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Contemplative Novices

13 New Marys: Our Novices Receive their New Names

On November 21st, the Feast of the Presentation of Mary, 13 novices from our province were given their new religious names. By these new names, advocations of the Blessed Virgin Mary, they become “New Marys.”  These names are a sign of the religious consecration of whom Mary is the prototype: “Among all persons consecrated unreservedly to God, she is the first. She-the Virgin of Nazareth-is also the one most fully… 

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