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The Daughters Of Our Mother Of Peace
Convent Community
Welcome To
A Close Bonding in Christ
The Convent Community of the Daughters of Our Mother of Peace is an alternate structure, or form of life, closely
Linked to the original group of Daughters founded in 1966 by Father Placid Guste. Our Convent Sisters live in Vinita
Park (St. Louis) Missouri, approximately 20 miles away from Mary the Font Solitude, home to the original or central
structure Daughters. In contrast to our Solitude Sisters who dwell in hermitages, the Convent Community lives in
one building where each Sister has a separate room. Here, community living is evident and supports a close bond in
Christ.
The Convent Community of the Daughters of Our Mother of Peace is an alternate structure, or form of life, closely
Linked to the original group of Daughters founded in 1966 by Father Placid Guste. Our Convent Sisters live in Vinita
Park (St. Louis) Missouri, approximately 20 miles away from Mary the Font Solitude, home to the original or central
structure Daughters. In contrast to our Solitude Sisters who dwell in hermitages, the Convent Community lives in
one building where each Sister has a separate room. Here, community living is evident and supports a close bond in
Christ.
Contemplative and Apostolic
Like the founding Daughters, or Convent Community is contemplative without a cloister, and apostolic in bringing
the Good News of God’s Love to the unchurched. Two and a half hours daily are devoted to private prayer and
spiritual reading, in addition to coming together in chapel for the Rosary, parts of the Liturgy of the Hours and the
Liturgy of the Eucharist. We share the same desire for a lifestyle of simplicity and evangelical poverty, so that our
Riches may be in the Kingdom of Heaven.
Our apostolate of evangelization is essential to our vocation. Our program is invitational, that is, we extend an
invitation to each and every person that we reach, to join us in worship on any weekend of the year. These contacts
give us the opportunity to share our Faith, bringing Jesus and His Church into focus in a non-threatening and
non-pressured way. Every spiritual dialogue is successful in God’s eyes, since our role is to be “little shepherds”
for the Shepherd whose Good News we bring with joy and zeal!
Like the founding Daughters, or Convent Community is contemplative without a cloister, and apostolic in bringing
the Good News of God’s Love to the unchurched. Two and a half hours daily are devoted to private prayer and
spiritual reading, in addition to coming together in chapel for the Rosary, parts of the Liturgy of the Hours and the
Liturgy of the Eucharist. We share the same desire for a lifestyle of simplicity and evangelical poverty, so that our
Riches may be in the Kingdom of Heaven.
Our apostolate of evangelization is essential to our vocation. Our program is invitational, that is, we extend an
invitation to each and every person that we reach, to join us in worship on any weekend of the year. These contacts
give us the opportunity to share our Faith, bringing Jesus and His Church into focus in a non-
Vocational Provisions
From the outset of his role as Founder, Father Placid had in mind alternate structures to include persons who felt
called to the same charism, the same, the same depth of consecrated and spiritual life as the original group, but
with a more apostolic orientation and less solitude. Both the original and the extended structures form one
Religious Community, differing in physical environment and in schedule, but united deeply in spiritual goals and
practical means for TOTAL DEDICATION as true Daughters of Our Mother of Peace.
From the outset of his role as Founder, Father Placid had in mind alternate structures to include persons who felt
called to the same charism, the same, the same depth of consecrated and spiritual life as the original group, but
with a more apostolic orientation and less solitude. Both the original and the extended structures form one
Religious Community, differing in physical environment and in schedule, but united deeply in spiritual goals and
practical means for TOTAL DEDICATION as true Daughters of Our Mother of Peace.