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I need to know if there is any religious houses that except soneone like me that has a disabled?
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What is the disability that you have? Depending on what it is, we can then make recommendations for you. In God’s Peace.
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kristinamoore
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I have a mild case of Cerebral Palsy. What religious order are you. I am 38 years old.
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Please talk to us privately. We are at email: SRPOLJC@catholic.org or 773-984-8725. Happy Easter!
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TeresaBenedicta
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There is the Benedictines of Jesus Crucified who take women with various disabilities, they do say they don’t take CP or MS and older vocations - but the info below may help other women with disabilities and that are older that are eligible. Their age is to 55 and exceptions are made for older. While their website was working a few weeks ago, it isn’t now. But Sr. Zita’s email is: monasterygc@juno.com
Their website had pictures on a few nuns in wheelchairs (and crutches - if I remember correctly.) They look like a great order. I checked into them because of a bad knee that may exclude me from other orders. They wear a habit to about mid shin and a modified veil (not personally crazy over this habit). At this blog, vultus.stblogs.org/thursdays_of_adoration_and_rep/, scroll down to the Dec 13, 2007 entry to see a story on the founder of this order, beautiful traditional habit. But then I love the traditional full habits!
Benedictines of Jesus Crucified Part 1
Thank you for your request for vocational information. Please see the attached material. You might also like to visit our web site at www.benedictinesjc.org Please write and tell me more about yourself—your family, background, education, work experience, church/parish involvement, prayer life, and what you think God may be asking of you. Please include a photo of yourself as well.
God bless you in your seeking.
Sr. Zita, OSB, Vocation Director - THE BENEDICTINES OF JESUS CRUCIFIED
The words that follow are drawn very heavily from our Rule of Life and our Constitutions. They give you an idea of the spiritual riches God has given us to live.
It has been many years since the founding of our Congregation, the Benedictines of Jesus Crucified, in 1930, in Paris, France. Throughout the intervening years we have endeavored to the best of our ability to live our monastic life faithfully. We continue to be one monastic family, united in our search for God by following the Rule of Saint Benedict and our Rule of Life, in obedience to the Prioress General who is the visible sign of our unity. We continue to be guided by the words of Mother Marie des Douleurs, our Mother Foundress, who wrote many years ago, “We have listened to the Gospel telling us, ‘The Father loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, Jesus, who obediently accepted death, even death on a cross.’ That mystery of love explains our religious family. And we in turn have responded, ‘As for us, we have believed in love.’ “ Believing in love and continually trying to live according to what we believe, is what our life is all about.
Their website had pictures on a few nuns in wheelchairs (and crutches - if I remember correctly.) They look like a great order. I checked into them because of a bad knee that may exclude me from other orders. They wear a habit to about mid shin and a modified veil (not personally crazy over this habit). At this blog, vultus.stblogs.org/thursdays_of_adoration_and_rep/, scroll down to the Dec 13, 2007 entry to see a story on the founder of this order, beautiful traditional habit. But then I love the traditional full habits!
Benedictines of Jesus Crucified Part 1
Thank you for your request for vocational information. Please see the attached material. You might also like to visit our web site at www.benedictinesjc.org Please write and tell me more about yourself—your family, background, education, work experience, church/parish involvement, prayer life, and what you think God may be asking of you. Please include a photo of yourself as well.
God bless you in your seeking.
Sr. Zita, OSB, Vocation Director - THE BENEDICTINES OF JESUS CRUCIFIED
The words that follow are drawn very heavily from our Rule of Life and our Constitutions. They give you an idea of the spiritual riches God has given us to live.
It has been many years since the founding of our Congregation, the Benedictines of Jesus Crucified, in 1930, in Paris, France. Throughout the intervening years we have endeavored to the best of our ability to live our monastic life faithfully. We continue to be one monastic family, united in our search for God by following the Rule of Saint Benedict and our Rule of Life, in obedience to the Prioress General who is the visible sign of our unity. We continue to be guided by the words of Mother Marie des Douleurs, our Mother Foundress, who wrote many years ago, “We have listened to the Gospel telling us, ‘The Father loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, Jesus, who obediently accepted death, even death on a cross.’ That mystery of love explains our religious family. And we in turn have responded, ‘As for us, we have believed in love.’ “ Believing in love and continually trying to live according to what we believe, is what our life is all about.
