Cloistered Charisms Not Repped In The Us

[Gemma]

I know some of the cloistered charisms not repped in the US are:

Annonciades of St Joan of Valois
Celestial Annonciades
Brigittine nuns
Victimes of the Sacred Heart
Daughters of the Heart of Jesus
A number of the 13 observances of Poor Clares (Poor Clare Capuchins of Perpetual Adoration; Conceptionistas; etc.)
Trinitarians
Mercedarians
Adoration Reparatrice
Order of St. John of Jerusalem
Minims
Jeronimas
Orantes of the Assumption

Can anyone help expand the list?

What about websites for those mentioned, and those not mentioned?

TIA.

Blessings,
Gemma

[hoosieranna]

[url="http://www.minimas.org/"]http://www.minimas.org/[/url] Federation of Minim Nuns

[url="http://www.conventosdesevilla.org/"]http://www.conventosdesevilla.org/[/url] Convents of Seville, Spain, multiple communities including Jerominas

[url="http://www.trinitarians.org/about/family.html"]http://www.trinitarians.org/about/family.html[/url] links to Trinitarian nuns in Spain

[url="http://www.catholiclinks.org/NoFrameenglish.htm"]http://www.catholiclinks.org/NoFrameenglish.htm[/url] scroll to 7 (Religious Groups) or 10 (Spiritual Places, includes monasteries)

[brendan1104]

1/2 of those are nearly extinct.

[puellapaschalis]

I can only help a little with some details about some Bridgittine houses.
I know of two houses in the UK:
[url="http://www.plymouth-diocese.org.uk/index.php?q=dir/parishes/torbay/syon-abbey"]Syon Abbey[/url], South Brent, Devon (South-West England). I'm not sure how many are there, but the Diocesan Yearbook for 2006 lists four in the community, one of which being resident elsewhere in a care home. They're entirely contemplative. As far as I know they've been "stagnant" for some years in terms of vocations. However, I don't know them personally. They don't have a website, but the (fuller) address given in the Yearbook is:
Syon Abbey
Marley Head
South Brent
Devon
TQ10 9JX
(01364 72256)
The Abbess is Mother Anna Maria Smyth.

[url="http://www.maryvale.ac.uk/index.php?id=21"]Maryvale[/url], Birmingham (West Midlands, England). They had just arrived there (from Rome, I think) when I was studying at Maryvale; mainly younger sisters - I [i]think[/i] (but don't quote me on it) from Italy, although there was one Scottish lady there. I'm not sure what their situation is as regards being cloistered as we frequently saw them in Chapel and they worked in the kitchen and generally keeping the place going.

[url="http://www.museumvoorreligieuzekunst.nl/Abdij.html"]Abdij Maria Refugie[/url], Uden, North Brabant, the Netherlands. I don't know much about them (perhaps VA knows more?); entirely cloistered but they have a guesthouse and receive visits from, e.g., school groups and so on. There's a Q&A session with them (in Dutch) [url="http://www.birgittaskloster.se/index.php?h=7&l=ned"]here[/url]. Actually, if you can read Dutch, I'd encourage you to go and read those - Dutch has a different way of putting things than English which is quite charming

(the English language version [url="http://www.birgittaskloster.se/index.php?h=8&l=eng"]link[/url] is about the house in Sweden, the mother house of Uden - I think) (and the English Q&A is also quite cute )

Edited February 29, 2008 by puellapaschalis

[puellapaschalis]

Sorry, couldn't resist a quote from the English Q&A:
[quote][b]Do you have hair?[/b]
Yes! What did you think? Feathers?

[b]Who cuts it?[/b]
Anyone of the nuns who doesn’t manage to cut our ears off.[/quote]

[Gemma]

[quote name='puellapaschalis' post='1471072' date='Feb 29 2008, 01:29 AM']Sorry, couldn't resist a quote from the English Q&A:[/quote]

Results from too many people thinking priests and religious somehow become "angelicized" upon profession and/or ordination.

