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.
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.
We are currently doing mission work on five continents, working pastorally in 97 dioceses in 45 different countries: 165 communities and 7 formation houses.
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.
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