It's an insight into the gospel that gives us a glimpse into into God that that helps us uh live the gospel today here and now in these circumstances and particular conditions. A way to understand a charism is also to look at some of the major charisms over the centuries. For example, you could say that Benedict, St. Benedict had a charism and it's manifested incarnated in the Benedictan order today. And it's probably undoubtedly being oversimplistic but it's uh limit it's um defined as work and prayer that through work and prayer I'm able to reach union with God.
Another charism we famous that we recognize is in St. Francis who uh stressed poverty. So um blessed are the poor in spirit um the beatitude that's there um and and his life demonstrated this of being poor of everything except God to have god alone. Okay. Another charism is is St. Dominic which is incarnated in the Dominican order and it's summed up contemplation and and preaching. So it's the order of creatures. So to contemplate the truths of the faith and prayer and then to share that with others.
Okay. Another charism that we know is St. Ignatius and that's manifested in the Jesuit community. And there's different ways that that that would be uh expressed to the greater glory of God. Uh discerning what God what is from God and what is not God. Obedience uh and so on. uh but complete submission to God. Another uh charrorism would be um Teresa Vavala and with her John of the Cross through prayer finding union with God. So she wrote the interior castle as a way of prayer to reach that union with God that contemplation.
Okay. and related now with Teresa Beavis, Theresa Lazu who is just around the turn of the of the 19th century that she found the little way that it's like by being children that we will enter the kingdom of heaven. So uh finding that that simple way of uh perfection in this little thing that I'm I'm doing in this moment uh and trusting in God who would would bring me to to to to perfection to union with God to sanctity.
It also brings about a harmonization or a um a unity among all of these carisms that we've had over the centuries. So that there's a complimentarity between the Jesuit charism and the carmealite charrorism of Theresa Vala and the Benedictan charrorism. All right? That it brings them into harmony that the church becomes that beautiful garden where it's not just me contemplating God in this one flower but I contemplate God in each of these different flowers. So it's more you could say objective that I'm God in himself whom I'm finding.
And in this way the church becomes that fullness uh that harmony of all the different graces the Holy Spirit has given over these centuries. And then each of us personally are called to a particular way but having the whole breath of the church within us as as we live that