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Benedictines of Jesus Crucified - Part 2
What do we mean when we say we are a monastic community? The word “monastic” derives from a Greek word, monos, meaning one or alone. The person who strives to live this life is someone whose efforts are dedicated entirely toward the search for God alone. This life is lived in solitude and aloneness with God, as well as in community. There is another meaning too: a oneness of purpose so that the person whose life is marked by such singleness of purpose, achieves inner unity, single-heartedness, integration, wholeness, by this very seeking for God.
Saint Benedict, whose Rule we follow, was born over 1500 years ago. Before him, there was already a tradition of monastic life that had been lived for many years. Benedict summed up this whole monastic tradition and incorporated his own unique vision in his famed Rule for Monasteries. In choosing Saint Benedict’s Rule for our religious family, our founders channeled to us that great stream of Gospel living that impels certain Christians to leave everything for love of Christ, to place themselves under a rule and an abbot, and to live in community, seeking God by a life of conversion and praise.
Along with these monastic elements, there is a new thrust that manifests itself in our religious family: we are open to accepting as full members women whose health could not sustain too harsh a physical regime. We also welcome women in good health. In either case, the person must truly seem to have a call to our monastic, contemplative way of life. Our founders, Rev. Maurice Gaucheron and Suzanne Wrotnowska, who became known as Mother Marie des Douleurs, wondered why women with every evidence of a calling from the Lord should be excluded for reasons of physical health alone from religious life. Was not the peaceful, loving acceptance of weakness and suffering inscribed into the very heart of the Christian vocation? They grappled with the question, and found themselves impelled to do something: to begin a new religious family in the Church. Its specific aim would be to live out in a unique way, in their own persons, the mystery of Jesus Christ, giving himself over to death—saying “Yes” to the Father—and by that very fact, passing over into the glory of the Resurrection, life forever.
Our roots in history go back to April 11, 1930, when in the crypt of the Basilica of Sacre-Coeur, Montmartre, Paris, France, Suzanne Wrotnowska and the first sisters made a consecration in view of the future foundation. Although the new shoot was fragile and small, it was grafted onto the venerable roots of Benedictine monasticism which for more than 1500 years has given new life and fresh inspiration to the Church. Our Motherhouse is St. Joseph’s Monastery in Brou-sur-Chantereine, near Paris. Our international novitiate is also located here. Regina Mundi Priory, our first American foundation, was opened in October of 1955, and St. Paul’s Priory in Newport, Rhode Island, in May of 1962. In 2001, the decision was made to close these two priories and consolidate our forces in a new monastery in Branford, Connecticut, the Monastery of the Glorious Cross. We currently number five monasteries in the world: in France, Japan and the United States. This gives us a truly international flavor, and our sisters come from many lands.
It was said above that we seek God by a life of conversion and praise; that means that we are a praying community. Daily the Eucharistic celebration gathers us together in union with Christ and his offering to the Father. Several times a day we come together to celebrate the Liturgy of the Hours, the Divine Office. Jesus’ whole life was praise; in him, we offer ourselves as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God. Times of personal prayer move us more and more into the continual presence of God, so that our lives tend to become continual prayer. This is not a self-centered prayer, but one that cries out to the Father, in Jesus his Son, moved by the Holy Spirit, offering to God the praise of all creation, and calling down God’s blessing on all people everywhere.
What do we mean when we say we are a monastic community? The word “monastic” derives from a Greek word, monos, meaning one or alone. The person who strives to live this life is someone whose efforts are dedicated entirely toward the search for God alone. This life is lived in solitude and aloneness with God, as well as in community. There is another meaning too: a oneness of purpose so that the person whose life is marked by such singleness of purpose, achieves inner unity, single-heartedness, integration, wholeness, by this very seeking for God.
Saint Benedict, whose Rule we follow, was born over 1500 years ago. Before him, there was already a tradition of monastic life that had been lived for many years. Benedict summed up this whole monastic tradition and incorporated his own unique vision in his famed Rule for Monasteries. In choosing Saint Benedict’s Rule for our religious family, our founders channeled to us that great stream of Gospel living that impels certain Christians to leave everything for love of Christ, to place themselves under a rule and an abbot, and to live in community, seeking God by a life of conversion and praise.
