26 growth combined with readiness and the ability to do good even when it’s costly and demands fortitude of spirit; dynamism in actions, vigor, power, fl exibility, vitality; and creativity in a constructive and wise search for new forms of an effi cient response to human needs and to the signs of the times of the modern world. The Document of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life Ripartire da Cristo [Starting afresh from Christ] reminds us that “It is fi tting to remember the ability of holy foundresses and founders to respond to the challenges and diffi culties of their times with a genuine charismatic creativity.”30 The secret of their “success” lays in their openness and submission to the Highest Creator—the Holy Spirit: “Today, too, an openness and docility to the Spirit’s action, which is always new and creative, is required. The Spirit alone can keep alive the freshness and authenticity of the beginnings while at the same time instilling the courage of interdependence and inventiveness needed to respond to the signs of the times.”31 30 RdC, 13. 31 RdC, 20.
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