Lifestyle in the SIP
LIFESTYLE IN THE SIP
The members of the SIP live in their own rectories, homes or institutions where they are assigned. Because the SIP is a spiritual community, the members have control over their own individual finances and material goods. Their first responsibility is to their diocese and local ordinary and secondarily to the Opus Spiritus Sancti. Our members do not claim any expectation of financial or material help from others in the SIP, though this does not exclude the possibility that members or groups voluntarily help one another when a great need arises.
The SIP forms its community by meeting together regularly, generally once a month. During that meeting the members pray together, discuss some book or theological topic they are studying, participate in a time of “review of life” during which they are able to share about their own personal and pastoral experiences and receive feedback from their brother priests, and take care of any business items the group may have. Many of the group gatherings include a meal or other time of fellowship with their meeting. This community life also exists when members meet each other or are in communication with each other in times of particular need.
We find our model in the first Christians as they are described in the Acts of the Apostles. We come together for prayer, meditation on the scriptures and for sharing, and if possible, we celebrate the Eucharist together. We share our faith and needs. Spiritual help is offered and current topics are discussed at the meetings, so that the members may be strengthened for their apostolate.
As a part of our apostolate members of the SIP work to energize the laity in their respective parishes or in the institutions where they work to become like the early Christian Community. They work to motivate the CAC, wherever they are, to act as a catalyst to facilitate the actions of the Holy Spirit; they work for the Christian formation of the laity so that they be light, salt and yeast and work as a catalyst in the world.
The SIP is an international, missionary community and fosters a missionary spirit by whispering the Word of God to the soul of the People of God so that, imbued with the values of the Gospel, they may pervade the secular world where Jesus wants his disciples to be, with brotherly and sisterly concern for each other so that God may be all in all (1 Cor 15:28).
The members of the SIP live in their own rectories, homes or institutions where they are assigned. Because the SIP is a spiritual community, the members have control over their own individual finances and material goods. Their first responsibility is to their diocese and local ordinary and secondarily to the Opus Spiritus Sancti. Our members do not claim any expectation of financial or material help from others in the SIP, though this does not exclude the possibility that members or groups voluntarily help one another when a great need arises.
The SIP forms its community by meeting together regularly, generally once a month. During that meeting the members pray together, discuss some book or theological topic they are studying, participate in a time of “review of life” during which they are able to share about their own personal and pastoral experiences and receive feedback from their brother priests, and take care of any business items the group may have. Many of the group gatherings include a meal or other time of fellowship with their meeting. This community life also exists when members meet each other or are in communication with each other in times of particular need.
We find our model in the first Christians as they are described in the Acts of the Apostles. We come together for prayer, meditation on the scriptures and for sharing, and if possible, we celebrate the Eucharist together. We share our faith and needs. Spiritual help is offered and current topics are discussed at the meetings, so that the members may be strengthened for their apostolate.
As a part of our apostolate members of the SIP work to energize the laity in their respective parishes or in the institutions where they work to become like the early Christian Community. They work to motivate the CAC, wherever they are, to act as a catalyst to facilitate the actions of the Holy Spirit; they work for the Christian formation of the laity so that they be light, salt and yeast and work as a catalyst in the world.
The SIP is an international, missionary community and fosters a missionary spirit by whispering the Word of God to the soul of the People of God so that, imbued with the values of the Gospel, they may pervade the secular world where Jesus wants his disciples to be, with brotherly and sisterly concern for each other so that God may be all in all (1 Cor 15:28).