Women very engaged in the world to transform it from within as a leaven.

Perhaps you meet members of secular institutes every day without even knowing it…

These are lay persons who choose to live the Gospel in the midst of the world and to share the same living conditions as their contemporaries.

Members of secular institutes, men and women, consecrate their lives to God. By their presence and their work, they collaborate to the transformation of the world from within, as a leaven. In each their own way, secular institutes witness to a particular dimension of God’s infinite Love for the world.

These persons usually live alone or in a small fraternity; they are engaged in their familial, ecclesial, professional, social and cultural milieus.

This type of commitment, most often discreet, was formally recognised by the Church in 1947. Today, there are approximately 180 secular institutes scattered throughout the five continents.

As for our Institute, it was founded in New-Brunswick (Canada) in 1952, and is present in more than 20 countries.