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Hi everyone,
if anyone knows of communities of sisters who wear the full habit, can you post them on here?
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roseofmary said:
Hi everyone,
if anyone knows of communities of sisters who wear the full habit, can you post them on here?
Thanks!
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Depends on what you’re meaning by ‘full habit.’

Mother Angelica is the only one I know of who wears the “full” habit–as well as the Marbury, Buffalo, and Lockport Dominicans.

Blessings,
Cloisters
 
Wasn’t there one in the midwest? (“Sisters of the Lamb of God who Takes Away the Sins of the World” or something?) It was founded by a convert from Judiasm (she was a guest on The Journey Home). They have the full habits.

EDIT: Rosalind Moss’s order. It’s “Daughters of Mary, Mother of Israel’s Hope.”
Here’s some more stuff on it.
 
I mean habits that have been unmodified. 🙂 Like the Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Church, for example.
 
The Sister of Mary, Mother of the Church

sistersofmarymc.org/

They are really great. Two of the sisters were at the daily Mass I altar served today. But I don’t know if they are accepting postulants or anything yet… I remeber hearing that they were gonna discern as a community for 3 years (starting last July) and figure out what they were gonna do before acting like a normal religious order… They all just rejoinded the Church from a schismatic group. I know they primarily want to be a teaching order.

here is their story sistersofmarymc.org/return.html
 
Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist (Dominicans) are a newer order, but have a traditional habit.
 
My rector helped bring the SMMC back to the church. I love those ladies! They bring a fresh perspective, which loves the traditions of our church while fully and healthily embracing the developments of the past decades which they are now discovering.

They did modify their habits a wee bit though, they used to be a lighter blue and the scapular used to be round, but that was just a change made when they founded their order after coming home from sedevacantism. They were not modifications in the sense that you are condemning.
 
There are many, many, MANY old and new orders that are groing and promising.

Randomly picking a few:

Benedictines of Mary, Queen of the Apostles

Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

Children of Mary

Intercessors of the Lamb

Dominicans (Ann Arbor)

Dominicans (Nashville)

Byzantine Carmelites

Dominicans (Summit, NJ)

Sisters of Life, NYC

Many, many, MANY more can be found:

Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious

If you are looking for an orthodox, traditional order loyal to the Magisterium - start praying! It is going to take time to sorth through them all!

If anyone finds an $10 in the pocket of your summer shorts you just pulled out of storage, pray about picking of these this communities to send it to. They could use it, and they are praying for all of us night and day.
 
This is a rapidly growing order called Mary Mother of the Eucharist, Mother Assumpta is in charge …I don’t know who is the Mother Superior at their convent though…they are planning an ambitious building program

sistersofmary.org/
 
Wearing traditional habits always seemed to me to be the best and most honest example of representing the saint the order is supposed to…in my school after Vat.11 the Mercy order quickly changed their habits of yesterday to one of today…like airline stewardness’ (!) and they eventually died out…the Dominicans held out the longest and so did they order! It takes courage to be faithful to ones calling in a secular humanistic society that we are…I will pray you find what you are looking for…the idea of course is that by wearing a rather plain outfit their teaching,their goals,their inner self will shine forth rather then the madison ave flair…this is what I used to tell my students when they asked why did they have to wear a uniform etc?..pick wisely…N
 
redrosetea said:
This is a rapidly growing order called Mary Mother of the Eucharist, Mother Assumpta is in charge …I don’t know who is the Mother Superior at their convent though…they are planning an ambitious building program

sistersofmary.org/
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a.k.a. “The Ann Arbor Dominicans”

These different Dominican houses have the official names, but for short-hand, a lot of times people start referring to them as the “Ann Arbor Domincans” or “Nashville Dominicans” (officially named the Dominicans of Saint Cecelia).
 
As I have discerned a vocation and are only looking at orders with the full habit and cloistered, I have accumulated many orders that wear the full, traditional habit. Some are:

Carmelites some have sites, some don’t:

Carmelites of Morristown, NJ - visiting them in July patersondiocese.org/page.cfm?Web_ID=1918

Carmelites of Springfield, MO - visiting them in June or July
Carmelites of Kensington, CA
Carmelites of Cristo Rey, San Fran - visiting them in June
Carmelites of Alexandria, So. Dakota
Carmelites of Dallas, TX
Carmelites of Philadelphia, PA
Carmelites of Valparaiso, NB
Carmelites of Brooklyn, NY - newly founded from Buffalo Carmel
Carmelites of Buffalo, NY

Carmelites of Hialeah, FL - miamiarch.org/ip.asp?op=H1000071221a

Carmelites of Rochester, NY - carmelitesofrochester.org/

Carmelites of Erie, PA - [eriercd.org/FL011407.htm](http://www.eriercd.org/FL011407.htm)

Carmelites of New Caney, TX - icansurf.com/ocdnewcaney/
Video of a New Caney Carmelite talking about her vocation -
lovetobecatholic.com/video_566_Sister_Virginia-Mary_of_Christ_The_King,OCD-testim.html

Carmelites of Ada/Parnell, Michigan - carmelitenuns.org/

And too many to go on with.

