Passionist sisters?

[jrs88]

Does anyone know of any congregations of Passionist sisters who wear the habit and are orthodox but who are not cloistered, and do some type of work with the poor, children, or elderly?

 

[CarmeliteGirl25]

Does anyone know of any congregations of Passionist sisters who wear the habit and are orthodox but who are not cloistered, and do some type of work with the poor, children, or elderly?

I did a search but unfortunately, the only Passionist sisters I could find who were not cloistered, did not wear habits. Hopefully someone else will be able to help. I’ll keep searching. God bless you!

 

[GemmaRose]

All Passionist nuns (they’re nuns, not sisters) are cloistered, however the Monastery in Clark Summit, PA, is slightly more liberal in that they have a retreat ministry and so interact more openly with others (while remaining in the Monastery).

Some of the nuns in Clark Summit wear the traditional habit, and some do not, although they may all do so while engaging in the retreat ministry. I’m not sure. (I met them in a personal situation.)

If you are attracted to the Passionist charism, you may consider visiting a Passionist Monastery to speak with one of the priests about your possible vocation.

 

[CarmeliteGirl25]

All Passionist nuns (they’re nuns, not sisters) are cloistered, however the Monastery in Clark Summit, PA, is slightly more liberal in that they have a retreat ministry and so interact more openly with others (while remaining in the Monastery).

Some of the nuns in Clark Summit wear the traditional habit, and some do not, although they may all do so while engaging in the retreat ministry. I’m not sure. (I met them in a personal situation.)

If you are attracted to the Passionist charism, you may consider visiting a Passionist Monastery to speak with one of the priests about your possible vocation.

I think she was originally referring to “sisters” as in active apostolates. There are such a thing, and they aren’t cloistered, but they aren’t habited as well. Here’s their website:

passionistsisters.org/

 

[jrs88]

Yes, I really like their charism, but I also feel called to do some sort of work especially with orphanages. unfortunately all the non-cloistered Passionist sisters seem more liberal…

 

[CarmeliteGirl25]

Yes, I really like their charism, but I also feel called to do some sort of work especially with orphanages. unfortunately all the non-cloistered Passionist sisters seem more liberal…

That seems to be the problem with several orders nowadays. There are even Carmelites who do not wear the habit I don’t understand why so many religious have become lax and liberal (not just in the matters of the habit). It’s disturbing and upsetting. We must pray for them.

 

[daughterofmary]

The passionist nuns in Whitesville, KY are very good. They wear the full habit. They are cloistered. They have received some young vocations recently. They seem to have a great love for the Church, their passionist charism, and our Lord and Lady.

passionistnuns.org/ - website for them

passionistnuns.org/blog/index.php - their blog

Their blog is pretty awesome.

 

[jrs88]

The passionist nuns in Whitesville, KY are very good. They wear the full habit. They are cloistered. They have received some young vocations recently. They seem to have a great love for the Church, their passionist charism, and our Lord and Lady.

passionistnuns.org/ - website for them

passionistnuns.org/blog/index.php - their blog

Their blog is pretty awesome.

Thanks! I like their blog.

 

[jrs88]

That seems to be the problem with several orders nowadays. There are even Carmelites who do not wear the habit I don’t understand why so many religious have become lax and liberal (not just in the matters of the habit). It’s disturbing and upsetting. We must pray for them.

Yes, I agree…I mean I could understand a missionary order maybe wanting to dress like the people they are working with, but at the same time, they’re supposed to look different, their habit is their symbol of belonging to Christ, so I think that overrides wanting to blend in. And then if they are dissenting from the church, that is bad, and doesn’t make much sense.

 

[Moonflower]

Does anyone know of any congregations of Passionist sisters who wear the habit and are orthodox but who are not cloistered, and do some type of work with the poor, children, or elderly?

ST. PAUL OF THE CROSS

MYSTIC AND PASSIONIST FOUNDER

Feast: October 20

St. Paul of the cross founded the Passionist in the 1700s and was inspired by God.

If your a male:The Mission Society of Mandeville is a brotherhood of priests and lay men dedicated to Apostolic works in mission territories, participating in missionary activity through the spread of the Gospel and service of the Church. Preaching the Word, education, serving the poor, and caring for abandoned children are some of the ways through which we carry out the missionary mandate of the Church.

