Our founder, Father Carlos Miguel Buela, IVE, was the first Son of Our Lady of Lujan in our Religious Family. As a young seminarian, he asked for many priestly and religious vocations from her hands. Thanks to him, Our Lady of Lujan is our special Mother and Patroness, officially named by the Holy See in 2011.
Father Carlos Miguel Buela, Son of Our Lady of Lujan
April 4, 1941 – † April 23, 2023
On April 23, 2023, III Sunday of Easter, on the “Day of the Lord”, our dear Father Carlos Miguel Buela, IVE, left this earth for the eternal encounter with the One who was the center and goal of his entire Christian and priestly life: Jesus Christ.
We thank God for the gift of his existence and priesthood, which he exercised for 52 long and fruitful years. In those years and through his ministry, he brought many souls closer to God.
In a special way we thank God for having chosen Father Buela, IVE, to found our Religious Family of the Incarnate Word, with its own charism, within the Catholic Church, to bring the Gospel to all nations, thus collaborating in the work of evangelization. Following the example of Christ the Good Shepherd, Father saw the need for good and holy priests who could help souls, and he undertook – with God’s help and under the mantle of the Virgin of Lujan – this great work, which as he himself repeated “was not his but God’s”.
Father died serenely, with all the help of Holy Mother Church and with the plenary indulgence and apostolic blessing personally granted by the Pope a few days before his death. He died completely surrendered to the Most Holy Will of God, as he had always taught us to live: “clinging to Providence” and embracing his Cross with sovereign freedom. He passed from this world with an immeasurable love for the Author of all good, present in the Eucharist, and for his Blessed Mother. These two loves, together with the love for the Holy Father, were the loves that he transmitted to us as something that would characterize us as a Religious Family.
Although his physical absence brings us immeasurable pain, his presence among us is more alive today than ever and his passing is an occasion of celebration. May Our Lady of Lujan help us to live our vocation faithfully and may we too one day participate in the “Great Feast” of Heaven, in which, together with the Father and all the Saints which he taught us to love and invoke, we will sing without end the Mercies of God.
We ask everyone to remember him in their prayers, and especially priests to offer Masses in suffrage for his soul.
Rest in peace dear Father!
