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.

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.
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.