Questions about the Society of Mary

[MPspark1989]

I am looking into religious life and I have been on several retreats to different orders but none of them have really felt right. I recently discovered the order of the Society of Mary. I like alot of their views and their mission but there are a few things missing that, to me, are a big part of religious life such as the habits. Habits are not worn by the group I am looking at. Does anyone know much about the Society of Mary? Any answers or info would be greatly appreciated

 

[Friar_David_O.Carm]

I am looking into religious life and I have been on several retreats to different orders but none of them have really felt right. I recently discovered the order of the Society of Mary. I like alot of their views and their mission but there are a few things missing that, to me, are a big part of religious life such as the habits. Habits are not worn by the group I am looking at. Does anyone know much about the Society of Mary? Any answers or info would be greatly appreciated

Habits are not apart of the charism of every religious community/order.

If this is something that you need then that is one way to know that you are not called to a certain group.

I looked into them during my initial discernment but decided that they were not a fit for me and I was not a fit for them.

If I recall correctly they have more brothers than priests. They focus on the equality of all members trying not to draw a distinction to those in the clerical orders. They do staff some parishes but I believe their main work in in Education.

We had a Marist brother teach in our novitiate program.

 

[renewaladvocate]

As a member of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, I have been blessed by a group of three Marianist Priests who feel called to found a new religious community. The Community that they have founded wears simple blue habits, and they are consecrated to Mary. I am personal friends with them, and for a long time discerned joining them. They are excellent and orthodox in their theology and spirituality.

brothersofthebeloveddisciple.org/about.htm

God bless,
Peter Rowe, Tiber Swim Team 1999-2000.

 

[Allen537]

The Society of Mary does have a habit that they are invested with at the beginning of their novitiate. Whether or not they wear it is the choice of the individual member.

 

[odubhghail]

There are actually five branches that constitute the Marist family: Marist Laity, what used to be referred to as a Third Order; the Marist Fathers and Brothers (SM), a clerical congregation, founded by Father Jean Claude Colin, about 1816; the Marist Brothers (FMS), primarily a teaching congregation of Brothers, founded by St. Marcellin Champagnat, a Marist Father; the Marist Sisters, (SM), co founded by Father Colin, and Jeanne Marie Chavouin (not sure of the spelling of her name); and the Marist Missionary Sisters (SMSM), who emerged from the missionary work pioneered by Francoise Perreton, a member of the Marist Laity, in the South Pacific.