Association of Pauline Cooperators: Activities

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Cooperators communicate the Gospel with the passion and the courage of the Apostle Paul. St. Paul is waiting -- join us!

The Apostolate of the Cooperator

Cooperators take their cue from The Founder: "The apostolate of the interior life is the root of every apostolate." Though in the world, Cooperators are not of the world.

Our Mother, Mary Most Holy

Cooperators embrace Mary as a fellow pilgrim. She is the model of every disciple in listening to the Word of her Son, Jesus Christ.

A Life Centered on the Eucharist

"From here I will enlighten." For the Cooperator, as for the Founder, Eucharist is source and summit of all activity.

A Cooperator Welcome ...

Wherever the Pauline light does shine, the Cooperator stands ready to add to its brightness.

Mission of the Cooperators

The Cooperators bring to the Pauline Family the specific values of secularity. Sharing the common Pauline mission, they live the Gospel in the Spirit of St. Paul, under the gaze of the Queen of the Apostles.

Cooperator Activities

Cooperators are active in all aspects of media and communication. Our work in the book centers is just the tip of the iceberg.

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The World of the Pauline Cooperator

Activities

"The Cooperators are persons who have the sense of Christ, who have broader Christian instruction, ... who have zeal and think of the good of souls; they are those who see in the Pauline Family an initiative, a religious organization that ... wants to give Jesus Christ to the world with the modern means; press, cinema, radio, television..."
(San Paolo Magazine, March 1957)

What Do Cooperators Do?

Pauline laity have flexibility to decide how they will cooperate with their professed sisters and brothers in the Pauline mission. While they do not vow obedience or work under a superior, they keep their eye on St. Paul and insert themselves into the world.

As communicators, Pauline Cooperators do all of the following, and more: write books and pamphlets; edit manuscripts; create brochures, signs, and fliers; design websites and advertising media; maintain blogs and social networking sites; translate; conduct media workshops, cinema divina and film nights; plan liturgies; conduct prayer vigils; testify in legislative debates; write articles for newspapers and journals; and otherwise participate in every aspect of civic life and Christian ministry.

Cooperators also work alongside professed Paulines and are well-known as lay men and women who can are willing to "pitch in and get the job done." They contribute financial and material means so that the religious branches of the Family can continue the work of media production, dissemination of books, DVDs and magazines, response to vocations, etc.

Ongoing activities of Pauline Cooperators include:

Assisting in Pauline Media Centers to help diffuse books, magazines, CDs, DVDs, etc

Designing and presenting instruction in media literacy

Giving presentations and talks about the Pauline Family and its charism

Attending annual Cooperator retreats and conferences

Promoting World Youth Day within parishes

Preparing and celebrating, World Day of Social Communication

Promoting Gospel Days, Bible Weeks, Days of Pauline Spirituality

Promoting work for vocations

Supporting the production, distribution and showing of the Blessed Alberione film project

We can say, then, that the Mission of the Association of Pauline Cooperators (APC) is to expand the operation of the Pauline Family under the guidance of the Holy Spirit and in keeping with the Pauline charism.

"The Cooperators work in the environment in which they live (work, parish, diocese, social and religious realities); the ways of working shall be taken in communion with the persons responsible for them, the delegates and the Pauline Institute with which they refer; they shall bring to reality the Founder's apostolic project in manners that are more consonant to the environmental reality in which they work."

(Pauline Family Unitary Project)

"We are called to follow a path which entails mutual acceptance, trust in relation to the values and traditions of other people, in order to establish a dialogue of life and of heart in which daily experience becomes the 'setting' for a mutual exchange which enriches all."

(The Pauline Family Unitary Project)