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RELIGIOUS OF THE CENACLE

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The Society of Our Lady of the Cenacle was founded in 1826, at La Louvesc in
France, near the tomb of St. John Francis Regis, the Jesuit apostle of the poor,
by Jean-Pierre-Etienne Terme, a holy and zealous missionary priest of the
Diocese of Viviers, and Marie-Victoire-Therese Couderc, a woman twenty years of
age, but already mature, in courage, energy, and the living resources of faith.
Desirous to attract pilgrims to the tomb of St. John Francis Regis, and induce
them to there recollect themselves in solitude, prayer, and meditation, they
resolved to open houses where women might follow the exercises of a retreat; the
first of these houses was opened at La Louvesc. Father Terme was not to see the
full development of his work; he died in 1834, leaving his religious family to
the direction of the Jesuit Fathers. Encouraged by episcopal authority, and then
by Popes Gregory XVI, Pius IX, and Leo XIII, the last of whom definitely
approved its constitutions, the new institute grew rapidly and soon counted
houses in France, Italy, Belgium, Switzerland, and Holland. In England, the
first house was opened at Manchester, in 1888. The year 1892 saw the first
foundation in America, at New York.



The Society of Our Lady of the Cenacle honours particularly, and proposes to
itself for its model, the retirement of the Blessed Virgin in the Cenacle, after
the Ascension of our Lord, while the whole Church, expecting the Holy Ghost,
"were persevering with one mind in prayer with the women, and Mary the mother of
Jesus" (Acts 1:14). The religious of this society aim, first, at their own
personal sanctification; secondly, at procuring the salvation and perfection of
their neighbour. It is this twofold end that they endeavour to attain by the
invisible apostolate of perpetual prayer, the recitation of the Divine Office,
and the daily Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, as well as by the exercise of
exterior forms of apostolate, principally in providing for spiritual retreats
and the teaching of Christian doctrine.

The houses of the society are open at any time to women of all classes wishing
to make the Spiritual, that is, apply themselves for a few days to the
consideration of the truths of faith, to recollection and prayer, either in
order to make a choice for the disposition of their future life, or because they
feel it necessary to regulate their lives in a more Christian manner. From its
origin, the society has taken up the teaching of Christian doctrine as a
powerful means of apostolate, and receives all persons who are desirous to learn
the truths of faith, so as to dispose themselves for the reception of the
sacraments, also all who are preparing to enter the Catholic Church, or who,
after their return to God, seek to strengthen themselves in faith and piety.
Other means used are the day's retreat, associations, etc.; in fact, all offices
of spiritual charity proper to extend the kingdom of God in souls, according to
the spirit of the Cenacle, are employed by the Society of Our Lady of the
Cenacle, for the love of Christ and the Blessed Virgin.




ABOUT THIS PAGE

APA citation. Zimmerman, B. (1908). Religious of the Cenacle. In The Catholic
Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03518a.htm

MLA citation. Zimmerman, Benedict. "Religious of the Cenacle." The Catholic
Encyclopedia. Vol. 3. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1908.
<http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03518a.htm>.

Transcription. This article was transcribed for New Advent by Ann M. Bourgeois.
Come Holy Spirit, continue to bless all consecrated to Jesus through the
Immaculate Heart of Mary in Cenacles of prayer.

Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. November 1, 1908. Remy Lafort, S.T.D.,
Censor. Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.

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