Our Foundation

The Fraternity Verbum Spei was founded on February 2, 2012, on the hill of Tepeyac, at the feet of Our Lady of Guadalupe, in order to work at the service of a new awakening of Hope in the Church of today and in the heart of every person of goodwill.

The apparitions of the Virgin Mary in 1531 paved the way for the conversion of the American continent in an age of great change. The Fraternity Verbum Spei desires, following the teaching of the Virgin Mary, to continue the work of the evangelization of the contemporary world, stricken by a lack of Hope and a loss of the meaning of life.

Seeking to return ceaselessly to the sources of the contemplative and apostolic life of Christ, the brothers desire to live, in a sincere and true way, a life in conformity with the Gospel, following the monastic tradition of continuous prayer, the search for truth, and the proclamation of the Kingdom.

Through daily silent prayer, Eucharistic adoration, and a realistic knowledge of the human person, together with the study of Sacred Scripture and Church Tradition, the brothers strive to live the evangelical counsels of poverty, obedience and chastity, with the help of the Virgin Mary and Divine Mercy, in a common life of fraternal charity lived in a simple and authentic way within each priory.

The Fraternity Verbum Spei is a Public Association of the Faithful in view of becoming a Religious Institute (CIC 312 §1, 3°), in which its members profess the vows of poverty, obedience, and chastity, and live a fraternal life in community (CIC 573 §2).

On August 22, 2012, Don Raul Vera Lopez, Bishop of Saltillo, promulgated a decree in which he established the Fraternity Verbum Spei as a Public Association of the Faithful and, as such, a juridical person according to the Code of Canon Law (CIC 116, 298-320). In this same decree, he approved ad experimentum, for three years, the statutes of the Fraternity according to can. 304.

On June 18, 2016, he definitively approved the statutes of the Fraternity according to the norm of the canons 312 §3 and 314 of the Code of Canon Law.