days and weeks for the study of the bible; involvement in parish and diocesan pastoral initiatives, particularly catechesis, liturgical animation and charitable works, takign part in the diocese's social communicaiton centres.

They seek to foster every intitiative that promotes knowledge and love of Jesus, Way, Truth and Life' Every Pauline Cooperator supports the mission of the Pauline Family through prayer, suffering and works.

for more information on the Pauline Cooperators, visit www.alberione.org