The Society of Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament began as a new religious community in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Frejus-Toulon, South-Eastern France erected in 2007. Following a religious life and adhering entirely to the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church, and are obedient to the Catholic Hierarchy of Bishops who teach and act in union with the Bishop of Rome.
Since 2010, after much difficulty we have re-organized into a non recognized ‘lay apostolate’. The Society supports men in priestly formation working towards re-establishing an Ecclesiastically recognized religious family in different continents.
Our Father is a priest who received a Papal Blessing in 2005 and a letter of encouragement from the Vatican through the Holy See. We are committed to remaining faithful and obedient children of the Roman Catholic Church.
Our spirit is to be “In the heart of the Church, my Mother, (I will be) love”, said Saint Therese of Lisieux. We find in this famous quote of hers, two elements unified. First, we see that the Church is a real Mother, because she has the personal assistance of the Mother of God, who first gave us Jesus. Thus, as Mediatrix of all grace, Mary continues Her mission through, with and in the Church giving us her Son, the God who is “Love” in the Blessed Sacrament. For this reason, St. Pius X has said, “the most richly theological title after that of the “Mother of God”, is “Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament”.
Thus, in the carmelite spirit of Saint Therese of Lisieux we seek to become the possession of the Heart of Mary in the Church, that is to say, a transformation eucharistic with, through, in and for the Immaculate Virgin. For our religious life, this is expressed concretely by a vow of Unlimited Consecration to her. Taken as a single “religious vow” to the Most Holy Trinity of unlimited consecration to Mary Immaculate sheds an explicit Marian ‘light’ on the vows of poverty, celibacy, and obedience. In this manner, Mary Immaculate becomes the “heart” of our life.
Thus, in the spirit of Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament, planted in the the ‘Garden’of her heart we seek to follow her to the summit of holiness through consecration to Her united with a life of Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration.
In practice, We seek to be united through spirit of Mary to make radiant “love” in the Church. Put simply, this is the fullness of love given in a life of consecration and prayer, as well as the familial love that is always open to welcome and to make present for each other Jesus and Mary. This happens for us through the presence of Jesus, present first and foremost in perpetual adoration in our chapel. In His Eucharistic presence the Eternal Father always has an ear open, and so, as much as we are united to Him in perpetual adoration, we also will be open without limits to radiate the paternal love of the Father (Or as Mary, it can be said for the sisters, more precisely, the maternal love of the Mother) to all of God’s children who are in need of true paternal love in “God Our heavenly father from whom all paternity flows”.
Thus, our chapels of Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration are assisted by lay adorers who assist us to keep the adoration- perpetual throughout the day and night hours. Providing as well the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and the other Sacraments for the Catholic faithful.
Our project for religious is to not be a parish, but a contemplative community with a chapel open to the public.
For the community, The Society of Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament a life of prayer is the norm, but we also give missions with the goal of establishing in Catholic communities chapels of Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration. Each mission consists of a thorough catechesis on the Immaculate Virgin Mary without whom Jesus Christ cannot be known and loved as He should in the Most Blessed Sacrament.
Chapel/House of Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament
(Est. 2008-2009)