Blessings,
Gemma

[Gemma]

[quote name='Nadezhda' post='1470979' date='Feb 28 2008, 11:18 PM'][url="http://www.minimas.org/"]http://www.minimas.org/[/url] Federation of Minim Nuns

[url="http://www.conventosdesevilla.org/"]http://www.conventosdesevilla.org/[/url] Convents of Seville, Spain, multiple communities including Jerominas

[url="http://www.trinitarians.org/about/family.html"]http://www.trinitarians.org/about/family.html[/url] links to Trinitarian nuns in Spain

[url="http://www.catholiclinks.org/NoFrameenglish.htm"]http://www.catholiclinks.org/NoFrameenglish.htm[/url] scroll to 7 (Religious Groups) or 10 (Spiritual Places, includes monasteries)[/quote]

Thanks for the awesome links!

I had no idea that St. Philip Neri had founded an order for women. (They're listed in the Seville convents--San Isabel, I believe).

I wouldn't mind more information on the "Comendadoras," though. (Espiritu Santo of the Seville convents).

Blessings,
Gemma

[Gemma]

[quote name='puellapaschalis' post='1471071' date='Feb 29 2008, 01:24 AM']I can only help a little with some details about some Bridgittine houses.
I know of two houses in the UK:
[url="http://www.plymouth-diocese.org.uk/index.php?q=dir/parishes/torbay/syon-abbey"]Syon Abbey[/url], South Brent, Devon (South-West England). I'm not sure how many are there, but the Diocesan Yearbook for 2006 lists four in the community, one of which being resident elsewhere in a care home. They're entirely contemplative. As far as I know they've been "stagnant" for some years in terms of vocations. However, I don't know them personally. They don't have a website, but the (fuller) address given in the Yearbook is:
Syon Abbey
Marley Head
South Brent
Devon
TQ10 9JX
(01364 72256)
The Abbess is Mother Anna Maria Smyth.

[url="http://www.maryvale.ac.uk/index.php?id=21"]Maryvale[/url], Birmingham (West Midlands, England). They had just arrived there (from Rome, I think) when I was studying at Maryvale; mainly younger sisters - I [i]think[/i] (but don't quote me on it) from Italy, although there was one Scottish lady there. I'm not sure what their situation is as regards being cloistered as we frequently saw them in Chapel and they worked in the kitchen and generally keeping the place going.

[url="http://www.museumvoorreligieuzekunst.nl/Abdij.html"]Abdij Maria Refugie[/url], Uden, North Brabant, the Netherlands. I don't know much about them (perhaps VA knows more?); entirely cloistered but they have a guesthouse and receive visits from, e.g., school groups and so on. There's a Q&A session with them (in Dutch) [url="http://www.birgittaskloster.se/index.php?h=7&l=ned"]here[/url]. Actually, if you can read Dutch, I'd encourage you to go and read those - Dutch has a different way of putting things than English which is quite charming

(the English language version [url="http://www.birgittaskloster.se/index.php?h=8&l=eng"]link[/url] is about the house in Sweden, the mother house of Uden - I think) (and the English Q&A is also quite cute )[/quote]

Syon is part of the Primitive Observance. I think the one in Sweden is, too.

Maryvale may very well be part of the Recollection of Mother Hesselblad. (sp?)

Thanks & Blessings,
Gemma

[Gemma]

[quote name='brendan1104' post='1471003' date='Feb 28 2008, 11:46 PM']1/2 of those are nearly extinct.[/quote]

Which ones?

I know the Adoration Reparatrice has only a handful of houses; and the Orantes of the Assumption modernized, and are therefore languishing.

Blessings,
Gemma

[hoosieranna]

I couldn't find anything else about the Comendadoras of the Holy Spirit. I did find this, though. [url="http://www.comendadorasdemalta.org/es_home.asp"]http://www.comendadorasdemalta.org/es_home.asp[/url] (nuns from the Order of St. John of Jerusalem)

Edited February 29, 2008 by Nadezhda

[Gemma]

[quote name='Nadezhda' post='1471239' date='Feb 29 2008, 01:13 PM']I couldn't find anything else about the Comendadoras of the Holy Spirit. I did find this, though. [url="http://www.comendadorasdemalta.org/es_home.asp"]http://www.comendadorasdemalta.org/es_home.asp[/url] (nuns from the Order of St. John of Jerusalem)[/quote]

And that was good enough to start a new folder on my favs!

