The priestly
Fraternity of the Missionaries of St Charles Borromeo
The Fraternity
of the Missionaries of St Charles Borromeo was born in September
1985 within Communion
and Liberation as a priestly association. Encouraged by Fr
Giussani, the young priests who formed it wished to support each
other in their vocation and to respond ideally to the call to go into
all the world expressed to the movement by John Paul II during the
papal audience for the thirtieth anniversary of CL (September 29, 1984).
The result was a missionary Fraternity, recognized in 1989 as a Society of Apostolic
Life by Cardinal Ugo Poletti. Fraternity and mission are the governing words
of this young community: to serve man in their availability to go wherever the
needs of the Church and the life of the Movement require the presence of priests,
taking the experience of the Movement into the whole world "through priestly
missionary energy," in the words of its founder, Fr Massimo Camisasca, and
to live a communion that is at the same time mutual aid and the method of a missionary
presence in the various spheres: parish, school, university. The priests of the
Fraternity live in "houses" that, scattered now over five continents,
aim at being a sign to men of the companionship of Christ and an occasion for
Him to be known from a new angle.
The priests of the Fraternity of St. Charles Borromeo are men who wish to belong
to the Movement and to let themselves learn constantly from its charism.
The Fraternity especially wants, by its very existence, to demonstrate that the
charism granted to Fr Giussani is capable of educating and sustaining on the
priestly path young men who have received or brought to fruition their vocation
through the Movement and who are called to live their priesthood for the whole
Church and for all their life. |
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