About Saint Clement Eucharistic Shrine

The Oblates of the Virgin Mary are honored to welcome you to our beautiful and historic church, Saint Clement Eucharistic Shrine, in the Back Bay, Boston. Our church is dedicated to prayer and Eucharistic Adoration. Our mission is to provide a place of prayer and welcome so that people may come to visit and spend time with the Lord in the Blessed Sacrament in a traditional setting. We invite you to come to know the shrine, our mission, and us.

In fulfilling our call to provide a place of prayer, we offer many opportunities for people to come and be with the Lord. We provide liturgical services throughout the day, including Mass and the Liturgy of the Hours. Members of our community, including the priests, brothers and seminarians, take part in these daily liturgies.

Against the back-wall of the Sanctuary are reredos, which include the exposition throne. The reredos is in the form of a tryptych. An adoring angel in high relief flanks each side of the throne. The angels, copied from those of Fra Angelico, hold censers and below them are the inscriptions:

HIC EST PANIS QUI
DE CAELO DESCENDIT
ECCE PANIS ANGELORUM
FACTUS CIBUS VIATORUM
This is the Bread which
came down from Heaven
behold the Bread of Angels
made the food of pilgrims