Commitment to renew ourselves in the Missionary Spirit

Aware that an authentic renewal of the Institute has to draw its vital sap from a reawakening of the genuine missionary spirit, we suggest some means which seem to us to be more important and significant:

• To "rest in the Heart of Christ Crucified so that with Him we can discover His mandate to us to evangelise the world.

• To add a more ecclesial, more apolostic, more universal dimension to our prayer.

• To offer suffering, sickness, big or small occasions of pain for the Coming of the Kingdom on earth and for the persecuted Churches.

• To know and to study the new missiological orientations of the Magisterium so that we may walk with the Church in the journey she has travelled up to today, led by the Spirit.

• To take up with courage in our personal lives and as a community, a lifestyle which is missionary and has the following characteristics:

  • generosity and ardent zeal

  • detachment from everything and from everyone

  • boundless fraternal charity

  • gratuity and selflessness

  • keeping only the essentials

  • sobriety and simplicity

• To foster pastoral work among youth, and vocational guidance that is open to the different states of life; also wisely promoting temporary voluntary service.

Prophetic Missionary thrust open to the whole world
While within the Institute the generous renewal of the missionary spirit is going on, each Organism is called to promote the apostolic zeal of all the Sisters operating itself to new fields of missionarity inside and outside its own geographical boundaries.

The Spirit and the signs of the times are strongly urging us to express through prophetic witness, our will to keep ourselves open to the entire world:

• Opening Communities in dechristianised areas or in mission zones inside and outside one's own country.

• Coupling with a Community in another local Church for mutual support, exchange of prayer, difficulites and apostolic initiatives.

• Welcoming and care of vocations Ad Gentes within each Canossian organism.

• Exchange of Sisters among Organism through the Central Government for temporary services.