«On November 19 1978 at prayer, I saw the world darkened by sin, and seeing the great need in the Church and the world to reflect to Jesus Christ with all splendor, and I conceived the idea of founding the congregation of priests with same charisma, the same spirituality and the same name as the sisters Missionaries of Our Lady del Pillar» (Mother Esperanza Vital Otin)
Our congregation is a spiritual and universal in the same charisma and aim. By the Charisma congregational we have the same life and mission to Christ, giving the divine lifmie the life of God to all people of the earth. For this we need to live like true son of God in depth, like Jesus Christ, in close union and deep with the Father. By the charisma we must be Christ and not only copied but transform us into Him, And reflected to Him in the Church and the whole world. We have to live to Christ, the greatest depth, with the greatest finesse, try in every moment of our existence in becoming Jesus Christ, until the father when contemplating in us He can recognize in us the image of his Son who has all of its complacency.
All Christians are called to be conformed to the image of the Son, and configured in Jesus Christ through baptism, but the Missionaries of Our Lady of Pillar, will be in a special form, like someone who does not have anything else to do on the ground. Being Missionaries of Pillar, is nothing else to be a living Christ with the power of the Holy Spirit. By the charisma congregational we can not live only a particular aspect of the life of Christ but until the most insignificant detail.For this we need the prayer, a long time and prolonged prayer, we need silence of the whole being, without this silence, without contemplation we can not discover so experiential the style of God and we can not find the action of God in us .Our communities, our homes are to be centers of worship where breathes to God and in our whole being has to have an atmosphere of prayer that will lead us to silence of the whole being. For this we do a fourth special vow to prayer, the life of prayer and its spread and to devote at least three hours a day of prayer without another concern that the prayer.
The Charisma and the mission have an intimate relationship. We can not do it that requires evangelism, Christianization, if I'm not living Christ in totally. The work are ministries are merely means to achieve the aim of the congregation, that being to be Christ and the infuse and hold the Spirit of Christ in families and everywhere. What characterizes us is not in the making but in the Being. Therefore we can not evangelize while our life is not credible to others, is that while we are not a living Christ with the power of the Holy Spirit, for the good of the Church and all men of the earth. The people with whom we deal and work, has to be our major concern and task, that Jesus Christ grow on them and on whole world. Well, our congregation is for all times and all places, because Christ is for all times and all peoples.
Being missionaries of Pillar, is the same living to Jesus Christ from birth until he dies. And if something we have to distinguish, is on the Cross of Christ, the cross of Christ to print on us the most perfect resemblance to Christ, we have to enter fully the mystery of the cross, pain Christ crucified Christ and configured. (Cf. M. Fund)
