Daughters of St. Paul, communicators of the Gospel

To live and communicate Jesus Christ, Way, Truth and Life with the means of social communication is a mission, a mission without boundaries.

We are the Daughters of St. Paul, a religious congregation of consecrated women formed to announce the Gospel with our lives and with the new forms and means of communication.

The core of our mission is the urgent need to communicate Christ to others. Jesus was consecrated and sent by the Father; so too the Daughter of St. Paul is consecrated and sent today through the Church. Her task is to proclaim to all persons the unfathomable riches of Christ. She does this first of all with the witness of her life, offering herself as a transparent bearer of a message of redemptive hope and love. She becomes a living announcement of Christ’s good news of salvation. She becomes an apostle after the heart of her dynamic patron, St. Paul.

The Daughter of St. Paul lives in the world of communication. She allows herself to be surrounded by it, that she might better understand how to serve and evangelize within it. She deeply reflects on Pope John Paul II’s invitation to participate in the "new evangelization." And she leaps at his challenge: "Involvement in the mass media is not meant merely to strengthen the preaching of the Gospel. There is a deeper reality involved here. Since the very evangelization of modern culture depends to a great extent on the influence of the media, it is not enough to use the media simply to spread the Christian message and the Church’s authentic teaching. It is also necessary to integrate that message into the ‘new culture’ created by modern communications."

As Daughters of St. Paul of the United States—English Speaking Canada province, together we live out our unique and vital charism. Communication is our particular way of following and announcing Christ. We concretely express our apostolic passion in a variety of ways and forms: by direct use of the instruments of communication, through media literacy education and formation programs, and with an outreach ministry that serves to inform, inspire and provide guidance in matters of faith and the Spirit.

In whatever work a Sister performs, she remains aware of the Founder’s reminder: each assignment becomes a "pulpit" from which the Word of God will be preached. As her fingers fly over the keyboard, or her hand maneuvers a mouse in computer design, or she adjusts the levels of the sound recording equipment, she can hear the challenge of her Co-foundress: "Let us give wings and feet to the Gospel, that it may travel far and wide."

"Love, true love, is inventive.

When one has a fire in her heart, she finds many initiatives and many ways
of performing her mission.
True love...makes one think, run, organize."
(Blessed Fr. Alberione)