The mark of a true CICM the zeal for missionary work.

This
means that the charism of the CICM as a missionary institute is to
go out to those who are in most need (ad extra) – to go into
frontier Situations, to nations (ad gentes) wherever Good News was
not heard especially by poor. “Going out" as a missionary gesture is
the availability Ofmoneself be sent wherever a CICM presence is
needed. Inspired by CICM charism of mission ad extra and dedicated
to the Incarnate Word and inspired by Mary, Theophile Verbist
animates every CICM missionary to be competent persons Jesus' name,
and a faithful disciple at the service of the community for the
respect and preservation of the integrity of the Whole creation.

A. The Call for New Evangelization

Pope Benedict XVI in his address to the International

Congress of Catechists and Religion Teachers in Rome (12 December
2000) provided the reason why human beings are in need of a new
evangelization today. He pronounces that the "deepest poverty is not
physical poverty but spiritual poverty; it is the inability for joy,
the tediousness of a life considered absurd and contradictory. This
poverty is widespread today in varied forms in both the materially
rich as well as the poor countries. The inability of joy presupposes
and results to lack of love; produces jealousy, avarice — all
defects which devastate the life of individuals and of the world."
At this time, people wish to choose the path toward peaceful life
and happiness. New evangelization ushers them to this path — which
is the path of Jesus who has come to evangelize the poor (cf. Lk
4:18).

On October 11, 2011, Pope Benedict XVI issued a letter to the

Catholic faithful entitled Porta Fidei. The document is a call to
celebrate a Year of Faith with the theme, "The New Evangelization
for the Transmission of Faith". The theme was significant since
Benedict XVI sees a crisis of faith in the world, a problem which he
considers as the greatest challenge to the Church today. This crisis
of faith is characterized by What the Pontiff describes as an
“eclipsed of God, a kind of amnesia which, albeit not an outright
rejection of Christianity, is nonetheless, a denial of the treasure
of our faith, a denial that could lead to the loss of our deepest
identity."

Pope John Paul II had also displayed his great ardor for “new
evangelization" during his pontificate. He envisioned hat new must
be applied in a diverse, complex and various societies where methods
and ways of proclaiming the Gospel should always be order updated,
in order to meet the needs and Special demands of special periods.
As spoke to the Episcopal Conference of a Latin American meeting in
Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on 9 March 1983, Pope John Paul II
emphasizes: "The commemoration of half-a Millennium Of
evangelization Will have its full significance if there is a
commitment on your part as Bishops, together with your Presbyters
with your Lay Faithful, a commitment not to re-evangelization, but
to a new evangelization. It Will be new in its ardor, new in its
methods and new in its expressions.