The Mission
Mission is to go to every man to proclaim him Jesus Christ and, in him and in the Church, to put him in communion with all humanity. It is a journey of universal communion, respecting legitimate differences.
Migrants with migrants
“Listening to God in the voice of the migrant” (Cf. Es 3,7-10)
In a dialectical movement between faith and life, we have felt challenged to walk in this direction with audacity, sensitive to the pain of migrants, to reconfirm the precise choice of our Blessed Founder Giovanni Battista Scalabrini in a world still governed by unjust laws and powers oppressive.
Today’s challenge is to approach new migrations, opening our eyes to its causes and asking whether our testimony should no longer be denouncing social injustices and denying human rights. In order to respond more effectively to this challenge, we have understood the value of internationality as a possibility of communion between different people, but in a journey that must go towards interaction “, to allow all cultures to be visible.
For this reason, we intend to encourage interprovincial, inter-congregational and LMS collaboration not only as a strategy for the mission, but as a requirement that comes from God himself. Together we need to listen to God and to the signs of the times, to an increased perception of what is happening in today’s history; and we need the gift of the Spirit to be able to fulfill our prophetic mission, as evangelizers, in a credible and effective way. There is a model in this Fr Giuseppe Marchetti: “To pray to God with prayer … to learn from God what we must do in every situation …”.
Context
We live in a globalized world, with intense human mobility, which signals great changes. a missionary and prophetic pastoral response, which makes qualify our actions in the various initiatives in being with and for the migrant. This necessitates the reorganization of the life of our institute in view of an integrated action between the custody of the faith and the defense of the rights of migrants and refugees.
Our presence, where human life is relegated to the frontiers and intersections of human existence, promotes a “Samaritan” intercultural Church for every man and woman on the move. In this sense the migrant is the theological place of the Scalabrinian mission, participates in the paschal mystery, for which death and resurrection create a new humanity, where there is no longer a slave or a foreigner (cfr. EMCC, 18).
Itinerant Service
Identity of the Itinerant Service MSCS (SI – MSCS)
The Itinerant Service of the Scalabrinian Missionary Sisters is a specific project of the action of the Congregation which wants to ensure an MSCS presence with migrants and refugees living in emergency situations.
The SI-MSCS is characterized by an adequate flexibility, from provisionality and itinerancy, according to current apostolic needs.
Mission and Goal del SI – MSCS
The mission of the SI-MSCS is to be present with migrants and refugees in emergency situations and to respond in an evangelical way to the calls coming from different situations of vulnerability, to prevent and alleviate human suffering, to defend the rights of migrants and refugees, without any discrimination, keep faith and protect life.
The aim of the SI-MSCS is to contribute to ensuring that migrants and refugees, living in conditions of emergency and vulnerability, are respected in their dignity, respond to their basic needs, and that they are facilitated access to opportunities for human advancement and spiritual accompaniment, so as to have better prospects for life, nurturing the hope of a better future and at the same time, arousing processes of transformation in the way of welcoming and protecting the lives of migrants and refugees.
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