CHARISM is a closed group.

We are a group of primarily Catholic families in Southwest Minnesota joined together to promote and support Catholic homeschooling.
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What is CHARISM? The Webster's dictionary defines 'charism' as "an extraordinary power (as of healing) given a Christian by the Holy Spirit for the good of the church."

"There are different kinds of spiritual gifts but the same Spirit; there are different forms of service but the same Lord; there are different workings but the same God who produces all of them in everyone."
(1 Cor. 12:4-6)

In the writings of St. Paul the term charism has a double meaning. In the broad sense it designates the "gift" of Christian life in general received at baptism. In the strict sense it means a particular, specific "gift" received by individuals or groups for the service and building up of the Christian community. It is in this latter sense that we speak of the charism of religious families, each of which has received from the Spirit through its founder a particular charism to realize a specific mission in the Church. In the history of salvation, God has a loving design for each religious family that gives it its reason for existing, its identity and proper mission.