Who We Are - Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament (2024)

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Who We Are - Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament? ›

We are a Catholic religious congregation of priests, deacons and brothers whose mission is to share the riches of God's love manifested in the Eucharist. By prayer before the Blessed Sacrament and an active apostolic life, we strive to make Christ in the Eucharist better known and loved.

The Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament was founded in Paris France on 13 May 1856 by a French priest, Saint Peter Julian Eymard. As he searched for a response to the needs and challenges of his time, he found the answer in the love of God manifested in a special way in the Eucharist.

What does S.S.S. stand for? S.S.S. stands for three Latin words, Societas Sanctissimi Sacramenti, which in English translates to Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament. These letters after our name mean that we have professed vows to God in this religious congregation.

VOCATIONS. We are an apostolic group of priests, deacons and brothers drawn together by our common desire to live the mystery of the Eucharist to the full.

The ordinary minister of exposition is a priest or a deacon. In the absence of a priest or deacon, an instituted acolyte or other extraordinary minister of Holy Communion may expose the Blessed Sacrament and then later repose.

The Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament was founded in Paris, France, in the year 1856 by Saint Peter Julian Eymard. Throughout his life, Father Eymard searched for an answer to the deep spiritual hungers of his day, and he discovered it in the Eucharist.

The whole Christ is truly present, body, blood, soul, and divinity, under the appearances of bread and wine—the glorified Christ who rose from the dead after dying for our sins. This is what the Church means when she speaks of the "Real Presence" of Christ in the Eucharist.

The Eucharist (/ˈjuːkərɪst/ YOO-kər-ist; from Koinē Greek: εὐχαριστία, romanized: evcharistía, lit. 'thanksgiving'), also known as Holy Communion, the Blessed Sacrament and the Lord's Supper, is a Christian rite that is considered a sacrament in most churches, and as an ordinance in others.

The Servants of the Holy Heart of Mary is a religious congregation begun in France during the turmoil of the 1800's. Father François Delaplace, C.S. Sp. founder of the congregation, was concerned about the children in Paris who were left abandoned.

monstrance, in the Roman Catholic Church and some other churches, a vessel in which the consecrated eucharistic host (the sacramental bread) is carried in processions and is displayed during certain devotional ceremonies.

Why can't the priest touch the monstrance? ›

When priests or deacons bless the people with the monstrance, they cover their hands with the ends of the veil so that their hands do not touch the monstrance as a mark of respect for the sacred vessel and as an indication that it is Jesus present in the Eucharistic species who blesses the people and not the minister.

It is Mary above all who persevered in the breaking of the bread. “O Eucharistic souls, who wish to live for the Blessed Sacrament, who have made the Eucharist the centre of your lives and its service your only labour, Mary is your model; her life is your grace. Persevere, as She did, in the breaking of the bread.”

The Blessed Sacrament is NEVER to be left alone under any circ*mstances. Do not leave the chapel with no one present except in a very serious emergency and once others have been called.

The Presentation Sisters, officially the Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, are a religious institute of Roman Catholic women founded in Cork, Ireland, by the Venerable Honora "Nano" Nagle in 1775. The Sisters of the congregation use the postnominal initials PBVM.

The Congregation of the Handmaids of the Holy Child Jesus (H.H.C.J.) was founded by Sister Mary Charles Magdalen Walker, an Irish Sister of Charity (now known as Religious Sisters of Charity), who came to Nigeria in 1923 at the invitation of Bishop Joseph Shanahan, CSSp.

It is an apostolic Congregation of Pontifical right, composed of priests, deacons and lay-brothers, with representatives in 29 countries in 5 continents. It is structured into Provinces and Regions and a central government, the General Council, which is based in Rome.

They are the Sacraments of Initiation (Baptism, Confirmation, the Eucharist), the Sacraments of Healing (Penance and the Anointing of the Sick), and the Sacraments at the Service of Communion (Marriage and Holy Orders).