In September of 2000 we opened our first house in the USA, at the Newman Center at the University of Illinois, in Champaign. Our time in Champaign was an extremely wonderful experience.  We have many reasons to be thankful to the Lord for all the many blessings He bestowed upon us while we were there. But, the Lord has called us forward into a new experience.  In September 2005, we have opened a house at the St. Paul's Catholic Center at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin.  In September 2003, we also joined the staff at St. Lawrence Catholic Center at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, KS. The requests are getting more and more numerous: this does not allow the members of the Community to have a job or any activity where they receive a salary. For this reason the Apostles of the Interior Life have chosen to live only on God’s Providence, trusting the love of the Father who supplies to the birds of the sky and the lilies of the field (Mt 6:25 ff).

Doing apostolate, everywhere they meet the same questions, the same search for interiority, the same need to find deep and rational motivations to the act of faith and the necessity of being guided in this way that leads to the encounter with God. Because they meet people from everywhere, they try to keep in touch with them through e-mail and phone calls. They also offer a chance to young people who are discerning a call to the religious life to spend some time with them, either during the academic year or during the summer. This is a very good way to get to know those young people and to help them to discern God’s will for their lives. Needless to say, the kind of spiritual help that they offer to people in discernment is open to whatever call God has in store for them (married life, priesthood, religious life in different communities).

Our apostolate is therefore in the Church, for the Church and with the Church. 

We try to live out the exhortation that Pope Paul VI addressed to a group of sisters:

“The Church of God calls, makes an appeal, desires, needs religious women for an apostolic ministry that is nearer to the pastoral life, to the priesthood, to where there is the responsibility and the mission to save souls.

You have gotten as far as education, service to the sick, to the schools, to the hospitals. The Church of God says ‘Still more, my daughters. You are able to do and to give even more. I want you still closer’

The modern vocation of sisters is this: BECOME COLLABORATORS IN PASTORAL ACTION. You are also called to become saviors of souls not only saviors of bodies or educators of children. You are able to participate in the greatest of all charities…This is the charity of priests, the charity of the person who accepts to become pastor of souls.”

(From “Vocations for our time” 10-11. Pontifical Institute for the Propagation of the Faith)

One of the most rewarding avenues of our apostolate has been the vocational discernment group for young adults called the Samuel group.