Regular Canons of the Mother of God

The Regular Chanoines of the Mother of God are a catholic religious community of pontifical right, founded in 1969 under the name of Opus Mariae in the diocese of Gap. This order was high with the row of Abbaye at Pentecost 1997. It is installed since 2004 in the diocese of Carcassonne in the Abbaye Sainte-Marie de Lagrasse. They obtained the liturgical use of the books of 1962 according to the method of Motu Proprio Ecclesia Dei.

Regular canons

The Regular Canons are of the monk, as a priests majority, alive in community under the Règle of saint Augustin, attached to a Monastère or a church, and which are dedicated to the Liturgie and with the Apostolat. That thus gives a triptych: common life, contemplative life and apostolic life.

Then, the liturgy, the Divine office, is a load of unmemorable tradition; the Pape Jean-Paul II recalled it to the confederated canons, in 1984: “ You are charged, as canons, of the solemn divine worship of the Église, which consists mainly in the celebration choral society of the Liturgie of the Hours and the Eucharistie, remembering that the Liturgy is the top to which the action of the Church tends, and at the same time, the source from which all its force rises. ”

Regular Canons of the Mother of God

Opus Mariae was founded in 1969. The new Community, of traditional liturgy (rite known as of Saint Pie V), they are initially installed at Gap with the monastery of the saint-heart of Notre-Dame. In 1997, Rome raises their community with the row of abbey of pontifical right. Their superior, Mgr Wladimir receives the abbey blessing of the hands of the Cardinal Paul Augustin Mayer in the Basilique Saint-Paul-out-the-walls in Rome.

In 2004, the head office of the community moves in the Abbaye Sainte-Marie de Lagrasse, in the Département of the Aude, having repurchased the buildings with the support of Mgr Jacques Despierre, bishop of Carcassonne.

They are about thirty monk today, mainly with Lagrasse, some always ensuring an apostolate at Gap.

Offices

The regular canons of the Mother of God obtained to use the liturgical books of 1962 for all that relates to the mass and the canonic office, according to the methods of the Motu Proprio Ecclesia Dei.

With the Abbey Sainte-Marie of Lagrasse, the Mass of Sundays and festivals is celebrated with 10:30. For practical reasons, the grid of the Abbaye is open 10:15 to 11:00 only.

External bonds

Internet site of the Regular Canons of the Mother of God

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