IRELAND CARMELITES:

Loughrea, County Galway - carmelitesisters.ie/loughrea/ - writing, want to visit

ENGLISH CARMELITES:

Sheffield Carmel - carmelite.org.uk/Kirkedge.html

Wolverhampton Carmel - wolvercarmvocations.org.uk/ - writing to for a while

St. Helen’s Carmel - carmelite.org.uk/StHelens.html​

POOR CLARE COLETTINES:

PCCs Cleveland, OH - am still writing, visited them twice - poorclarecolettines-cleveland.org/ and some great pics of them - cmykstudios.com/poorclares/index.htm

PCCs Roswell, NM - poorclaresroswell.com/ - monastery where the great writer, Mother Mary Francis who wrote “A Right to be Merry” lived and passed away.

PCCs Minooka, IL - poorclaresjoliet.org/index.php

PCCs Belleville, IL - poorclares-belleville.info/

PCCs Rockford, IL - rockfordpoorclares.org/

PCCs Los Altos, CA - poor-clares.org/losaltos/losaltosl.html and a great pictorial story of a young PCC girl’s journey from a nova/ postulant to professed is at
chcweb.com/catalog/files/photostorypc.pdf

PCCs Santa Barbara, CA - poorclaressantabarbara.org/

PCCs Palos Park, IL - chicagopoorclares.org/

PCCs Barhamsville, VA - poor-clares.org/

IRELAND PCCs:

PCCs Dublin - pccdamians.ie/index.htm

PCCs Galway - poorclares.ie/page3.html

PCCs Carlow - poorclares.homestead.com/index.html
DOMINICAN NUNS:

**The Dominicans of Summit are now wearing a modified habit - a while back they wore the same habit as Lockport and Buffalo

Lockport and Buffalo - as previously mentioned

Menlo Park, CA - nunsmenlo.org/index.html - they have a few (3-4) sisters left in the modified habit but they are changing back to the full traditional habit - going to visit in May

Linden, VA lindenopnuns.org/index.html - new monastery and website, moved from Washington

Marbury, AL - stjudemonastery.org/index.html​

BENEDICTINES:

Virginia Dale, CO - walburga.org/

Abbey of Regina Laudis - as previously posted

Greensburg, PA - stemma.org/

ENGLISH BENEDICTINE NUNS:

Staffordshire, England, Colwich Abbey - my favorite of the English Benedictines -
colwichabbey.org.uk/ and their fantastic blog run by
their Novitiate nuns - colwichnov.wordpress.com/

London, England - Tyburn Convent - tyburnconvent.org.uk/home/index.html​

CISTERICAN NUNS:

Prairie du Sac, WI - nunocist.org/​

SISTERS OF PERPETUAL ADORATION (USA):

Alaska - blessedsacramentmonastery.com

San Francisco, CA - adorejesus.org/english/

Sioux Falls, SD - perpetualadorationsisters.com/

San Antonio, TX - no website​

NORBERTINE CANNONESSES:

Tehacapi, Ca - no website but this slide show at bakersfield.net/Photography/slideshows/nuns/index.asp
and a link that takes you to newsletters/online brochures about
them: fp1.antelecom.net/techsrv/​

I have many links to these orders in England and Ireland. For any older women who want a traditional order wearing the traditional full habit but get turned down alot due to age, - if you can look overseas to the UK and Ireland. These orders have NO AGE LIMIT other than good health and obviously a vocation. These prioresses and abbesses have great esteem and respect for older vocations. I am one myself and I have to talked to them.

Anyone can email me about the orders I listed above as I have either visited them or going to, written them or know about them in the US and in England and Ireland.
 
TeresaBenedicta said:
As I have discerned a vocation and are only looking at orders with the full habit and cloistered, I have accumulated many orders that wear the full, traditional habit. Some are:

Carmelites some have sites, some don’t:

Carmelites of Morristown, NJ - visiting them in July patersondiocese.org/page.cfm?Web_ID=1918

Carmelites of Springfield, MO - visiting them in June or July
Carmelites of Kensington, CA
Carmelites of Cristo Rey, San Fran - visiting them in June
Carmelites of Alexandria, So. Dakota
Carmelites of Dallas, TX
Carmelites of Philadelphia, PA
Carmelites of Valparaiso, NB
Carmelites of Brooklyn, NY - newly founded from Buffalo Carmel
Carmelites of Buffalo, NY

Carmelites of Hialeah, FL - miamiarch.org/ip.asp?op=H1000071221a

Carmelites of Rochester, NY - carmelitesofrochester.org/

Carmelites of Erie, PA - [eriercd.org/FL011407.htm](http://www.eriercd.org/FL011407.htm)

Carmelites of New Caney, TX - icansurf.com/ocdnewcaney/
Video of a New Caney Carmelite talking about her vocation -
lovetobecatholic.com/video_566_Sister_Virginia-Mary_of_Christ_The_King,OCD-testim.html

Carmelites of Ada/Parnell, Michigan - carmelitenuns.org/

And too many to go on with.

