CONSECRATED BY AND FOR THE CHARITY OF CHRIST.
With religious profession we are consecrated to God, members of the religious Congregation of the Servants of Charity who, by professing religious vows, intend to live the Gospel in the style of Jesus Poor, chaste and obedient, as a way to achieve the holiness to which we feel called.
THE MISSION
We Servants of Charity have received from the Founder the love and care of the poor, especially of the most abandoned, of "those who are poor in intelligence or health or substance". In particular we dedicate ourselves to the ministry of charity among the disabled called by our founder the "good children", among the elderly, children and young people.However, no charitable initiative has left our Founder indifferent, who has opened his houses to every category of people in difficulty: deaf-mute, priests old and sick, elderly even wealthy, but abandoned.
Following these indications of the Founder, we Servants of Charity have adapted our work, extending it to new forms and adapting the original institutions to new needs.
While remaining open to any kind of material, moral and spiritual poverty, it mainly directs its attention to:
- to children, teenagers and young people in a state of material or moral abandonment;
- to elderly or psycho-physically handicapped people who are deprived of human support and without the care necessary for a dignified life;
- to the "poor people", that is, those groups and multitudes who are marked by serious social and religious poverty.
THE BROTHERLY LIFE
It is the Charity of Christ that brings us together in fraternity. It constitutes one of the most precious values of our vocation. Don Guanella exhorts us: "Like grains of wheat ground and kneaded we want to become a single bread offered at the table of the poor".
We behave with simplicity, as in the family, careful to anticipate the needs of our brothers and sisters and to support them in the difficulties of life" (Constitutions n. 21)
