CFED-Ad intra/ad extra

• Ad Extra


  Towards the outside, to go where they are sent, where they are most needed, in frontier situations
• Ad Intra


  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
• God bestowed upon each one gifts that would help him/her in the service of God
• As stewards of these gifts, each one must cooperate in the spread of the Gospel for the building up of the Church
• All these gifts are meant for the promotion of the Kingdom of God
• They must be lived in a spirit of service
• Talents/skills


  God-given abilities that we should use to bless others and build His kingdom
• God wants us to bless others with our talents/skills


  We are called to use our gifts to serve others as faithful stewards of God's grace
• God wants us to build His kingdom for His glory with our talents/skills


  We should use our unique role in the body of Christ to glorify Him
• The CICM is an international religious missionary congregation, dedicated to the Incarnate Word under the name and patronage of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
• The CICM missionary is called to go beyond geographical and religious boundaries to share Jesus Christ with all those who do not know Him
• 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 CICM charism has an "ad extra" dimension (towards the outside) and an "ad intra" dimension (the Church's own inner renewal)
• 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