Who we are

Purposes

The specific purpose of the Congregation, by its very nature, is the evangelical and missionary service to migrants, especially to the poorest in situations of greater vulnerability, which need specific pastoral action.

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Identity

The Congregation of the Missionary Sisters of St. Charles Borromeo, Scalabriniane (MSCS), a gift of God to the Church and at the service of migrants, was founded in Piacenza, Italy, on October 25, 1895 and approved as a Religious Institute of Pontifical Right by Pope Pius XI, 11 January 13, 1934. The founder of the Congregation is Monsignor Giovanni Battista Scalabrini and the co-founders are father Giuseppe Marchetti and mother Assunta Marchetti.

Faithful to his charismatic heritage, the Congregation of the Missionary Sisters of St. Charles Borromeo, Scalabrinian, Institute of Apostolic Life, participates in the life of the Church, from which it received the mission of cooperating in the plan of poverty and obedience, according to the Scalabrinian service charisma to migrants.

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Carisma

“The charism of the Congregation of the Missionary Sisters of St. Charles Borromeo, Scalabriniane, is a gift of the Holy Spirit given to the founder and transmitted to each one of us for the building up of the Church. This charismatic gift embodies a peculiar style of sanctification and apostolate, enabling us to contemplate migrations from the perspective of faith and to see in migrants the image of the pilgrim Christ: “I was a stranger and you welcomed me”. The charism calls us to live acceptance and solidarity, to assume apostolic itinerancy as “migrants with migrants” and to witness communion in diversity. ”

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Spirituality

“Christocentric spirituality in a Trinitarian perspective, which is embodied in the reality of migrants, impregnates the life and mission of the Congregation. This experience lived by the founder and co-founders is based on the incarnation of Jesus Christ who places his tent among us. The episcopal coat of arms of the founder Giovanni Battista Scalabrini motivates us to make an experience in the Spirit that integrates contemplation and action. This spirituality, lived in community, is nourished mainly by the Eucharist, by listening to the Word of God, by devotion to Mary and by the appeals of migrants. ”

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Missionary action

“The Congregation assumes in the Church the pastoral care of migrants, giving primacy to evangelization and realizes it in the areas: religious, educational, cultural, social and health.

In her missionary activity, the Missionary Sister of St. Charles Borromeo, Scalabriniana, a feminine force and a sign of hope in the world of migration, is committed to the proclamation of the Gospel, to the witness of life, to the inculturation of the charism in different contexts. welcome to the migrant, enhancing it as a protagonist of communion among peoples. ”

General Direction
Six year period 2019-2025

Sr. Neusa de Fatima Mariano, mscs – Superior General
Sr. Ana Silvia Zamin,mscs –  General Councilor and Treasurer
Sr. Janete Aparecida Ferreira,mscs –  Councilor and General
Sr. An Paula Ferreira, mscs – General Councilor
Sr. Elizangela Chaves Dias, mscs – General Councilor
Sr. Eva Lecir Brocco, mscs – General Secretary

Provincial Directorate, 2018 – 2022
Province Mary, Mother of the Migrants – São Paulo – SP

Sr. Maria Lélis da Silva, mscs – Provincial Superior
Sr. Alda Monica Malvessi, mscs – First Councilor
Sr. Ana Conceição Sales, mscs – Councilor
Sr. Analita Candaten, mscs – Councilor
Sr. Jucelia Dall Bello, mscs – Councilor
Sr. Lucilene Carolina de França, mscs – Councilor
Sr. Vicentina Roque dos Santos, mscs – Councilor

Provincial Directorate, 2018 – 2022
Province of San Giuseppe – Piacenza – Italy

Sr. Milva Caro, mscs – Provincial Superior
Sr. Maria Otilia Vicente Morgado, mscs – Prima Councilor
Sr. Janete Maria Santos Ribeiro, mscs – Councilor
Sr. Rosa Zanchin, mscs – Councilor
Sr. Rosa Rossi, mscs – Councilor

Provincial Directorate, 2018 – 2022
Province of Our Lady of Fatima – Melrose Park – IL

Sr. Luiza Dal Moro, mscs – Provincial Superior
Sr. Maria Manuela Cabral Amaral, mscs – First Councilor
Sr. Maria Arlina Arrelano Barral, mscs – Councilor
Sr. Vitalina Pietrobiasi, mscs – Councilor
Sr. Ligia Ruiz Gamba, mscs – Councilor

Delegation Directorate  2020 -2022
Asia Delegation – Quezon City – Philippines

Sr. Noemie Enalpe Digo, mscs – Delegate Superior
Sr. Maruja Samaniego Padrejuan, mscs – First Councilor
Sr. Melanie Grace Doloniel Illana, mscs – Councilor

The Congregation of the Missionaries of St. Charles Scalabrinians is an international community of religious, brothers and priests, founded in Piacenza on 28 November 1887 by the Blessed Giovanni Battista Scalabrini.

The world to which the Congregation is called to proclaim the happy message of Christ is that of migrants, especially those who for true necessity demand a specific pastoral care. The Scalabrinians serve migrants in the spiritual and social sphere in 29 nations of the 5 continents with first reception centers and cultural centers of formation, study and research centers, academic institutions, newspapers and radio and television programs, parish schools and villages for the elderly, houses for sailors, presence in ecclesial organizations for migrations, multi-ethnic parishes and ethnic missions. The spirit that drives missionaries for migrants is the promotion of communion between the different groups of migrants, migrants and the local Church and society.

On July 25, 1961, 56 years after the death of Blessed G. B. Scalabrini, in the footsteps of his spirituality, the journey of the Secular Institute of the Scalabrinian Secular Missionaries began in Solothurn (Switzerland). Built in the midst of migration, in a Scalabrinian context, the new charism of consecrated secularity in the Scalabrinian Family has had the definitive recognition of the Church in Easter 1990. Living in small international communities, laboratories of new, Eucharistic relationships, the Missionaries – already present in Europe (Italy, Germany, Switzerland) and in Latin America (Brazil and Mexico) – they want to witness that, with the ferment of the Gospel, it is possible to welcome and dialogue among the diversities, so that the world of relations with the gift of communion.

Their mission, through the professional insertion in the most diverse environments (in the social, cultural, pastoral, scholastic, medical-hospital, artistic fields) opens to the acceptance and esteem of migrants and refugees, involving on the exodus roads, in a wider awareness, young people and friends of all backgrounds, culture and religion, who meet for a training itinerary in the GB Scalabrini International Centers.

Each of our Institutes brings its specific contribution. We share the passion for migrants and refugees, we share the dream of a new society in which the spaces of belonging and participation are widened and those of exclusion are eliminated, to make “the homeland of man the world”. We share the service of the Kingdom, operating in history and in the world of migrants.