The Church's own inner renewal within the contexts of faith, doctrine, and God's revealed truth, dealing with "the Church in itself, but with the aim of helping it better to respond to its mission in the world"
The mandate to evangelize is first entrusted to the disciples and such task is carried on by the Church as she is born of the evangelizing activity of Jesus and the Twelve
The CICM is an international religious missionary congregation, dedicated to the Incarnate Word under the name and patronage of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
Every CICM missionary is willing to leave behind everything, including his family, culture and possessions, and is sent to proclaim the Good News of salvation to all nations
The "ad intra" dimension expresses that the missionary presence is not necessarily to physically leave one's country, but to respond to a situation where one's missionary presence is most needed
The CICM missionaries are committed to the proclamation of the Good News where they are sent, inspired by the example of their founder Fr. Theophile Verbist
Today, more than 850 missionary priests and brothers from Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia, are living and working together in multicultural communities as brothers, continuing this long tradition of caring for God's poorest and most neglected people in many parts of the world