Prioritize the Interior Life

"... I am sick with Love. " --Song of Songs 5:8

We are committed to mental prayer within a daily holy hour, daily meditation, the Rosary, Eucharistic adoration, and frequent confession. Convicted of the universal call to contemplation, our missionaries desire to be transformed into the very person of Christ.

We strive to live joyfully, with hearts rooted in constant prayer, praise, and thanksgiving. All of our missionary activity flows as an overflow of His radical love for us. In imitation of Christ, our love takes on an ascetical character as we grow in virtue, allowing charity to shape every action—so that our love may purify not only our own hearts but also the hearts of those we serve.

The primacy of prayer is both the source and the goal of our missionary endeavors.

“For mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with Him who we know loves us.” 

- St. Teresa of Avila; The Book of Her Life, ch. 8, 5.

Live Liturgically

We center our lives, our team, and our ministry around the Church’s liturgy. We attend daily Mass, structure our rhythm around liturgical events, and invite those we serve into the beauty of the liturgy.

Our team prays the Divine Office, celebrates the lives of the saints, lives fully into the liturgical seasons, fasts and feasts accordingly, and intentionally honors the Sabbath.

We believe the Church, as our Mother, forms us into her Son primarily through her prayer—prayer in which we participate both personally and communally. As pilgrims on this earth, we hope to help heal society from within by centering it on the liturgical worship of the Church.

“Prefer nothing to the love of Christ" (Rule 72: 11; cf. 4: 21) and “let nothing be preferred to the Work of God" [that is, the liturgical prayer of the Church] (43, 3).

 –St. Benedict

Build the Domestic Church

"As the family goes, so goes the nation, and so goes the whole world in which we live." --St John Paul the Great

Pope Benedict XVI stated “The new evangelization depends largely on the Domestic Church.” The family is the foundation of civilization, and its health is vital to the well-being of society. As the first society, the family holds the principal place in evangelization.

As an apostolate, we seek to serve and support families by hosting family-friendly events and walking with men and women in their personal growth. We strive to prioritize family life above financial gain, professional success, media consumption, and societal expectations.

We believe that, for the laity, the greatest witness to holiness is a healthy family life rooted in Christ and His Church. As Pope Benedict XVI said, “Matrimony is a Gospel in itself, a ‘Good News’ for the world of today, especially the dechristianized world.”

The family is the first and greatest school of virtue, because it is the school of love. We desire to accompany couples, strengthen marriages, and empower parents to raise their children virtuously in the Catholic faith.

“When we had our children, our ideas changed somewhat. We lived only for them. They were all our happiness, and we never found any except in them. In short, nothing was too difficult, and the world was no longer a burden for us. For me, our children were a great compensation, so I wanted to have a lot of them in order to raise them for Heaven.” 

–St. Zelie Martin 

 Ownership of the Great Commission

"Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, until the end of the age." --Matthew 28:19

Mother Church directs the laity to “exercise the apostolate by their activity directed to the evangelization and sanctification of men and to the penetrating and perfecting of the temporal order through the spirit of the Gospel. In this way, their temporal activity openly bears witness to Christ and promotes the salvation of men” (Apostolicam Actuositatem 2). 

We respond to this call by building a community that evangelizes both individually and communally. The Church has one mission: to form missionary disciples—both individuals and nations—who, in turn, seek to multiply by making missionary disciples.

The same decree boldly affirms that a “member who fails to make his proper contribution to the development of the Church must be said to be useful neither to the Church nor to himself” (Apostolicam Actuositatem 2).

Our apostolate seeks to help disciples bear fruit within their unique missions—sanctifying the temporal order and fostering a culture where missionary disciples take ownership of this call in every parish and community they encounter. In doing so, we aim to perpetuate the cycle of spiritual multiplication.

“Many, many people hereabouts are not becoming Christians for one reason only: there is nobody to make them Christians”  

- St. Francis Xavier, S.J.

Formation of the Whole Person

“Do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that you may prove what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.” --Romans 12:2

Jesus came to make us whole—to transform us entirely—and we believe this pursuit of re-formation in Him is essential to apostolic work.

Our missionaries commit to lifelong formation in every aspect of the human person—human, spiritual, intellectual, and apostolic—so that we may put off the old man and embrace the new (Eph 4:22–24).

We encourage seeking growth through spiritual directors, mentors, coaching, academic institutions, and spiritual training programs. Discipleship goes beyond exterior acts of zeal; it requires a continual desire to be configured to the Person of Jesus Christ.

By striving for virtue and holiness, we come to see His face and hear His voice more clearly.

“Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth; and God has placed in the human heart a desire to know the truth—in a word, to know himself.”

-- St John Paul the Great