Adorers of the Royal Heart of Jesus Coming to the United States

 

The Institute of Christ the King has announced that the Adorers of the Royal Heart of Jesus Christ Sovereign Priest, the Institutes Order of Religious Sisters who are in Gricigliano Italy, will be coming to the United States, St. Louis to be exact, at the Oratory of Saint Francis de Sales.

Sister Marie of the Love of God, Superior, will arrive later

this month to explore the possibility of establishing a

community in St. Louis.  Please pray for Sister Marie and

for the future of the Adorers of the Royal Heart of Jesus

Christ Sovereign Priest.

 

A little history of this Religious Order of the Institute

of Christ the King Sovereign Priest…

To support the work of the Institute of Christ the King,

Divine Providence has brought about the formation of a

community of contemplative nuns dedicated to reparation

and adoration of the Royal Heart of Jesus Christ Sovereign

Priest. Leading a non-cloistered contemplative life, the

sisters offer their daily prayers and sacrifices particularly

for the priests of the Institute and the souls entrusted to them.

In June 2004, Ennio Cardinal Antonelli, Archbishop of Florence, vested the first three sisters with their habit. In Spring 2007, they already number nine sisters and four postulants, from France and the United States.

 

Like the priests and oblates of the Institute, the Adorers of the Royal Heart hold three co-patrons as the

guiding lights of their spirituality: St. Francis de Sales, St. Benedict, and St. Thomas Aquinas. From St. Francis de Sales' doctrine of Divine Love, the sisters draw the pattern of their vocation: to be in constant pursuit of growth in Love, which should always be founded on Truth.

 

The Benedictine aspect of their charism is reflected in the central place of the Church's Liturgy in their daily life. Holy Mass and the Divine Office celebrated in the classical Roman form, form the rhythm of each day. In St. Thomas Aquinas, the sisters find the clarity and structure of thought necessary for their formation and ever-deepening understanding of the mysteries of our Catholic Faith. Finally, it is through their principal

patroness, the Blessed Virgin Mary under her title of the Immaculate Conception, that they seek to conform their lives and their whole beings to the Royal Heart of Her Divine Son--thus their motto, In Corde Regis ("in the Heart of the King").

 

 

 

 

 

St. John Vianney’s Prayer to Jesus
I love you, oh my God and my only desire is to love you until my last breath.
I love you, oh infinitely kind God and I prefer to die loving you than to live a single moment without

loving you.
I love you, oh my God and I long for heaven only in order to know the bliss of loving you perfectly.
I love you, oh my God and I only fear going to hell because there I will never experience the sweet

consolation of loving you.
Oh my God, if my tongue is not able to say at every opportunity that I love you, I want at least my heart to

repeat it to you as many times as I take a breath.
My God, give me the grace of suffering out of love for you, of loving you while I suffer. Give me the grace of one day breathing my last out of love for you and at the same time feeling how much I love you.
The closer I come to my final end the more I beseech you to intensify and perfect my love for you.  Amen.