Along with these monastic elements, there is a new thrust that manifests itself in our religious family: we are open to accepting as full members women whose health could not sustain too harsh a physical regime. We also welcome women in good health. In either case, the person must truly seem to have a call to our monastic, contemplative way of life. Our founders, Rev. Maurice Gaucheron and Suzanne Wrotnowska, who became known as Mother Marie des Douleurs, wondered why women with every evidence of a calling from the Lord should be excluded for reasons of physical health alone from religious life. Was not the peaceful, loving acceptance of weakness and suffering inscribed into the very heart of the Christian vocation? They grappled with the question, and found themselves impelled to do something: to begin a new religious family in the Church. Its specific aim would be to live out in a unique way, in their own persons, the mystery of Jesus Christ, giving himself over to death—saying “Yes” to the Father—and by that very fact, passing over into the glory of the Resurrection, life forever.
Our roots in history go back to April 11, 1930, when in the crypt of the Basilica of Sacre-Coeur, Montmartre, Paris, France, Suzanne Wrotnowska and the first sisters made a consecration in view of the future foundation. Although the new shoot was fragile and small, it was grafted onto the venerable roots of Benedictine monasticism which for more than 1500 years has given new life and fresh inspiration to the Church. Our Motherhouse is St. Joseph’s Monastery in Brou-sur-Chantereine, near Paris. Our international novitiate is also located here. Regina Mundi Priory, our first American foundation, was opened in October of 1955, and St. Paul’s Priory in Newport, Rhode Island, in May of 1962. In 2001, the decision was made to close these two priories and consolidate our forces in a new monastery in Branford, Connecticut, the Monastery of the Glorious Cross. We currently number five monasteries in the world: in France, Japan and the United States. This gives us a truly international flavor, and our sisters come from many lands.
It was said above that we seek God by a life of conversion and praise; that means that we are a praying community. Daily the Eucharistic celebration gathers us together in union with Christ and his offering to the Father. Several times a day we come together to celebrate the Liturgy of the Hours, the Divine Office. Jesus’ whole life was praise; in him, we offer ourselves as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God. Times of personal prayer move us more and more into the continual presence of God, so that our lives tend to become continual prayer. This is not a self-centered prayer, but one that cries out to the Father, in Jesus his Son, moved by the Holy Spirit, offering to God the praise of all creation, and calling down God’s blessing on all people everywhere.
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TeresaBenedicta
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Benedictines of Jesus Crucified - Part 3
To be a praying community, we must also be a listening community. We hear the Lord more clearly in the silence of our hearts. Solitude, loving silence and lectio divina, that reflective pondering on the Word of God in Scripture and in Tradition, are vital elements of our life. Although we live separated from the world in a real sense, yet we are deeply in harmony with all men and women, our brothers and sisters, everywhere. We keep our hearts open to them, to their quests, their hopes, their joys and their sufferings. In Christ’s Church, the only legitimate solitude is the solitude of LOVE, that is, God, that unites us and makes us love. So we are a loving community, called together in one family by our God who is Love. Together we pray, share in community tasks, relax. We try to live out St. Paul’s double precept: “Bear one another’s burdens,” and “Let each one shoulder his own burden.”
To be a praying community, we must also be a listening community. We hear the Lord more clearly in the silence of our hearts. Solitude, loving silence and lectio divina, that reflective pondering on the Word of God in Scripture and in Tradition, are vital elements of our life. Although we live separated from the world in a real sense, yet we are deeply in harmony with all men and women, our brothers and sisters, everywhere. We keep our hearts open to them, to their quests, their hopes, their joys and their sufferings. In Christ’s Church, the only legitimate solitude is the solitude of LOVE, that is, God, that unites us and makes us love. So we are a loving community, called together in one family by our God who is Love. Together we pray, share in community tasks, relax. We try to live out St. Paul’s double precept: “Bear one another’s burdens,” and “Let each one shoulder his own burden.”
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In solidarity with our sisters and brothers everywhere, and imitating Jesus the Carpenter who worked with his hands, we too work to support ourselves. We are thus a working community. The types of work vary from one monastery to another; our work includes doing some of our own housework and cooking and other domestic tasks, as well as remunerative works such as having a guest/retreat wing; art work of various types, a small gift shop, and computing services. We work in silence and peace; whatever we do is a labor of love. Work, as a mutual service, is a concrete way of making our gift of self real in the here-and-now. Despite our best efforts, we are unable to support ourselves without the generous help of others.