The history of the Passionist Nuns goes back to the seventeenth century to Ovada, a small town in northern Italy. Ovada still stands, a bright splotch of red-tiled roofs huddled in the quiet green foothills of the Appenines. Behind it the great bulk of the mountains breaks gradually against the sky, while at its feet the last spreading slopes tumble swiftly into the Po Valley. During more than a thousand years, Ovada was like any other Italian town under any Italian sky-*commonplace and ordinary, famous for little except its excellent white wines and the cold bitterness of the winters sweeping down upon it from the Alps. But in the last decade of the seventeenth century, it took its place forever in the imperishable archives of eternity, for in Ovada on January 3, 1694, was born Paul Francis Daneo, a cloth merchant’s son.

In every beginning is hidden the outline of the ending, and the first mile of every new road has about it something of the last. So it was with Paul Francis Daneo–known to the world today as Saint Paul of the Cross. Even during his childhood, there shone out brief flashes of the holiness that was to make glorious the eventual achievement of his life. A faith-filled relationship with Christ and His holy Mother, devotion to the Blessed Sacrament, love of the cross, and a keen sense of the supernatural–all these marked the life of Paul Daneo from the beginning. In this short sketch, we cannot pace with him each step of his long life, but it is possible to outline in a few sharp strokes the basic pattern around which was painted the final picture of his life.

When our Founder, St. Paul of the Cross, was but twenty-six years of age, God revealed his life’s mission through a number of visions. One morning in the autumn of 1720, he was returning from the Capuchin church where he had attended Mass and received Holy Communion. Suddenly, in spirit, Paul saw himself clothed in a rough woolen tunic; it was black, and over the heart he saw a white cross beneath which was the Holy Name of Jesus. At the same moment, an interior voice said: “This signi*fies how pure and spotless that heart should be which bears the Holy Name of Jesus engraved upon it”

A long tradition in the Passionist congregation tells us that the Mother of Jesus herself came to St. Paul of the Cross and showed him the Passionist habit. She revealed that God wished him to found a new religious Institute whose members would be clothed in black as a sign of mourning for the suffering and death of her Divine Son. That experience gave meaning to Paul’s future life and all the sufferings to come.

Within a few months he was clothed in the black habit by Bishop Gattinara of Alessandria. Afterward Paul retired to a small sacristy in the Church of St. Charles in Castellazo. There, during a 40-day retreat, he wrote the primitive rule of his future Congregation. Early in his life, circumstances united to burn into Paul’s consciousness the reality of his vocation. There were misunderstandings, apparent failure, sorrows and sufferings. These scourged him and crowned him with thorns, as if to engrave indelibly upon him the mark of the Crucified. But his love for Our Lord grew ever more radiant in Paul’s soul as the years passed, pushing back the shadows. In the end he succeeded. His fame as a missionary of the Cross drew people from every part of the country. For nearly half a century he tramped the roads of Italy, preaching Christ and Him Crucified, enkindling the fire of God’s love in the hearts of men, women and children wherever he went.

 

[Moonflower]

The Passionist Nuns
Providence had destined St. Paul of the Cross for another great spiritual achievement. God inspired him to found a community of cloistered Nuns dedicated to the loving memory of the Passion of Jesus. This is our treasured heritage. By our life of prayer and sacrifice as we stand in spirit with Mary at the foot of the cross, we are called to give added power to the preaching of his Passionist sons.

Our rule puts it eloquently: “Within the Church, the Passionist Nuns are called to be a sign of the love of Jesus Crucified for the Father and for mankind. By their unceasing contemplation of the Paschal Mystery of Jesus, the greatest and most overwhelming work of God’s love, they are certain of contributing to the fullness of the Church’s presence to mankind…Convinced of the absolute necessity of God’s grace for the fruitfulness of the apostolate, they offer their unceasing prayer and joyful penance that God send zealous workers into His harvest, convert sinners and open the minds of non-Christians to hear the Gospel…The Passionist Nuns seek to imitate Mary who devoted herself totally to the Person and work of her Son, serving the mystery of redemption.” The saintly woman God destined to aid St. Paul of the Cross in founding the Passionist Nuns came from a wealthy family of Corneto (now Tarquinia) Italy. Her name was Faustina Gertrude Constantini. Having entered the Benedictine monastery in Corneto, Faustina came in contact with St. Paul of the Cross during a retreat he preached there in 1736.

