These women have been committed to oblivion by not being allowed to exist in the community record at all.
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Category: Religious life
Evangelizing Monasticism
Evangelization is the lens by which we are called to do aggiornamento today
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Founding a Benedictine monastery near Nairobi
As mentioned in my last post, early October found me in Nairobi for a second time in three years, teaching monastic art as part of
Read moreA letter from Fr. Godfrey Diekmann, O.S.B., appropriate for All Souls Day
As we celebrate the Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed (All Souls’) I thought it would be of some interest to the readers of Pray
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A new conference for Kenyan contemplative nuns
The spirit of the Church is alive and well in these growing African communities.
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What To Do When There is No Mass?
Some options with their pros and cons.
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How to Translate Conversatio Morum?
In a recent liturgy, a candidate for simple profession to a Benedictine abbey promised stability (in English), obedience (in English), and conversatio morum (in Latin). Why couldn’t that third promise be rendered in English? And how best to do so?
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Switzerland: An Appeal for “Female Sacramentality”
A female monastic community could ask the bishop to ordain one of the sisters for the office of Anointing of the Sick.
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Recommended Viewing: “The Churchmen” (“Ainsi soient-ils”)
If I had my way, every seminarian and seminary formator in the USA, as well as every bishop, priest, deacon and pastoral minister, would watch this series.
Read moreSharing Religious Life, Liturgy, and the Pursuit of Happiness on the Web
… the nuns’ turn to cyberspace is only the latest chapter in a long history of religious orders’ using the best means of communication.
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