The Provincial House is in Melrose Park Il. Was founded in 1941 with presence in 6 countries.
ENGLISH
"I was a stranger and you welcomed me"
(Mt. 25, 35)
Bishop Scalabrini
Dear Sisters, the work of priests would not be complete without your own work. There are certain things in which only you are able to manage. God has placed in the heart of the woman a particular appeal, which allows her to exert an arcane power over minds and hearts.
( Scalabrini, 1889 )
The Congregation of the Missionary Sisters of St Charles Borromeo Scalabrinians was founded by Blessed John Baptist Scalabrini in Piacenza on October 25, 1895, with the brother and sister Father Joseph and Mother Assunta Marchetti as Cofounders. Its mission is the evangelical, missionary service of migrants, especially the poorest and neediest. It spread initially in Brazil, and later to Europe (1936), North America (1941), and in recent decades to various countries in Latin America, Asia and Africa, so that today it is present in 26 countries, with 800 Sisters and 159 communities. The General Headquarters are in Rome. The Sisters live their lives for Jesus Christ according to the demands of the Scalabrinian charism, practicing fraternal life in community as a vital element of religious consecration, and strengthening their fidelity to their vocation through prayer, meditation on the Word of God, and the Eucharistic Celebration, source of communion with God and their brothers and sisters.
As their Congregation has developed within history, the Scalabrinian Missionary Sisters have dedicated themselves and still do to education, social and pastoral activities, the pastoral care of health, catechesis, evangelization, and collaboration with local churches to assist migrants and the poor.
Faithful to the charism and attentive to the challenges of mobility, the Congregation accepts the Churchs proposal to place itself at the service of those caught up in the phenomenon of migration, and to be signs of Gods tender love toward the human race and ... special witnesses to the mystery of the Church, Virgin, Bride and Mother (John Paul II, Vita consecrata, 57), prompted by the words of the Gospel, I was a stranger and you welcomed me (Matthew 25:35). read more...
P. Joseph Marchetti
Mother Assunta
Migrations expand the concept of homeland beyond national frontiers, turning the world into man's homeland.
(Scalabrini, 1899)
Charism
We seek to live the following of the pilgrim Jesus in the service to the neediest migrants and refugees. The Scalabrinian Charism challenges us to live the compassion and solidarity, to take on the apostolic itinerancy by becoming "migrantes with the migrants;" and witnessing to welcoming and to communion in the diversity of the peoples on the move.
Spirituality
Our spirituality is centered in Christ and embodied in the reality of the migrants. It is rooted in God who journeys with his people and, in Jesus Christ places his tent among us. It is lived in community, nourished by the Eucharist, the devotion to Mary, the listening to the Word of God and the pleas of the migrants.
Mission
Our mission is the evangelical and missionary service to the neediest migrants. It is carried out through the religious, social and cultural activities, and manifests it self through the explicit proclamation to the Christian living and of the witness of life, in the different contexts of human mobility; and by welcoming the migrant in his diversity and valuing him as the protagonist of communion among peoples.
Scalabrinian Sisters live their mission among migrants as an expression of their vocation as consecrated women and as a sharing in the already but not yet of the Kingdom, which started with the Son of Gods Incarnation. This task takes practical form in the dedication of their own lives, with respect for differences and other cultures, and with promotion of the persons and peoples with whom they share history. It is seen in catechesis, Christian education, the pastoral care of health, social action and the pastoral care of migrants. MSCS Sisters work in schools, hospitals, orphanages, prisons, reception centers for children in need, retirement homes, training and formation houses, ethnic and cultural communities, parishes, dioceses, conferences of bishops, international bodies, civil-society organizations, assistance centers, reception and listening centers for migrants, and study and documentation centers. In response to the challenges of human mobility and in fidelity to the charism that the Church has entrusted to it, the Congregation makes itself visible with the witness of consecrated life and with missionary service of migrants, especially the poorest and neediest. Its animating spirit is that of universal communion through which the members express their vocation of recognizing, loving and serving Christ in the person of the migrant.
The Apostolate of the Congregation calls for readiness to move, a progressive growth in a universal mentality, the appreciation of new cultures and new environments, and the capacity to foster authentic values.
Seeds migrate on the wings of the wind. Plants migrate from continent to continent on the waves of the seas and rivers. Birds and other animals move from place to place. But even more do human beings migrate, sometimes in groups, sometimes alone, and, in so doing, are always the free instruments of Divine Providence, which presides over human destiny, leading all people even through great calamities, to their final goal: the perfection of man on earth and the glory of God in heaven.
5 Continents
27 Countries
Usa
Provincial House, Bishop Scalabrini Community & Novitiate
1414 North 37th Avenue
Melrose Park, IL 60160, U.S.A.
Tel: (011) (708) 343-2152
Our Lady of Fatima Home
1410 N. 37th Avenue
Tel: (001) (708) 343 4255
Villa Rosa Community
3800 Lottsford Vista Road
Mitchellville, Md 20721 U.S.A.
Tel: (001) (301) 459 4700
Our Lady of Aparecida Mission
63 Oakes St. Everett,
MA 02149 U.S.A.
Tel: (617) 387 0822
Saint Charles Community
56 Dunston Ave. Yonkers, NY 10701
Tel: (001) (963) 4373
Villa Scalabrini Community
480 North Wolf Road
Northlake, IL 60164, U.S.A.
