In the month of December, 14 of our novices received the holy habit for the first time. This is an occasion of great joy for our province and for our congregation! On December 6, 10 novices received the habit at the National Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC. A week later, on December 14, four contemplative novices were also invested in our contemplative monastery in Brooklyn, New York.…
19 Novices Receive the Holy Habit In the first few days of December, 19 of our Servidora novices received the holy habit. Four of our contemplative novices received it on December 4th at the Precious Blood Monastery in Brooklyn, NY and 15 of our active novices were invested on December 6th at the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC. Our Constitutions reminds us that: “The religious of our…
Our Constitutions tell us that our holy habit “should be as our very own skin” (Const, 154). For us as religious, the reception of the habit is a solemn and significant moment marking the commitment of consecrated life in a very visible way. This, together with the receiving of a new name which happens sometime before, shows to the world that the religious is not his own but belongs to…
Profession of Final Vows November 13, the Feast of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, marked an important and joyous day in our mission in Guyana. On that day Sister Mary Our Lady of Charity, the second Guyanese vocation for our Institute, professed her final vows in the town of Charity on the Essequibo Coast. Sister Mary Our Lady of Charity with her family after the Mass of Profession of Perpetual Vows…
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