English Italiano Polski Português Español Reception Masses & Networks Historical Help us Contact Come for a retreat with the Institut du Bon Pasteur! September 27, 2016 - 14:49 - webmaster "Our valiant Abbot Aulagnier having been relieved this summer of the office of Rector of our international seminary in Courtalain (replaced by Mr. Abbé Vincent Baumann) does not intend to remain idle, you can imagine! Read more IBP 10th anniversary jubilee in Rome (October 28 and 29, 2016) August 5, 2016 - 23:09 - webmaster Video of priestly and diaconal ordinations of June 25, 2016 July 28, 2016 - 02:43 - webmaster Please find below a link for a video montage concerning the ordinations of June 25, 2016 in Bordeaux: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ZE2FQhsHKHQ&app=desktop 5 new priests and 5 new deacons for the Institute of the Good Shepherd! July 2, 2016 - 23:06 - webmaster His Most Reverend Excellency Mgr François Bacqué, Apostolic Nuncio and Titular Archbishop of Gradisca, ordained on June 25, 2016, in Saint-Éloi, five priests and five deacons for the Institute of the Good Shepherd. It is a great feast for the Holy Church and for our Institute which, after ten years of existence, proceeds to its most numerous ordinations: in fact, have received the priestly ordination MM. Read more 1 of 32 ›› Help us welcome As the Good Shepherd Himself says so deeply: “I know my sheep and my sheep know me”. This divine communion with our divine Master, founded on the communication of goods, reciprocity in knowledge and benevolence, in short on a true friendship - "I will no longer call you my servants… but my friends" -, concerns first of all the priest members of our Institute. But because the Christ-Lord sends his priests to you, faithful or not, as the Father has sent him to all of us, it is right that this reciprocal knowledge of the Shepherd and of the sheep passes through these friends that He has made. chosen from all eternity. This is why, says the Apostle, "we are acquitting ourselves of an embassy near you" and our ardent desire will always be to communicate to you the hope founded on this supereminent science and of Jesus Christ. But because times are hard, because the charity of the great number has grown cold and because "men no longer support sound doctrine", we will sometimes have to, in preaching the word, "insist in time and against it. time to convince, beg, take back ”. We will always do so "with all patience and with the desire to teach." The controversy is not to our taste, we prefer the doctrinal defense of traditional faith, that which procures eternal life. Do the gentle Providence that we are free from the traps of dialectics; may his Light and his Goodness keep us calm in this mission, for the honor of God and of his Christ! Abbot Philippe Laguérie + Father Laguérie's blog - About - Credits -