Our History
Our history dates back to 1975 with the foundation of the Association of Mary Immaculate (AMI) by Luis Fernando Figari. The association was founded in response to a group of young women who wanted to live their faith coherently, a group that was not satisfied with a faith that was somehow disconnected from daily life. Instead, they welcomed the call from God to holiness and yearned to make evangelization an essential characteristic of their lives.
Certain members of the AMI felt God calling them to give their entire lives for the cause of the New Evangelization. They desired to consecrate their lives through a full apostolic availability. After a period of discernment, Luis Fernando Figari founded the Marian Community of Reconciliation (MCR) on March 25, 1991, the feast of the Annunciation-Incarnation of the Lord. The MCR was approved by then Archbishop of Lima and Primate of Peru, Most Reverend Augusto Vargas Alzamora, and later confirmed by Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani, the current Archbishop of Lima and Primate of Peru. Still today, young women who wish to discern if they are called to enter the Marian Community of Reconciliation first make a promise of discernment for a year –it can be renewed- in the Association of Mary Immaculate. The Sodalitium Christianae Vitae (SCV), the Marian Community of Reconciliation (MCR), the Servants of the Plan of God, the Association of Mary Immaculate (AMI), and the Christian Life Movement (CLM) are part of the same spiritual family, the Sodalit Family. |
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