EPE DEANERY LAITY COUNCIL

MATER ECCLESIAE MONASTERY

The Mater Ecclesiae Monastery is a monastery of diocesan right, erected on January 26, 2004 in Lagos, by Anthony Cardinal Okogie, with the 'nulla osta' of the Dicastery of Institute of Consecrated Life and the Society of Apostolic Life and inaugurated 22nd February 2004.

The Monastery is currently under the care of the Archbishop of Lagos His Grace Alfred A. Martins. The site of the Monastery is at Anthony Cardinal Okogie road, Sangotedo, Lagos.

The spirituality of the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery is Eucharistic-Marian-Ecclesial based on the Encyclical Ecclesiae de Eucharistia and on the Inspiration of Saint John Paul II.

It is an exclusively contemplative Monastery dedicated to perpetual Eucharistic adoration in prayerful support for the Holy Father, Priests and Religious.

The nuns of ‘Mater Ecclesiae’ Monastery always live as true sisters, showing reverence and respect for one another.
They always have between them a spirit of supernatural love in service and obedience to themselves reciprocally.

They hold in very high esteem the primacy of love for God and for others.
They live the joy of being true Brides of Christ, expressed in constant affability, in a particular way with the more difficult sister.
They live in constant smile, and with the disposition to listen.

They always have between them a spirit of supernatural love in service and obedience to themselves reciprocally.

The principal and constant activity of ‘Mater Ecclesiae’ Monastery therefore, shall be the life of intense prayer, as a state of divine union that must penetrate the entire existence of the nun, that she may always live the presence of the living God as a constant exercise of faith, hope and charity; as a continuous dialogue of the Son with the Father in the Holy Spirit, and as the source of the entire life of the Community and personal life of the nun.