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On February 2, 1947, by his Apostolic Constitution 'Provida Mater Ecclesia,' Pope Pius XII recognized Secular Institutes as a new form of official consecration in the Church. The Church's vision for secular institutes was to bring an evangelical flavor to the world 'as leaven in the dough' by members living their total consecration to God in the world with a joy and energy that helps our sisters and brothers encounter the God of all happiness. Since that day, numerous secular institutes of men and women have been officially sanctioned by the Church.
The Voluntas Dei Institute was founded on July 2, 1958, and on Pentecost Sunday, June 6, 1965, the institute was recognized as a Secular Institute of Pontifical Rite.
A man of unshakable faith in Divine Providence, an untiring apostle of the Gospel, a man of prayer, a priest, and sought-after preacher, our founder Father Louis-Marie Parent, OMI was recognized in life and in death as a man of extraordinary holiness and gifts that he used tirelessly in service to the Church.
Father Parent was born in 1910 in Quebec, Canada and joined the Oblates of Mary Immaculate in 1931. He was ordained a priest in 1937. In 1938, he became a missionary in Northern Alberta. In 1943, with the help of two women from Montreal, he participated in the foundation of a contemplative religious community called The Missionary Recluses. In 1944, he was appointed parish priest in Falher, Alberta, and in 1945, a colonizer missionary in Peace River, Alberta.
In 1952, Father Parent founded The Oblate Missionaries of Mary Immaculate, asecular institute for women, and in 1958 the Voluntas Dei Institute for clergy and laypeople.
When he gathered his first recruits for the Institute at Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, on July 2, 1958, Father Parent's desire was to give to the Church Christians who would be ready to share in his own apostolic ambitions and Christian ideal in real service to the Church. He also wanted to offer others a form of Christian commitment capable of irresistibly drawing everyone closer to God in order to celebrate and live together the joyous hope of our salvation in Jesus Christ.
Father Parent died at the age of 98 on May 17, 2009.
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