OLA Sisters Mark Feast Day

Feast Day celebrated on the eve of Pentecost as dreams of OLA founder, Fr. Augustin Planque, continue to flourish 141 years later.

The Feast Day of the Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Apostles (OLA), which takes place each year on the eve of Pentecost Sunday, will be celebrated across the congregation tomorrow, June 3rd.  

Later this evening (June 2nd), OLA Sisters across 19 countries and 3 continents will gather on the eve of the Feast Day and pray at their respective houses. While benefactors, supporters, helpers and volunteers from down through the years are prayed for daily, they are remembered in a special way as the congregation come together in prayer across the world later today.

The image of Mary with the Apostles in the Upper Room at Pentecost forms the basis of the OLA ‘Cenacle Spirituality’.  The Apostles, now without Jesus following his Ascension into Heaven, find themselves in the Upper Room where they are frightened and full of fear.  Mary stays with the Apostles and prays with them.  Through her encouragement, the Apostles are filled with the Holy Spirit which enables them to go forth and serve God without fear. Today, this spirituality continues to enable OLA Sisters to be prayerfully in the Cenacle with Mary, while also alert to the needs of the world in which we live. 

Our Lady of Apostles, Pray for Us!

OLA Sisters across the world are gathering this evening to pray on the eve of Feast Day.