About

Name: 

  • [SMP] The Society of Our Mother of Peace – Philippines
    (Daughters of Our Mother of Peace)

Nickname:

  • “Blue Sisters” at Quisao

Address:

  • Mother of Peace Solitude  Trinity Hill Rd., Quisao, Pililla,1910 Rizal

Contact Nos :

  • Globe:  0917 521 3174   Smart:  0918 913 6778
  • Email address:  smpsolitude@gmail.com
  •  Website:  www//marythefont.org.com
  • Facebook :  Mary Peace dela Cruz

Founded:

  • June 19, 1966 by Rev. Fr. Placid Guste, in U.S.A., began two Public Associations in 1979,  1998 in the Philippines,  2003 in Nigeria, S.A.

Type of Religious Community: 

  • Contemplative/Eremitical (Not Cloistered) and Apostolic (Apostolic Hermits)
    Size of Community :    Relatively small but growing – 54 membership

Distinctive Habit:

  • Full length, navy blue, with a white collar and a white veil band and the emblem( Sisters habit) at the left side of the cape

Main Characteristic : 

  1. Contemplative framework
  2. Direct spiritual apostolate
  3. Material simplicity and evangelical poverty

Spirituality:

  • Based on the Gospel and on the teaching of St. John of the Cross and  St. Teresa of Avila

Apostolate:

  1. Promoting the deeper spiritual life and apostolic development of Catholics through retreats and associate membership.
  2. Participating in the Church’s New Evangelization especially through door-to-door contacts and reaching out to the unchurched within the parishes being visited, inviting them to Sunday worship and sharing our faith with them.

BRIEF HISTORY OF THE SOCIETY OF OUR MOTHER OF PEACE

The Society of Our Mother of Peace was founded in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in 1966 by Father Placid Guste (still living with us). In 1971, a second foundation was made in High Ridge, Missouri, approximately twenty miles from St. Louis, Missouri, and the Oklahoma foundation was transferred to Springfield, Missouri. A third foundation was made in 1998 in Quisao, approximately an hour south of Pililla in the Philippines, a fourth in Umuchukwu, Orumba South, Anambra State in Nigeria in 2002, and a fifth in Ujiogba, Esan West, Uromi, Edo State, also in Nigeria in 2012.

The Society is composed of three separate Communities: the Sons of Our Mother of Peace for Religious Priests and Brothers; the Daughters of Our Mother of Peace for Religious Sisters; and the Lay Members Community for lay, married or single men and women. It was born of an inner call to combine the contemplative and apostolic lives in a context of material simplicity in such a manner that the apostolic call would express rather than submerge the contemplative spirit. Needless to say, there lies nothing unique in this desire. But the structural framework of the Society united with the spiritual orientation of St. John of the Cross is specifically ordained to intensify the contemplative-apostolic thrust.

Within the Religious Communities three structures are available, all of which call for the same depth of consecrated life. Those in the original and more solitary structures live at our wooded  Solitudes. A third structure is available for those who feel called to the same depth of consecrated life but with a more apostolic orientation and less solitude. These Brothers or Sisters live in a Religious house normally closer to the city than the wooded areas used by the original structure monasteries.

For more information or details on our way of life, please go to the Community of the Sons of Our Mother of Peace for Religious Priests and Brothers or the Community of theDaughters of Our Mother of Peace for Religious Sisters.