Who Are We ?
The Voluntas Dei Institute is a secular institute. It is secular because its members, while living in the midst of the world, are consecrated by vow and commitment to identify and promote the values already present in the world around them. In this way, they support the initiatives of the world by assuring an evangelical dimension.
Consequently, the Institute is a family of baptized and consecrated persons within the Roman Catholic Church. As an energizing force and like leaven in the dough, they contribute to the growth of a more human and fraternal world.
Like all secular institutes, the Voluntas Dei Institute is defined by three essential elements:
Secularity:
its members live in the midst of the world;
Apostolate:
the members work in the world;
Consecration:
the members give themselves to God for this same world.
The Institute is made up of Clerics: priests
and permanent deacons; celibate laymen
and candidates to the priesthood and the
diaconate; sacramentally married Catholic
couples as associate members.
Let us foster joy and
be prophets of hope
(L.-M. Parent, o.m.i.)