The “City of Charity”, to which the Saint Martin of Tours Home belongs, is one of the apostolates of the religious family of the Incarnate Word.
The Institute of the Incarnate Word (IVE) is a Religious Institute of priests, seminarians and brothers who, with the sisters “Servants of the Lord and the Virgin of Matará” (SSVM) and the Third Order, make up the Religious Family of the Incarnate Word. We were founded in Argentina on March 25, 1984, by Fr. Carlos M. Buela and, after some years of experience, we received canonical approval as a Religious Institute of diocesan right by Mons. Andrea Maria Erba, Bishop of Velletri-Segni (Italy ), on May 8, 2004.
We are currently doing mission work on five continents, working pastorally in 97 dioceses in 45 different countries: 165 communities and 7 formation houses.
Our vocation is to follow Christ, the Word of God made flesh, more closely under the action of the Holy Spirit. We want to dedicate ourselves totally to God as our Supreme Love, seeking his Glory in a new and special way, for the edification of the Church and the salvation of souls.
We want to imitate Jesus Christ as perfectly as possible, especially in fulfilling the three vows of chastity, poverty and obedience, driven by charity. We want, at the same time, to express our love and gratitude to the Blessed Virgin by begging for her essential help to prolong the Incarnation in all things, and that is why we make a fourth vow of Marian slavery according to the way of Saint Louis Mary Grignion of Montfort.
By the charism of the Institute[1], all its members must work in utmost docility to the Holy Spirit and in imitation of Mary that Jesus Christ may be Lord of all that is authentically human, even in the most difficult situations and in the most adverse conditions; that is, it’s the grace of knowing how to act concretely to prolong Christ in families, in education, in the media, in the intellectual sphere and in every other legitimate manifestation of the life of man. It is the gift of making each man “like a new Incarnation of the Word,”[2] being essentially missionary and Marian.
The mission received by our founder and and recognized by the Church is to bring to fullness the consequences of the Incarnation of the Word, which “is the compendium and the root of all goods,”[3] especially to the wide world of culture, or that is, to the “manifestation of man as a person, community, people and nation.”[4]
If you want to learn more about the Institute of the Incarnate Word, its spirituality and its missions, you can visit
ive.org
If you want to know more about the female branch, the Servants of the Lord and the Virgin of Matará, you can go to
servidorasdelsenor.org
[1] Constituciones 30, 31, 32.
[2] Santa Isabel de la Trinidad, op. cit., Elevación nº 33.
[3] San Juan Crisóstomo, In Matt. Hom., II, 3.
[4] Juan Pablo II, Discurso a los hombres de la cultura con ocasión del jubileo de la Redención
San Martín of Tours Home is a work of mercy of the Institute of the Incarnate Word destined to help Christ in the poorest and neediest: people with disabilities and other great needs”
Cubillos 3305, Rama Caída, San Rafael, Mendoza, CP 5600
They are pure souls of God who, with their sufferings, carry out what Saint Louis Orione taught: they are “lightning rods of God” so that the Divine Wrath, appeased by their silent offering, does not fall on misguided humanity, but also a “magnet of grace.” for the world in need.
His great mission, therefore, is to pray and offer for us. Do you want to ask them for prayers?
