Missions
INDONESIA
EAST TIMOR
EUROPE
AFRICA
PRR Sisters are working in more than 80 countries around the globe. You’ve heard of the frozen continent of Antarctica? OK, we’re not there, but we are on every other continent, going where the people are, living in and becoming one with their cultures.
PRR Sisters share the Word of God with those who may not have heard the Good News and live the lessons of the Gospels by serving some of the most underprivileged of God’s children.
Look among the people living on one of the world’s largest garbage dumps, “Smokey Mountain” near Manila, Philippines, and you’ll find a PRR Sister helping them to live more viable and sustainable lives.
Visit the Mother of Perpetual Help Center in Nong Bua Lamphu, Thailand, and watch a group of PRR Sisters working with young victims of HIV/AIDS who are otherwise shunned by their families and society.
Travel to a mountain village in Peru and watch a PRR Sisters meet with prayer groups and youth groups as he helps them build community within their parishes.
Or go to inner city Chicago or Memphis and find PRR Missionaries leading diverse parish communities who benefit from their guidance and faith-filled support.
Other PRR Missionaries teach in schools, from open-air classrooms in Africa to any of the many SVD universities and research institutions worldwide. Still, others take an active role in running the world’s largest Catholic missionary order by working in such areas as operations, publishing, finance and administration.
Where Do You Fit?
Entering a minor seminary in Gaesdonck, in 1849, he went on to study mathematics and the natural sciences and was ordained in 1861. For twelve years, he taught in a public school. During this time, he became involved in a movement called the Apostleship of Prayer League, and soon became its director. To support its cause, he wrote a small pamphlet, which became quite popular. He left his teaching position in 1873 to focus on the apostleship and to become chaplain of a religious order of women, the Ursuline sisters, in Kempen. After writing several books on prayer, he began publishing a magazine, “The Little Messenger of the Heart of Jesus,” which was also quite successful. He soon discovered two things: there was a market for such printed materials and there was support in his country for a German missionary society.
This was during the height of European colonialism. Unlike many other countries, Germany was not sending missionaries to its colonies overseas, and in fact, the German government was placing serious restrictions on the growth of the Church. With a deep faith in Divine Providence and being encouraged to create a German-sending missionary society, he moved with three candidates across the German Border to a rundown inn in Steyl, Netherlands, where he founded the Society of the Divine Word in 1875, which would be funded by the sale of his printed publications.
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