Gospel: "You must set no bounds to your love just as the Father sets no bounds for His."

St. Vincent: "The love of Our Lord Jesus Christ should impel everyone to do the works of the apostolate, so that they may be honored with the name of "apostle."

Our Constitutions: "The soul of our apostolate is love toward God and toward others. If this love were lacking, there would no longer be a Congregation of the Catholic Apostolate....we are impelled to communicate it to all with a joyous and unselfish spirit of service." (#63)

Our creation in God's image, the image of Love itself, is the basic truth upon which Pallottine spirituality is based.

The Founder gave us as our motto "The love of Christ urges us on,"words taken from Paul's second letter to the Corinthians (2 Cor 5:14-15) He taught that love is the "constitutive element" of our community. It is, therefore, an ideal for which we are to strive constantly both within our community and in all our apostolic woks.

Love is to be both the source of our unity and the motive for our apostolic action. Vincent reminds us that without love, there is no apostolate.

While we take vows in accordance with current Church law, we are reminded that it must be love, Christ's love for us and our love for Him, that binds us to live the life we profess and binds us to one another. St. Vincent recognized that if love were to be found lacking, we would cease to exist.