Abstract

In the reflection on the identity of the institutes of consecrated life through the religious vows of the gospel councils and in the return of the respective institutes to the spirit of their founders, an important stage is the reflection on the apostolic goal that emerges from the particular charism and its realization in the Church at the beginning of the 21st century. The Society of Christ for Pastoral Care of Emigrants, founded in 1932 by Cardinal A. Hlond, has as its apostolic aim, determined by the Cardinal the founder, pastoral work on behalf of Poles living outside the borders of their homeland. For the pastoral care of people on the go, the Church carries an important message in the legal norms of this form of apostolate, but especially by pointing out that there are no strangers in the Church. The foundation of the legal regulations worked out by the Second Vatican Council - which concern the pastoral care of migrants - which Paul VI. Pastoralis Migratorum Cura is the basis for the norms of the 1968 Instruction De Pastoralis Migratorum Cura, as well as for the Code of Canon Law of John Paul II, following the process of socio-religious integration inherent in the phenomenon of migration the pastor of migrants builds the unity of the people of God in their cultural and national diversity. For the member of the Society of Christ who, by virtue of his religious vocation, participates in life in the particular charism of the Society of Christ for Pastoral Care of Emigrants and thus also in its realization of the apostolic goal, i.e. in the apostolic work for the benefit of Polish emigrants, the socio-religious Integration the integral part of his apostolate.