The Sacerdotal Molokai Fraternity

The mem­bers of the Sacerdotal “Molokai” Fraternity live their priest­hood as a ser­vice to the vo­ca­tion of the lay faith­ful to ho­li­ness and ac­cord­ing to Heart’s Home charism of Compassion. The Society of Apostolic Life “Molokai” is gov­erned by its own statutes. It has been placed un­der the pa­tron­age of Father Damian de Veuster known as the Apostle of the lepers and who is to be­come a saint on oc­to­ber 2009.

Up to to­day the Society counts 28 mem­bers of sev­er­al na­tion­al­i­ties.

Mission

The priests of the Fraternity “Molokai” will be called to ful­fill sev­er­al dif­fer­ent mis­sions with­in the Organization Heart’s Home as well as at the ser­vice of other ec­cle­sial re­al­i­ties. Through their min­istry they will try to spread a cul­ture of Compassion through­out the world. They will al­so try to be at the ser­vice of all aspects of hu­man life (fam­i­ly, cul­ture, work, pol­i­tics, health) so as to di­rect them con­stant­ly to Christ who is the One re­veal­ing ful­ly hu­man­i­ty to it­self (see Gaudium et Spes #22).

Priests from the Molokai fraternity and Rev. Thierry de Roucy with Cardinal Ratzinger, 2003

They will con­stant­ly keep in mind that they are “use­less ser­vants” and there­fore avoid to get at­tached to a role or a func­tion to the detri­ment of the love for Christ and for the peo­ple. Gratuitousness and un­con­di­tion­al care for others are the core of their priest­ly mis­sion. “The mis­sion­ary’s at­ti­tude can’t be dif­fer­ent from the one of Christ: it is the one of Compassion.” (Benedict XVI)