VISION

 Our very title, Servants of Charity, reminds us that Charity is the reason why the Lord gathers us together, consecrates us and sends us to the poor. 

Through a lifetime commitment to Christ and His Church, we are called to celebrate God’s merciful love, which touches, heals and embraces everyone.  United in a community of Brothers and Priests, we strive to make visible the Lord’s mercy, by becoming instruments of His Providence among the most fragile and neglected of our brothers and sisters who, like the Paralytic in the Gospel, cry out, “Lord, I have no one!” 

The Guanellian spirit and charism can be characterized as a living family spirit. The priests and brothers are, therefore, to acquire a profound spirit of union with God in order to nourish a genuine spirit of sacrifice, self-giving and dedication.

To achieve this goal, the Servants of Charity have to grow in prayer and nourish a strong bond of fraternal love among themselves. 

To be a Guanellian means to carry the cross day after day with a spirit of self-renunciation. Strengthened by spiritual motivation the Servants of Charity are working joyfully knowing that everything they do, for the least of the brothers, they are doing for the Lord.

The Guanellian Mission is to take care of the poorest of the poor, those who have no one else to care for them.  Following the Example of Christ, Good Shepherd and Good Samaritan, and walking in the footsteps of our Founder, St. Louis Guanella, we are searching and caring for the poor, the suffering, the abandoned, and the wounded members of God’s family. 

The Servants of Charity are concerned in a special way with children and youth who are materially and morally abandoned; the elderly who, deprived of all other human support, have no way to continue alone; persons with developmental disabilities, whom our tradition calls ‘good children’, and who do not have adequate care; and an apostolate of prayer for the suffering and dying throughout the world.  The Congregation devotes itself to caring for these souls both physically and spiritually, combining the ministry of evangelization with active expressions of aid to the poor.