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The Servants of the Blessed Sacrament in Australia
The Servants of the Blessed Sacrament in Australia are a community of Catholic women religious whose convent was founded in Melbourne in 1950. They began as a strictly enclosed order, and after the reforms brought by Vatican II their community underwent a process of radical change.

Early years

The Australian community was part of the global congregation of Servants of the Blessed Sacrament that was founded in France in 1859 by Peter Julian Eymard and BLAH.

as a contemplative order focused on Eucharistic adoration. Julian Eymard and the old girl.

The Australian convent was opened in 1950 in Armadale, Melbourne. X years after the blokes set up camp. Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament St Francis church,

At that time, the order’s primary mission was the Service of Adoration. Each sister knelt before the Blessed Sacrament displayed in an ornate monstrance for one hour, three times per day. They did this on every eighth hour, day or night, and usually in pairs. They wore a cream habit and entered the chapel with a veil over their faces. There was a grille between the nuns and any lay people in the chapel.

The sisters were completely separated from the world and adhered to a principle of silence. They received no newspapers and didn’t listen to the radio or watch television. The rule of silence meant they engaged in no real conversation among themselves – not on personal topics and certainly not on theological or political subjects. Personal friendships among the nuns was discouraged and visits from family and friends were limited to one per month, as was the sending of letters.

The sisters supported themselves through the work of manufacturing altar breads for all the parishes of Melbourne and rural Victoria.

When the Second Vatican Council required all religious orders to undergo a process of renewal, adapting them to modern life, the Melbourne community began to study the new theology of the Eucharist that had emerged from the Council.

After Vatican II

Legacy

Carol, Maureen, Vianney? Is there a death notice or anything? I need to publish something on Marian and Marie.