Our Story
Working for The Resurrection of Society
The Congregation of the Resurrection is a religious community of brothers, deacons, and priests serving in parishes and other ministries in Canada and around the world. We believe that God calls us to work together for the resurrection of society, bring His life and love to all people through our personal witness and through the witness of our life in community, in which all can experience the hope, joy, and peace of Christ’s resurrection.
Our Founder
"A truly religious person should never regret their past - it was the condition for their calling"
Resurrectionist Chrism Statement
We desire to be faithful to the grace received by our Founders, a grace we now share by our call to the Congregation of the Resurrection. We recognize certain truths to be especially important for our life and work as Resurrectionists because they give expression to this grace and call.
We believe that God’s love for us is merciful and unfailing. We have not earned His love. We are nothing, have nothing, and can do nothing without God. We are attracted to evil. We are sinners. Yet, God continues to draw us to Himself.
We believe that in His love the Father calls us to conversion: to personal resurrection in union with Jesus, to a new life filled with the power of His Spirit. With Jesus, we die to ourselves when we surrender our lives to the Father, renouncing anything that separates us from Him. The power of the Spirit forms Christ in us, and moves us to respond with love to the Father’s great love for us.
We believe that God calls us to live together as brothers – sharing the gifts that we have received, supporting one another, praying and working together for His glory. He has called us to BE a community, which is a living sign of the Gospel values of justice, truth and love.
We believe that God calls us to work together for the resurrection of society, bringing His life and love to all: through our personal witness, through the witness of our life in community, and through our Community apostolates, primarily through parish work and teaching. This also requires that we build, and teach others to build, a Christian community in which all can experience the hope, joy and peace of Christ’s Resurrection.
We believe that Mary is our model for all that we are called to be and do as Resurrectionists.
Resurrectionist Mission Statement
The Congregation of the Resurrection announces and gives witness to the Paschal Mystery. Convinced of God’s unconditional love for us, we herald the liberation and salvation of each person and society as a passage from death to life in which every situation of evil and injustice will be overcome.
We call others, especially youth and families, to communities of the Risen Christ in which faith, hope and love radiate as a sign of union with Christ and His Mother, Mary, in the Church. We are convinced that to do this, our Congregation must be a model of Christian community in which people are one in heart and mind.
We reach out to all people through our pastoral- educational ministry but especially join in solidarity with people diminished by unjust structures.
We assist the laity in their own efforts to become prophets to the world and to transform it by providing them with a deeper experience of the paschal dynamic in their lives.
As an international Community, we assist each other in various parts of the world by sharing our ministries, experiences and resources.
We share Christ’s own desire to enkindle the fire of divine love in the heart of every person on this earth.