The Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer (The Redemptorists) from the beginning has always been close to the people, particularly the poor and abandoned, and has always sought collaboration with the laity in its apostolic work. It will be sufficient to recall, for example, what St. Alphonsus Liguori accomplished with the ‘evening chapels’ in Naples to realize how much he had at heart this nearness to and sharing with the abandoned … St. Clement, especially during his period in Vienna, always sought to associate with the laity and to involve them in his multiple apostolic work so as to have a more profound and lasting effect on the European society of his time.