Pittsburgh Passionist nuns?

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Does anyone have any info on them? They don’t seem to be on the web at all. Are they traditional, how is their Mass in terms of liturgy, etc. Any information really I would appreciate.
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Apparently, this convent has no website or e-mail address.

You might want to try calling the Diocese of Pittsburgh for info on them. I believe they are the only cloistered nuns in the diocese. You can also look at the site for the Passionist nuns in Whitesville KY. They have a pretty good web-site with links that will give you a look at their order, charism and life.

passionistnuns.org/
 
Thanks. 🙂 My ideal would be a non-cloistered Passionist convent that was traditional, but this does not seem to exist. I don’t understand why I feel called to it if there is nothing like it, unless I am mistaken (in where I am called). I love the Passionist charism, but I also love the Latin Mass and want a more traditional convent.
 
I have this on the Passionist Nuns in Pitsburgh:

MOTHER JOYCE & COMMUNITY
PASSIONIST NUNS
2715 CHURCHVIEW AVE
PITTSBURGH PA 15227
OUR LADY OF SORROWS MONASTERY
Mother Joyce, CP
(412) 881-1155

I believe the Ellisville Passionists are very traditional and wonderful sisters. This would be the community I’d would look at if I were a Passionist vocation. May have seen these but here they are again:

Not a great website: home.catholicweb.com/passionistnuns/

Lovely video that is from the Vision Vocation Guide: youtube.com/watch?v=5sKaJt74pD8
 
I pass by there on a daily basis in order to get to my school

The Sisters are rarely seen outside, so it is safe to assume they are cloistered.

They have a dig with them in their convent, because when we do collections for them we are asked not to forget their dog.

The convent is surrounded by an iron fence, with the gate being on the corner of Churchview and Spencer
 
I didn’t know there was a Passionist nuns’ monastery in Pittsburgh! Hmmm-interesting!

I went on a retreat in 2000 or 2001 at the Passionist nuns’ monastery in Clarks Summit, which is in the Scranton diocese. They were more liberal-some of the Sisters wore a modified or no habit, the Office was in inclusive language [which I abhor like the plague], and there was no grating or grille to separate the community from the retreatants.

They used to be in Scranton proper, then they moved out in the more rural setting in the 1970s (I think).

It was OK for doing a private retreat, but not my idea of a cloistered monastery.
 
They have eucharistic adoration every Friday in that pretty chapel. From what I can hear (you can’t see them) it sounds like it’s not the traditional Latin mass (the only one I go to now).

They have a collie! 🙂
 
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They have eucharistic adoration every Friday in that pretty chapel. From what I can hear (you can’t see them) it sounds like it’s not the traditional Latin mass (the only one I go to now).

They have a collie! 🙂
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I love hearing the chants of nuns!

A collie, you say? Well, I guess they can be a good guard dog. 😃

I know a community of Discalced Carmelite nuns, and they have had German shepherds!
 
I think it’s a good guard dog. I can hear him bark sometimes when I’m in the chapel. 😃
It is nice to hear the nuns. The chapel is great. Small, but lovely in the old fashioned way I like - Beautiful stained glass, lovely angel statues, holding lights, on either side of the sanctuary, and a striking large mural of the crucifixion above the old altar. +
 
I have it on good authority, from several very good, solid priests that this community of Passionists is an exemplar of the Passionist charism. I just attended the final profession of Sr. Mary Grace there last Sunday.

They just put up the website not long ago, but intend to keep it quite simple as they do not have internet access in the monastery.
 
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