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Who are the Beggars of Christ?


Beggars of Christ is presently a developing lay missionary community and is not a canonically established religious institute or officially recognized Catholic organization. We desire to seek appropriate ecclesiastical guidance as we continue discerning our future within the Catholic Church.

 

Beggars of Christ (BOC) is a developing community of Catholic lay women who desire to follow Jesus Christ through a life of prayer, surrender, healing, and missionary service.

 

At the heart of our spirituality is a simple truth: before God, we are all beggars. Everything we have and everything we are comes from Him. We depend completely upon His Divine Providence, Mercy, Grace, and Love.

 

To be a Beggar of Christ is first to recognize our own poverty before God. Before we can bring Christ to others, we must first allow Him to enter our own hearts, heal our wounds, transform our lives, and draw us into a deeper relationship with Him.

 

Our identity is not found in what we possess, what we accomplish, or what the world calls us. Our identity is found in the great “I AM,” Jesus Christ, the One to whom we surrender our lives and the One who sends us forth to serve.

 

A Beggar of Christ Missionary therefore begins her mission within her own soul. She seeks first to grow in holiness and intimacy with Jesus. She then strives to live that mission faithfully within her own vocation and responsibilities, as a daughter, wife, mother, widow, or single woman. From this foundation, she may be called to participate in the broader missionary works of the Beggars of Christ and Fatima Outreach Foundation.

 

We seek to live with humility, simplicity, trust in Divine Providence, surrender to God’s Holy Will, devotion to the Eucharist, love for the Blessed Virgin Mary, fidelity to the teachings of the Catholic Church, and compassion for those who are wounded, poor, forgotten, or suffering.

 

We do not claim that we ourselves can heal another person. Jesus Christ is the Divine Healer. We simply desire to become His instruments, bringing His presence, mercy, hope, and love wherever He sends us.

Our Spiritual Motto

Begging for Mercy.
Surrendering to His Holy Will.
Sharing His Divine Healing to Others.
All for Jesus: Through Jesus, With Jesus, and In Jesus!

We Are Not Just Followers. We Are Beggars.

A Beggar of Christ comes before Jesus with empty hands, a faithful and humble heart, and the recognition that without Him, we can do nothing. We come to Him aware of our complete need for His Mercy, Grace, Love, and Divine Providence, and in Him, we discover the One who is everything.

To call ourselves beggars is not an identity of shame or worthlessness. It is an acknowledgment of poverty of spirit, the blessed poverty Jesus speaks of in the Gospel. We recognize that everything is a gift, every breath, every grace, every healing, every opportunity to love, and every strength we possess to serve another.

We are beggars who know that we are also beloved children of the Father.

We come with open hands, tear stained prayers, wounded hearts, and childlike trust in the Father who loves, provides, forgives, restores, and saves.

A Beggar of Christ does not begin by trying to change the world. She begins by allowing Jesus Christ to change her.

Before we can serve others, we must first receive His Mercy.

Before we can speak of healing, we must allow Jesus to enter our own wounds.

Before we can lead another soul toward Christ, we must first surrender ourselves to His Holy Will.

Before we can become missionaries, we must first become His.

Only then can we go forth, not relying upon our own strength, but as humble instruments through whom Jesus Christ may bring His Mercy, Hope, Love, and Divine Healing into a wounded world.

We beg.
We receive.
We surrender.
And then, we are sent.

“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.”
Matthew 5:3

Our Spirituality

The spirituality of Beggars of Christ Missionaries is rooted in:

  • Prayer
  • Humility
  • Poverty of Spirit
  • Trust
  • Surrender
  • Conversion
  • Charity
  • Missionary Service
  • Eucharistic Devotion
  • Fidelity to the Roman Catholic Church

Every work of charity begins with God’s grace. Every ministry flows from an intimate relationship with Jesus Christ.

Our Mission

Our mission is to lead souls to Jesus Christ by:

  • Begging for His Mercy.
  • Surrendering to His Holy Will.
  • Bringing His Divine Healing to others.
  • Proclaiming the Gospel through word and deed.
  • Serving the poor, the forgotten, the vulnerable, and the suffering.
  • Restoring hope, healing, dignity, and new life in Christ.
Our Charitable Mission

Fatima Outreach Foundation is the charitable apostolate of Beggars of Christ Missionaries. United by one spiritual identity and one mission, they are inseparable in purpose. Beggars of Christ Missionaries forms the spiritual heart of the mission, while Fatima Outreach Foundation serves as its charitable arm, carrying Christ’s mercy into the world through ministries of hope, healing, recovery, restoration, and missionary outreach.

