Charismatic Mission

The missionary dimension is an essential element of the identity of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians (Const. FMA 75) and is expressed in Contemporaneity, in the choice of Edu communication living the Preventive System in the light of a Christian anthropological vision as a call of God and fidelity to the Salesian charism in the style of the “Da mihi animas cetera tolle ” (cf. Acts GC XXIII, n.66, 4)

Animated by the Salesian charism with the specific characteristics of the ‘spirit of Mornese’, the FMA have as the goal of their work the integral growth of people, the accompaniment of the young in their journey of maturation in their life project, formation in the faith, and education to active citizenship, to gratuitousness, and to solidarity in the style of Don Bosco’s Preventive System.The education of the young woman is a priority choice of the FMA that is carried out in various Countries with diversified interventions: cultural formation and evangelization, insertion in the work world, promotion of feminine cooperatives in the missions, rehabilitation of girls who are victims of prostitution, of human trafficking, guiding them to fight for their dignity and for the elaboration of a culture inspired by Christian humanism.

 

 

Among FMA works there are: Oratory/Youth Centers, Schools and Vocational Formation Centers, Institutions of Higher Studies, works for children/adolescents, disadvantaged young people, Spirituality Centers, Centers for the Promotion of the Woman, Association of International Volunteers Woman Education Development (VIDES), Office of Human Rights, YAR Centers.These works are animated by FMA Educating Communities moved by ardor for the da mihi animas cetera tolle with feminine sensitivity, inspired by the charism of the Institute, open to collaboration with families, Institutions, lay women and men who share the same mission with them.

 

 

The Educating Communities with many faces, “founded on the presence of the Risen Christ and nourished by Him, Word and Bread”(Const. FMA, n. 49), live the shared mission which is participation in the same charism as a gift of the Holy Spirit for the present and for the future in which the laity are an “active, conscious, and responsible part of the Church’s mission” (Post-Synod Apostolic Exhortation Christifideles Laici, 1988, No. 3).  In the actual world context, they strongly feel the call to be a prophetic presence, a sign of unity and of inclusion in the evangelical commitment for social and cultural transformation, to promote life, and to build a world that is more human and open to the Gospel.