Suggestions Needed For My Vocations Feature On My Blog

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I have started a new feature on my blog - The Black Cordelias - called “Vocations Tuesday” where I highlight religious orders for men or women that are growing and worth consideration for prayer and support.

There are so very many good, orthodox and GROWING groups out there that I would be interested in highlighting…

What are some favorites worth considering from the CAF crowd?
 
I plan on visiting this community over the summer . The Brigittine Monks. I don’t have any personal experiance beyond what I have read on there.

brigittine.org/
 
Formosus said:
I plan on visiting this community over the summer . The Brigittine Monks. I don’t have any personal experiance beyond what I have read on there.

brigittine.org/
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Terrific! Report back! I always liked the Brigittine sisters - Bl Elisabeth Hasselbald - Swedish convert from Lutheranism - is a fav of mine.
 
Franciscans of the Immaculate (Friars, Sisters, Cloistered Sisters)

Institute of the Sacred Heart–Semi-Cloistered Sisters. They are in Florence, perhaps 8 or 10 Sisters, and are the only currently existing reformed convent of the Sacred Heart sisters (as I was told). Semi-cloistered is apparently a status more common in Europe than here; it means that they don’t leave the grounds, but laymen can enter in much the same way, I assume, as you could enter the convent of an active order: one chapel with no separate nuns’ choir, parlor where everyone could sit together, but no going in their dining room, libraries, cell areas.

They have four American sisters now (from American girls studying abroad), and the priest who took us to visit hinted that if they have more vocations–Italians, Americans–they could make a foundation somewhere in the U.S.

They have black habits, modified I guess since I don’t remember a wimple, but very conservative, and rosaries with medals of their patron saints, and mantles for choir. The convent is quite beautiful, rose-bushes, statues of Our Lady, some lovely altars? cabinets? reliquaries?–I’ve forgotten–salvaged from their houses in France during the religious persecutions.

As their work the sisters run a school, which is open to any regardless of whether they can pay (I think), but so good that even very rich and famous families have sent their children there. The website is really about the school, actually.

If any of this material is helpful please feel free to post it, or to pm me if you have more questions. I am eager to help them out a little if I can.
 
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 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.
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All these links will keep me busy for more than a year when added to what I already have planned.
 
First week:
Franciscan Friars of the Renewal

Second week it was:
Benedictines of Mary, Queen of the Apostles

Third week:
Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

Fourth week:
Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate

This week:
Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate
Like the Seraphic Father St. Francis, the Franciscans of the Immaculate strive to be perfectly conformed to the poor, humble, crucified Jesus through a life of charity, supernatural charity and poverty. They are totally consecrated to the Immaculate Virgin after the recent example offered by St. Maximilian Mary Kolbe.
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The Franciscans of the Immaculate were founded by the two Franciscan friars, Fr. Stefano Maria Manelli and Fr. Gabriel Maria Pellettieri. Together they outlined a form of life for the friars, sisters and the laity after the example of St. Maximilian Mary Kolbe, giving the fullest expression to the Marian dimension of St. Francis’ ideal and Rule. The Franciscans of the Immaculate was established by Pope John Paul II in 1990 as a diocesan institute.
The Institute was erected as a pontifical institute of religious life by His Holiness John Paul II in January 1, 1998, Solemnity of the Mother of God
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Suggestions are always appreciated!
 
First week:
Franciscan Friars of the Renewal

Second week:
Benedictines of Mary, Queen of the Apostles

Third week:
Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

Fourth week:
Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate

Fifth week:
Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate

THIS week:
The Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter
Origin of the Fraternity
The Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter is a Clerical Society of Apostolic Life of Pontifical right, that is, a community of Roman Catholic priests who do not take religious vows, but who work together for a common mission in the world. The mission of the Fraternity is two-fold: first, the formation and sanctification of priests in the cadre of the traditional liturgy of the Roman rite, and secondly, the pastoral deployment of the priests in the service of the Church.
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The Fraternity was founded on July 18, 1988 at the Abbey of Hauterive (Switzerland) by a dozen priests and a score of seminarians. Shortly after the Fraternity’s foundation and following upon a request by Cardinal Ratzinger, Bishop Joseph Stimpfle of Augsburg, Germany granted the Fraternity a home in Wigratzbad, a Marian shrine in Bavaria that now lodges the Fraternity’s European seminary. In the same month of October there arrived a handful of priests and some thirty seminarians ready to start “from scratch”. There are currently almost 200 priests and 110 seminarians in the Fraternity.
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Priestly Formation in the Fraternity
The Fraternity of St. Peter currently operates two international houses of formation: the original formation house in Wigratzbad, Germany (diocese of Augsburg), and the other in Denton, Nebraska, U.S.A. (diocese of Lincoln). The Fraternity has organized its seminary training in accordance with the Church’s norms on priestly formation, including a year of more intense spiritual preparation before entering the cycles of philosophy and theology. By fostering a balanced life of prayer, study, community life, and personal discipline, care is taken to foster human maturity and to acquire the spirit of the Gospel, in close union with Christ. The spiritual life in the houses is centered on the sacrifice of the Mass. Special attention is paid to the faithful observance of the “liturgical and spiritual traditions” according to the dispositions of the Motu proprio Ecclesia Dei adflicta of July 2, 1988, which is at the origin of the Fraternity’s foundation (Constitutions, Art. 8).
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Pastoral Mission of Fraternity Priests
Once the formation progamme has been completed, the Fraternity’s priests serve the faithful – under the direction of their bishop and within the terms of the Fraternity’s own constitutions – in its various apostolates in France, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, the USA, Australia, Canada, Great Britain , Nigeria and Benin. In the world, the priests of the Fraternity live in small communities and work to spread the Gospel by means of preaching, catechesis, youth education (scout troops, schools), and organizing pilgrimages and retreats, etc. With the full approval of the Holy See and the permission of local bishops, the priests provide a full sacramental life for the faithful, administered according to the liturgical books of 1962.
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If you have any suggestions for orders or communities you feel should be highlighted for TCB’s “Vocations Tuesday” please contact us! @ ASimpleSinner@gmail.com! Include “VOCATIONS TUESDAY” in the subject line please!
 
