Canonically we are a Public Clerical Association of Christs Faithful, a brotherhood of diocesan clerics and lay persons living fraternal life in common, united by the bond of charity (vinculum charitatis) pursuing the apostolic purpose of their Society as defined in our statutes. Indeed, our Clerical Association lives, according to the desire of its Founder, in the manner of a society of Apostolic Life.

We are dedicated solely to apostolic works in mission territories. The members of the Society participate in the Missionary Activity of the Church through the spread of the Gospel and service of the Church firstly in the Caribbean. As an exclusively Public Clerical Association of Christ's Faitful, the missionary thrust of its members may be carried out in other mission territories of the World.Ours is a challenge required by the Gospel: to give our lives for the sake of Christ and His Mission.

We are simple servants of the Lord - priests and brothers -living together in a common brotherhood (Common Life) established by the Church under approved, Passionist-inspired Rule, Statutes and Regulations trusting in His power and providence, confident in the protection of our principal patrons: the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, and Saint Paul of the Cross.In a manner proper to Societies of Apostolic Life, we take the vows of chastity, poverty and obedience and make the promise to keep the Passion of Jesus alive in our missionary hearts.

Mary is the Queen of the Missions. She is there with us, supporting us in this mandate the Church gave to us when Bishop Boyle founded our institute. Our spirituality is Christocentric, Missionary and Marian. These three points are like pillars that characterize us and the place we have in the Church as we strive together to bring the Kingdom of God in the hearts of all peoples! We work in education, with abandoned children, parishes and preaching retreats…all avenues are open for us! A number of us even work in diocesan and supra-diocesan administration bodies.

The mission Society of Mandeville was founded and erected by the first Bishop of Mandeville, His Excellency Bishop Paul Boyle, by an Episcopal decree. In doing so, he fulfilled a wish that had surfaced at the Society for the Propagation of Faith a number of years earlier. In 2005 the Second Bishop of Mandeville, His Excellency Bishop Gordon Bennett, S.J,. gave an Episcopal decree confirming changes in the bylaws of the society and encouraged its expansion. In 2007, on the 15th of September, the Bishops of the Island Nation of Jamaica gave a “Decree of Encouragement” to the Mission Society. Finally, on the Solemnity of Saint Joseph in 2009, His Excellency Bishop Neil Tiedemann, C.P. gave his Episcopal Assent to the decisions taken by the General Chapter of the Mission Society blessing it in its original resolve.

Since this is a Society dedicated to Mission for Life, even though of Diocesan right, His Eminence, Cardinal Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples advised the Archbishop of Saint Lucia, the Most Rev. Robert Rivas, O.P., to look to the Mission Society of Mandeville for help in his Archdiocese and the two other dioceses he looks after as Apostolic Administrator.