protestant nuns?

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rayne89:
I know this thread took on a life of its own but I just wanted to let you know you were right. I was looking at pictures at my parents house yesterday and there was one of my dad and aunt at a cemetary posing with my great aunt’s head stone it said Diakonesse before her name. My dad said she worked as the town nurse. His other aunt was a “blue cross” sister he said that worked with alcoholics. Just a little update.
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Cool! Thanks for the update.
 
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Volodymyr:
Such communities may have also influenced St. Grand Duchess Elizaveta Feodorovna who was German by birth in founding the Marfa-Marijinskaja Convent in Moscow. Then thrown into pit by Bolsheviks to be martyr.
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Indeed, a story of tragedy, courage, holiness, and triumph. She profoundly influenced her niece, Alice, Princess Andrew of Greece – Prince Philip’s mother. Princess Andrew converted to Orthodoxy, became a nun, and is now buried beside “dear Aunt Ella” in the Garden of Gethsemani in Jerusalem.
 
mercygate said:
Anglicans have several orders of monks and sisters, and also nuns. (Sisters & nuns are different). The Catonsville community mentioned above is All Saints Sisters of the Poor. An exemplary group. Look here:
anglicansonline.org/resources/orders.html
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Considering Henry VIII"s rise to power in the Church of England was through the dissolutionment of the monasteries and the persecution of the monastics, one can gaze into history to see the irony of Anglican monastics or Protestant monastics in general.

Everywhere Protestantism flourished it was due in a large part to the dissolutionment of the monasteries which were the medieval hospitals, schools, orphanages and training grounds for new clergymen.
 
Check out the Ephrata Cloister of Ephrata, PA. It was a Protestant monastery/convent community and was run by Seventh Day German Baptists. I just found out about it recently. It’s truly fascinating. There’s a book that goes into some depth of it: The Pennsylvania Dutch, Phoebe Gibbons. It’s also a historical site that you might want to visit. I want to go there but have not yet had the opportunity to do so.

Supposedly they even used religious garb similiar to that of Catholic Carmelites.

Never thought you’d hear of Baptist Monks and Sisters, did you? 😉

See: ephratacloister.org/
 
Wow, I was looking up at past posts, and this thread has been dead for two years until Semper Fi ressurrected it. 😃
 
rayne89 said:
My father was raised Lutheren. He grew up in Germany and said he had 2 aunts who were protestant nuns. My sister (9 years my senior) went to a summer camp with a cousin in the mid seventies that was run by protestant nuns according to my parents. I have never heard of protestant nuns outside the accounts of my parents. I’m curious if they’re still around today and what their history is. Anyone out there familiar with protestant nuns?
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There is a Benedictine monastery of the Episcopal church just about 40 miles from where I live.
 
👍 I think it is wonderful that these women and men want to dedicate themselves to God and serve others.
I think eventually some of these communities will return to the Church.If there are Anglican and other Churches who use the rule
of St.francis or St.Benedict or St.Augustine it is i’m sure because there is something attractive about it and thoroughly grounded in scpricture and common sense.
We should pray for them that they will come back to the church and bring others with them.they too are seekers ,who are looking for more in life and hope to find it in the fullness of Jesus and His Father

I had heard of Ephrata before,but it was a long time ago.
You might also check out the Shakers,founded by Mother Anna Lee.There still are some shakers around…They did not wear monastic dress,but clothing of the time.They were celibate,and took in ophans or others.Most people have heard of Shaker furniture and they had other ways to make money like selling seeds,etc.
 
rayne89 said:
My father was raised Lutheren. He grew up in Germany and said he had 2 aunts who were protestant nuns. My sister (9 years my senior) went to a summer camp with a cousin in the mid seventies that was run by protestant nuns according to my parents. I have never heard of protestant nuns outside the accounts of my parents. I’m curious if they’re still around today and what their history is. Anyone out there familiar with protestant nuns?
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Of course Luther loved nuns. He married one! 😦
 
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