Widows Who Want To Be Consecrated

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If there are any widows out there who want the same type of consecration as hermits and virgins can have, please contact me. Archbishop Raymond Burke is the lead person under the see of Cardinal Arinze. It would be very good to approach Archbishop Burke with our calling to consecrated life…with or without living in community…or both…

Kathie in Missouri
 
No one’s answered in a public post yet, but it sounds like a great opportunity and hope. May God bless you, and I pray that God will lead those whom He wishes to respond. Trishie 🙂
 
I believe the SOLT family includes at least one consecrated widow, Dr. Rhonda Chervin. They do have, if memory serves, quite an extensive website.
 
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I believe the SOLT family includes at least one consecrated widow, Dr. Rhonda Chervin. They do have, if memory serves, quite an extensive website.
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Really? Where did you see this because I would be quite interested in knowing more if she has. I have been in contact with her by email and she never mentioned it.

However…note this website for anyone interested:

fsmcharism.net

Please let me know what group of SOLT Rhonda is with?? 👍

Kathie
 
Dr. Chervin was my formation director about 8 years ago, before she was with SOLT. She stayed at my convent one weekend when interviewing for a theology position at their school (a non-accredited college) which she decided to decline. Last time I saw her was at a book signing. She gave me her e-mail address, but I didn’t have a reason to contact her other than to say “hello.”
Last I heard she was a hermitess in Texas.

You could probably find her by googling her name.
 
There is a provision in the Catholic Catechism mentioned for the consecration of widows similar I suspect to the consecration of virgins (Order of Virgins)- hence they are nuns but not necessarily living in a religious life per se or similar. We have consecrated virgins here who simply live in their own residence. One I knew did wear a religious habit but I have not seen her for a few years now.

There is talk here in Australia I heard a while back of perhaps bringing into existence again the consecration of widows which did occur in the earlier years of The Church.

Catholic Catechism
scborromeo.org/ccc/para/1672.htm
**1672 **Certain blessings have a lasting importance because they consecrate persons to God, or reserve objects and places for liturgical use. Among those blessings which are intended for persons - not to be confused with sacramental ordination - are the blessing of the abbot or abbess of a monastery, the consecration of virgins and widows, the rite of religious profession and the blessing of certain ministries of the Church (readers, acolytes, catechists, etc.). The dedication or blessing of a church or an altar, the blessing of holy oils, vessels, and vestments, bells, etc., can be mentioned as examples of blessings that concern objects.
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1537 The word *order *in Roman antiquity designated an established civil body, especially a governing body. *Ordinatio *means incorporation into an ordo. In the Church there are established bodies which Tradition, not without a basis in Sacred Scripture,4 has since ancient times called *taxeis *(Greek) or ordines. And so the liturgy speaks of the ordo episcoporum, the ordo presbyterorum, the ordo diaconorum. Other groups also receive this name of ordo: catechumens, virgins, spouses,

widows,. . . .
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Must admit I find #1537 above a bit difficult to understand (and this just might be my poverty of understanding/comprehension) in full with the “widows, …” wondering what classifications are not stated…(my comment “single women, women with annuled marriages” - groups which do seem to grow in The Church of today)
1538 Integration into one of these bodies in the Church was accomplished by a rite called ordinatio, a religious and liturgical act which was a consecration, a blessing or a sacrament. Today the word “ordination” is reserved for the sacramental act which integrates a man into the order of bishops, presbyters, or deacons, and goes beyond a simple election, designation, delegation, or institution by the community, for it confers a gift of the Holy Spirit that permits the exercise of a “sacred power” (sacra potestas)5 which can come only from Christ himself through his Church. Ordination is also called consecratio, for it is a setting apart and an investiture by Christ himself for his Church. The laying on of hands by the bishop, with the consecratory prayer, constitutes the visible sign of this ordination.
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Oh, boy. Don’t call a consecrated virgin a nun. They belong, as they will tell you, to *consecrated *life (which includes secular institutes and hermits), rather than *religious life *(orders and congregations). They have just had a an international meeting/conference with the Holy Father in Rome.
As for Dr. Chervin, I believe her contact information was via a small newly chartered Catholic college in Texas…but you should probably google her name, and no doubt you will get a hit.
 
odubhghail said:
Oh, boy. Don’t call a consecrated virgin a nun. They belong, as they will tell you, to *consecrated *life (which includes secular institutes and hermits), rather than *religious life *(orders and congregations). They have just had a an international meeting/conference with the Holy Father in Rome.
As for Dr. Chervin, I believe her contact information was via a small newly chartered Catholic college in Texas…but you should probably google her name, and no doubt you will get a hit.
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Sorry!:o I was going by this…again it is ambiguous…but in future will refrain from using “nun” 🙂 …
Catechism of the Catholic Church

**924 **“As with other forms of consecrated life,” the order of virgins establishes the woman living in the world (or the nun) in prayer, penance, service of her brethren, and apostolic activity, according to the state of life and spiritual gifts given to her. Consecrated virgins can form themselves into associations to observe their commitment more faithfully.

» Enter the CCC at this paragraph
» CCC Table of Contents
» CCC Index
» St. Charles Borromeo Home
 
Sister_MM said:
The last sighting was in 2006. Follow this link for a physical address and e-mail address. If you do write, tell her Sister MM in Texas says hello!

rondachervin.com/home.htm
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I haven’t been to her website for about 6 months and see that she is starting a community of Dedicated Widows in her North Carolina area. Good for her! Kathie
 
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