Be aware that few have a personal relationship with Christ, even fewer know that the fullness of truth and life is found in the Catholic Church. Even among Catholics there is a crisis of faith and thus an urgent need to evangelize. The Lord commands us to do so. Love requires it.    

We are missionaries seeking to bring all to the fullness of Christ in the Church.
"We have an obligation as Catholics to study and understand the world around us. We have a duty not just to penetrate and engage it, but to convert it to Jesus Christ. That work belongs to all of us equally: clergy, laity and religious. We are missionaries.
That is our primary vocation; it is hardwired into our identity as Christians. God calls each of us to different forms of service in his Church. But we are all equal in baptism. And we all share the same mission of bringing the Gospel to the world, and bringing the world to the Gospel."  -Archbishop Charles Chaput

Seek true reform
Encounter with Jesus is the essence of reform

"The essence of the crisis of the Church... is the crisis of faith. If we find no answer to this, if faith does not take on new life, deep conviction and real strength from the encounter with Jesus Christ, then all other reforms will remain ineffective" -Benedict XVI, Dec 22, 2011

Reach to all with the love of God
"The excluded, those who are rejected, those who are not loved, prisoners, alcoholics, the dying, the lonely and abandoned, the marginalized, the untouchables and lepers ... those in doubt and confusion, those who have not been touched by the light of Christ, the hungry for the word and the peace of God, the afflicted and sad souls, those who are a burden to society, who have lost all hope and faith in life, those who forgot how to smile and those who do not know what it is to receive a little human warmth, a gesture of love and friendship - all of them turn to us for a little comfort. If we turn our backs to them, we turn our back to Christ." Blessed Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997), founder of the Missionary Sisters of Charity. Letter to colleagues from 10/04/1974



Love Crucified