{"id":23930,"date":"2008-08-20T20:47:42","date_gmt":"2008-08-21T00:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2008\/08\/serving-the-body-of-christ-res\/"},"modified":"2013-11-22T08:39:35","modified_gmt":"2013-11-22T12:39:35","slug":"serving-the-body-of-christ-res","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2008\/08\/serving-the-body-of-christ-res\/","title":{"rendered":"Religious life 2008: Profession of vows, entrances and ordinations Religious"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n<\/em>Updated August 30th<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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I was curious as to how many people responded to the Lord’s call to serve Him as a
\n\"Nuns.jpg\"<\/a><\/span>consecrated religious (being a sister, a nun or a priest) this summer.\u00a0The Anchoress made a similar report on August 18; visit her blog<\/a> for more info. Here is a\u00a0sampling of those who took vows, promises or were invested with the habit in last calendar year.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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St. Benedict’s Abbey<\/a>:\u00a0<\/span>1 professed simple vows; 1 professed solemn vows; 1 clothed in the habit.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n


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St. Mary’s Abbey: <\/span>1 ordained to the priesthood; 1 postulant<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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St. Louis Abbey<\/a>: <\/span>1 solemn profession; 3 clothed in the habit; 1 claustral oblate<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Mary, Help of Christians<\/a>\u00a0Abbey (Belmont Abbey):\u00a01 first profession; 2 clothed in the habit<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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St. Meinrad Archabbey<\/a>:<\/span> 1 solemn vows; 3 postulants<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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St. Vincent Archabbey<\/a>: 2 solemn professions; <\/span>4 first professions; 5 clothed in the habit; 2 ordained to the diaconate<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Monastero San Benedetto<\/a>:\u00a0<\/span>1 solemn vows; 2 novices; 3 postulants; 1 ordination to the priesthood<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Franciscan Friars of the Renewal<\/a>: 7 novices; 10 first professions; 7\u00a0perpetual professions; 2 priests and 2 deacons ordained \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Province of St. Joseph <\/a>(the Dominicans):\u00a0<\/span>11 clothed in the habit<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

A NEW congregation: Maronite Servants of Christ the Light<\/a>: 1 sister and many more to come!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Sisters of Christian Charity<\/a>:\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>1 first profession; 3 novices; 3 postulants<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Congregation of St. Cecilia<\/a>:\u00a0<\/span>18\u00a0entered postulancy; 12\u00a0first vows; 8\u00a0 renewed their vows; 11\u00a0made\u00a0final vows; 6\u00a0clothed in the habit<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n


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Mary, Mother of the Eucharist<\/a>: 14\u00a0first professions; 8\u00a0received the habit; 8\u00a0made final profession<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\n\"Novitiate07-08.jpg\"<\/a><\/span>Apostles of the Sacred Heart: 2 first professions; 2 vow renewals; 1 clothed in the habit<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Queen of Peace Monastery<\/a>: 1<\/span>\u00a0first profession; 1 postulant<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Sisters of St. Francis of the Martyr St. George <\/a><\/span><\/span>: 3 postulants;\u00a04 clothed in\u00a0the habit; 6\u00a0 professions;\u00a022 Junior sisters; and an undetermined number making final vows in 2009<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Valley of Our Lady Monastery<\/a> (Cistercian nuns): 5 novices, 3 postulants<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"sisters_6_08.jpg\"<\/a><\/span>Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles: 4 postulants,\u00a02 novices<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n


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Dear friends, life is not governed by chance; it is not random. Your very existence has been willed by God, blessed and given a purpose (cf. Gen 1:28)! Life is not just a succession of events or experiences, helpful though many of them are. It is a search for the true, the good and the beautiful. It is to this end that we make our choices; it is for this that we exercise our freedom; it is in this – in truth, in goodness, and in beauty – that we find happiness and joy. Do not be fooled by those who see you as just another consumer in a market of undifferentiated possibilities, where choice itself becomes the good, novelty usurps beauty, and subjective experience displaces truth.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n


\nPope Benedict XVI, WYD Australia, 2008<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 or a priest) this summer.\u00a0The Anchoress made a similar report on August 18; visit her blog for more info. Here is a\u00a0sampling of those who took vows, … Continue reading Religious life 2008: Profession of vows, entrances and ordinations Religious<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1707],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23930"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23930"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29382,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23930\/revisions\/29382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}