The Institute of the Incarnate Word is a Catholic men's clerical religious order: Missionary & Marian Our mission is to form our members in human and Christian maturity with our own charism to become missionaries who would inculturate the Gospel in the diversity of cultures. In other words, the grace to know how to work concretely so as to extend the presence of Christ in families, education, the mass media, the scholarly, and in all manifestations of human life. The specific charism of our Institute requires all its members to work in supreme docility to the Holy Spirit and according to the example of the Virgin Mary, so that Jesus Christ will be the Lord of all that is truly human, even in the most difficult situations and under the most adverse conditions.