Vision / Mission
Vision
A community of women-disciples placed by the father alongside His Son in the service of the Church as servants of our Servant-God, Jesus Christ, who became one of us., and who gave us the Holy Spirit to enable us to enhance the Liturgy of the Word and the Liturgy of the Eucharist., and like Mary, through the gift of self in our work and witness in our family, parish, community and country, so that we may have life, His fullness of Christ.
Mission
To open ourselves, like Mary, in prayer, contemplation and action to hear the Word of God and heed it, humbly, lovingly, joyfully, as we take care of the house of the Lord in our parish church, in the persons we relate to, and in ourselves, so that the everyday stories of our life and mission are always placed alongside the story of Jesus in order to form a seamless garment of the Mother Butler Guild apostolate, giving life and receiving life.
Organizational Structure and Composition of Membership
The highest governing body in the MBG is the National Council Composed of the National Executive Board of Directors, all Archdiocesan and Diocesan Council Presidents, and the National Spiritual Director. The MBG National Executive Board of Directors, responsible for the day to day executive and operational functions of the Guild, as well as recommend and formulate policies affecting the organization is composed of 15 members chosen by the National Spiritual Director from among the nominees of a special ad-hoc selection committee and ratified by the members at large assembled at a National Convention. The National Executive Board of Directors elect from among themselves the officers of the National Council.
The Archdiocesan/Diocesan Council, responsible for the implementation, standardization and supervision of the MBG apostolate in the local Church is composed of the officers (elected at large by MBG members in the archdiocese/diocese convened for this purpose, or by all the Parish Unit Presidents or appointed by the Local Ordinary of said archdiocese/diocese), and all MBG Parish Unit Presidents in said archdiocese/diocese.
The Parish Unit, organized in each parish with the consent of the parish Priest, is composed of Catholic lay women of good moral standing in the community who have undergone the requirements of membership and duly elected into the MBG organization, shall implement and actualize on a day to day basis the functions of the Mother Butler Guild in the parish. The Parish Unit is the base of the MBG apostolate. It is the first basic Church community of the MBG. The officers of the upper levels of the MBG organizational structure acting as agents and at the same time subjects of the MBG charism are to animate, urge, support and nourish this in all Parish Unit MBG members.