Society of Mary Reparatrix

Society of Mary Reparatrix  –  Sister Émilie-Marie of the Blessed Sacrament, S.M.R.                                                                         La Société de Marie-Réparatrice                                                            “By Mary’s side and through her heart, all my life will be for God’s glory and reparation.”                                                   “Seul L’ Amour Répare  –  Love Alone Repairs”

Foundress:  Blessed Émilie d’Oultremont d’Hooghvorst  (Mère Marie de Jésus)

Place:  Strasbourg, France

Year:  1854 A.D.

Her Charism:  This Sister loves Jesus and members of His Mystical Body “with a delicacy of love that is found in a mother’s heart.”  In this way, she strives to “be Mary for Jesus.”  In the spirit of St. Ignatius Loyola, she makes reparation to God for the sins and sacrileges committed against Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament and prays that all God’s sons and daughters become a new creation.  By combining the contemplative with the active life, she reaches out to the poor and those on the fringes of society.  This is how she “becomes another Mary for Jesus.”  The motto of her Order is: “Love alone repairs.”