Missionary Orders

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What are some Catholic orders who are foreign missionaries?
Also, does the Institute of Christ the King have a foreign missionary in Africa?
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J_G said:
What are some Catholic orders who are foreign missionaries?

Thanks 🙂
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Here is a great one: The Servants of Charity – a FANTASTIC order. They are in 20 countries and they really LIVE their charism!

They are one of the two I am considering applying to as my discernment progresses. I visited them outside Detroit a few months ago and I actually find myself missing them. If you feel called to missionary life, do yourself a favor and at least take a trip out to Michigan (west of Ann Arbor) so you can meet Fr. Paulo. He’s AMAZING! The man is old enough to be my father but I could hardly keep up with him.

Here’s info from the “About Us” page of their website:
  • In 1908 in Como, Italy, Father Luigi Guanella founded the Servants of Charity. Father Guanella died a “martyr of charity” in 1915 and was beatified by Pope Paul VI in 1964.
  • The congregation is now in twenty countries in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas. The Immaculate Conception Vice-province serves the United States and the Philippines.
  • We are an apostolic (active) congregation that strives to serve the poor, live and pray in common, be loyal to the Holy Father, the Magisterium, and the local bishops.
  • We live out a spirituality of the paternal and providential love of God. This love is revealed, above all, in the Heart of Jesus, our elder brother. Jesus manifests this love supremely in the Holy Eucharist, foundation of our communities and missions.
  • We also understand this paternal love of God through and with Mary, Mother of Divine Providence.
  • We consider ourselves as neither “liberal” nor “conservative”; rather, we seek to be faithful to the Church as she leads. We follow the lead of the Second Vatican Council that directed the Church to live out her life more fully in the times of today and in dialogue with our fellow Christians and all peoples in truth and charity.
servantsofcharity.org/

Contact Fr. Paolo Oggioni, S.C. (517) 522-8017
Pious Union of St. Joseph, 971 E. Michigan Ave., Grass Lake, MI 49240-9210
frapauloni@yahoo.com

They are in:
Argentina, Brasile, Chile, Colombia, Congo, Philippines, Ghana, Guatemala, India, Israel, Italy, Mexico, Nigeria, Paraguay, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, USA.

They are a small congregation, and just 100 years old, but they have more than 120 guys in seminary in India alone.

Some examples of what they do:

FILIPPINE
2 centers for the disabled
1 retreat house
2 residential homes for the disabled
1 pastoral center
1 house of formation

INDIA
1 house for novitiate
1 center of formation
2 seminaries
1 outpatient center for the disabled
4 parishes
2 orphanages
1 elementary school? (rough translation from Italian using online sources)

Pictures Below:
  1. Locations Worldwide
  2. Fr. Paulo with a child at “Camp Blessing”
  3. Fr. Paulo anointing the sick in the chapel at the Pius Union of St. Jospeh
  4. Fr. Paulo blessing the cornerstone of the new Mount Calvary project at the Pius Union.
 
augieboo said:
Here is a great one: The Servants of Charity – a FANTASTIC order. They are in 20 countries and they really LIVE their charism!
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Here are some more pics:
  1. Calvary Project Artist’s Conception
  2. Early construction
  3. Cross in place
  4. Blessing the Cross
 
Hey there,

I’d be remiss if I didn’t chime in. The order I’m currently living with and discerning with is a missionary order, the Congregation of Missionaries of Mariannhill (CMM). They’re a young order (first monastery was founded 125 years ago) They work in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Papua New Guinea, with expansion plans throughout Africa and into South America. They’re a good solid order. Unfortunately they’re relatively unknown here in the states. They’ve only got one house here. But they’ve still got a number of houses throughout Europe.

Though I’ve found some of the info on their website lacking, you can check it out at www.mariannhill.org. Feel free to PM me anytime with questions.

Good luck in your discernment. I’ll be praying for you.

Tim
 
There is also the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary – Fr. Damien’s order. Their US headquarters is in Fairhaven, Massachusetts (where I grew up!) and they have a website at sscc.org/
 
NewUlm1976_2000 said:
Don’t forget about the Maryknoll order.

home.marynoll.org/maryknoll/
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Given their support of schismatic Chinese priests and seminarians over the years while underground priests were rotting in Chinese prisons whose conditions could best be described as tortuous, I would not send Maryknoll a penny - not one red cent, let alone support them in any other fashion.

The Missionaries of the Poor are certainly worth looking at.
 
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Roman_Catholic_missionary_orders
That is a referece to wikiarticles on missionaries orders…

I bet most of these are missionary - worth taking a look at:
Of the 25 communities approved by the Holy See since 1965, the 10 largest are:

Congregation of St. Michael the Archangel** (1966) with 333 members,

Congregation of St. Therese of the Child Jesus (1995) with 293 members,

Little Brothers of Jesus (1968) with 252 members,

Society of Divine Vocations (1966) with 241 members,

Missionary Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament (1989) with 229 members,

Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter (1989) with 191 members,

Society of Catholic Life (1997) with 160 members,

Order of the Imitation of Christ (1968) with 159 members,

Missionaries of the Nativity of Mary (1968) with 135 members and

Immaculate Friars of St. Francis (1998) with 122 members.

These new communities are beginning to take up some of the slack being created by older communities that are losing members. Could it be that one or more of these new communities will join the ranks of the largest communities for men in the future ?5 * Source
 
Here’s one that I looked at some 30 years ago…

Society of the Divine Word - Societas Verbi Divini
svdusa.org/
svd-ca.com/

5,000 S.V.D. priests and brothers preach the Gospel in over 60 countries! I believe you’ll have to search far and wide to find a group of guys who are more on-fire for the Lord.

Your Brother in Christ, Michael
 
Traditional_Ang said:
Here’s one that I looked at some 30 years ago…

Society of the Divine Word - Societas Verbi Divini
svdusa.org/
svd-ca.com/

5,000 S.V.D. priests and brothers preach the Gospel in over 60 countries! I believe you’ll have to search far and wide to find a group of guys who are more on-fire for the Lord.

Your Brother in Christ, Michael
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I tend to agree! In the Phillipines they have had much success in ordaining 12+ at a time. The last Youtube.com video I saw from them showed 17 men being ordained.

They are not as widely known in some parts of the US where they do not have a presense… So they seem “off the radar” for a lot of us - but once you find out about them, they are pretty amazing.
 
Traditional_Ang said:
Here’s one that I looked at some 30 years ago…

Society of the Divine Word - Societas Verbi Divini
svdusa.org/
svd-ca.com/

5,000 S.V.D. priests and brothers preach the Gospel in over 60 countries! I believe you’ll have to search far and wide to find a group of guys who are more on-fire for the Lord.

Your Brother in Christ, Michael
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cool i was going to post them. they were the first place i ever visited when i started my discernment. they were so gracious and generous in Iowa. it was a great visit for me and i think it’s a great order, but i don’t think i’m called to be that type of missionary anymore, right now at least…
 
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