The third annual meeting of Institute of St. Vincent Pallotti in Rome, held on 17 June 2010, reflected on the theme: "Collaboration among the priests, consecrated persons and lay faithful in the vision of Pallotti". After specifying the significance f the word "collaboration", the speaker, Fr. Stanisław Stawicki SAC, affirmed that St. Vincent Pallotti proposed and sustained a "Theology of Relationship". According to him, in fact, there is no love, neither human nor divine, without relationship between persons, and since God is love, He is the model, the origin, and the end of every relationship. In the world of today, which is so fragmented, it is not easy to maintain united the contrasting realities. In the opinion of the speaker, if the religious, priests and lay faithful want to remain in a state of relationship, they must take care of such relationships. St. Vincent Pallotti cared much about these relationships: he desired to construct networks of communion among the charisms and worked for unity among the religious. Therefore, he tried to embrace all the spiritualities of the 18th Century, and made every effort to know, love and serve the Lord in all the Congregations. This saint tried, besides, not only to promote communion among the secular, regular clergies as well as the religious, but also wanted to be a "unifying point" between the clergy and the lay people, both men and women.
In conclusion, Stanisław Stawicki SAC, invited the Pallottines to reflect seriously on one aspect of their priestly identity, that is, to be "a bridge between the secular and regular clergy in the Church of God". He also reminded that the formation should be always in the spirit of the foundation. In order to take care of our relationships, we need to undertake common and regular formation programs right from the beginning; indeed, we need to "form together" not only occasionally, but regularly, for example, though the meetings of study organized by the St. Vincent Pallotti Institute in Rome. It is formation that can change our mentality, especially the formation "right from the beginning".