The Servants of Charity

Divine Providence Province

Rev. Fr. Luigi De Giambattista

A Welcome from Our Provincial

Thank you for visiting the Servants of Charity website for Divine Providence Province. We are a religious order dedicated to providing care to the poor and disabled throughout the world through charity and service. Our congregation was founded over a hundred years ago by Blessed Louis Guanella on March 24, 1908. Fr. Guanella died a “martyr of charity” in 1915 and was beatified by Pope Paul VI in 1964.

One of the most unforgettable experiences that I will always carry and cherish in my heart is certainly the 1995 World Youth Day celebration that was held in Manila, Philippines. As I look back on this extraordinary event of grace, I can still see that huge crowd of five million people, most of them teenagers and young adults. I can still feel the warmth, excitement, and spirit of joyful communion that penetrated the mind and heart of God’s people gathered around their inspiring and caring shepherd, the great John Paul II.

Most of all, I can still recall the song that was chanted and danced by the vibrant and colorful crowd of Rizal Park: Tell the World of His Love, with a voice loud and clear!

The theme song of that magical World Youth Event can also beautifully encapsulate the spirit that animates and guides our newly born Divine Providence Province. It brought together, into one large family, our Guanellian Missionaries who live and serve across two oceans, spread over three different and equally beautiful lands: India, Philippines and United States of America!

Tell the world of His love, with a voice loud and clear!

Tell the world of His love: this is our common mission! To tell and to sing over and over again in different languages the same beautiful story: the story of God who, out of love, became man to walk with us; to share our joys and dreams; to heal our wounds and pains; to build bridges and knock down walls; to console and forgive; to sustain and lead; and to journey with us, celebrating and enhancing in everyone the gift of life that is Divine and Everlasting.

To tell the story of God’s love means, for Guanellians, to sing the tune of His Providence and Mercy for our voiceless brethren: the poor, the neglected, the least and the lost. Our vision and mission is to spread the beauty of God’s song and to invite more to join the choir: to celebrate God’s goodness by joining hands and hearts in enhancing human dignity and building solidarity with the poor, the little ones, and the outcast.

Singing and dancing, by CARING AND SERVING!

It doesn't matter if you are a little out of tune and cannot hold a musical instrument in your hands. What counts the most is that your heart is ready to catch the new melody of God’s surprising song for you and for all of humanity.

What is most needed is your desire and commitment to learn to love the way God loves.

Fr. Luigi De Giambattista, SdC
Provincial Superior

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