Spirituality and Charism [Mission in the Church] are always intrinsically linked. It is the spirituality that allows us to carry out our Mission, our Charism given to us by the Church. Our spirituality is Christocentric, Missionary and Marian. These three points are like pillars that characterize us and the place we have in the Church as we strive together to bring the Kingdom of God in the Hearts of all peoples!




Christocentric: Called to "proclaim Jesus Christ and Jesus Christ crucified," our spirituality is, above all, Christocentric; that is, centered on Christ. If we proclaim Him, we have first to know and love Him. Our spirituality lies in intimate communion with Christ and our gaze must be fixed on His cross, a sign of the great love of God for us. At the root of this charism is meditation upon the mystery of the Passion of the Lord and a keeping of the "Memoria Passionis," the memory of the Passion of the Lord. Handed down from St. Paul of the Cross, this charism was the charism of our founder, Bishop Paul Boyle, and is one in which we now share. St. Paul of the Cross, a great missionary preacher and great mystic of the 18th century, guides our missionary path.





Marian: Formerly members of a Marian community, the first members of this diocesan institute chosen by Bishop Boyle brought to it a wonderful Marian spirituality. As our Bishop wrote in the Statutes of our institute, "The members of this society entrust their lives and apostolate to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Marian spirituality pervades this society where members are invited, like Mary, to bring Christ to the World. Mary, Star of the New Evangelization, guides the path of every member of this society, hence the Rosary is prayed daily by members of the society." Every day at common prayer the members consecrate their whole being to the Blessed Mother and pray daily the "Act of Alliance," entrusting their whole missionary apostolate the Blessed Mother, especially to her Immaculate Heart.

Missionary: The Society of the Missionaries of the Passion and of Immaculate Heart of Mary (The Mission Society of Mandeville), is a brotherhood of diocesan clerics and lay persons living fraternal life in common, united by the bond of charity (vinculum charitatis) pursuing the apostolic purpose of their Society as defined in our statutes. As written explicitly there, we are "missionaries for life." 2. The Society of the Missionaries of the Passion and of the Immaculate Heart of Mary is dedicated solely to apostolic works in mission territories. The members of the Society participate in the Missionary Activity of the Church through the spread of the Gospel and service of the Church firstly in the Caribbean. As an exclusively missionary Society of Apostolic Life, the missionary thrust of its members may be carried out in other parts of the World.