
CHARISM: An intense interior life with a spirit of total sacrifice, purity of heart, detachment and refined charity like that of Jesus and Mary for the service of the Church in the brethren.
SPIRITUALITY: An intense spiritual life that offers reparation and consolation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in union with his Immaculate Mother. We do this through a life of prayer and sacrifice, and extend devotion to the Holy Spirit and the Blessed Virgin Mary, proposing them to the brethren so that they may grow in their knowledge, love, and devotion. The distinctive characteristics of the MDPVM are SACRIFICE, CHARITY, and PURITY. These characteristics are based on HUMILTY that consists of truth.
MINISTRY: Christian education of youth, pastoral activities directed toward religious education of the people of God, retreats and the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, missions.
CONDITIONS FOR ADMISSION:
Good physical and mental health.
An acceptable degree of culture and maturity.
Ability to assume responsibilities, embrace sacrifice and give of self joyfully.
Capability for commitment and living together with others.
Supernatural motivation.
Apostolic restlessness.
St. Martin’s Convent
919 North Ninth Street
Kingsville, TX 78363
(361) 595-1087
St. Francis of Assisi Community
6333 N. Washam
Corpus Christi, TX 78414
(361) 815-0206
[email protected]
St. Francis of Assisi Community
6333 N. Washam
Corpus Christi, TX 78414
(361) 815-0206
[email protected]
ADDITIONAL ADDRESS:
Community of Mother Teresa of Calcutta
4806 Kerrville St.
Corpus Christi, TX 78413
CHARISM: In a spirit of simplicity, joy availability and generous self-giving, we follow Christ, who abandoned himself to the Will of the Father. We strive to reflect his image spreading the Good News of salvation to the poor and most in need with merciful love and compassion.
SPIRITUALITY: Our spirituality is based on the lives of the Holy Family: Jesus, Mary and Joseph. Jesus, accepting the Will of the Father, emptied himself, sacrificing his life for the salvation of humanity. Mary in her humble submission to God’s Will made her a collaborator with her son in the Redemption of the World. Joseph accepted his mission of father and protector of the Holy Family in an eloquent attitude of faith and prudence.
MINISTRY: We are an international missionary community. We serve in areas where we are most needed. Our ministries include pastoral work, catechetics and evangelization, family ministry, youth, abused and neglected children, the elderly, the handicapped, clinics, drug rehabilitation, jail ministry, missionary activities according to the needs of the country.
MOTHERHOUSE: Madrid, Spain
REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION:
Practicing Catholic women interested in living in community and serving the Church as a missionary .
High School education
CHARISM: To serve as an enabling instrument of peace, which leads each member in the pursuit of the attainment of Perfect Love, oneness with God
SPIRITUALITY: “As you Father are in me, and I in you; I pray that they may be one in us.” (Jn. 17:21) Daily throughout her life the Pax Christi member shall consciously be aware, live, pray and share the Pax Christi Prayer: Jesus lives in me, I live in Jesus, Jesus and I are one.Sister Susana Maria Renteria Lopez, PCI
Sister Jessica Guadalupe Martinez Ramirez, PCI
Sister Leticia Diaz Diaz, PCI
Sister Adelina Garcia Garcia, PCI
Sister Nubia Marlene Rivera Mejia, PCI
Sister Maria Isabel Corona Olvera, PCI
Sister Arcelia Martinez Gadiño, PCI
Sister Guadalupe Maria Cervantes, PCI
Mother Maria Elva Reyes, PCI - Superior General
CHARISM: We are an international missionary Institute called “to evangelize, to make Jesus Christ known to those who do not yet know him who gave to everyone that which is for all:salvation”. This is our fundamental responsibility and this constitutes our identity.
SPIRITUALITY: The pillars of our Dominican Spirituality are prayer and contemplative experience, constant study of Sacred Truth, community life and apostolate.
