{"id":17229,"date":"2020-05-28T21:58:23","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T21:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssvmusa.org\/?page_id=17229"},"modified":"2023-03-26T20:41:24","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T00:41:24","slug":"contemplative-novitiate-st-catherine-of-siena","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ssvmusa.org\/index.php\/our-province\/contemplative-novitiate-st-catherine-of-siena\/","title":{"rendered":"SSVM Contemplative Novitiate | “St. Catherine of Siena”"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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(718) 233-2877<\/p>

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SSVM\u00a0<\/strong>Contemplative Novitiate “<\/strong>St. Catherine of Siena”<\/strong><\/p>

Attn:<\/em> Servants of the Lord & the Virgin of Matar\u00e1
Monastery of the\u00a0Precious Blood
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Located in the Diocese of Brooklyn<\/a><\/p>

Community prayer intention: that all men may sincerely seek, love and be formed in the truth, and find its fullness in the Incarnate Word.<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\u201cTheir purpose will be to live for God alone: this is the energetic synthesis that proclaims all the desire that God has placed in the heart of every contemplative nun. Not only to live in the presence of God but to live for God alone, with no other intention than God.\u201d<\/em>
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SSVM Contemplatives<\/h4>

Our congregation has a\u00a0Contemplative branch<\/a>\u00a0of cloistered nuns as well as active missionary sisters. This house of formation gives women the possibility of beginning formation directly in the contemplative branch of our Institute.<\/p>

Contemplatives offer \u201ca singular testimony of the Church\u2019s love for her Lord, and they contribute, with hidden apostolic fruitfulness, to the growth of the People of God\u201d (Vita Consecrata<\/em><\/a>, 8). Their hidden life of prayer and penance in the solitude and silence of the monastery are \u201ca constant reminder that the primacy of God gives full meaning and joy to human lives, because men and women are made for God, and their hearts are restless until they rest in him\u201d (Vita Consecrata,\u00a0<\/em>27).<\/p>

Contemplative Novitiate<\/h4>

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The novitiate is a time of beginnings. \u201cThe purpose of the novitiate, by which life in an institute begins, is to give the novices a greater understanding of their divine vocation, and of their vocation to that institute.\u00a0 During the novitiate the novices are to experience the manner of life of the institute and form their minds and hearts in its spirit.\u00a0 At the same time their resolution and suitability are to be tested\u201d <\/em>(Code of Canon Law<\/a>, 646).<\/p>

In addition to the focused spiritual formation proper to the novitiate, novices also receive intellectual formation directed to “the knowledge of Christ and the foundations of the spiritual life” (SSVM\u00a0<\/em>Directory of Novitiates,\u00a0<\/i>19).<\/span><\/p>

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Apostolate<\/h4>

Far from being cut off or separated from the rest of humanity and the Church, contemplatives remain in the Heart of Christ and share in the apostolic mission of our Religious Family. \u201c\u2026With their life of prayer and penance\u00a0\u2018they actually are at the vanguard of all apostolic works of the Institute,\u2019[1]<\/a> being \u2018the keystones of the apostolic endeavor of our Institute\u2019[2]<\/a>” (SSVM\u00a0<\/em>Monastic Rule,<\/em> 140).<\/span><\/p>

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\u201cIt must be kept in mind that the contemplative\u2019s primary apostolate is their very contemplative life – that is, the specific vocation to dedicate oneself completely to God in hidden silence, prayer, and penance. This is their \u2018typical and characteristic way in God’s special design to be Church, to live in the Church, to achieve communion with the Church, and to carry out a mission in the Church\u2019[3]<\/a> \u201d\u00a0(SSVM\u00a0<\/em>Monastic Rule<\/em>, 127).<\/span><\/p>

Each contemplative community of our Religious Family is entrusted with a particular prayer intention, to ask for those graces \u201cthat can only be obtained from God through prayer and penance and not through merit\u201d (Monastic Rule,<\/em> 134). In this way,\u00a0they obtain from God the necessary graces for the salvation of many people, so \u201cour monasteries of contemplative life should be\u00a0magnets for the grace of God<\/strong>\u201d (Directory of Spirituality, 26<\/em>).<\/p>

This contemplative novitiate community prays that \u201call men may sincerely seek, love and be formed in the truth, and find its fullness in the Incarnate Word.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>

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Visiting<\/h4>

For women interested in discerning the contemplative life within our Institute, there is the possibility of visiting our contemplative community, sharing in moments of prayer, work, and community life with the sisters. For more information contact<\/b>:\u00a0<\/p>

Mother Maria Pia Mater, SSVM
Contemplative Vocations Director<\/em><\/p>

E-mail: m.piamater@servidoras.org<\/a>
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Patroness<\/h4>

The patroness of our Contemplative Novitiate is St. Catherine of Siena, Virgin, Third Order Dominican, and Doctor of the Church, who was proclaimed by St. Pope Paul VI as the \u201cMystic of the Incarnate Word.\u201d She was born in Siena on March 25, 1347 and is a model and example of the most heroic practice of all the virtues for the soul seeking perfect love of God and neighbor.<\/p>

From a young age, St. Catherine remained docile to the inspirations of the Holy Spirit, who infused in her a deep life of contemplation and union with God, which would later be the source and power of her most notable and magnanimous service of the Church – successfully helping the return of the Holy See from Avignon to Rome.<\/p>

Her life of deep prayer and penitence is marked by extraordinary favors and graces by God, such as visions and Dialogues with Our Lord, a mystical espousal with Him in the faith, the exchange of hearts, and receiving the stigmata.\u00a0She liberally assisted the poor, served the sick, and comforted the afflicted and prisoners.\u00a0Her wise counsels were sought after by many, most notably the Holy Father, and even the most hardened sinners could not withstand the force of her exhortations or prayers to conversion.<\/p>

She died on April 29, 1380 and her remains are buried in the Basilica \u201cSanta Maria Sopra Minerva\u201d in Rome, while her incorrupt head can be venerated in Siena. She was canonized by Pope Pius II in 1461, proclaimed Co-patron of Rome (1866) and Italy (1939), recognized as Doctor of the Universal Church by Pope St. Paul VI in 1970, and lastly proclaimed as Co-patron of Europe by St. John Paul II in 1999.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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[1]<\/a> SSVM Directory of Spirituality, <\/em>93
[2]<\/a> SSVM <\/em>Constitutions,<\/em> 194
[3]<\/a> Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, The Contemplative Dimension of Religious Life<\/em><\/a>, 26<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(718) 233-2877 nov.catherineofsiena@servidoras.org SSVM\u00a0Contemplative Novitiate “St. Catherine of Siena” Attn: Servants of the Lord & the Virgin of Matar\u00e1Monastery of the\u00a0Precious Blood5400 Fort Hamilton ParkwayBrooklyn, NY 11219 Brooklyn, New York | Contemplative Novitiate Located in the Diocese of Brooklyn Community prayer intention: that all men may sincerely seek, love and be formed in the truth,… <\/p>\n

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