Pro Sanctity - Universal Call To Holiness

Pro Sanctity Movement, USA

External Apostolic Oblates

Who are we?

An Apostolic Oblate is one and the same vocation, but with different expressions. She is a vowed woman for the purpose of a total dedication and availability to the apostolate of the Universal Call to Holiness and goals of the Institute. Through her vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience and the promise of apostolate, the Oblate is totally free for service to people and to the Institute.

An External Oblate lives on her own and carries on a career, working in and through social structures, especially with her social profession and family. She is totally committed through her permanent vows and promise of apostolate. An Internal Oblate while sharing in the same charism and vowed life is called to be available to the needs of the Institute and lives in small community

“A profound interior life

leads the Oblates

to a continual union with God.

The mission of the Oblates is to promote

the universal call to holiness

and encourage people to deepen

Their interior life.”

Servant of God, Bishop G. Giaquinta, Founder

We are women of Prayer!

To what end?

Members of a Secular Institute live within the secular world; dedicate their lives to God through vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, who by living in the world promote the message of the universal call of holiness for all people. The Gospel puts forward the ideal of the consecration of the person, that is, the person’s exclusive dedication to do by virtue of the evangelical counsels: in particular, chastity, poverty, and obedience. Their perfect incarnation is Jesus Christ himself, Whoever wishes to follow him in a radical way chooses to live according to the counsels.(MD20)

Holy women are an incarnation of the feminine ideal; they are also a model for all Christians, a model of the “sequela Christi’, an example of how the Bride must respond with love to the love of the Bridegroom. (27)

Thus the ‘perfect woman’ becomes an irreplaceable support and source of spiritual strength for other people, who perceive the great energies of her spirit.(cf. Prov 31:10)

The Commitment to the Evangelical Counsels is not required until after a person is very sure that this is her call. A time for friendship, discernment, and formation help guide each person through her call to a vocation. This discernment necessitates that a women begin her formation before the age of 45, although exceptions can be made.

In the workplace.