By: Sr. Fidelis Ong, PDDM

A Touching and Beautiful Apostolate in our Frenetic World.

Three Fold Apostolate
We the Pious Disciples of the Divine Master here in Taiwan are “alive, awake and enthusiastic” despite the language barriers. Our three-fold-apostolate: Liturgical, Priestly and Eucharistic is going along smoothly.

Laborers Few
We receive many invitations in need of our service but due to the language barrier and a lack of personnel we are not able to respond to all. So please join us in prayer for vocations. For us here we need Chinese vocations to add to our only one Chinese from Hongkong.

5% Christian
Taiwan is rich and very progressive, but a non-Christian country. This could be the reason why there is a crisis of religious and priestly vocations here. This beautiful Taiwan is only 5% Catholic/Christian. All the rest are non-Christian.

Warm and Lovable
I love the people here; they are good, their principles are very Christian. Their compassion is admirable. In their own way they are very religious. They are warm and lovable.
The joyful and youthful Filipina Disciples of the Divine Master in Taiwan celebrated their ten years ten years of loving and laborious service, last November 2, 1992.

Special Skills
The call to be a PIOUS DESCIPLE OF THE DIVINE MASTER is call to enter the school of Jesus the Divine Master- a call to life of discipleship. The whole life of a pious disciple is spent in the school of the Divine Master, understanding and living His teaching, shaping her life in the “form of Jesus Christ the way, the truth and life.”

Jesus Master
This is because Jesus Master is the essential reason of her being. He called her to proclaim Him to the world through a EUCHARISTTIC- PRIESTLY LITUGICAL apostolate. She becomes alive and active in the heart of the Church through her Eucharistic apostolate.

Intercede for All
It her primary duty to pray in a spirit of reparation, to represent and intercede for all the people before the Eucharistic Jesus while offering Him adoration, thanksgiving and supplication.

Collaborate with Priests
She offers prayers and sacrifices to obtain vocations to the priesthood. Animated by faith and love like Mary, she is to generate priests for the Church and work in cooperation with the priesthood. Like Mary to her Son, Jesus, she is beside him in his life-time, suffering, death and glory. Her intense liturgical life and contemplation compels a Pious Disciple to create, produce and diffuse whatever is related to worship so as to help people perceive the living presence of God.

Liturgical Art
She carries out her ministry in the Church also through the various art forms linked to the Liturgy, such as painting, sculpture, architecture, music and needlework.

Building the Church
The ecclesial meaning that animates her life as Pious Disciple makes her feel and experience that she is contributing to the building of the Church in the Faithful carrying  through the mission-that of making Jesus Master better known, loved and served by all.