A Word About the Exercise of our Mission

For some time our Province has tried to restructure and rethink the exercise of our mission. We believe that this is an inspiration from the Holy Spirit for it appears in the XV General Chapter as well. During these days, we have formulated some actions to exercise our mission in the United States. Later this evening, we will decide which actions will be incorporated into our final document. These specific actions will determine our work and priorities during the following six years. Pray that we may be faithful to our mission in the Church.

The following text is taken from our XV General Chapter:


Rethinking the exercise of our mission means that the entire Congregation, each Province and community, must continue the discernment made by this Chapter and apply it to their specific situations in carrying out what the Spirit asks of us to exercise our mission, rooted in our charismatic identity, with greater transparency and significance. We are not changing our specific mission or starting anew, rather, we must rethink the spaces, structures and pastoral methods, with creativity and freedom, taking our personal reality with serenity and intelligence (cf. CD 203.4)

(XV General Chapter #48)

Mystics and Prophets

The Holy Spirit has moved our Religious Congregation to implement and meditate upon two important elements of discipleship: the mystical and prophetical dimensions of our consecration to God. During our III Provincial Chapter, we have discussed these two dimensions and incorporated them into the actions we desire to perform during the 2010-2016 period. The following text is taken from our XV General Chapter:


We live in a world marked by paradoxes that oppose tendencies to secularization, welfare and personal accomplishment as individuals to strong dynamics of exclusion and social injustice. The question about God is present as a thirst for spirituality, yet many are left wondering: where is God? (cf. Ps 42). We feel we are included in these paradoxes. (#16)

Revitalize both our consecration from a genuine experience of God and the reflection of evangelical radicalism becomes the urgent call He is now making to us. It is impossible to place oneself prophetically in this secular world without a deep and untarnished mysticism. (#18)

May we be contemplative above all in order to become mystics and prophets in the world.

Internationalization

We believe that the following words taken from our XV General Chapter really speak to us as a Province in the United States. Here we share with you the following:

On the eve of the centennial of the Congregation, we let the words of Fr. Felix resonate strongly: "Mexico should be the cradle [of the Congregation] for its great devotion to the Holy Spirit, but the Work is worldwide [...]" Let us conquer the world. " It is our mission: this is what Jesus, who has founded us in honor of His father [...] requires of us "(CCP 258-259).

Our religious life and our charisma contain a strong missionary dynamism, which calls us to reach out to new cultures to foster the development of a Priestly People.

Our presence in other countries is called to be a unique opportunity to live a creative and inculturated relevant religious life.

(XV General Chapter # 66-67, 70)

Pray that we may be a relevant testimony of religious life in the United States.