“Go to the whole world”
Missionaries: this is the primary calling of the Missionary Sisters of the Society of Mary. It was for mission that the first sisters of various nationalities came to Rwanda. Today situations change, the world evolves, and so do the methods of evangelization; but missionary activity still represents the greatest challenge for the Church.
Our Congregation has also received a particular mandate in the Church to take part in evangelization through missionary presence, through living and proclaiming the Word, and through apostolic service.
Among other peoples or in our own country, we try to be bonds of communion between peoples, races and cultures, and witnesses of universal love.
Rule of life no. 24
Who are we?
The Congregation began thanks to Marie Françoise Perroton, a French woman from the city of Lyon, and to ten other courageous women who left France between 1845 and 1860, in response to a request from Christian women of Wallis, in the Pacific: “send a few devout women to instruct women.” They formed small communities in Wallis and Futuna, in New Caledonia and, later, in Samoa.
The Congregation received approval as an Institute of Pontifical Right in 1931, with a mandate to share in the universal mission of the Church in the spirit of Mary.
Since that approval, the Congregation has continued to spread to other countries of the world, reaching Rwanda in 1981.
- A mission entrusted to Mary, our Mother.
- A fraternal presence with the most vulnerable.
- A sending beyond every border.
