ABOUT
Missionary Daughters of St. Jerome Emiliani
An international, religious congregation following the example of Jesus, through the charity of St. Jerome Emiliani.
The purpose of our Congregation is to promote the human and Christian education of the children, adolescent and youth especially the orphans, abandoned and marginalized; assist the poor and collaborate in the pastoral work of the Church.
The Missionary Daughters of St. Jerome Emiliani (MDSJE), also known as the Somascan Missionary Sisters / Misioneras Somascas (MS) is an international congregation with the Pontifical Right. Tracing the congregation’s root is from Somasca , a humble town in Lecco, Italy, wherein, the cradle of ST. JEROME EMILIANI’S FATHERHOOD was born. His heart was for the orphans and the abandoned and needy youth in transforming them as God’s Holy Temples. Christian education and formation are his two hands to provide life skills to live a life in prayer, work and charity extended to the sick and the work of evangelization.
From the charism and spirit of St. Jerome Emiliani , the missionary congregation was born in El Salvador, Central America in 1975 . The cries of mission was heard till the neighboring countries of Guatemala, Honduras, Columbia, and Mexico. The missionary spirit has continued to spread in the continent of Asia beginning in the Philippines (1985), Sri Lanka (2005) and Indonesia (2008). Then in 2020 , through the Adorno Fathers with the blessing and permission of Bishop Robert Guglielmone, the Missionary Daughters of St. Jerome Emiliani arrived in Spartanburg, South Carolina , USA. Presently getting involved in the Religious Education, Youth Ministry and in the works of evangelization in the parish of JESUS OUR RISEN SAVIOR, in becoming part of the Charleston Diocese “to walk the talk” in the missionary spirit of Jesus to proclaim the Kingdom of God to the world.
The charism of the Missionary Daughters of St. Jerome Emiliani has bestowed upon the very life and the examples of St. Jerome Emiliani who seeks ardent holiness patterned to the most sweet Jesus in whom the foundation of constructing Christian community like in the time of the apostles was founded in living in practice of charity especially for the least and the poor sharing life and being with the orphans & the needy 24/7 for their integral Christian & human formation.
In the image of Jesus who went out to meet the people to announce the Good News, we are impelled by the action of the Holy Spirit, as we live in constant search of those who are in need of the salvific and redeeming proclamation of the Word of God, so that they may feel the love and predilection of God for them.
Our spirituality assumes the constitutive elements of life and the relationship of St. Jerome Emiliani; We have the spirituality that is: God–center, Christ present to the least and the poorest of this world, Mary, whom St. Jerome followed as an example to be a father and mother for whom he encountered and as we are called to welcome the maternally the children, adolescent, and the youth specially the orphans, abandoned and marginalized helping them towards Jesus.
We are called to develop our apostolic action in the pastoral, social and Christian Education based on the Gospel, Magisterium of the Church and Spirituality and Pedagogy of the Somascans taking into account the historical and cultural events of the present time.
