Franciscan Missionary Sisters of Mary

About this place

The Jeongseon community of the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary is registered in the Guide to the Catholic Church in Korea as the “Jeongseon Visitation of Mary Community,” a women’s religious community belonging to the Diocese of Wonju. Its official address is the same as Jeongseon Catholic Church, showing that this entry does not refer to a separate church or independent parish, but to a community of sisters living their religious life within the same setting as Jeongseon Parish. The official English name of the congregation is Franciscan Missionaries of Mary, and the community name recalls the Gospel mystery of the Visitation of Mary.

It is important to distinguish the role of the parish from that of the religious community. Jeongseon Catholic Church is the parish serving the local Catholic faithful, while the Jeongseon Visitation of Mary Community is the place where members of the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary live their common life and prayer in the service of the Church. The public directory does not describe the community’s present apostolate in enough detail to define it more narrowly, but the verified fact that the sisters live at the same address as the parish shows the close local relationship between parish life and consecrated religious life.