Their are sadly no Passionists nuns that are active orders which is what you mean dear, but their maybe a sign that God is calling you to the active or semi-contempletive which means not fully enclosed. There are a few special women that are chosen for that life maybe your not chosen but who am I to say? I hope you find what God has planned for your life sweety

 

[odubhghail]

Wait a cotton pickin’ minute! We have three convents here in Ontario,(two in the archdiocese of Toronto, one in the diocese of St. Catharine’s) of a congregation of Passionist Sisters of St. Paul of the Cross, founded by Maria Maddalena in 1815. These ladies wear a black modified habit-with veil- in winter and a grey version in summer (Toronto having both frigid winters and stifling summers). They wear the Passionist insignia over the heart. They were not, it is true, founded by St. Paul of the Cross; but then, neither were the Sisters of the Cross and Passion. As to the Passionist nuns wearing the habit-well, I am told they do shave their heads bald…anyone know whether this is true?

 

[odubhghail]

Oh, forgot. They do not have a website, but their address is as follows:
178 Steeles Avenue East
Thornhill, ON L3T 1A5
Canada

 

[Moonflower]

Wait a cotton pickin’ minute! We have three convents here in Ontario,(two in the archdiocese of Toronto, one in the diocese of St. Catharine’s) of a congregation of Passionist Sisters of St. Paul of the Cross, founded by Maria Maddalena in 1815. These ladies wear a black modified habit-with veil- in winter and a grey version in summer (Toronto having both frigid winters and stifling summers). They wear the Passionist insignia over the heart. They were not, it is true, founded by St. Paul of the Cross; but then, neither were the Sisters of the Cross and Passion. As to the Passionist nuns wearing the habit-well, I am told they do shave their heads bald…anyone know whether this is true?

"Passionist nuns live some of the most austere religious lives: They shave their heads; get up at 2 a.m. every day to pray; whip themselves with small leather lashes to share in the pain of Christ’s flogging; practice long-term fasting, give up foods such as fruit and vegetables during the summer as penance, and only speak one hour a day. Their suffering, they believe, can help save lost souls.

Although their faces seem pale and gaunt, their eyes tired with black circles, these women laugh and tell jokes and poke fun at slow-praying sisters or sisters who fall asleep during their vigils. Their favorite target, though, is sisters who don’t wear a habit."

Now I don’t know if this is true for all Passionist monasteries or just a few or maybe practices no longer used or they ARE used but not publicized to avoid misunderstanding by people who don’t and wouldn’t understand? I don’t know but here’s the link of this page if it would help you: aliciapatterson.org/APF1903/Reed/Reed.html

Try it out

 

[odubhghail]

I read the Cheryl Reed article. I actually agree with her on the question of the habit, or, rather, she agrees with me. Nuns not in habit tend to wear clothing that looks like the bastard child of a habit. Might as well wear the real thing.
As for the Visitation Sister mentioned in the article—well, St. Francis de Sales, their founder, helped design their habit…so he meant for it to be worn.

 

[Beachcomber]

Some years ago, I met a Passionist nun, who for medical reasons, had permission to leave the cloister to get treatment. I got to know her over the course of a summer and she told me a lot about her community and the charism of the Passionists. It was very positive.

The quote in the article doesn’t seem to fit with what my friend was telling me. The only two points that appear accurate is that they get up at 2 am, for the Office of Readings; and that they shave their heads.

 

[Mary_Solana]

If anyone is looking for a Passionist Active Order of Sisters you might try looking into a new Order that is forming in Michigan that is not Passionist but has a very similar spirituality. They are called the Sisters of Jesus’ Merciful Passion. They are not on the web yet but soon will be. May God bless you in your vocational search!

 

[Cloisters]

If anyone is looking for a Passionist Active Order of Sisters you might try looking into a new Order that is forming in Michigan that is not Passionist but has a very similar spirituality. They are called the Sisters of Jesus’ Merciful Passion. They are not on the web yet but soon will be. May God bless you in your vocational search!

Please keep us updated on this.

Blessings,
Cloisters