Our Charism

Our Charism

Each month, an aspect of our reparative, Eucharistic charism will be explored. In October, the topic is the word "reparation". Whether you call it reparation, reconciliation, or healing, the job of restoring peace and right relationship in a broken world is a big task!

We live Reparation to the Heart of Jesus by participating in the fullness of the Eucharistic Mystery. Our mission, centered in the celebration of the Eucharist, has as characteristic expressions:

adoration of Christ present in the Eucharist
apostolic activity of education in service of the Gospel

(Constitutions, #3)

The theological concept of reparation has gone through a great deal of change, as a sister describes in a recent Handmaid publication, Experiences of Reparation:

For me, the mission of Reparation to the Heart of Jesus has gone through a great evolution. At the beginning of my conversion and vocation, even though I knew Jesus Christ was God, I saw him as a man, who, though the greatest of all, suffered and felt pain and sorrow for the sins and indifference of people. And I had to console him, accompany him in adorations, and make reparation to him for everybody.

Then, little by little, as I came to see that Jesus Christ Risen was God, and as such, can no longer suffer, my reparation was reduced to loving him and working so that all could know and love him.

Finally, I now think that Jesus Christ Risen, even being God, goes on suffering, not in himself personally, but in his brothers and sisters, the sick, the poor, the marginalized, the excluded, and all those who suffer for any reason. And in a special way for immigrants, who suffer so much in their countries from which they have fled, leaving everything and risking their lives. When they arrive, they meet with so many difficulties, rejections, etc. So I think that my reparation should consist in giving Him love, doing all I can to make others know Him and love Him, and doing what our Constitutions demand: "collaborate with Him, through Him and in Him, for the reconciliation of people among themselves and with God," "work for justice in love and keep alive the preference for the poor that our Foundresses had," "put ourselves in solidarity with suffering humanity, in which Christ continues suffering poverty, oppression, and lack of love."