In addition to the three vows of Chastity,
poverty and obedience, we make a forth vow of charity in order to incarnate our
particular aim which is “the exercise of charity towards our neighbor, mainly
by consecrating our lives to bring the children of the poorer classes and those
who are furthest from God and most abandoned, to the knowledge and love of
Jesus Christ, of his Vicar on earth, the Holy Father and of the Holy Church, by
means of the teaching of the Christian faith and the practice of the
evangelical work of mercy”. (Don Orione)