In his Rule, Saint Benedict places great emphasis on hospitality, receiving guests as if they were Christ in person. So, faithful to this tradition, we too welcome guests who wish to share our life of prayer. Guests are always welcome to share our Eucharist and Divine Office. On a small scale, we offer facilities for private retreats, and provide space for those who wish to come for a time of rest and quiet reflection. Day retreats for small groups can also be accommodated. Although our hospitality is a service, we find ourselves enriched by all those who come to us. As we receive from them, so too we hope to spread some of the light that comes from the Cross, and the joy of the Risen Savior.
Perhaps one of the most characteristic elements of the Rule of Saint Benedict is his moderation. It is precisely this point that makes our life possible. Benedict had this to say: “Let the Abbot so arrange all things that the strong have something to strive after, and the weak are not turned back in dismay.” Ever since we were founded, we have demonstrated that genuine monastic life can be lived in a simple way so that physical limitations need not be an obstacle. At the heart of our life is the Cross of Christ, that tree of life, continually reminding us and all those we meet, that the mystery of Christ’s death and resurrection is indeed a mystery full of life and fruitfulness for the whole Church, for all persons. Today, as from our very earliest years of existence as a monastic community, the joy we experience in striving to live out this mystery in our own lives prompts us to sing “Amen, Alleluia!” which is our motto. Everything in our life is aimed at facilitating and fostering the seeking of God that has characterized monastic persons throughout the centuries.
For the young or less young woman interested in joining us, the essential point is that she give genuine evidence of a call to our way of live. She may be in good health or have some physical limitation. Good mental and psychological balance is essential so that she can receive formation and become a living, well-integrated member of a group. Education beyond high-school, as well as work experience, are strongly encouraged. Before joining us, the candidate comes to see our life first-hand. There may be several visits, depending on circumstances. This is a necessary and mutually beneficial stage. Before beginning the novitiate, there is a time of probation that allows for a gradual initiation into our life. After this probationary stage, called the postulancy, the postulant is admitted to the novitiate which usually lasts two years. It is above all a time of spiritual deepening. After the novitiate, if all has gone satisfactorily, the novice is admitted to first profession for one year, which is renewable for several years, at least five. During these years, the sister learns how to live more fully as a member of our religious family. She deepens the teaching already received, and prepares herself to be open and ready for the great surge of new life that will be hers in wholeheartedly making perpetual monastic Profession.
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TeresaBenedicta
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Benedictines of Jesus Crucified - Part 4
The formation received in the early years continues to deepen throughout our lives, making us ever more open to the Holy Spirit, more ready to hear the Lord’s Word, and to move further along the path of continual prayer. Our monastic community manifests the countenance of the Church. The love that binds us and keeps us together before the Lord, both in the harshness of the combat and the celebration of salvation, is the sign of the Church’s universal communion. Our contemplative gazing upon the One whom we have pierced, gradually makes us witnesses of the Resurrection at the heart of the missionary Church.
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INFORMATION SHEET
ABOUT THE BENEDICTINES OF JESUS CRUCIFIED
Monastery of the Glorious Cross
61 Burban Drive
Branford, CT 06405-4003
Phone: (203) 315-9964 or
(203) 315-0106
Fax: (203) 483-5829
E-mail: monasterygc@juno.com
Web site: www.benedictinesjc.org
FORM OF LIFE: Monastic (Benedictine), contemplative with no outside apostolate. Our members are women from all over the globe.
EMPHASIS: Seeking God by living a close community life in conversion and praise. Celebrating the Liturgy of the Eucharist and singing the Liturgy of the Hours daily. (In English)
WHO MAY APPLY? Women in good health, or women with certain physical limitations. Good psychological balance is required. PLEASE NOTE: We are not able to accept women who have cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis, or other neurological conditions. No one with mental illness, mental retardation, or brain damage can be considered.
AGE: Between the ages of 20-55. It is possible to make exceptions to the upper age-limit in certain circumstances. We have found that it is difficult for women who have lived independently for many years, to adjust to the demands of community life, and the formation process.
