Called to the Emmanuel Community Audiobook

I. What is a charism, and why are there charisms?

Definition of a charism

According to Vatican II, everyone is called to exercise the charisms

The primacy of love

II. What are the different charisms?

Praying and singing in tongues

Word charisms

Charisms of healing

The charism of discernment

The charisms can be exercised everywhere

The charisms on mission

III. How does one exercise the charisms?

I. History

II. What is the outpouring of the Holy Spirit?

A major clarification: The outpouring of the Holy Spirit is not a sacrament

Why ask for the outpouring of the Spirit, if we have already received the Holy Spirit fully in baptism and in confirmation?

Are all Christians called to experience this grace?

How can we receive this grace?

III. What are the fruits of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit?

IV. How to endure?

A foundational experience for our community life

I. Pierre Goursat

Pierre’s conversion

Secretary of the Catholic Central office for the Cinema

The experience of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit

II. The foundation of the Emmanuel Community

III. Paray-le-Monial

IV. The development of the Emmanuel Community

V. The fraternity of Jesus

Emmanuel, a school of holiness

The universal call to holiness and the Second Vatican Council

What is holiness?

Holiness makes us happy

Holiness is Love

How do we enter this way of holiness?

a. We resolve to become holy

b. Renouncing sin

How can we overcome the most frequent obstacles to holiness?

a. The fear of suffering

b. The lack of desire and bad habits

c. Past hurts

So then, who can become holy?

Saints in community

The sources of evangelization

Adoration, compassion, evangelization

To evangelize is to love and to construct the civilization of Love

There is no evangelization without the Holy Spirit

Some concrete means of evangelization

1. Desire

2. Prayer

3. Sacrifices and offering ourselves

Evangelization through prayer and sacrifice

4. Witness of life

5. The Word

Direct evangelization

Progressive evangelization

Evangelization in Community

Personal evangelization

Advice for evangelization

The urgency of Love

The work of God in the History of Salvation

The Old Testament

The New Testament

In the Church since 2000

The particular case of Emmanuel

A particular vocation to holiness

I can't do it alone

Sent on mission

The Holy Spirit's surprises