Book - Fr. Saintourens - Dominicans Of Perpetual Rosary

[Luigi]

I know we have some folks on here who follow the Dominicans, and perhaps some planning on joining the Dominican Nuns of the Perpetual Rosary.. The nuns in Lancaster, PA are selling the The Notebooks of the Reverend Damian Marie Saintourens, OP: Founder of the Cloistered Dominican Sisters of the Perpetual Rosary. 254 pages, 6" x 9" and ~$17 on Amazon (there's a link on the sisters' page, below). 

 

 http://www.opnunslancaster.org/ 

[corban711]

I wasn't going to buy the book, so I don't actually mind all that much...but the link didn't work for me   :(

[Luigi]

Thanks for the heads-up. I tried the link just now, and it doesn't work for me, either -I don't know why it doesn't work, because that is their actual address. But enough about that now.

 

Here's a link to the book on Amazon - let's see if this link functions properly:

http://www.amazon.com/Notebooks-Reverend-Damien-Marie-Saintourens/dp/1492704520/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1386774122&sr=8-1&keywords=the+notebooks+of+the+reverend+damien

[Obonitas!]

Stupid question: Does this mean they say the Rosary all day long and through the night? The nuns taking turns? Which Monasteries are devoted to the Perpetual Rosary? I found a "Custom Book" for a Dominican Monastery that is a Monastery of the Perpetual Rosary at a yard sale! I've been working a lot, so I haven't had the chance to look at it (plus my language classes), but I thought it would be a great addition to my books on religious life. (All but a few are in English and I'm shipping them to the Monastery before I leave since I could never carry them. There are other nuns there who are Americsn or who speak English, but I still have the condition of being fluent before entrance.) Anyway, the book I have was printed in the 30's. When I bought it, I asked the owner (for a dollar!) how she came across it & she said it had been her mother's. I always thought "Custom Books" are it allowed out of the Monastery & even if you leave, you can't take it with you, Sorry for the long post, this just brought up questions in my mind!

[Sr Mary Catharine OP]

Yes this is what it means. Our monastery comes from this tradition although we are now Nuns of the Order of Preachers. (The Perpetual Rosary Sisters were 3rd Order cloistered.) We pray the rosary during our 1/2 hr or hour of adoration. Nearly all Perpetual Rosary monasteries eventually became fully nuns of the Order. There were few differences, the most noticeable being that the Perpetual Rosary monasteries were less austere in regard to fasting. So, in the US they also attracted many more vocations.

 

Marbury, Buffalo and Lancaster still retain the rosary although like us aren't able to have it 24/7. Lancaster doesn't have adoration of the BLessed Sacrament except on big feasts.

 

The book you are talking about is probably the one that was distributed among lay people who were also part of the perpetual rosary. It's part of the Confraternity of the Rosary. People sign up for an hour rosary once a month. It was a very popular devotion in the late 1800's and early 1900 especially in French speaking Canada and New Orleans. Whole parishes, convents and monasteries would sign up.

 

 

[marigold]

Stupid question: Does this mean they say the Rosary all day long and through the night? The nuns taking turns? Which Monasteries are devoted to the Perpetual Rosary? I found a "Custom Book" for a Dominican Monastery that is a Monastery of the Perpetual Rosary at a yard sale! I've been working a lot, so I haven't had the chance to look at it (plus my language classes), but I thought it would be a great addition to my books on religious life. (All but a few are in English and I'm shipping them to the Monastery before I leave since I could never carry them. There are other nuns there who are Americsn or who speak English, but I still have the condition of being fluent before entrance.) Anyway, the book I have was printed in the 30's. When I bought it, I asked the owner (for a dollar!) how she came across it & she said it had been her mother's. I always thought "Custom Books" are it allowed out of the Monastery & even if you leave, you can't take it with you, Sorry for the long post, this just brought up questions in my mind!

 

 

Yes this is what it means. Our monastery comes from this tradition although we are now Nuns of the Order of Preachers. (The Perpetual Rosary Sisters were 3rd Order cloistered.) We pray the rosary during our 1/2 hr or hour of adoration. Nearly all Perpetual Rosary monasteries eventually became fully nuns of the Order. There were few differences, the most noticeable being that the Perpetual Rosary monasteries were less austere in regard to fasting. So, in the US they also attracted many more vocations.

 

Marbury, Buffalo and Lancaster still retain the rosary although like us aren't able to have it 24/7. Lancaster doesn't have adoration of the BLessed Sacrament except on big feasts.

 

The book you are talking about is probably the one that was distributed among lay people who were also part of the perpetual rosary. It's part of the Confraternity of the Rosary. People sign up for an hour rosary once a month. It was a very popular devotion in the late 1800's and early 1900 especially in French speaking Canada and New Orleans. Whole parishes, convents and monasteries would sign up.

 

Bumping - is this what you are referring to, obonitas?