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Scalabrini
and his relevance today
A prophetic intuition
Alongside concrete actions, G.B. Scalabrini developed a prophetic vision that he left as a legacy to the entire Church and that also reaches us today. He intuited that in the turmoil of migration, with all the problems and difficulties it brings, a seed of the future is hidden.
This vision does not arise only from historical and sociological considerations. It is above all thanks to faith in the death and resurrection of Christ that G.B. Scalabrini sees God's plan at work in human history and is convinced that, precisely through the suffering and uprooting of migrants, through the encounter and sometimes the clash between cultures and mentalities, a new world is being prepared, in which people and peoples discover themselves as belonging to one another in the one family of humanity, within which uniformity does not reign, but it is possible to live communion among differences in the image of the Trinitarian God.
Giovanni Battista
Scalabrini
Saint G.B. Scalabrini (1839-1905) lived in an era of great transformations and experienced its dramas. At that time, thousands and thousands of Italians and other Europeans were leaving their countries because of poverty and facing the uncertainties and sufferings of emigration. G.B. Scalabrini could have stopped at feeling compassion for so much pain, but instead, he asked himself: "How can I intervene?".
He took responsibility for the migrants he saw, acting on their behalf at many levels.
"Deeply in love with God
and extraordinarily devoted to the Eucharist,
he knew how to translate the contemplation of God
and of His mystery into intense
apostolic and missionary action, becoming all things to all people
in order to proclaim the Gospel."
John Paul II
Scalabrinian Family
"The gift of the Spirit given to Scalabrini remains alive in all those whom the Lord calls to share in it. Creative fidelity to this gift has led to the development of a spirituality that is rooted in Scalabrini and in the charism that the Lord gave through him to the Church for the world of mobility. Today, many people, faced with the reality of migration, find in Scalabrinian spirituality a treasure from which to draw to live their Christian life to the fullest.
This common treasure has been entrusted to different stories in terms of times, people, vocations, and ways: this constitutes a richness to be welcomed and valued precisely as the first laboratory of diversity."
The three institutes of consecrated life
Missionaries of St. Charles
- Scalabrinians
The Congregation of the Missionaries of St. Charles - Scalabrinians - is an international community of religious, who, in 30 countries across five continents, follow migrants of various cultures, faiths, and ethnicities. It was founded on November 28, 1887, by Blessed Giovanni Battista Scalabrini (1839-1905), bishop of Piacenza (Italy). It was the era of the great emigration from Italy and Europe to the Americas: a massive phenomenon whose significance Scalabrini was able to grasp both socially and ecclesially.
Website: https://www.scalabriniani.org/
Missionary Sisters of St. Charles
- Scalabrinians
The Congregation of the Missionary Sisters of St. Charles Borromeo - Scalabrinians - was founded by Blessed Giovanni Battista Scalabrini in Piacenza on October 25, 1895, and its co-founders are the Servant of God Father Giuseppe Marchetti and Blessed Mother Assunta Marchetti. Its mission is the evangelical and missionary service to migrants, preferably the poorest and most in need.
Website: https://www.scalabriniane.org/
Secular Missionaries
Scalabrinian
56 years after the death of Blessed Giovanni Battista Scalabrini, following in the footsteps of his spirituality, on July 25, 1961, the day of Adelia's forever yes to God, the journey of the Institute of Scalabrinian Secular Missionaries began. Developed in the midst of migrations and in a Scalabrinian context, this new charism in the Scalabrinian Family—the gift of living secular consecration on the roads of the migrants' exodus—received the definitive recognition of the Church at Easter 1990.
Website: https://www.scala-mss.net/
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