The theme that will accompany the celebration of the Interchapter and its animation leads us to rediscover the font that is the light and strength of our apostolic vocation (Const 8). Like Mary, we are called to live in the Word, to have a heart that is imbued with the Word, a heart that takes care of the seed and produces much fruit (Luke 8:15). A contemplative heart which welcomes, treasures and lives the Word (Const 10) so as to “carry” this Word, and become a living Word ourselves, communicating hope and resurrection:
You carry the Word of God with wisdom, delicacy, and grace so that it may be more easily accepted… Fill your heart. Like a vase filled with water, may our heart be full of God; then we can pour it out onto others by using the technical means of the press, cinema, radio, television and records. These are the means that the Lord has placed in our hands (Father Alberione to the FSP, 1966, unedited).
As Pauline apostles, we are called to be channels, a sign and expression of the love of God, ambassadors of Christ, his letter, written by the Spirit of the living God, whom everyone can read. We are called to be a “living word” according to the beautiful expression of Paul and Blessed James Alberione:
You are our letter, written on our hearts, for all to know and read. Yes, you are clearly a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but withthe Spirit of the living God, not on stone tablets but on tablets of human hearts (2 Cor 3:2-3).
We are the instruments of God, we are the pen of God, we are the voice of God. It is God! We must be like the evangelists whom the Holy Spirit enlightened to write, moved and guided them to write what he wanted and to be silent about what he did not want. …If we let ourselves be taken over by the action of the Holy Spirit proceeding from the tabernacle, through the intercession of Mary who drew down the Holy Spirit upon the Church, then we will speak living words (FSP 54, pp. 257-258).
The Word has always been at the center of Pauline life. Not just as the content of our apostolate, but as our original inspiration, our style of life. We are called to carry the Word but above all to be a living Word, to interpret history in the light of the Word, to let ourselves be immersed in the mystery of the covenant, that is, in the depths of love: “It was not because you were more numerous than any other people that the LORD set his heart on you and chose you-for you were the fewest of all peoples. It was because the LORD loved you…” (Dt 7:7-8).