The Institute of the Incarnate Word - IVE, the male branch of the Incarnate Word family, began in Argentina on March 25, 1984, the day in which His Holiness John Paul II consecrated the world to the Most Holy Virgin of Fatima. It is a clerical institute (in which religious who are not priests also form a part), whose members aspire to consecrate ourselves to God by means of the profession of the evangelical counsels, making public vows, living a fraternal life in common, with the separation proper to religious so that we can tend to the perfection of our state.
A Catholic Missionary order of religious priests, monks, and co-adjutor brothers whose charism is the grace to discern in concrete situations those things within human culture that are worthy of being elevated to the standard of the Gospel.