The aim of our Congregation is to seek in all things the glory of God, the sanctification of our members and the salvation of people throughout the world, in keeping with our missionary charism in the Church.

The Claretians have received a calling like that of the Apostles and have been granted the gift to follow Christ in a communion of life and to go out to the whole world to proclaim the good news to every creature.

We answer this divine call by adopting Jesus' way of life, a way which the Virgin Mary, too, embraced in faith. And so in the Church we strive to manifest Christ's virginity, poverty, and obedience in proclaiming the good news. Through our profession of the evangelical counsels by public vows we dedicate ourselves to God and are consecrated by him, and thus we form in the Church an Institute which is truly and fully apostolic.

We form a Congregation of priests, deacons, brothers and students who share the same vocation.

We attribute the founding of our Congregation to the intervention of the Blessed Virgin Mary, whom we honour as our Patroness under the title of her Immaculate Heart.

We always keep this model of a missionary before us:

"Claretians are on fire with love, who spread its flames wherever they go.
They desire mightily and strive by all possible means
to set everyone on fire with God's love.
Nothing daunts them; they delight in privations,
welcome work, embrace sacrifices, smile at slander,
rejoice in whatever torment they may have to suffer,
and glory in the cross of Jesus Christ.
Their only concern is how they may follow Jesus Christ
and imitate him through prayer, working, suffering
and striving constantly and single-mindedly
for the greater glory of God and the salvation of all."