  • Fatima House of Hope
  • Beggars of Christ Refuge
  • Daughters of Hope and Healing
  • Human Trafficking Restoration and Prevention
  • Outreach Programs
  • International Missions
A Beggar of Christ Is Someone Who…
  • Acknowledges their poverty of spirit and embraces complete dependence upon God’s Divine Providence, Mercy, Grace, and Love.
  • Comes before Jesus with a faithful, humble, and contrite heart, trusting Him above all things.
  • Cries out to Jesus with confidence, like Bartimaeus, believing that His mercy is never denied to the humble.
  • Falls at His feet with the faith of the desperate father, the pleading mother, and the repentant sinner, believing that no burden is beyond His compassion.
  • Seeks God’s Holy Will before their own desires and joyfully surrenders to His loving plan.
  • Lives each day trusting in God’s Divine Providence, knowing that He faithfully provides for every need.
  • Brings others to the Divine Healer, like the friends who carried the paralytic, believing that every soul deserves an encounter with Christ.
  • Waits with persevering faith, like the Canaanite woman, trusting God’s love even in moments of silence.
  • Recognizes Christ in the poor, the forgotten, the suffering, the lonely, the oppressed, and the vulnerable, and serves them with compassion and dignity.
  • Receives God’s mercy with gratitude and freely extends that same mercy to others.
  • Lives a life of continual conversion, allowing Christ to heal, transform, and renew every part of their heart.
  • Prays with confidence, serves with humility, and loves with generosity.
  • Seeks not personal recognition, but the greater glory of God.
  • Becomes an instrument of Christ’s Divine Healing through prayer, charity, and missionary service.
  • Remains faithful to the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church and lives in communion with her sacramental life.
  • Carries the Cross with hope, perseverance, and joyful trust in Christ.
  • Loves as Christ loves, forgives as Christ forgives, and serves as Christ serves.
  • Desires that every person they encounter may come to know, love, and follow Jesus Christ.
  • Lives each day with open hands, ready to receive God’s mercy and to share His love with the world.
  • Joyfully proclaims, by word and example, the Gospel of Jesus Christ, so that all may experience His hope, healing, mercy, and salvation.
Our Heavenly Patronages

The Beggars of Christ Missionaries entrust our spiritual family and mission to the loving intercession and heavenly protection of these patrons, whose lives continually point us toward Jesus Christ.

Our Lord Jesus Christ, Our King and Center
Jesus Christ is the heart, center, and purpose of our vocation and mission. We desire to belong entirely to Him, to surrender ourselves to His Holy Will, and to serve Him in those He places before us.

Our Lady of Fatima, Our Mother and Guide
Under the maternal care of Our Lady of Fatima, we seek to respond faithfully to her call to prayer, sacrifice, penance, conversion, and reparation for sinners, always leading souls closer to her Son, Jesus Christ.

Saint Joseph, Our Protector and Model of Faithful Service
In Saint Joseph, we find a model of humility, obedience, purity, quiet strength, and faithful service. We ask him to protect our missionaries, our apostolates, and all those entrusted to our care.

Saint Michael the Archangel, Our Defender in Spiritual Battle
We invoke Saint Michael’s protection against evil and ask him to defend our missionaries and those we serve in times of temptation, danger, and spiritual battle.

The Three Shepherd Children of Fatima
We look to the children of Fatima as witnesses of simple, courageous, and sacrificial love for God:

  • Saint Francisco Marto, a model of prayer, contemplation, and love for the Hidden Jesus.
  • Saint Jacinta Marto, a model of sacrifice, compassion, and prayer for the conversion of sinners.
  • Venerable Sister Lucia dos Santos, a model of perseverance, obedience, and lifelong fidelity to the mission entrusted to her.

Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face, Patroness of Missions and Patron Saint of Our Founder
Saint Thérèse possessed a burning missionary heart while living a hidden life of prayer and love. She desired to serve in the missions, including the Carmelite mission in Vietnam. Through her “Little Way,” she teaches us that even the smallest act, when offered with great love to Jesus, can become an offering for souls and for the missions of the Church.

Blessed Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, Patron of Mission
Blessed Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen proclaimed Jesus Christ with courage, wisdom, and extraordinary missionary zeal. We ask his intercession that the Beggars of Christ may remain faithful to Christ and His Holy Catholic Church, proclaim His truth with charity, and bring His light and mercy wherever He sends us.

Through the intercession of Our Blessed Mother and all our heavenly patrons, may everything we undertake be for the greater glory of God and the salvation of souls.

All for Jesus:  Through Jesus, with Jesus, and in Jesus.

Our Prayer

Lord Jesus, I beg You, have mercy on me, a sinner.
Father, into Your hands, I commit my body, mind, heart, soul, spirit, past, present, future, and eternity.
Through Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, Amen!

Join Our Mission

Whether you are discerning a deeper spiritual life, seeking healing, longing to serve others, or simply searching for Christ with a humble heart, we invite you to journey with us. Together, let us beg for His mercy, surrender to His Holy Will, and become instruments of His Divine Healing, all through Jesus, with Jesus, and in Jesus.