Missionary service is the proclamation of the Good News of salvation to those who do not yet know Christ. It is also ministry to the newly established local churches throughout the world. It is also evangelization to those persons in all locations and contexts that have abandoned the Gospel and no longer see the value of a life of faith.

The missionary activity of the Province of St. Mary includes working in Japan and on Guam, supporting our fellow friars in Central America, and assisting our fellow friars in Africa and beyond by:

• Evangelizing and teaching the Catholic faith
• Establishing new local churches
• Encouraging, forming, and training local vocations as religious brothers and ordained priests
• Reaching out to the poor and hungry, to widows and orphans, and to so many suffering from HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
• Promoting justice, peace, and dialogue with other Christian churches and non-Christian religions

Several of our friars also work as chaplains in schools, hospitals, and prisons; in outreach programs to people in need and as social workers; in the healthcare profession; and in internal ministries, such as vocation recruitment and formation of our new friars in the Capuchin life.

No matter what a friar does for his ministry, it is a fulfilling of Jesus’ commandment to love our neighbor as ourselves and to honor Him as we take care of one another in His name.

Our brotherhood, obedient to “the Spirit of the Lord and His holy activity,” fulfils in the Church its duty to serve all peoples by bringing them the Gospel in deed and word. Capuchin Constitutions 146.4

We collaborate with the Holy Trinity Province, Karnataka, India, to staff these international missions.  Click on the links below to contact our foreign missions.

• Custody of Our Lady of Hope, Central America
• Delegation of Guam
• Delegation of Japan