Sisters and Partners in Mission
The Congregation is enriched by the presence of apostolic sisters, contemplative sisters, and partners-in-mission who express the call to the mission in their own style of life in different ways. Together, we are all mission partners working to forward the mission.
Apostolic Sisters
As apostolic sisters, we live our mission of justice, reconciliation, empowering lives, restoring rights, and upholding dignity through active ministry. We address the pressing global and local needs of today through relationship-based programs that address the needs and aspirations of persons and communities
We are involved in education and training, social services, advocacy and awareness raising, spiritual and pastoral care, prison ministry, residential care, youth development, and many other outreach programs that support and empower those on the margins of society, particularly vulnerable girls, women, and children.
Contemplative Sisters
As contemplative sisters, we bear witness to the absolute primacy of God and seek to be a means of reconciliation through our prayer, faithfulness to the Gospel, solitude, and silence. We hold in prayer the whole Universe and support the endeavors of our sisters who are engaged in the active ministry of reconciliation.
While we keep sacred space to nourish our relationship with God, we seek to understand how we can be a visible presence and a sign of God’s immediacy and care.
Partners in Mission
The Congregation believes in the power of collaboration and working together with partners who share the same charism as we do. We are guided by the principles outlined in ‘Zeal Calls Us to Respond‘ (2019), a document that serves as the foundation for our mission partnership.
Partners-in-mission encompass a wide spectrum of involvement, from staff members and volunteers to those fully committed to living the charism, values, and spirituality of our Congregation as a lifestyle. It’s about mutual respect, trust, commitment, and the freedom to grow while staying true to the vision and spirit of St. John Eudes & St. Mary Euphrasia Pelletier.
Apostolic Sisters
Our apostolic sisters spread the message of justice and reconciliation through their lives and ministries. They are involved in education and training, social services, advocacy and awareness raising, spiritual and pastoral care, prison ministry, residential care, youth development, and many other outreach programs that support and empower those on the margins of society, particularly vulnerable girls, women, and children.
Contemplative Sisters
Our contemplative sisters bear witness to the absolute primacy of God and seek to be instruments of reconciliation through their prayer, evangelical asceticism, solitude, and silence. The contemplative sisters are the spiritual lungs of the Congregation; through their prayer, they support those directly involved in the mission.
While the contemplative sisters keep sacred space to nourish their relationship with God, they seek to understand how they can be a visible presence and a sign of God’s immediacy and care.
Partners-in-Mission
Mission partnership has played a very active part in establishing and expanding the mission from the very earliest days. It is an ever-evolving relationship that demands a broader understanding of communion, mutual respect, trust, commitment, and freedom to live and grow full-and-free in the vision and spirit of St John Eudes & St Mary Euphrasia Pelletier. Today, our partners-in-mission are the staff, volunteers, benefactors, board members, associates, companions, etc., who choose to accept co-responsibility to work collaboratively to forward the mission.
The Congregation envisions the full engagement of partners-in-mission and works to strengthen these relationships based on the Universal Culture of Justice with attitudes that invite all partners to embrace equality, collegiality, and a shared experience of mission that will evolve out of a deepened relationship model of being together.
Are you called to become a mission partner?