The Chaos of life Spiritan spirituality brings order out of the chaos of daily life by leading us into the guidance of the Holy Spirit. Libermann's practical spirituality shows the way to experience the divine in every moment of life and in all the ordinariness of life. Libermann's direction is just as vital and attractive for lay people as it is for Spiritans. Guided by the Spirit Married people are always changing roles: from spouse to parent to employee to friend. Parenting presents its own metamorphoses: from caregiver to disciplinarian to playmate to teacher. This kind of "friendly chaos" makes married couples continually responsive to others in the concrete situations of life. The Spiritan gift of evangelical availability opens this chaos to the guiding power of the Holy Spirit. One day the Holy Spirit is leading us to act in this way, the next day it is another way. We are swept about as the Spirit blows us, always changing and needing to be open to new roles. "As my daughter grows and my son gets older, my wife and I need to change and adapt to new routines in order to be responsive to our ever-changing concrete situation in life," says John Fitzpatrick, who has spent better than half his life with the Spiritans as a student and now teacher at Holy Ghost Prep. "In Spiritan spirituality there is something that resonates deeply with us. As parents we need to adapt and discern how the Spirit is calling us to be loving and charitable in our constantly changing experiences." Open to the Spirit Spiritan spirituality is often formulated in these words: "Here I am, Lord. Send me." Spiritan prayer gives rise to a tremendous desire to be available to God to do His work in what is called "evangelical availability." Prayer flowers in service. Lay Spiritans find freedom to live in radical openness to the Holy Spirit, which leads to serving the poorest of the poor. John and Ann Marie Hansen credit evangelical availability for moving them in 1982 to leave their professions in the United State and go to Africa to serve those most in need. With their two children, they flew to Tanzania and lived in a hut for three years. John scrambled to coordinate relief shipments and Ann Marie provided basic medical care for those in the area. "If you look at us going over there in 1982, that didn't fit with the traditional spirituality of the layperson that permeated the church," said John Hansen. "We were affected by Spiritan spirituality to be open to the Holy Spirit and to be open to serve those populations most in need." Libermann's spirituality can flip-flop the way lay people often do ministry. Instead of calculating the number of free hours a week to do volunteer work, Libermann suggests being open to God's will. By giving their lives to Christ, the Hansens and other lay people strive to let God dispose of His property as He chooses. Through this, they are able to surrender their broken selves to God's guidance. Spiritan lay members on a mission trip