Secretariat of Apostolate

The General Secretariat of Apostolate is one of the organs of administrative character, through which the General Government carries out its function of service to the Order in the animation and impulse of the evangelizing action in the ministries of mission, in the parochial ministries or in centers of pastoral action of diverse nature entrusted and taken care of by the Order, as well as in its own educational centers.

To carry out its functions, the Secretariat is divided into three sections:

– Missionary Apostolate Section. – Ministerial Apostolate Section. – Educational Apostolate Section

It is also responsible for the following functions:

a) To advise the Prior General and his Council in matters concerning the ministerial, missionary and educational apostolate.

b) To watch over the fulfillment of the decisions regarding the ministerial, missionary and educational apostolate contained in the Life and Mission Project of the Order for 2016-2022, promoting collaboration with ecclesial structures.

c) To see to it that the directives of the sexennium are included in the pastoral plans, or the programming of the missionary, ministerial and educational apostolate of the provinces of the Order.

d) Suggest and support initiatives that strengthen our charismatic identity in parishes, missions and educational centers served by the Order.

e) To promote the shared mission in the missionary, ministerial and educational apostolate of the Order among religious and laity.

f) Promote the formation and pastoral updating of religious and laity to carry out their responsibilities in the missionary, ministerial and educational fields.

g) To foster communication and collaboration with the other general secretariats and with the provincial apostolate secretariats and their respective sections of the missionary, ministerial and educational apostolate.

h) Promote communion with the local Church.