MSS members gather at a Chapter MISSION

MSS Mission Statement: We, the Missionary Sisters of Service, are a community of women called in the Spirit to share life with one another and with people wherever we are. We are sent to bring the Good News into the Highways and Byways. We commit ourselves to Pastoral Service, enabling others as well as ourselves, to be transformed by the power of the Gospel.

Today, there are many ways in which the mission of the Church in the world is expressed by the women of the Missionary Sisters of Service. They work with refugees and young people; provide adult faith formation, parish leadership and pastoral care, spiritual development, family catechesis, retreats and counselling; and work with people in prisons, as well as care for the sick, aged and dying.

Some members of the community live together in small groups and some live alone. To set out a day or even a week in the life of the community would be like describing a mosaic with many and varied colours as each woman lives out the uniqueness of her giftedness, and her involvement with people in the ordinary circumstances of their lives wherever they are.

From the beginning, the founder's vision was of a group of women who would "develop a sturdy, self-reliant spirituality, regulated rather by faith and the missionary spirit than by formal rules and regulations". Flowing out of daily reflection, and contemplation, this self-reliant spirit unites the women of the MSS across vast distances as they search together to listen and respond to the joys and pains of the world today.