The Verbum Dei Missionary Fraternity is a contemplative-active, apostolic-missionary institute of consecrated life in accordance with canon 605. It was founded in 1963 in Majorca (Spain) by Fr. Jaime Bonet, a diocesan priest.

Approved in 1969 as an Institution of Consecrated Life in the Catholic Church, Verbum Dei’s objective is to form apostles of Christ from among people of every state of life; regardless of gender, race and social condition. (C.f. Mt 28:19-20)

Our specific and particular contribution to the Church is living and propagating the Kingdom of God through communities of evangelical life, which pray and teach others to pray.

Our mission is a consequence of our contemplative life in which we preach what we contemplate. In the spirit of the first Christian communities, we centre our specific mission on the Word of God.

"We will dedicate ourselves full-time to prayer and the service of the Word." (Acts 6:4)

In a divided world without identity and direction, the love of Christ urges us to present the power and the fullness of the Love of God in Christian fraternities. As witnesses of the Kingdom of God, visible already on earth, we will live out his love, which makes us all One.

The Verbum Dei, at its core, is composed of three branches;
• female missionaries (left picture)
• male missionaries - clerical and lay missionaries (right picture)
• missionary couples with a commitment of total availability to the mission (centre picture)
all dedicated to evangelisation at the service of the Church.