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Who are the Claretian Family?

THE CHARISM IS A GRACE, A GIFT GIVEN BY GOD THE FATHER,
THROUGH THE ACTION OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

Pope Francis

We form the Claretian family a group of congregations and institutions that we have to San Antonio Maria Claret as a founder or we share his spirit and together we continue the Mission for which the Holy Spirit provoked him in the church.

Missionaries Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary” (Claretians Missionaries), founded by San Antonio Maria Claret in Vic (Spain), in 1849. (www.claret.org)

Religious of Mary Immaculate Claretian Missionary Sisters “, founded by San Antonio Maria Claret and mother Maria Antonia Paris in Cuba, in 1855. (http://www.claretianasrmi.org)

Secular institute “Filiation Cordimariana” founded by San Antonio Maria Claret in 1847, organized in Plasencia (Cáceres, Spain) from 1943, and approved as a Secular Institute of Pontifical Law on 1973. (http://www.filiacioncordimariana.org)

“Movement of Lay Claretians”, inspired by a project of San Antonio Maria Claret, in 1846, approved by the Pontifical Council for the Laity on 1988. (http://www.seglaresclaretianos.org)

Missionaries of Mary Immaculate“, founded in 1909 by the Rvmo. P. Armengol Coll CMF, apostolic Vicar of Equatorial Guinea, and mother Imelda Makore.

“Missionaries Cordimarianas”, founded in Mexico in 1921, by Fr. Julián Collell CMF and M. Carmen Serrano. (http://www.miscordi.com.mx)

“Missionaries of the Claretian institution”, founded in Vic (Spain) in 1951 by Fr. Luis Pujol CMF and M ª Dolores Solá. (www.claretianasmic.org)

“Missionaries of San Antonio M ª Claret”, founded in 1958 in Londrina (Paraná-Brazil) by the Rvmo. Fr. Geraldo Fernandes CMF, archbishop of that city, and M. Leonia Mílito. (http://www.missionariesamclaret.it)

PRAYER OF CONSECRATION TO MARY OF THE CLARETIAN FAMILY

Mother, here’s your family!
O Virgin and Mother of God and our mother!

At the beginning of this meeting of the Claretian family,
We want to apply for your maternal presence among us,
Gathered in the name of your son.

We want to experience your maternal function
In each of the branches.
We wish to welcome you
As a common mother of all our family,
Born of the word and the spirit
In the mediation of your servant and son Antonio Maria Claret.

Make them keep the gift of the spirit,
Take care of our communion,
Conviértenos the Gospel and Impúlsanos with your maternal spirit
To advertise it adequately to everybody.

Mother, here’s your family!
Keep it with Concorde in charity!
Mother, here’s your family!
Send it, so that, announcing to all the gospel,
Work with the church and within the church
To realize in this world the Kingdom of God.
Amen.