A Short History of the Order of Saint Charbel – 1 February 2022
“On 12 September 1987 Fr. Broussard arrived in Australia and joined the newly established Order of Saint Charbel. The Order proposed itself as a “new form of consecrated life”. In order to be approved by the Holy See in the Vatican, as a Catholic Religious Order, it was necessary to have a Rule and Constitution. At that point, there was only a six page “shell” document. A Rule and Constitution would establish the nature and purpose of the Order, as well as its governance and relationship to the Church Hierarchy …”