***A proposed charism which will emerge as part of the CAMM/CCMM Social Services Division.***
The Good Shepherd Sisters of the Divine Heart of Jesus will be a constitutionally enclosed community dedicated to contemplative
prayer in the spirit of Blessed Maria Droste Zu Vischering, RGS (pictured at left). The sisters will also conduct a retreat
house for reformed young ladies and mature women who wish to lead lives of virtue after a life of immorality.
The spiritual exercises of the sisters will include either form of the Mass (as needed by the local bishop); Latin Divine
Office; Latin Rosary and Salve Procession; Lectio Divina; and Mental Prayer. Every First Friday, they will repeat Pope Leo
XIII's Consecration of the World to the Divine Heart of Jesus, which was done in response to a vision to Blessed Maria Droste.
The habit will consist of a white tunic and scapular; red cord cincture, white rosary, white wimple and guimpe, black
veil, and Divine Heart emblem.
Those who feel called to this community, but belong to an autocephalous church; schismatic, or sedevacantist sect, should
enter deep discernment before making application. Reconciliation with Rome is prerequisite. May the Holy Ghost be your guide.
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