“Within our communities and also within the heart of our religious family, they [the contemplatives] will endeavor to benefit all by their own dedication…” — SSVM Monastic Rule, 141 On the Front Lines Our congregation, the Institute Servants of the Lord and the Virgin of Matará, has both active missionaries and contemplative nuns. Our contemplative sisters share in the apostolic work of our Religious Family by their life of prayer and penance…
Registration is open! Within our congregation we have both active missionaries and contemplative nuns. Our contemplative sisters live a simple and hidden life in the cloister, but they are “the vanguard of all the apostolic works of the Institute, since with their prayer life and penance they obtain from the Lord the necessary graces for salvation of many souls” (SSVM Directory of Spirituality, 93). Our Contemplative House of Prayer in Brooklyn, NY will…
Registration is open! Within our congregation we have both active missionaries and contemplative nuns. Our contemplative sisters live a simple and hidden life in the cloister, but they are “the vanguard of all the apostolic works of the Institute, since with their prayer life and penance they obtain from the Lord the necessary graces for salvation of many souls” (SSVM Directory of Spirituality, 93). Our Contemplative House of Prayer in Brooklyn, NY will…
“Master, where are you staying?” — “Come and see.” – Matthew 1:38 This July we have various opportunities for those who are discerning a call to the religious life, and more specifically, to our religious Institute. Taking time to visit a religious congregation in order to “Come and See” how their spirituality and charism is lived out in daily and communal life can be a helpful step in discernment. Below…
The Holy Habit is a sign of their consecration and witness of their poverty. – SSVM Constitutions, 154 In the past days, 13 of our novices received the Holy Habit. With the opening of our new Contemplative Novitiate this year, there were two ceremonies. Investiture of Contemplative Novices On December 1st, our three contemplative novices received the habit at our Monastery in Brooklyn, NY. Previous Next Investiture of Novices from…
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