Home > Works & Ministries > World Map The word “mission” comes
from the Latin mittere or “to send”. In Marguerite’s time, to go
on mission meant, for a Sister of the Congregation, to be sent
to work outside the Mother House in Montreal. By extension, all
these other houses came to be called “missions”. At first, the
community generally would accept the responsibility for the
establishment of a new mission and select who was to be sent,
always in response to an invitation or request. Later, major
superiors decided where new missions would open and named the
Sisters who would go there. The Sisters received “nominations”
telling them where they were “sent.” For over three centuries,
the Sisters have been engaged in carrying on the mission of
Marguerite Bourgeoys, who crossed the ocean to take part in the
development of a fledgling colony, which would embody the ideal
of the first Christian community. Already during Marguerite’s
lifetime, the work begun in Ville-Marie expended further and
further, in response to