The Congregation of the Oblates to the Blessed Trinity is an American based community of woman religious who choose to live a life of adoration and reparation while serving the Church in various apostolates.

  The foundress, Mother Margherita Diomira Crispi, began the Congregation in 1923 in Italy, and sent her Sisters to Central America and the United States to open missions and schools. From these beginnings the Oblates have continued to work in parishes with the clergy, in catechetical missions, in conducting retreats, in the education of children, and in Hispanic apostolate.

The Oblates live in community, wear a religious habit and take vows of chastity, poverty and obedience. The Sisters come together for Morning Prayer, the Liturgy of the Eucharist, Vespers and Night Prayer. Their spirituality centers around the Eucharist as they have weekly Holy Hour and Adoration and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. Special devotion is given to the Blessed Virgin Mary through daily recitation of the Rosary and other Marian devotions.

The Special charism of the Oblates to the Blessed Trinity is accented in the motto “Deus Charitas” which means “God is Love”. The Sisters make every effort to live the Trinitarian Love that unites the three Persons of the Blessed Trinity.

They live in convents and share all in common while perfecting and growing in love and service to the Lord, their Divine Spouse. Time is given to prayer, to apostolate and to intellectual and physical work. Study is important both for the spiritual and intellectual growth of the Oblates. The more the Sisters know about God and His Creation, the more they know of His Love and are able to reflect it in their own lives.

The Oblates have St. Aloysius Novotiate located in the Beautiful Mid-Hudson Valley in the town of Hopewell Junction, Dutchess County, New York. It is here where the young aspirant to religious life learns what it means to be a true Oblate. The steps in training are postulancy, novitiate, temporary professed and perpetual professed. A postulant spends six months in training. Then she receives the white veil when she becomes a novice. During the novitiate of two years, one of which is canonical, the novice learns more about the consecrated life as she prepares  for  her temporary vows. The Sister in temporal vows commits herself to follow the poor, chaste and obedient Christ. After five years she makes perpetual vows and receives a plain gold ring as a sign of her espousal.

To be an Oblate means to offer oneself totally to the Triune of God the way that Christ offered Himself as a victim for the salvation f mankind. This life is one of loving service to God and to His People in imitation of the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity who came “to serve and not to be served.” The Oblate lives a life designed for the “greater honor and glory of God,” God in the Blessed Trinity.

The Oblates offer themselves as a holocaust to the Blessed Trinity – the Father, Son and Holy Spirit through a life of adoration, reparation and apostolic works- through prayer, sacrifice and love- through the vows of poverty chastity and obedience. 

            The special charism of the Oblates to the Blessed Trinity is accented in the motto “Deus Charitas” which means “God is Love.” The sisters make every effort to live the Trinitarian Love that unites the three Persons of the Blessed Trinity.

            The Sisters come together for Morning Prayer, the Liturgy of the Eucharist, Vespers and Night Prayer. Their spirituality centers around the Eucharist and they have weekly Holy Hour, Adoration and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament.

    If He calls you to be a light in the world, would you accept the Challenge to light up the darkness of hearts?

For more information please contact:

                                   Mother Gloria Castro                                    

St. Aloysius Novitiate

Box 98

Hopewell Junction, New York 12533

Tel: 845-226-5671

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