To our own Congregation the Church has entrusted a special share in her apostolate. She urges us to keep constantly alive in the hearts of the faithful the memory of the Passion, in which the love of our Saviour is so eminently expressed; and she looks to us by our apostolic labours to render more and more fruitful that redemptive love.

Like Saint Paul of the Cross, our Founder, we dedicate ourselves to evangelising, and where necessary re-evangelising the faithful, especially the poor in more neglected areas. The Congregation will undertake all those forms of service of the Word that it judges effective for the realisation of its evangelizing potential. Among the many apostolates sanctioned by our Constitutions, the preaching of parish missions and spiritual exercises [retreats] remains our special and central activity.

We must never lose sight of our characteristic apostolate of preaching the message of the Cross; nor must we ever forget that our life in community is a necessary element of our religious life as well as being a most important witness for the whole church.