The National Shrine of Our Mother of Perpetual Help in Baclaran, Philippines, warmly welcomed the Missionary Sisters of Perpetual Help of the Alphonsian Family of the Redemptorist Community on October 21, 2024, on their pilgrimage to the shrine.
“Pilgrimage is the journey of the soul, where each step brings us closer to the divine, transforming our faith into a living encounter with the grace of God.”
(Photos from the Facebook page of the MPS – Missionaries of Our Lady of Perpetual Help (Asia Region)
MISSIONARIES OF OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP (MPS)
We are a religious congregation of Pontifical Right founded by Father Agustín Nistal García (C.Ss.R.) and María Teresa Rivera Carrillo in Mexico, on September 17, 1934.
We, the sisters who make up the Congregation of Missionaries of Our Lady of Perpetual Help (MPS), share in the same divine vocation, are called by God to live our religious consecration in communion of life to evangelize the poor, associated with the salvific mission of the Church, through the public profession of the Evangelical Counsels of chastity, poverty and obedience (cf. PC 2 e; c. 607). (C #s 1-2)
Our Patroness and patron saint is Our Lady of Perpetual Help, under whose maternal protection and constant help we carry out our mission in the Church (LG 56; c. 663 §4). We contemplate and imitate the life of Mary, Mother of the Redeemer, in her unconditional self-giving; her attitude as a disciple inspires and shapes our being and acting (cf. Lk 1:38; Jn 19 26-27); she shows us her Son, the way: the truth and the life (cf. Jn 14:6); she teaches us to radiate the light of her Son through charity, compassion, humility, tenderness, love for the interior life, joy and simplicity: “Do whatever he tells you” (Jn 2:5). (C #7)
We are currently present in America and Asia, in 8 countries : Mexico, USA, Guatemala, El Salvador, Venezuela, Philippines, China and India. In Mexico, the oldest work dates back to 1941 in Tampico; in the USA, the first community was founded in San Antonio, Texas in 1950; in Guatemala, the first work in Mazatenango dates back to 1955; China was founded in 1966; Venezuela in 1974; in 1981 we arrived in the Philippines; and in India in 1998.
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