Day 5 – To be a Spiritan is to be Sent
Across generations, a deep conviction has shaped our way of being: the Spiritan is one who is sent. This insight is woven into the very history of our origins. It is part of our spiritual DNA.
Day 4: Spiritual and material poverty
In the light of our Founders, Spiritan poverty appears as an inner journey in which a person allows themselves to be shaped by God so as to become a source of apostolic life. It involves material detachment, but it is fulfilled above all as a way of standing before God: an attitude that consists in receiving everything from Him, living from Him, acting through Him.
Day 3: Availability
Availability is one of the most consistent features of Spiritan spirituality. It is both openness to God and attentiveness to our brothers and sisters — an inner movement that runs through our history from Poullart des Places to Libermann and remains today at the heart of our vocation.
Day 2 – Docility to the Holy Spirit
Poullart des Places and Libermann each express, in their own way, this same understanding of docility to the Holy Spirit. For Poullart, it is expressed first and foremost as a trusting surrender to the divine breath. From the very beginning, he invited his companions to become hearts open and available to God’s action: to adore the Holy Spirit, to ardently seek the fire of divine love, to imitate the inner openness that allows God to act freely.
Day 1 – The Primacy of God
The primacy of God is the foundation of Spiritan spirituality. It arises from an encounter: that of a heart which discovers that God has gone before it, that he loves it, that he calls it to a life greater than itself. One cannot truly be a Spiritan without this foundational encounter. Poullart and Libermann, each in their own story, experienced this inner transformation.
Pentecost Novena 2026
This novena seeks to help us welcome the Spirit’s work of renewing the grace of our vocation. May it become for each of us a time of visitation: may the Spirit surprise us, console us, send us forth, and fashion us — even today — into Spiritans after God’s own heart.
Spiritan Spirituality today
1. Spiritan Spirituality Animation: On the morning of 26 June, Marc Botzung presented Spiritan Spirituality theme and spoke about Spiritan Spirituality animation; with Maximil Tambyapin making additional key points on the causes of our confreres on the path to altar. In the second session, Philip Massawe and Justi Tarimo discussed Spiritan Spirituality’s renewal program and…
Meeting with the Superiors General of congregations founded by Spiritans or sharing our spirituality
On Saturday, 3 May 2025, the General Council organized a meeting at the Generalate in Rome with the Superiors General of female religious congregations founded by Spiritans or sharing our spirituality. This meeting which was planned within the context of the animation on Spiritan spirituality and advancing the theme of the last General Chapter, Behold…
Spiritans on the Way to being Raised to the Altars
On the occasion of the solemnity of All Saints, a special feast for the whole Church, I want through this newsflash to send you some news regarding the causes of our founders and Spiritan confrères: Blessed Daniel Brottier, Blessed Jacques Désiré Laval, Venerable Fr. Francis Libermann and the two Servants of God Fr. Claude François Poullart des Places and Bishop Joseph Shanahan.