The Pauline Family is a group of five consecrated Religious Congregations, four Institutes of Secular Consecrated Life, and one Lay Association that were founded by Blessed James Alberione between 1914 and 1959.
Still at university, I remember when I first started visiting the Daughters of St Paul at their convent in Adelaide. I began to gain an understanding of what community life was all about. I remember this odd feeling in the pit of my stomach – this way of life was oddly familiar yet very different. All I had ever known was family life. Community was like family but not the same as family. There were no blood ties here; yet the warmth and “at-homeness” I witnessed among the Sisters told me they were “sister” to one another.