First week:
Franciscan Friars of the Renewal

Second week:
Benedictines of Mary, Queen of the Apostles

Third week:
Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

Fourth week:
Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate

Fifth week:
Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate

Sixth week:
The Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter

This week
Dominican Sisters of Saint Cecelia (Nashville Dominicans)

A beautiful group of amazing young women, they have blossomed so quickly that the “vocations crisis” they have experienced has been what do do with all of the new members… At one point, while they were building, new members were sleeping on cots in temporary living quarters!
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If you have any suggestions for orders or communities you feel should be highlighted for TCB’s “Vocations Tuesday” please contact us! @ ASimpleSinner@gmail.com! Include “VOCATIONS TUESDAY” in the subject line please!
 
The Sister Servants
I personally know many of the sisters and they are wonderful. The woman who founded the order is the sister of the woman who founded the Ann Arbor Dominicans. They are both still alive,and both orders are wonderful!

Clear Creek Benedictine Monks
My brother’s godfather was instrumental in bringing these monks to the USA, from their Fontgombault (France) monastery.

Carmelite Monks in Wyoming
I don’t know too much about these monks, but their coffee is good and their website is impressive.
 
Margarite said:
The Sister Servants
Clear Creek Benedictine Monks
Carmelite Monks in Wyoming
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Thank you Margarite! These are all GREAT suggestions and I will be including them in the weeks and months to come for a spot-light on “Vocations Tuesday”…

I realize that at the rate of just one group a week, it is going to take a couple of years to feature each one… That is truely heartening. In fact the tide IS turning, vocations ARE on an uptick, and the situation is so much MORE hopeful than it was 15 years ago. Every time you turn around, if your eyes are open and you are paying attention, you see some of these GREAT groups - some of which are new, some of which are rebuilding.
 
I would like to suggest the Dominican Nuns of the Monastery of Our Lady of the Rosary in Summit, NJ. They are growing! They have 6 in their novitiate and more coming.
They have a beautiful Divine Office and Perpetual Adoration and Rosary.
Someone posted earlier something about their wearing a modified habit. I don’t know where they got that. The Sisters told me that they simplified their veil but the habit is the same as it has always been. Even the Nashville Dominicans simplified their veil.
I very much enjoyed visiting their monastery!

www.nunsopsummit.orgwww.monialesop.blogspot.com
 
Even if you haven’t posted the “Highlight Story” about an order, why don’t you still post their website on the side bar of your blog, or maybe just make a link to a list with a short description and a link to their web sites.
Like for the Sister Servants you could say something like:

Sister Servants of the Eternal Word
Dominican/Franciscan Nuns
Birmingham, AL
PICTURE

And then put a picture here of them, so we know what they sort of look like. I mean, I get really turned off by Sister-Mary-Miss-Her-Habits, and I hate looking at a website only to see a bunch of old women who are too “trendy” to wear a habit and live the life of a true nun. Sorry if I turn you off, but it is true, and it those same “nuns” that helped cause the trouble Church is now in.

Anyways, good luck and have fun, I’ll look in from time to time and catch up on your Tuesday Highlights. Maybe that is how God will lead me to the order where I will become a nun, or maybe it will prove to me that I shouldn’t be a nun:shrug: Only God knows.
Good luck, and I hope it is a great success.
Have a wonderful summer!
 
I was going to plug cloistered Carmelites, I see the Wyoming group (Mystic monks) have already been suggested.

an aside: “june bride” totally startled me this early in the morning:eek: I hadn’t been following that story
 
Margarite said:
Even if you haven’t posted the “Highlight Story” about an order, why don’t you still post their website on the side bar of your blog, or maybe just make a link to a list with a short description and a link to their web sites.
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I have been doing that… updating often, but not often enough… If you click on over to The Black Cordelias, you will notice links in the right-hand column. At this rate, I am not technologically adept enough to add photos into the sidebar… and I think that would cost extra…

Keep the ideas coming in!
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an aside: “june bride” totally startled me this early in the morning:eek: I hadn’t been following that story
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Sorry Sarah - didn’t mean to scare! Not the prettiest bride, is he?
 
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