Religious of Mary Immaculate – “Claretian Missionary Sister”

Religious of Mary Immaculate  –   Sister Maria Natividad, R.M.I.                                                                                    “Claretian Missionary Sister”  –   A New Apostle for Today’s World                                                                     “To light the world on fire with the love of God”                                         

Founders:  Saint Anthony Mary Claret                                                                                                                          Venerable María Antonia Paris

Place:  Santiago, Cuba

Year:  1855 A.D.

Her Charism:  With kindness and joy as her armor, this daughter of the Immaculate Heart of Mary is dedicated to the evangelization of all peoples and to helping the Church restore its beauty.  A missionary with spirit, she strives to reflect God’s reign of life, love, justice, and peace to our world today by responding to the most urgent needs in the most efficient way.  She embraces this diligent effort to spread God’s Word by evangelizing the poor and make easy the path for others in fulfillment of God’s law.  For her, it is also an invitation of the Holy Apostles to work until death transforming the world and teaching every creature the Good News of the Lord.  Uniting action with contemplation, this Sister is nurtured by Mary as her patroness, her mother, her friend, and her model in the mystery of the Immaculate Conception.  She brings a new vitality to the Church in prophetic dialogue (the new name for charity) and believes that it is urgent that Christ reigns.  This Sister is like the arms of Mary.  Her heart is Noah’s Ark, David’s Tower, a city of refuge, and the holy mercy seat.