the Branches of the Society of Missionaries of Charity
The Mother Teresa Center
The Mother Teresa of Calcutta Center, established by the Missionaries of Charity, aims to promote and support authentic knowledge of, and devotion to, Mother Teresa by the study, development and dissemination of her work, spirituality and message. Learn More
Missionaries of Charity Sisters
The Society’s aim is to quench the infinite thirst of Jesus on the Cross for love of souls by the living of the four vows in a spirit of loving trust, total surrender, and cheerfulness. The aim of the apostolate is to labour at the salvation and sanctification of the poorest of the poor, not only in the slums but also wherever they may be all over the world, by putting the love of God into a living action.
The Co-Worker Movement
From the beginning, Mother attracted people of all religion in every part of the world who wished to have some part in the work of loving service to God in the person of the needy.
Missionaries of Charity Brothers
The Missionary of Charity Brother is to be a friend to the poorest people, especially those most rejected and abandoned by others. The brother offers himself as an instrument of God’s love.
Sick and Suffering Co-Workers
‘Sick and suffering co-workers’ are those that cannot physically help, but are linked with a Brother, Sister or Father. They offer their prayers and suffering in union with the Cross of Jesus, as a spiritual support which is deeply valued by the Missionaries.
Missionary of Charity Sisters - Contemplative
Members of the contemplative branch: - adore Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament in a life of contemplation, silence, solitude, fasting and penance; go out to the spiritually poorest of the poor for two to three hours a day and proclaim the Word of God by their presence and spiritual works of mercy.
Missionaries of Charity - Contemplative Brothers
Brothers live a life marked by an intense life of prayer, penance and works of mercy in simplicity and humility within their own communities and in the heart of the world.
Corpus Christi Movement for Priests
The movement is an international association for Diocesan priests - seeking to promote holiness among secular priests. Brother Priest are invited to spiritually share the charism and spirit of Mother Theresa and the Missionaries of Charity within the context of their own priestly ministry and vocation.
Lay Missionaries of Charity
Members adhere to the spirit and charism of the Missionaries of Charity and make private vows of (conjugal) chastity, poverty, obedience, and and wholehearted and free service to the poorest of the poor - beginning with the members of their own family with the Holy Family of Nazareth as their model.
Missionaries of Charity Fathers
The Fathers were founded to combine the beauty of the Missionaries of Charity vocation with the grace of ministerial priesthood.