Evangelizing the "poor" is our mission (Lk 4:18). As a result, Spiritans specifically go out to people, communities, and individuals who either have not received the gospel message at all or very little of it. to the underprivileged and those whose needs are greatest. We gladly take on assignments for which the Church struggles to obtain personnel. In order to share in the world of the excluded, the Spiritan option for the impoverished entails a solidarity. "When we support the impoverished, we support those who are impoverished unfairly rather than poverty in general." We are to become "the advocates, the supporters and defenders of the weak and the little ones," according to our Spiritan Rule of Life (14)