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Vision & Mission
Our mission as Sisters of Charity of Jesus and Mary is to reveal that GOD IS LOVE, especially to the poor and the abandoned of our time. Impelled by the love of Jesus, we commit ourselves to the mission of promoting the reign of God in our particular society and in the world at large. This mission of revealing that God is love is central to our call as religious and it is the basis of all our services.
By the very nature of our call to be Sisters of Charity of Jesus and Mary, we receive a special grace to fulfil this mission. We call this our Charism, which is love, expressed in the three dimensions of our life – love for God, love for one another in the communities and love for all people especially the poor who are abandoned by the world. Our founder, Peter Joseph Triest saw this love as a legacy from Christ himself. Therefore “the Charism of every SCJM lies in the particular way in which she unifies in her life, the three dimensions of union with God, service of our neighbour and life in community. This unification is woven into life itself”. (Constitution art. 6)
We are Sisters of Charity of Jesus and Mary, a Congregation founded in the little village of Lovendegem, in the diocese of Gent, Belgium on the 4th November 1803 by Canon Peter Joseph Triest. It is an International Religious Institute of Pontifical Right with its specific mission to reveal that GOD IS LOVE to all especially to the poor and the abandoned.
From a very small beginning in Lovendegem, the Congregation spread and grew. Apart from Belgium, the Congregation now serves in fourteen other countries spread out in the three Continents of Europe, Africa and Asia.