Our Mission

The Society of Saint Edmund is a clerical religious congregation of pontifical rite whose priests and brothers, consecrated to follow Jesus Christ, share a common life and profess the public vows of chastity, poverty and obedience, and are dedicated to the works of the apostolate.

Our essential mission is evangelization, helping people realize they are the people of God. We do this by the way we live our common life and our apostolic works flow from this commitment and from our life of prayer and contemplation.

In our particular apostolic endeavors, we seek to deepen the participation of people in the life of the Church. We seek to build up the Christian community through means not otherwise provided by the local church and to minister to those who would otherwise have no one to minister to them.

The principal works of our apostolate are African American ministry, Catholic education, spiritual renewal and pastoral ministry. Our apostolic activities are unified through our commitment to the Church’s preferential option for the poor and our promotion of social justice.

We seek to serve as Jesus did, and to make known the love of His Sacred Heart for all. We revere this instruction from our early rule: "Our love must extend to all and in some way embrace all. The needy, the poor, the ignorant and the sinners need to experience our love more than others do."

1952 Edmundite Seminarians