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The Canonical Order of Chaplains
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| The Canonical Order of Chaplains is a community of Christians called to carry out the mission of Christ to those who are wrestling with life’s pressures. We are a community focused on those who may have no spiritual home, or trapped by sickness, and disease. We seek out those lost in hopeless circumstances. We provide inspiration to those who have lost their vision and purpose. We show how service to God provides meaning for life. We are God’s men and women for the moment of crisis. We are a vowed communitiy for mentoring, equipping, and organizing men and women for the ministry of chaplaincy, |
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Our Mission Statement.
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Our mission is one of Hope, Purpose of Life, and Service To God. We have the belief that no person is outside the reach of God’s love. Every person has a reason and a purpose for life, no matter what his/her age or ability.
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We identify with Christ’s Mission Statement.
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The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
(Luke 4:18 & 19)
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Our Mission Mandate.
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But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore. (Is. 42:22) |
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Our Mission Calling.
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Is. 58:12 And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
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The Order’s Charism.
(Gift of Service)
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When Christ gave His life to serve humanity out of love, He was living out this charism. Our Order has taken this special gift of compassion and healing for those in need and nourished it with sacrifice, vision and charity. This charism has developed into a passionate Christian force that now touches lives.
(1Cor. 12: 4-6) |
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