vocations
Ad Majorem dei Gloriam
company of jesus and Mary
ABOUT US
We are Apostolic Roman Catholic religious, we are so by our baptism, by the Faith that we profess, by the doctrine that we teach and defend. We follow the prescriptions that the Catholic Church always followed for its monasteries and convents, we are in the ancient and traditional way of the Church, in clear contradiction with the reforms carried out from the sixties until today. We maintain the traditional Mass in Latin, the usual Catechism, all the traditional laws of the Church, the clothing or habit that has always identified monks and religious throughout history.
WHERE
In 1998 Divine Providence allowed us to install our Formation House in austere Patagonia, in the foothills of Mount Saturnino, 2,625 feet above sea level, with the Northern Serrucho Mount behind us and in front of Mount Perito Moreno. More precisely located in Rincón Inalef, Mallín Ahogado, Bariloche Department, Province of Río Negro.
WHAT DO WE DO
Life of monks and religious. All the tasks of common life, farm work, forest management, the construction of the monastery by ourselves, preserves and crafts, all the carpentry of the building, the maintenance of our vehicles and the help that within our limits we can provide to the locals. Added to this is the long spiritual and intellectual task of nine years that the formation of a new Priest lasts; following the principles, method and doctrine of Saint Thomas Aquinas. All religious life in the Catholic Church is governed by a rule, generally the work of some saint. In our case the rule is that of Saint Ignatius of Loyola, his same spirituality, ways and regime.
WHY
The current situation in the Catholic Church is not luxurious, although appearances would lead us to believe otherwise. During the Pontificate of His Holiness Pius XII the Holy Church reached the greatest splendor of modern times after the great revolutions. The sixties marked the beginning of a constant and pronounced decline; in the Iberian America alone more than 60 million people joined sects. Few people were born evangelists, the majority are Catholics or disappointed by the changes in the Church or scandalized by the lack of a good example in priests or in the worst case, who left Catholic life looking for an easier morality that would justify a more lax and pleasant behavior. We want the opposite of that, a complete, anti-modernist and anti-liberal doctrine; the Mass that the Church always said for almost 2000 years and that proved capable of making the world Christian; the commandments of his morality as God intended them and not as men want them today; our religious life trying to give a good example, at least the one that men need today, silent life in the monastery, of effort and work, of prayer and study; apostolic and charitable life, without asking for anything in return, only that men be good and respect God.
Every man was born for Heaven, not for earth, but Heaven is not given, it is earned by doing good and avoiding evil. Everything else is an illusion or a lie. As Our Lord said:
“For what doth it profit a man, if he gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his own soul? Or what exchange shall a man give for his soul?” (Matthew 16:26)
With monasteries in El Bolson, Argentina and Massachusetts, U.S., the Company of Jesus and Mary serves chapels throughout the world. If you are discerning a religious vocation, please contact the Superior General, Fr. Alfredo Contreras, at [email protected].