IRELAND CARMELITES:

Loughrea, County Galway - carmelitesisters.ie/loughrea/ - writing, want to visit

ENGLISH CARMELITES:

Sheffield Carmel - carmelite.org.uk/Kirkedge.html

Wolverhampton Carmel - wolvercarmvocations.org.uk/ - writing to for a while

St. Helen’s Carmel - carmelite.org.uk/StHelens.html​

POOR CLARE COLETTINES:

PCCs Cleveland, OH - am still writing, visited them twice - poorclarecolettines-cleveland.org/ and some great pics of them - cmykstudios.com/poorclares/index.htm

PCCs Roswell, NM - poorclaresroswell.com/ - monastery where the great writer, Mother Mary Francis who wrote “A Right to be Merry” lived and passed away.

PCCs Minooka, IL - poorclaresjoliet.org/index.php

PCCs Belleville, IL - poorclares-belleville.info/

PCCs Rockford, IL - rockfordpoorclares.org/

PCCs Los Altos, CA - poor-clares.org/losaltos/losaltosl.html and a great pictorial story of a young PCC 's journey from a nova/ postulant to professed is at
chcweb.com/catalog/files/photostorypc.pdf

PCCs Santa Barbara, CA - poorclaressantabarbara.org/

PCCs Palos Park, IL - chicagopoorclares.org/

PCCs Barhamsville, VA - poor-clares.org/

IRELAND PCCs:

PCCs Dublin - pccdamians.ie/index.htm

PCCs Galway - poorclares.ie/page3.html

PCCs Carlow - poorclares.homestead.com/index.html
DOMINICAN NUNS:

**The Dominicans of Summit are now wearing a modified habit - a while back they wore the same habit as Lockport and Buffalo

Lockport and Buffalo - as previously mentioned

Menlo Park, CA - nunsmenlo.org/index.html - they have a few (3-4) sisters left in the modified habit but they are changing back to the full traditional habit - going to visit in May

Linden, VA lindenopnuns.org/index.html - new monastery and website, moved from Washington

Marbury, AL - stjudemonastery.org/index.html​

BENEDICTINES:

Virginia Dale, CO - walburga.org/

Abbey of Regina Laudis - as previously posted

Greensburg, PA - stemma.org/

ENGLISH BENEDICTINE NUNS:

Staffordshire, England, Colwich Abbey - my favorite of the English Benedictines -
colwichabbey.org.uk/ and their fantastic blog run by
their Novitiate nuns - colwichnov.wordpress.com/

London, England - Tyburn Convent - tyburnconvent.org.uk/home/index.html​

CISTERICAN NUNS:

Prairie du Sac, WI - nunocist.org/​

SISTERS OF PERPETUAL ADORATION (USA):

Alaska - blessedsacramentmonastery.com

San Francisco, CA - adorejesus.org/english/

Sioux Falls, SD - perpetualadorationsisters.com/

San Antonio, TX - no website​

NORBERTINE CANNONESSES:

Tehacapi, Ca - no website but this slide show at bakersfield.net/Photography/slideshows/nuns/index.asp
and a link that takes you to newsletters/online brochures about
them: fp1.antelecom.net/techsrv/​

I have many links to these orders in England and Ireland. For any older women who want a traditional order wearing the traditional full habit but get turned down alot due to age, - if you can look overseas to the UK and Ireland. These orders have NO AGE LIMIT other than good health and obviously a vocation. These prioresses and abbesses have great esteem and respect for older vocations. I am one myself and I have to talked to them.

Anyone can email me about the orders I listed above as I have either visited them or going to, written them or know about them in the US and in England and Ireland.
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May I suggest also the Carmelite Nuns of Allentown. They wear a full habit, and I go to help them out with altar breads sometimes. They’re a great community. Here’s their website:
www.carmelitenuns.net
 
Dear Rose,

Thank you for your post. Yes I have contacted the Allentown Carmelites but they don’t go past their age limit and I am interested in the OCDs. Unfortunately, I have been at this for a long time - I am 48 and was waiting for my kids to grow older and become independent which they now are. So I didn’t list all my orders I have saved! The post was long enough.

