The Catholic Center for Studies and Media in Jordan and abouna.org websites in both English and Arabic convey heartfelt condolences, on the passing away of Fr. Carlos Miguel Buela, to the priests, nuns, and consecrators of the Order of the Incarnate Word, as he passed away during celebrations marking the Easter celebrations at the age of 82.

A requiem Mass will be held for the repose of his soul in Anjara on Sunday April 30 at 9:30am. 

The Order of the Incarnate Word is active in the Holy Land, specifically in Bethlehem through the children's orphanage called "Child Jesus", in the Latin Patriarchal Seminary of Beit Jala, and in the parish of the Holy Family in Gaza. The Order of the Incarnate Word is also active in Jordan, as priests and nuns are present at the Sanctuary of Our Lady of the Mount in Anjara, as well as at the site of the Baptism Site, and in the parish of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Church in Tla’ Al-Ali.

 Fr. Carlos Miguel Buela

On 23 April, 2023, Fr. Carlos Miguel Buela, founder of the Institute of the Incarnate Word and of the Institute “Servants of the Lord and of the Virgin of Matarà” died in the hospital of Genoa. Both Institutes have a contemplative and an apostolic branch and, in the space of almost 40 years, they find themselves on mission on five continents with about 3,000 religious, ready to leave for the most disparate places, often those “where nobody wants to go”.

The figure of the “Religious Family of the Incarnate Word” is the holy joy and family spirit that unites its members and attracts more and more young people, so much so that its vocations have almost tripled in recent years.

Being “essentially missionaries and Marian” their apostolates take place in parishes, schools, hospitals, homes for the disabled, orphans and the elderly. There is no shortage of initiatives in favor of families and young people, through the Oratory, camps and training meetings during which you can admire many young people intent on playing, dancing but also deepening their faith, praying and experiencing Eucharistic adoration, even nocturnal while demonstrating that the Catholic faith does not cease to be attractive for young people too, when it is witnessed and lived with evangelical radicalism.

Biography

Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1941, Father Carlos Miguel Buela was ordained to the priesthood on October 7, 1971, Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary.

During his years as a seminarian and young priest, Fr. Buela was influenced through his reading and contact with some of Argentina’s great Catholic intellectuals, notably Fr. Julio Meinvielle and Fr. Leonardo Castellani. After ten years as a diocesan priest working in youth ministry and parish work, he received the foundational grace in 1981, inspiring him to found a religious order of missionaries.

Three years later, on March 25, 1984, Fr. Buela founded the Institute of the Incarnate Word, the priests, in the diocese of San Rafael, Mendoza. He founded the sisters, the Institute Servants of the Lord and the Virgin of Matará, on March 19, 1988. The two institutes share twin constitutions and both have monasteries dedicated to contemplative life.

Together with the laity of our Third Order, all the members of the Religious Family of the Incarnate Word share the same charism: The prolongation of the Incarnation of the Word of God in all the manifestations of the human person. Our specific aim is the evangelization of the culture. The two institutes of religious life have approximately 1,600 members who are working in missions around the world.