FOUNDATION: We were founded in Paris, France in 1930, with the special purpose of offering a genuine monastic life to women with physical limitations as well as to those in good health.
LOCATION: In addition to our motherhouse near Paris, France, we have two other houses in France, one in Japan, and one in Branford, Connecticut.
HABIT: We wear a modified habit with a beige tunic and scapular, and a dark brown veil. White habits are sometimes worn in the summer. A small wooden cross with the Hebrew letters for the name of Jesus engraved on it, completes our habit.
FORMATION: Those in initial formation go to our motherhouse and international novitiate in France.
MOTTO OF THE BENEDICTINES OF JESUS CRUCIFIED:
AMEN, ALLELUIA!
TYPICAL WEEKDAY SCHEDULE
7:00 A.M. Office of Readings, followed by time for lectio divina, silent prayer, and breakfast.
9:00 A.M. Morning Prayer (Lauds) followed by Little Chapter, then work.
11:50 Mass, followed by main meal, dishes, time for spiritual reading, walks outside, rest, quiet work. There are usually two hours of great silence in the afternoon.
3:30 P.M. Day Prayer, followed by recreation on most days. Then another work period.
6:00 P.M. Evening Prayer (Vespers) followed by supper and dishes.
8:00 P.M. Compline (Night Prayer) followed by time for silent prayer.
10:00 P.M. Retire
Sunday schedule is different; Thursday evenings there is a holy hour. Before Sundays and major feasts the Office of Vigils is celebrated in the evening.
The formation received in the early years continues to deepen throughout our lives, making us ever more open to the Holy Spirit, more ready to hear the Lord’s Word, and to move further along the path of continual prayer. Our monastic community manifests the countenance of the Church. The love that binds us and keeps us together before the Lord, both in the harshness of the combat and the celebration of salvation, is the sign of the Church’s universal communion. Our contemplative gazing upon the One whom we have pierced, gradually makes us witnesses of the Resurrection at the heart of the missionary Church.
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We give our lives for the increase and unity of the whole body. If we allow our own wounds to be healed in the blood of the cross, the broken unity of the body of Christ will be mended in us and around us, until all shall be one. Although the world may not understand our withdrawal, or may invite us to assume other tasks, or may simply ignore us, still the world has need of our stability in its own high mobility, our openness in its thirst for God, our hope of eternal goods in its desire for lasting happiness. Throughout its night, the world expects that we will keep our lamps lit and will remain watchful as we await the Lord who is coming.
And so we continue to move forward along the path. The way may be obscure at times, and marked by difficult moments. If we profess to follow Jesus Crucified, we know well that our road too, leads to the Cross. There is no other way to Life than the way Jesus took. He said “Yes” to the Father by accepting death fully, and in that moment he passed over into Life eternal. He is Jesus Crucified, and he is the Risen One, who is the Lord of Glory, living forever. With our eyes on him, knowing that in him we too share this same risen glory, our song forever is “Amen, Alleluia!”INFORMATION SHEET
ABOUT THE BENEDICTINES OF JESUS CRUCIFIED
Monastery of the Glorious Cross
61 Burban Drive
Branford, CT 06405-4003
Phone: (203) 315-9964 or
(203) 315-0106
Fax: (203) 483-5829
E-mail: monasterygc@juno.com
Web site: www.benedictinesjc.org
FORM OF LIFE: Monastic (Benedictine), contemplative with no outside apostolate. Our members are women from all over the globe.
EMPHASIS: Seeking God by living a close community life in conversion and praise. Celebrating the Liturgy of the Eucharist and singing the Liturgy of the Hours daily. (In English)
WHO MAY APPLY? Women in good health, or women with certain physical limitations. Good psychological balance is required. PLEASE NOTE: We are not able to accept women who have cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis, or other neurological conditions. No one with mental illness, mental retardation, or brain damage can be considered.
AGE: Between the ages of 20-55. It is possible to make exceptions to the upper age-limit in certain circumstances. We have found that it is difficult for women who have lived independently for many years, to adjust to the demands of community life, and the formation process.
FOUNDATION: We were founded in Paris, France in 1930, with the special purpose of offering a genuine monastic life to women with physical limitations as well as to those in good health.
LOCATION: In addition to our motherhouse near Paris, France, we have two other houses in France, one in Japan, and one in Branford, Connecticut.
