125 A. Apostles of eschatological poverty: a) there is a need to raise up in each confrere and entire communities an attitude of trust in Divine Providence, expressed in unselfi sh (non-remunerative) apostolic and charitable actions; b) there is a need to call for and foster an attitude of solidarity among the Marians, an attitude of moving from the mentality of “my estate” to the one of “all that we have belongs to us all, and, this is the community’s and Church’s property;” c) there is a need to develop in the Marians a supernatural approach to material goods as a means of the apostolate, but not the goal, to which we dedicate ourselves (as Father Founder used to put it: to regard these goods as transitory ones!); d) there is a need for a communal witness of poverty in our lifestyle, our ownership of goods, clothing, etc. The criteria are provided by our Constitutions. B. Apostles of obedience: a) there is a need to accept the mission in the community of the Congregation and the Church as the fulfi llment of God’s will, which is the foremost value in the life and mission in the Church—God’s Kingdom on earth; b) there is a need to form in ourselves an attitude of «leaving behind» and «passing on» causes, on which we’ve been working, to our confreres appointed by the Congregation, and even more so to the lay people who become associated with us through our work; c) there is a need to demonstrate our fi lial understanding of the Church as a place where the Kingdom of God is manifested and our attachment to the Church and her shepherds. C. Apostles of celibacy for the Kingdom: a) since Christ Himself recognized chastity as a special sign for the world to come, there is thus a need for a clear individual and communal witness of persevering in the vow and virtue of chastity given through the manner of thinking, speaking and behaving; b) there is a need to practice and to show to the faithful a profound life of prayer, both individual and communal, as a manifestation of our spousal union with God, the most beloved above all, for example, through the recitation of one of the hours of the breviary in the church or a public chapel; c) there is a need to shape our attitude of availability and of readiness to be of service towards our neighbor as the fruit of living for the Kingdom, in order to please the Lord.
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