Who We Are

Our Society bears the name of St. John, Apostle and Evangelist, the “beloved disciple,” the friend of Jesus. John was the youngest of all the aposotles, and he shared with Jesus moments of friendship and mystery, being the privileged confidante of the mysteries of the heart of Christ. In the Last Supper, John sat with Jesus and reclined on Jesus’ chest. And John was the only apostle that was at the foot of the Cross; there our Lord entrusted His Mother to John and he received her into his home. John left us the Gospel of the signs, and was the visionary of Patmos, to whom the Lord revealed the vicisitudes of His Church. And he is the one with the eye of an eagle, who transmitted to us the message of the New Life in Christ Jesus.
We are a “Society” because we “associate” ourselves to proclaim the message of Jesus, that we in our turn have received.

From the Constitutions:
“Formed by sacerdotes and laity that have decided to live a life in common, put our goods in common, and dedicate ourselves to evangelization with a spirit of liberty and readiness to respond to the new challenges of our culture. We have come together to live a life conformed to this particular work and we are reunited while this work endures . . .”

“We want to collaborate in the new evangelization, announcing the Good News of the Kingdom to those who, even among the baptized, know Jesus only through hearing of Him but have never known Him through faith and the power of the Holy Spirit. For that reason, we choose this ministry as fundamental and as that to which it is worth dedicating all of our energies and consecrating our very lives.”

Taking as program and model the public life of the Lord, our Society has the goal of collaborating as missionaries in the new evangelization through the proclamation of the message among:
• high school and college students and professionals, to form agents of change, capable of transforming reality according to the values of the Kingdom:
• the humblest, so that the Good News be announced to the poor, generating among them leaders capable of animating their communities and of being leaven in their environment . . .”

“Our apostolic work is directed to these two specific groups, trying to create a true ministry of unity in Christ . . .”