Draft:The Religious of Christian Instruction


The Religious of Christian Instruction Sisters are women consecrated by the profession of evangelical counsels in the institute founded by Mother Agathe Verhelle at Doresele—Gent in Belgium at the request of the Bishop of Gent on 25 March 1823. CHARISM AND SPIRITUALITY Charism: the grace and mission which we received at our very beginning were “to sacrifice ourselves and to devote ourselves entirely to the youth… wherever we might help to spread the glory of the Lord”. Therefore, nothing in the youth themselves or in what is around them which helps or harms their Christian vitality or their human dignity in Jesus Christ, should not be unknown to us. OUR MOTTO: rejoice and do well! MISSION “The glory of God said Saint: Irenaeus, is man fully alive”. In our work of education, our first task is to promote the Christian formation of the youth.“The human tasks that we freely take upon ourselves must never allow us to forget what is essential: access of the youth to the riches of the faith.” However, the cultural, sanitary, or social services which we render also have their value. We work in schools: nursery, primary, secondary, and university; catechism teaching, health care in clinics and hospitals, and social services… wherever we might help to spread the glory of the Lord.

Religious of Christian Instruction Sisters are missionaries ready to go anywhere. We are in Europe: Belgium, England; in Brazil: North and South; in Africa: R.D. Congo, Rwanda, Togo, and Uganda.