Tag: religious life
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Ecclesial Customs and Memory
I suddenly understood why the community so loves to stop for Dairy Queen.
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Devotional Prayer and Community
In early October, I was in Nairobi teaching at a program for contemplative nuns, and afterward I spent a few days with the Benedictine nuns at Our Lady of the Angels Monastery outside the city, in rural Kiambu. As I have written about before, this is still a fairly new community, and it is fascinating…
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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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A new conference for Kenyan contemplative nuns
The spirit of the Church is alive and well in these growing African communities.