Tel: (708) 562 5338
Méexico
Comunidad Santo Angel de la Guarda
Calle José Cerda, 425
Colonia Ruiz Cortinez , Tijuana B.C. México
C.P. 22350
Tel, fax: 0052 (664) 683 1533
Centro Madre Assunta Para Mujeres y Ninos Migrantes
Calle Galileo # 2305
Col. Postal, Tijuana, BC - México
Tel: 0052 (664) 683 05 75
Comunidad Albergue San Vicente
Calle 9, 691, Colonia Bustamante
C.P. 22840 Ensenada - B.C. Méx.
Tel, fax: 0052 (646)176 0306
Comunidad P. José Marchetti
Apartado 70 Urbana 2
Col. Loma Dorada, Tonala, Jalisco
C.P. 45418 - México
Tel: 0052 (33) 3681 0955
Comunidad San Carlos Borromeo
Calle Volcan Trident, 227 Huentitan el bajo,
C.P. 44250 Guadalajara - Jalisco -Méx.
Tel: 0052 (33) 36176 0306
Misión Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe
Bosque de Panamá n. 32
Col. Bosque de Aragón
Cd. Nezahualcoyotl
Estado do México, C.P. 57170 - Mexico
Tel: 0052 (555) 517 2204
Fax: 0052 (555) 517 2411
Tel: 0052 (555) 208 3200
Philippines
Scalabrini Community
132 Panay Avenue ,South Triangle,
1103 Quezon City Philippines
Tel, fax:(00632) 92 40 716
Our Lady of Fatima Community
1 Omega cor. Timex Sts.
Fairview Park, 1118
Quezon City, Philippines
Tel, fax: (00632) 938 32 83
Blessed Scalabrini Institute
The Lord our God loves me!
He awareness of this is the foundation of every Scalabrinian Missionary Sister's vocation. The love of God configures itself as a personal project of happiness and of service in the world. By answering "yes" to such a project everyone arrives from different paths, which consist of one's own personal history (family, friends, work, sufferings, joy and hopes).
The love of God, who is always faithful, has manifested itself in a special way for His people in mobility, through the life and works of J.B.Scalabrini as a gift that has profoundly marked his history and that of many migrants. The same gift, which we call Scalabrinian Charism, was given yesterday, and is today lived with faithful creativity by many men and women, who know and witness to the fact that it is a living force, strong and present, among us.
Itinerary
Thinking about it
Vocational Year
USA
Sr. Elizabeth V. Pedernal, MSCS
secretarymscs_sbcglobal.net
Provincial Councilor and Secretary Our Lady of Fatima Province
PHILIPINES
sistermaru_yahoo.com
SOUTH INDIA
stellajos_yahoo.com
INDONESIA
vocazionemscs_gmail.com
MÉXICO
scalabrinianasjalisco_hotmail.com
Formation itinery
The formation program of the Scalabrinian Missionary Sisters, in brief, is as follows:
Step 1. This is an initial period of getting to know one another and of discernment, which we usually call aspirancy. The length of this period varies depending on each person.
Step 2. An intermediate period of getting to know about the Charism, of apostolic experience and of Christian formation, is called postulancy. The length of this period varies from a minimum of ten months to a maximum of two years.
Step 3. Before making her Religious Profession, the young girl does two years of novitiate, a period in which she is initiated in religious life, the living of the vows of chastity, poverty and obedience, living fraternal life in community.
Step 4. The formation continues for at least five years in what is known as the Juniorate.
Step 5. After the Perpetual Profession, the Scalabrinian Missionary Sister continues her formation, above all with the experience of missionary life and of communion in community, continuous studies and self-formation.
The first three stages usually take place in the country of origin of the young girl, while part of the Juniorate is experienced internationally, lived in another community.
Perhaps the Lord has given this gift also to you!
The time comes for everyone when they are placed before the question concerning the sense of life and must answer it. How and where will the promise of happiness for me in life be fulfilled? Where, for whom and for what, do I want to offer my life?
Something for you to meditate on...
"We ourselves know and believe the love which God has for us."
(1 Jn 3:16)
"When God who chose me even before I was born, and called me to serve him, decided to reveal his Son to me, so that I might preach the Good News about him... I went at once..."
(Gal 1:15-17)
"They said to each other, Wasn't it like a fire burning in us when he
talked to us on the road and explained the scriptures to us?"
(Lk 24:32)
"Teacher, I am ready to go with you wherever you go." Jesus answered him, "Foxes have holes, and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lie down and rest."
(Mt 8:19-20)
"Live in humble fellowship with our God!"
(Mic 6:8)
Then I heard the Lord say, "Whom shall I send? Who will be our messenger?"
I answered, "I will go! Send me!"
(Is 6:8)
"The Lord said to me, "I choose you before I gave you life, and
before you were born I selected you to be a prophet to the nations."
(Ger 1:4-5)
"Remember I will be with and protect you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done all that I have promised you."
(Gen 28:15)
"The Lord said to Abram, "Leave your country, your relatives, and
your father's home, and go to a land that I am going to show you."
(Gen 12:1)
Our vocation was born from Gods initiative and is the mystery of divine choosing: You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide(Jn 15:16); Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you;
I appointed you a prophet to
the nations (Jer 1:5).
The religious vocation is a gift that goes infinitely beyond the human person. We have experienced it throughout our life and, while believing in the greatness of this gift and in Gods power which always supports and watches over us, we feel so weak that we propose to ourselves "a new choice of Jesus Christ in the consecrated life and for the gift of the charism".
