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In 1945 Fr.Louis Marie Parent (OMI) was working in Canada under, Rt. Rev. Hentry Routhier Bishop of Quebec. When Pope Pious XII gave a legal approval to a life of secular consecration, Fr. Louis Marie Parent already had a plan in his mind to start a secular institute for the unmarried woman. Thus in 1952, he founded a secular institute for woman called the “Oblate Missionaries Of Marie Immaculate”

            Later on, he also wanted to organize the priests, unmarried men and married couples to live a life of secular consecration as members of one family. Thus on July 2nd 1952, he founded a secular institute called “Institute Of Voluntas Dei” (IVD) in Canada.

            Very soon the people from the various walks of life found to be attracted towards the institute and became its members.  Within seven years of its foundation, the institute has been recognized and accepted by the local bishop, thus on July 2nd 1965, the Diocese of Quebec officially accepted the institute. On July 21st 1987, it attained the status of Secular Institute of Pontifical Right.