HABIT: We wear a modified habit with a beige tunic and scapular, and a dark brown veil. White habits are sometimes worn in the summer. A small wooden cross with the Hebrew letters for the name of Jesus engraved on it, completes our habit.
FORMATION: Those in initial formation go to our motherhouse and international novitiate in France.
MOTTO OF THE BENEDICTINES OF JESUS CRUCIFIED:
AMEN, ALLELUIA!
TYPICAL WEEKDAY SCHEDULE
7:00 A.M. Office of Readings, followed by time for lectio divina, silent prayer, and breakfast.
9:00 A.M. Morning Prayer (Lauds) followed by Little Chapter, then work.
11:50 Mass, followed by main meal, dishes, time for spiritual reading, walks outside, rest, quiet work. There are usually two hours of great silence in the afternoon.
3:30 P.M. Day Prayer, followed by recreation on most days. Then another work period.
6:00 P.M. Evening Prayer (Vespers) followed by supper and dishes.
8:00 P.M. Compline (Night Prayer) followed by time for silent prayer.
10:00 P.M. Retire
Sunday schedule is different; Thursday evenings there is a holy hour. Before Sundays and major feasts the Office of Vigils is celebrated in the evening.
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TeresaBenedicta
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Benedictines of Jesus Crucified - Part 5
ELEMENTS OF THE VOCATION OF THE BENEDICTINES OF JESUS CRUCIFIED
Leading a contemplative life,
We offer ourselves with Christ to the will of the Father for the salvation of the world.
Together we strive to live in silence and share in the tasks of the community, all the while believing in Jesus Christ who revealed God’s love for us by his death and resurrection.
Together we strive to allow the mystery of the CROSS to radiate throughout the world by our fidelity to the will of God, no matter what our physical or spiritual limitations may be.
AMEN, ALLELUIA!
In all things, in whatever happens, we try to find an ever renewed cause for joy.
ELEMENTS OF THE VOCATION OF THE BENEDICTINES OF JESUS CRUCIFIED
Leading a contemplative life,
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following the Rule of Saint Benedict and our own Constitutions and Rule of Life,
in a spirit that is essentially apostolic.
The Lord’s CROSS is at the heart and center of our Congregation.
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We desire to allow the mystery of the CROSS to shine forth
in our fraternal lives lived in the spirit of the Gospel;
we are united by a strong liturgical life that centers around daily Eucharist and the singing of the Divine Office (the Liturgy of the Hours).
Silent prayer, lectio divina, reflective reading and ruminating on Scripture and important texts from the Fathers of the Church and other texts are part of our daily life.
We live lives of love---love for Jesus who, through love, accepted suffering and death for our sake to bring us with him to heaven, reconciled with the Father;
---and love for one another, in a response to the call of love through the CROSS.
Ours is a monastic, contemplative life adapted to those in poor health or with certain physical handicaps, or in good health.
Prayer is our primary function; it is characterized by joy, simplicity and a loving surrender to the will of God.
We profess stability and conversion of life, according to the Rule of Saint Benedict and our Constitutions.
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Like all Benedictines, we live “under a Rule and an Abbot” (superior) and we joyfully embrace and live out the will of the Father, in whatever ways it is made manifest to us.
Our call is to live a simple monastic life of conversion and praise, that is
centered on the Paschal Mystery of Christ and lived out in the rhythm of the
Church’s liturgical year.
Our call is to leave everything in order to follow Christ in this Paschal Mystery.
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This means we are enlightened and given life by the mystery of the CROSS, made
especially clear by our being placed under the title of JESUS CRUCIFIED.
We strive to radiate the mystery of the CROSS in surrender (AMEN) and in great joy (ALLELUIA). This is the motto of our Congregation,In all things, in whatever happens, we try to find an ever renewed cause for joy.
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We witness to the world that it is a privilege to carry one’s cross in the footsteps of Jesus, and to help our Sisters to carry theirs.
In our bodies we live the suffering of Christ, always trying to live in the spirit of HIS resurrection.
Thus we continue the mystery of the Incarnation, by which Jesus said, on coming into the world, “Behold, I come to do your will.” Jesus did this by always saying “YES” to the Father; we attempt to do this by a life of fidelity to the will of God, constantly seeking to imitate Jesus.- Status
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