EUPHRASIE BARBIER
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Adèle-Euphrasie Barbier, known in religious life as Marie du Coeur de Jésus, was born on 4th January 1829, in Caen, France. Euphrasie was inspired by a Bishop preaching on his experiences in the mission fields. She yearned to be a foreign missionary. In December 1861 Euphrasie Barbier founded a new congregation, Institute de Notre Dame des Missions, in Lyon, she had established communities in France, England, the Pacific Islands, New Zealand and Asia.
EUPHRASIE BARBIER
Euphrasie Barbier (read more)
Adèle-Euphrasie Barbier, known in religious life as Marie du Coeur de Jésus, was born on 4th January 1829, in Caen, France. Euphrasie was inspired by a Bishop preaching on his experiences in the mission fields. She yearned to be a foreign missionary. In December 1861 Euphrasie Barbier founded a new congregation, Institute de Notre Dame des Missions, in Lyon, she had established communities in France, England, the Pacific Islands, New Zealand and Asia.
OUR SPIRITUALITY
Our Lady of the Missions. Our title describes our Spirituality which is both Trinitarian and Marian.
“By placing themselves under the title of our Lady of the Missions, the Sisters wish to honour in a very special way the Divine Missions which were the sole object of Mary’s deepest aspirations”.
Hence our life is first of all a loving contemplation of our God. In contemplating God Trinity, the God of Love and Communion, we will understand what love is and share in the divine work of Love as Mary did, with fidelity and without counting the cost!
It is according to our capacity to receive within ourselves the outpouring of love flowing from the Trinity that we in turn can become “instruments of the Divine Missions”. More important than the works we undertake, mission is essentially the witness of a person who lives in God.
OUR SPIRITUALITY
Our Lady of the Missions. Our title describes our Spirituality which is both Trinitarian and Marian.
“By placing themselves under the title of our Lady of the Missions, the Sisters wish to honour in a very special way the Divine Missions which were the sole object of Mary’s deepest aspirations”.
Hence our life is first of all a loving contemplation of our God. In contemplating God Trinity, the God of Love and Communion, we will understand what love is and share in the divine work of Love as Mary did, with fidelity and without counting the cost!
It is according to our capacity to receive within ourselves the outpouring of love flowing from the Trinity that we in turn can become “instruments of the Divine Missions”. More important than the works we undertake, mission is essentially the witness of a person who lives in God.
OUR SPIRITUALITY
Lady of the Missions. Our title describes our Spirituality which is both Trinitarian and Marian.
“By placing themselves under the title of our Lady of the Missions, the Sisters wish to honour in a very special way the Divine Missions which were the sole object of Mary’s deepest aspirations”.
Hence our life is first of all a loving contemplation of our God. In contemplating God Trinity, the God of Love and Communion, we will understand what love is and share in the divine work of Love as Mary did, with fidelity and without counting the cost!
It is according to our capacity to receive within ourselves the outpouring of love flowing from the Trinity that we in turn can become “instruments of the Divine Missions”. More important than the works we undertake, mission is essentially the witness of a person who lives in God.
CHARISM
Euphrasie Barbier received a particular gift to understand that the Trinity is the source of all missionary activity. Her profound experience of God led her, under the impulse of the Spirit, to found in the Church a religious missionary congregation whose members would live the grace of consecration for the Divine Missions through contemplation, communion and mission. – RNDM Constitutions Article 2 –
