What do we do?

What do we do?

[30] By its very nature our Institute is an apostolic institute; and so we readily place ourselves at the service of the Church in its various pastoral works.

Although our Institute was not founded for a specific work, it gets from the Founder some apostolic orientations which characterize its mission in the Church.

[31] This mission, for Father Dehon in a spirit of love and oblation, entailed eucharistic adoration, as an authentic service of the Church (cf. Notes Quotidiennes, 1.3.1893), "and ministry to the lowly and the humble, the workers and the poor" (cf. Souvenirs XV), to proclaim to them the unfathomable riches of Christ (cf. Ephesians 3:8).

With this ministry in mind, Father Dehon gave great importance to the formation of priests and religious.

For him missionary activity was a privileged form of apostolic service.

In all this his constant concern was that the human community, sanctified in the Holy Spirit, became an offering pleasing to God (cf. Romans 15:16).

This text is taken from Our Rule of Life. If you would like to read more about our spirituality and charism you can link here to a site maintained in North America by scjs in Canada and the United States, who have placed this document on their web site.
(www.dehon.it)