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►The Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist
(in Ann Arbor, MI), were on the Today Show, February 5, 2007.
►The Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia Congregation
►The Ferdinand Benedictines
►11/8/2007 - Women Religious
Video of sisters playing ultimate frisbee
The Creative Minority Report
Next time someone says all nuns are over sixty show them this video of
Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity (SOLT) Postulants and novices enjoying a game of ultimate frisbee.
►11/7/2007 - Religious Life
Religious life attracts new type of person
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"It is the presence of God in the world and the action of God in the world that attracts people to religious life," says Sister Janet Mock. So whether they are preparing for a life of service or of prayer, today's focus is on embracing the wider world.
►11/6/2007 - Women Religious
Benedictine sister cares for dead, living as funeral home manager
Kansas City-St. Jospeh Catholic Key
For Benedictine Sister Christine Kean, becoming a funeral director was more the outcome of a lifelong fascination than the realization of a lifelong dream. Sister Chris, the new manager of the Consalus Funeral Home in Clinton, has felt comfortable around both the living and the dead since she was a child in Concordia, Kan.
►11/4/2007 - Women Religious
Mother Angelica branches out
Creative Minority Report
In May of 2005, five
Sisters of Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration left Mother Angelica and their home convent in Alabama to head out to the desert. At the invitation of the Bishop of Phoenix, these nuns are starting the first contemplative convent in the Phoenix area. This past week they broke ground on their new convent. You can see
more pictures here. Click on the link above to view a flash presentation on the area and what the future monastery will look like. Enjoy!
With prayer and cultivation, the sisterhood still calls
11/1/2007 - Extension Magazine
Yes, young women are still becoming sisters... Their numbers took a major hit in a culture and a time that glorified women more for style than for substance, but they may be bouncing back. In this article, two young women, Mary Klein and Megan Otten, explain how a dynamic Newman center in Missouri helped guide them in their vocation discernment and decision to enter religious communities. “I think there’s something in all of us that we want to be total,” Megan says thoughtfully. “We’re meant to give ourselves entirely to someone, and we’re not satisfied until we’ve given all.”
Blessed Borzecka: The Holiness of Ordinary Life
10/30/2007 - Catholic News Service
As a mother, widow, and woman religious, Blessed Celine Borzecka reminds today's faithful that even an ordinary life can be holy if it is lived fully for God, Pope Benedict XVI said.
Sister Anne loves what technology does for her faith
10/29/2007 - San Francisco Chronicle
Her cell phone has a custom ring tone. She frequents the Internet's most popular social networking sites. She gets jittery when she can't check her e-mail or post on her blog. She communicates with her family mostly by AOL instant messenger. And she's a 50-year-old nun. Sister Anne Flanagan has been a Daughter of St. Paul for almost 30 years, and lives with five other nuns in a convent upstairs from a Catholic bookstore near Chicago's Magnificent Mile.
Fifth-graders learn about 'unique' vocations
10/18/2007 - The Georgia Bulletin
A fireman. A doctor. A teacher. A rock star. These are common responses to the perpetual question posed to children—“what do you want to be when you grow up?” But the archdiocesan Vocations Office and Office of Catholic Schools hope that the responses from fifth-graders in the archdiocese will also include occupations like priest, sister, deacon or brother.
Poor Clares in Texas: Radical witnesses of the Gospel
10/8/2007 - EXTENSION Magazine
Detachment from material things provides a powerful example from this group of women religious, whose entire lives are dedicated to praying for the Universal Church. During the week, the nuns maintain a busy schedule built around the "Liturgy of the Hours," a prayer cycle based on the Psalms that begins at midnight and extends around the clock.
Divining God's will
10/5/2007 - The Columbus Dispatch
They struggle with the difference between what they want and what God wants for them. They often face parents who don't understand why they'd give up high-paying jobs and children, and friends who can't believe they'd give up sex.