MINISTRY: The Institute exercises its apostolate through the education and Christian formation of children, youth and adults in schools and parishes. We also serve in universities, orphanages, hospital, residence for university students, social and charitable assistance to the sick, elderly and deprived children and, when needed, by taking charge of domestic services in religious houses and seminaries.
WHERE WE MINISTER: Italy, Spain, Portugal, Philippines, Taiwan, Japan, U.S.A., Chile, Okinawa, Guam, Korea, Thailand and Cambodia
Sister Elizabeth Smith, CCVI
CHARISM: Our charism is the devotion to the Holy Eucharist, which consists in a life of total surrender, result of a deep experience of His presence within our hearts. The core of this devotion is a deep personal attachment to Jesus in the Holy Eucharist.
SPIRITUALITY: Our spirituality is the Eucharistic spirituality centered on the Holy Eucharist, which consists in becoming holocausts in order to give life to others. Contemplating the face of Jesus in the Holy Eucharist, we lead a life of deep humility, infinite love and unending mercy. Therefore our spirit is one of self-sacrifice, the essence of which is an attitude of self-gift and asceticism. It demands from us a readiness to give up all that we are and all that we have for the love of God.CHARISM: To adore and proclaim Jesus, the Incarnate Word,
through our prayer, community life and ministry
SPIRITUALITY: Centered on Jesus, the Incarnate Word: We delight in a personal intimacy with Jesus and seek to make him visible in the world through a life lived in the spirit of the Beatitudes. We experience Him in the Eucharist, adore Him in the Blessed Sacrament, reverence Him present in all of creation, and serve Him in our neighbor.
MINISTRY: Focused on forms of education, we serve in Catholic schools, parish catechetics and adult faith formation, hospital chaplaincy, and ministry to the homeless and imprisoned.
MOTHERHOUSE: Corpus Christi, TX, USA
WEBSITE: www.iwbscc.org
REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION:
Catholic women between the ages of 21 and 50.
Completed high school education.
Interested in contemplative/apostolic community life.
Incarnate Word Convent:
5201 Lipes Blvd.
Corpus Christi, TX 78413-5501
Phone: (361) 882-5413
Fax: (361) 880-4152
CHARISM: We are a community of disciples of Jesus and Mary serving on Ecclesial family teams, composed Priests, Religious and laity who strive to bring all peoples to union with the Most Holy Trinity.
SPIRITUALITY: We live a Marian-Trinitarian spirituality which expresses itself in discipleship of Jesus and Mary.
MINISTRY: We serve in areas of deepest apostolic need throughout the whole world. Some of our ministries include education, pastoral work and catechesis, homes for drug rehabilitation, service to the poor, neglected and abandoned children and elderly, migrants and displaced persons.
MOTHERHOUSE: Corpus Christi, TX
WEBSITE: www.soltsisters.org and www.solt.net
REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION: At least 18 years of age, sufficient health and maturity to live a contemplative-active consecrated, missionary life.
Generalate
1200 Lantana
Corpus Christi, TX 78407
(361) 289-9095 ext. 317
Convent at Christ the King
3423 Rojo St.
Corpus Christi, TX 78415
Robstown, TX 78380
Regionalate
3816 Country Rd. 61
Robstown, TX 78380
(361) 510-9730
St. Cecilia’s Convent
P.O. Box 152
Robstown, TX 78380
(361) 387-0133
St. Anthony's Convent
612 Indiana St.
Robstown, TX 78380
(206)566-1588
CHARISM: Education of children and youth, especially the less fortunate.
SPIRITUALITY: To make of our lives a constant hymn of praise to the Most Holy Trinity.
MINISTRY: catechesis, schools, hospitals, homes for the elderly and social work.
WEBSITE: www.suoredisantanna.org
MOTHERHOUSE: Rome, Italy
REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION:
Required age 18 to 35.
Graduated from high school.
Practicing Catholic with a sound mind in a sound body.
St. Joseph Convent
2100 Morris Street
Corpus Christi, TX 78405
(361) 888-4027