Adults

The Catholic Church’s primary mission is to prepare her members to be missionary disciples.

All that we do is oriented toward the Church’s principle mission of evangelization (1).
Catechesis is a distinct “moment” of evangelization—the defining aim of which is “to put people not only in touch, but in communion, in intimacy with Jesus Christ: only He can lead us to the love of the Father in the Spirit and make us share in the life of the Holy Trinity.” (2) As missionary disciples, we seek to entrust our whole life to Jesus, and to let our lives be defined by our intimacy with him.

Our work is directed at the formation of leaders from a multitude of cultural backgrounds, in whom faith and life are integrated, and who are capable of forming others in this intimacy with Christ. (2 Timothy 2:2)

Formed in this way, they will help to create a culture of missionary discipleship in the various institutions from which the Church’s mission is carried out: parishes, schools, movements, social outreaches, individual families and marriages.

Overflowing from our personal and shared intimacy with Christ, we aim to form disciples who grasp the dignity of the human person, and who can help to make the world a place of personal, social, and spiritual flourishing for the human person. In short, we aim to love and to be loved by God, and in his love to transform the world.

1 Evangelization in the Modern World, p.14.
2 Catechesis in Our Times, p.5, 18.