Mother Gabrielle Marie

Mother Gabrielle Marie

Mother Gabrielle Marie Breaux, Mother Superior and foundress of the Benedictine Daughters of Divine Will, began her religious life as a Poor Clare of Perpetual Adoration under the holy guidance of Mother Angelica, foundress of the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament and EWTN (Eternal Word Television Network) in Alabama. After a stroke left Mother Angelica incapacitated, Mother Gabrielle Marie took on the responsibility of Abbess from 2002 to 2009. 

Mother Gabrielle Marie was introduced to the writings of a southern Italian mystic named Luisa Piccarreta (1865-1947), whose diaries contain profound teachings about God’s Most Holy and Divine Will. These teachings greatly impacted Mother Gabrielle Marie’s spiritual life, inspiring her to take a leap of faith in 2009, leaving to found a new monastic community in Italy dedicated to Eucharistic adoration and living in the Divine Will. 

She and her daughters currently reside in Talamello (RN), Italy, where they live a monastic schedule of prayer and work, seeking to lead very interior lives of contemplation within the context of demanding, yet gratifying, labor and familial affection. Though the community is fully contemplative, the sisters are not cloistered, for they also feel called to share their life of prayer with others. Each member must exchange nothing more than her own, human will as dear and glorious St. Joseph demonstrates in Nazareth, the secret to this lies in-between the Sacred and Immaculate Hearts of Jesus and Mary.

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