The Society of Our Mother of Peace was founded in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in 1966 by Father Placid Guste. The original foundation was transferred to Springfield Missouri in 1976. In the meantime, in 1971 a second foundation was made in High Ridge, Missouri, approximately twenty miles from St. Louis, Missouri. A third foundation was made in 1998 in the Philippines and a fourth in Nigeria in 2002.
The Society is composed of three separate communities: The Sons of Our Mother of Peace for religious priests and brothers; The Daughters of Our Mother of Peace for religious sisters; and the lay members community for lay, married or single men and women. It was born of an inner call to combine the contemplative and apostolic lives in a context of material simplicity in such a manner that the apostolic call would express rather than submerge the contemplative spirit.