In 1980 the Spiritan (Holy Ghost) Superior in Kenya, the late Fr. Oliver Ellis C.S.Sp., together with Bishop Raphael Ndingi, then of the Diocese of Nakuru, invited three priests of our congregation to take up ministry in Kenya’s remote and isolated East Pokot region.
Simple idea really… ‘whoever does the will of God is my brother and sister and mother’ Jesus’ brother and sister and mother My brother and sister and mother...
If you see a healthy plant growing, take it from its pot of wet soil, take away carefully and gently see the fresh, fleshy and white roots growing determinedly in the soil without a sound! This parable of the seed growing secretly and silently in the dark earth is the only one unique to Mark who wrote the first of the four Gospels. Matthew and Luke followed him. There was no copyright law at this time.
We are a Roman Catholic Congregation of Priests, Brothers and Lay Associates. Our congregation was founded in Paris in 1703 by a young 24 year old Breton Lawyer, Claude Poullart des Places.
He founded a community for young men who wished to become priests and dedicated it to the Holy Spirit.
