Congregation of
The Missionaries of St. Charles
(Scalabrinians)
RULES OF LIFE
1999 Edition
(modified in 2007)
With changes “in red”
adopted by the 13th General Chapter (2007)
and approved by the Congregation for the Institutes of
Consecrated Life
and the Societies of Apostolic Life
with letter dated March 23rd, 2007
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Please note:
The
articles printed in Roman (round) type are constitutional norms;
the
articles printed in italics are norms
of the General Directory.
PART ONE
THE FUNDAMENTAL LAW
The
Congregation in the Church
1.
The
Congregation of the Missionaries of St. Charles (Scalabrinians) is an apostolic
community of religious that shares in the missionary activity Christ continues
in the Church for the realization of the plan of God in the world and in
history.[1]
This plan was fully
revealed in Christ himself, who was sent by the Father “to bring glad tidings
to the poor”[2] and “to gather
into one all the dispersed children of God”.[3]
Even now this plan
can be discerned in the events, the needs, and the longings of people.[4]
The world to which we have been called to announce the mystery of salvation is the world of migrants. To fulfill our mission, we share their same life and the very experience of migration, just like Christ, who “by his Incarnation bound himself to the particular social and cultural conditions of the people among whom he lived.”