Category: Religious life
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To elect a prioress.
It’s a model that could work well elsewhere in the Church. So how does this process work?
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Un-hiding Our Would-Be Black Catholic Sisters
These women have been committed to oblivion by not being allowed to exist in the community record at all.
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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 an educational program for cloistered nuns from all over Kenya and about five other African countries. During this time, Sr. Lucy Njeri invited me to visit Our Lady Queen of…
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A 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 Tell for me to transcribe some portions of Fr. Godfrey Deikmann’s Advent 1999 letter to “family and friends.” One of the members of the Carondolet Village community with whom I…
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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.