THE INSTITUTE OF JESUS THE PRIEST:

for Bishops and and priests of the diocesan clergy, with the aim of assisting them on the spiritual plane and in the ministry entrusted to them, to give them a greater efficacy through the vows of chastity, poverty and obedience and through the media of social communication.

The Institute offers to its members human, spiritual and supernatural assistance for their own sanctification and for a pastoral ministry always more open and updated according to the directives of the Church. "Pastors should fulfill their duty to ... make effective use of the media of social communication in various apostolic endeavors, as circumstances and conditions demand" (Decree on Social Communication, 13).

Father Alberione thus summed up the very particular fruits which the Institute offers to its members:
"-a special, personal sanctification;
- a richer ministry for souls
- a more generous service in the individual dioceses."

The Institute carries out the exhortation of the Popes: "The cleric is not obliged by divine law to observe the evangelical counsels of poverty, chastity, and obedience. But it would be an enormous mistake to believe that the secular priest is called to a lesser perfection than the religious... The practice of the evangelical counsels... is the royal road of Christian sanctification.