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The Missionaries of Our Lady of La Sallete (MS)
The Missionaries of Our Lady of La Salette, a religious apostolic Congregation dedicated to the ministry of reconciliation. The Congregation is made up of priests and brothers bound together by the same religious vocation. It is defined by the Holy See as a clerical religious institute of Pontifical right. By baptism they are incorporated into the Church and share in its mission. By profession of public vows of poverty, chastity and obedience they are consecrated in a new way to this mission and they bind themselves to live in a religious community which is a sign of the Kingdom. Moved by the Holy spirit who prompted the Son of God to experience human condition and die on the cross in order to reconcile the world to his Father, they resolve, in the light of the Apparition of Our Lady of La Salette, to be devoted servants of Christ and of the Church for the fulfillment of the mystery of reconciliation. Faithful to their origins, they profess a deep love for Mary, Mother of Christ and of the Church. In their apostolate, they follow the example of the handmaid of the Lord who was made reconciler particularly at the foot of the cross. They emphasize the profoundly evangelical values of prayer, penance and zeal contained in the message of Our Lady of La Salette which calls to conversion. They strive to live them so that by the witness of thier lives as well as by their words, hearts may be opened to the Good News which it is their mission to make known to all. In the Philippines, the Missionaries of Our Lady of La Salette are known as a Province by the name INA NG PAG-ASA (Mother of Hope).
The Ina ng Pag-asa Province is:
- a community of men differing in age, character and temperament, of varying experiences and mentality, predominantly Filipino, individually endowed with unique qualities and talents and singularly blest with spiritual gifts; men who strive to respond in faith and freedom to the personal call of the Father to a total and enduring commitment in Christ by living and proclaiming God's act of Reconciliation of which Mary at la Salette tearfully reminded them, consecrating themselves through religious vows to be living signs of this reconciliation among the people of God with whom they were chosen to live and to whom they were sent to serve;
- a community of men who accept the burden of being human in order to learn to be compassionate, religious men who have a heightened sense of sin as an alienating and destructive force and whose painful awareness of alienation and brokenness, of weakness and limitation, of fears, doubts and selfishness . . . of sin in themselves and in others . . . teach them to rely on the power of God to forgive and to heal, to restore and to uplift and to proclaim God's power in their weakness
- a community of men who individually and collectively respond to the call of Christ to unify by casting their lot together as brothers in the congregation of the Missionaries of Our Lady of La Salette, to be "one mind and one heart" to recognize and to accept each others' giftedness, to discover and to share each others' blessings, to feel and to bear each others' burden, to risk, to praise and to reprove, to hope and to rejoice together in love: men who find their strength in their solidarity in Christ who calls them to be a reconciled and reconciling community within the congregation and among the people of God;
- A COMMUNITY OF MEN WHO DARE TO HOPE FOR THE FULFILLMENT OF THE KINGDOM OF PEACE, JUSTICE AND LOVE.
Join the Missionaries of Our Lady of La Salette as a priest or as a religious brother!
Contacts: Fr. Eugene Flores, MS Promotions and Recruitment Director email: eugenesflores@yahoo.com Call/Text: 0928-501-0493 OR Fr. Marcelino Mesa, MS La Salette College Seminary Biga, Silang, Cavite Philippines Tel: (046) 414-2146
