The Abandoned

The Marist will reach out to the poor, the neglected, and the outcast: women in their struggle for a place of dignity and equality in society, to those suffering material poverty, racial or social oppression - the migrant, the homosexual, the prisoner, etc. - and to all who face alienation and lack of meaning, striving to bring them together in a union of love and mutual care. The Church in every age has cared for the poor. The new aspect of today's call is that we must not simply do something for the poor, but that we make community with them. (John Jago sm.)