• A manifestation of the love of God. A true gift of the Lord Jesus which we answer by Prayer, Action, Formation and Spirituality.

• An intention of God, who has chosen us at this time for this pious work of the ADS that He will accomplish with our commitment and generous dedication.

• A gift received from the Spirit, which allows us to better announce the Lord Jesus with concrete pious works for concrete beneficiaries, in a difficult time of privilege to the signal woman.

• We follow Christ with a Charisma, a Style and an emerging Organization, managed like any business enterprise in the "damasalesianamente way", placing at its service the "feminine genius", the intuition and feminine compassion.

• A personal contribution to the development of the Church with a different style, well organized and with efficient pious works, avoiding former practices.

• Communion and participation with the Church, with Society, with the Salesian Family and with all other lay apostolic movements and associations in order to solve with efficacy the problems of this century, by giving answers and opening horizons. Inspired in the modern business enterprise and the lay self-management, and working with autonomy. We are driven by the importance of synergy, of sharing, of the work accomplished in fellowship.

• We are achieving in the Church and among the poor what the Pope has assigned today with urgency to the lay people and what Don Bosco always wished of his own. Let us banish the useless complaining and the standing commodious position of a settled and traditional laity.

• We accept the responsibility of calling together all indifferent women in such a way that they may commit themselves to Christ in the "damasalesianamente way", with autonomy, action and creativity for Human Promotion and the New Evangelization, because in the ADS words are superfluous, we speak through our work. Our first mission and duty is to augment the number of committed women and new reinforcements to the ADS for the poor.

• We openly inscribe ourselves since our foundational origin in the context of the words of John Paul II in occasion of the Feast of Pentecost 1998 when he stated that the new lay movements or associations in virtue of their - "Ecclesial maturity, their lay autonomy, the fact that they are living communities, their novel vocation, their constant creativity and the manifest fruits of their labors…SHOW ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT RESULTS OF THE SPRING OF THE CHURCH announced by the Second Vatican Council."-

• The ADS with great humility and in gratitude to God in occasion of its 30^th anniversary feels clearly referred to in the aforementioned words and has joined this same engaging adventure: "ecclesial maturity," "lay autonomy", "lay self-conscience", "living community", "novel vocation". We keep trying… The Holy Father continues by stating that these new lay associations have in common:

1. THEIR OWN NATURE AND MISSION. –"A concrete ecclesial reality in which the lay members take part. An itinerary of Faith and of testimony. Organizations that establish their pedagogic method in a definite charisma granted to the person of their personal founder in predetermined circumstances." For the ADS the mission is vast with many undertakings and encouraging results, testing our faith and commitment with a charisma and pedagogic method in the "damasalesianamente way".
2. ORIGINALITY. -"Signed by an original charisma which brings life to the movement, with a solid basis, a convincing and suggestive summons that leads to live in fullness, with intelligence and creativity, the Christian experience". In the ADS we share the charisma of Don Bosco and we are thankful for our foundational charisma, gifts granted to us by God to be and do in our Association what He by our foundation has demanded.
3. COMMUNION affirms that "each movement is different but that all are joined in the same communion and in each specific mission under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit".
4. In the ADS we wager and will always wager for communion and participation as our foundational inheritance, a thousand times asserted by our Founder to all members and what differentiates us is what we convey to the Salesian Family.
5. THE FOUNDERS. The Pope further explains: -"God chooses the founders to impress an original charisma in each movement. This charisma exerts special attraction to all that take part in the spiritual experience of the founder". The Reverend Father M. González, s.d.b. given his human and spiritual qualities has "produced the miracle Damas Salesianas" in just 30 years, by the intercession of the Holy Spirit and the aid of Mary, Help of Christians and Don Bosco. Father González humbly accepts and understands this intercession and thus he has succeeded in creating an attractive association as the statistics show.
6. TRIALS AND MORE TRIALS. The Holy Father did not evade referring to the difficulties and incomprehension that many times any new manifestation of the Spirit has to endure even all along its existence. "The birth and diffusion" of any movement "have contributed in the life of the Church an unexpected novelty, even at times surprising". This has provoked "questioning, hostile reactions and anxiety. Sometimes this has implied presumption and intemperance on one side and no small amount of prejudice and reticence."

The road traveled by the ADS was not exempt from these dangers. The ADS has suffered much but always understood that this was the price to be paid for its success. On the other hand it always received inspiring and opportune messages from John Paul II and other men of God, messages that have an important place in our history. If a grain of wheat is not crushed there is no bread. "Anxiety’, "presumption", "intemperance", "prejudice", "reticence" have fused, unified and strengthen the association.