Unfortunately, women in my age group or situation with grown kids, married/divorced/annulment are often told “no” at many American orders. I have known and have heard of many women leaving the States for Europe where this bias isn’t known - the great majority of orders have no age limit - just a vocation and good health.

So before I move overseas, there are many good orders I am discerning with. I just compiled this list encase there are any existing or new members join or read this and are in my position.

In Jesus and Mary,

Mary
 
Ok, I was writing my first long post late at night and some how forgot to include the wonderful Visitation nuns!

Tyringham, MA - which I am visiting end of May - vistyr.org/index.html

Toledo, OH - toledovisitation.org/ - will visit them soon. Here’s a “Day with…” page on these sisters cloisteredlife.com/visitandines.htm and a great page from Toledo Vocations office listing many of their nuns in the 40s, 50s, 60, 70s just clothed or professed! - toledovocations.com/women-in-formation/women-in-formation.html

Philly, PA - religiouslife.com/w_visphila01.phtml

Rockville, VA - visitmontemaria.com/

Mobile, AL - visitationmonasterymobile.org/HTMLcode/Inquiry.htm

Snellville, GA - no website - an article on them at: georgiabulletin.org/local/1999/06/03/h
 
TeresaBenedicta said:
Dear Rose,

Thank you for your post. Yes I have contacted the Allentown Carmelites but they don’t go past their age limit and I am interested in the OCDs. Unfortunately, I have been at this for a long time - I am 48 and was waiting for my kids to grow older and become independent which they now are. So I didn’t list all my orders I have saved! The post was long enough.

Unfortunately, women in my age group or situation with grown kids, married/divorced/annulment are often told “no” at many American orders. I have known and have heard of many women leaving the States for Europe where this bias isn’t known - the great majority of orders have no age limit - just a vocation and good health.

So before I move overseas, there are many good orders I am discerning with. I just compiled this list encase there are any existing or new members join or read this and are in my position.

In Jesus and Mary,

Mary
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Hi Mary!

You’re actually my mom’s age. She’s soon to turn 49, in about two weeks. 🙂
Yes, I wish more American orders would raise their age limit entrance. It would be so much better for the women who want to join, and I’m sure they would get much more vocations!
 
Rose,

You are so right! The Abbess of the Poor Clare Colettines in Cleveland, OH and just recently the Mother Prioress of the Carmelites of Cristo Rey in San Fran and others in the US are open to older vocations with no problems. I was speaking on the phone yesterday to the Mother Prioress of Cristo Rey and she says she prefers and likes older women (even though they have an age limit of 35 - they DO accept older women with a vocation and good health). She said that us older women are mature she finds adapts easier (contrary to what others will say!) to the life than most of the young women she has had! Often the young women are more independent, strong willed, etc. Now that’s not always the case but I have seen it myself in my 2 kid’s friends. She and the PCC Abbess both told me that is wrong for orders to assume an older won’t persevere or when one does leave, chalk it up to their age and such. They have said they find that just as many young women leave as older so it’s not that “so & so left because she was too old and couldn’t take it”!

Not all so don’t anyone get mad! - But often a younger woman hasn’t had the trials and work load of an older woman - what I told Mother Prioress shocked her! She said I’d have no problems in the Carmel physically! Everyone - young and old - has the spiritual, obedience, etc. trials of course. But I get up at 4 am for work, leave at 4:45 am, drive an hour in traffic often work grueling 8-16 hrs as a nurse in a nursing home, come home to house work and if an 8 hr day, yard work and on the weekend, take care of the kids (when younger and even now if they drop by!) and we have been under “obedience” to authority a whole lot longer to idiot bosses or a husband (I have been divorced and have an annulment). We have learned to forget self and put the kids and husband and job first before ourselves so how much better is it to forget yourself to God!

So this isn’t a blanket or general statement, just what they tell me and have seen. But they also have gotten great women at 18, mid to late 20’s and 30’s who have been great and persevered.

So, thank God, there are a few orders in the US that encourage and take older women. But I have talked to many overseas just in case - hey, I’m not getting any younger! and have to find out where I am going!

Mary
 
TeresaBenedicta:

I too am an “older” woman (38) who is discerning a vocation. My kids are now 15 & 16 so I have several years to wait. Just today I did some research on orders in the UK, because I realize there is somewhat of an age bias here in the states. I am not “actively” discerning with any orders as I am not able to enter any time soon due to my kids. I was wondering if you began communicating with orders while your kids were still young, and were the orders receptive to communicating with you, even though you were not “free” to enter at that time? Any advice you might offer will be appreciated. I’m more drawn to “active” orders, but they must be in line with Rome. Thanks & God Bless You. I’m so glad you are pursuing your “second” vocation.🙂
 
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