Benedictine Communities/Orders

[Gemma]

[quote name='passerby' post='994898' date='Jun 1 2006, 05:58 PM']
Hi everyone!

I've been lurking here for a while. I was wondering if anyone knew of any Benedictine communities who still wear a habit. I've been looking at Benedictines, but all the ones I've found on the internet have ditched the habit. Could anyone help me?

Blessings,
J
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You can try my site: [url="http://cloisters.tripod.com/"]Society of Our Lady of the Cloister[/url]

We have a page for both American and International Cloisters

Blessings,
Gemma

[stlmom]

[quote name='puellapaschalis' post='995984' date='Jun 3 2006, 02:33 AM']
Whilst the Rule specifies what monks should wear (Benedict wrote it for monks; it was "adapted" for nuns about a century after his death), it also gives the superior the leeway to modify it if he has a good reason (which nearly everyone has - does anyone know of Benedictines who have to take their knives off before going to bed these days?). Benedictine "charisms" vary wildly so it's possible that a superior would choose to not wear the habit based upon the work that the House (particularly an active one) did.

However, I think this only really comes into play with more active Benedictine communities. I can't think of a contemplative one (or even an active one, for that matter!) that doesn't have a habit.

FutureNunJMJ - I found the article you linked to a little blaze, especially with regards to the responses given by "Peter and Paul Ministeries". A quick glance at some of the other articles on their website furrow the brow. It's not so much what they say (although one of the responses given on the page linked concerned me greatly) but the way they say it.

Love and prayers,

PP
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FutureNunJMJ: I'm afraid I have to agree with PP on this, too. Let's see if another link can be found

[brendan1104]

[img]http://www.sspxasia.com/Documents/Society_of_Saint_Pius_X/Vocations/Womens-Communities/Images/Bened-4.jpg[/img]

[u]Traditional Benedictine Nuns[/u]:

Benedictine Sisters of Mary, Queen of Apostles
Sr. Therese, prioress
Priory of Our Lady of Ephesus
1400 NE 42nd Terrace
Kansas City Missouri
64116
[url="http://www.oblatesofmary.com"]http://www.oblatesofmary.com[/url]
[url="http://catholickey.org/index.php3?gif=news.gif&mode=view&issue=20060519&article_id=3947"]http://catholickey.org/index.php3?gif=news...article_id=3947[/url]

Saint Joseph's Monastery
P.O. Box 993
Cullman, AL 35056-0993
256 796-5232
[url="http://www.christthekingabbey.org/Nuns.asp"]http://www.christthekingabbey.org/Nuns.asp[/url]

Abbaye Notre-Dame de l'Annonciation
La Font de Pertus
84330 LE BARROUX
04 90 65 29 29
[url="http://www.barroux.org/monial/monialpres.html"]http://www.barroux.org/monial/monialpres.html[/url]

Monastère Notre-Dame de Toute Confiance
Lamairé
F-79600 Airvault
France
33 5 49 64 61 58
[url="http://sspxasia.com/Documents/Society_of_Saint_Pius_X/Vocations/Womens-Communities/Chap-2-Benedictines.htm"]http://sspxasia.com/Documents/Society_of_S...enedictines.htm[/url]

Edited June 3, 2006 by brendan1104

[williamb]

The convent in Alabama is NOT in communion with Rome.

[brendan1104]

[quote name='williamb' post='996233' date='Jun 3 2006, 07:42 PM']
The convent in Alabama is NOT in communion with Rome.
[/quote]

Maybe not but their voices sure sound nice. :

Edited June 4, 2006 by brendan1104

[OLAM Dad]

Brendan,

Awesome pic. Where did you get it?

[brendan1104]

Which one? The Nun in front of the Cross, or my avatar with the monks?]

Hey dad, tell Kristina we miss her.

[OLAM Dad]

Kristina misses you guys too and says HI! As soon as she's caught up with school she'll be back.

Edited June 6, 2006 by OLAM Dad

[stlmom]

Happy to see the novitiate has grown at [url="http://www.walburga.org/Novitiate.html"]the Benedictine Nuns of Virginia Dale, CO[/url]!!!