{"id":24745,"date":"2009-06-24T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-24T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/06\/st-dominics-monastery-1st-anni\/"},"modified":"2009-06-24T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-24T12:00:00","slug":"st-dominics-monastery-1st-anni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/06\/st-dominics-monastery-1st-anni\/","title":{"rendered":"St Dominic&#8217;s Monastery: 1st anniv in Linden, VA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Today, June 24, is the first anniversary of the dedication of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lindenopnuns.org\">Saint Dominic&#8217;s<br \/>\nMonastery<\/a> new monastery in Linden, Virginia.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/St%20Dominic%27s%20Monastery%20cloister.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"St Dominic's Monastery cloister.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/St Dominic's Monastery cloister-thumb-250x167.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"167\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">What an amazing year!&nbsp;<br \/>\nThis summer four young women will enter the Monastery as postulants.&nbsp; As<br \/>\nenvisioned, the Monastery is acting as a magnet attracting young women to<br \/>\ndevote their lives to God. The life follows the traditional form of Second Order Dominican nuns with the night Office, the grill, silence, sacrifice and prayer. The nuns rarely leave the cloister and are completely focussed on Christ.&nbsp;<o:p>They carry to Him our deepest needs through their prayer and sacrifice.<\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">I would like to encourage everyone to send Sister Mary Paul (the<br \/>\nprioress) and the nuns at Saint Dominic&#8217;s Monastery an anniversary card and, if<br \/>\npossible, to include an anniversary gift &#8211; a check to support the formation of<br \/>\ntheir new members.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Cards can be mailed to:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Sister Mary Paul, O.P.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Saint Dominic&#8217;s Monastery<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">2636 Monastery Road<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Linden, VA 22642<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">My friends Fathers Gabriel and Jordan as well as the laywoman Julie tell me the life of the monastery is going extremely well and the need for assistance is also great. So, I think the life of these Dominican nuns is VERY worth a sacrificial gift. Don&#8217;t you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, June 24, is the first anniversary of the dedication of Saint Dominic&#8217;s Monastery new monastery in Linden, Virginia.&nbsp; What an amazing year!&nbsp; This summer four young women will enter the Monastery as postulants.&nbsp; As envisioned, the Monastery is acting as a magnet attracting young women to devote their lives to God. The life follows &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/06\/st-dominics-monastery-1st-anni\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">St Dominic&#8217;s Monastery: 1st anniv in Linden, VA<\/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":[24,11],"tags":[1722,1723,1724,1725],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24745"}],"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=24745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}