Today, Father Basil and I went for a drive to Saint Paul’s Abbey in Newton, New Jersey. A very splendid day away visiting some of his former confreres (Fr. Basil was a monk of St. Paul’s before transferring his stability to St. Mary’s Abbey, Morristown).
The Prior of Saint Paul’s, Father Samuel, received us most graciously; we joined the monks for Mid-Day prayer and lunch. Father Basil and I spent time visiting the abbey’s
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Updated August 30th
I was curious as to how many people responded to the Lord’s call to serve Him as a
consecrated religious (being a sister, a nun
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Truly it is right and just, our duty and our salvation,
always and everywhere
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A Rome-based news agency made a recent entry on the new head of the Pontifical Council of the Family, Ennio Cardinal
Antonelli can be viewed here.
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Today in Benedictine monasteries the liturgical memorial observed is that of Blessed
Bernard Tolomei (sometimes he is already referred to as a saint but he won’t be canonized by the church later this year). From the region of Siena, Blessed Bernard was the 14th century founder of the Olivetan congregation of Benedictine monks.
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A long tradition of some Benedictine monasteries is the profession of solemn vows on August 15, the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Benedictines take vows of obedience, stability, and conversion, that is, fidelity to the monastic way of life. At the Archabbey of Saint Meinrad the tradition continues to be observed.
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In a Georgian Hymnal we see a verse of a hymn which reads:
You went forth from the world,
O virgin Theotokos,
to the eternal light.
The sacred Liturgy bases
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