Comendadoras are the cloistered nuns of the military orders. Really quite fascinating to read their histories.

Thanks again!

Blessings,
Gemma

[Gemma]

[quote name='Nadezhda' post='1471239' date='Feb 29 2008, 01:13 PM']I couldn't find anything else about the Comendadoras of the Holy Spirit. I did find this, though. [url="http://www.comendadorasdemalta.org/es_home.asp"]http://www.comendadorasdemalta.org/es_home.asp[/url] (nuns from the Order of St. John of Jerusalem)[/quote]

And that was good enough to start a new folder on my favs!

Comendadoras are the cloistered nuns of the military orders. Really quite fascinating to read their histories.

Thanks again!

Blessings,
Gemma

[johnnydigit]

ya we're in dire need of help. we need to be infiltrated!

here's something i discovered about my diocese. it's quite perplexing to me still,

Following is a summary of some other key statistics* about the Diocese of Orange today:

* 181 Diocesan Priests
* 116 Religious Priests
* 22 Extern Priests
* 297 Total Priests
* 70 Permanent Deacons
* [b][size=3]320 Sisters[/size][/b]
* [size=3][b][size=6]9[/size] Brothers[/b][/size]
* 3 Diocesan High Schools
* 4,608 Total students
* 3 Private High Schools
* 1,029 Total students
* 36 Parochial Elementary Schools
* 13,735 Total students
* 2 Private Elementary Schools
* 671 Total students
* 37,370 Elementary students in Religious Education
* 7,985 High School students in Religious Education
* 65,427 Total students under Catholic instruction
* 3 General Hospitals
* 402,021 Total patients assisted
* 17,131 Baptisms
* 2,820 Marriages

*Source: 2004 Kennedy Directory


and i heard 6 of the brothers may not be here anymore. hello? why the imbalance?

[VeniteAdoremus]

[quote name='puellapaschalis' post='1471071' date='Feb 29 2008, 07:24 AM']I can only help a little with some details about some Bridgittine houses.

[url="http://www.museumvoorreligieuzekunst.nl/Abdij.html"]Abdij Maria Refugie[/url], Uden, North Brabant, the Netherlands. I don't know much about them (perhaps VA knows more?); entirely cloistered but they have a guesthouse and receive visits from, e.g., school groups and so on. There's a Q&A session with them (in Dutch) [url="http://www.birgittaskloster.se/index.php?h=7&l=ned"]here[/url]. Actually, if you can read Dutch, I'd encourage you to go and read those - Dutch has a different way of putting things than English which is quite charming [/quote]

I know a little about them - a priest I know (PP, the infamous Fr. Wagenmaker ) has given them at least one retreat a couple of years ago and he told me about them. They're very focused on the Passion and on, well, death - they meditate daily on physical death, and use art as inspiration for their contemplations. They've lived in this Abbey since 1713 and host the Museum for Religious Art in a part of their building. They're very strictly cloistered: grilles and stuff (which is [i]special[/i] in the Netherlands). They have one hour of free time after lunch and about half an hour of recreation a day ("in which, unfortunately, everybody talks at the same time" ), and all meals are in silence (with reading).

I think I recall an article of some time ago mentioning six active birgitinnes from abroad who came to help out, but I must be mistaken, since there don't appear to be any actives anywhere in the world - or maybe they meant externs, I'm not sure. There's nothing about them on the web site, in any case.

[Gemma]

[quote name='VeniteAdoremus' post='1472201' date='Mar 2 2008, 08:45 AM']I know a little about them - a priest I know (PP, the infamous Fr. Wagenmaker ) has given them at least one retreat a couple of years ago and he told me about them. They're very focused on the Passion and on, well, death - they meditate daily on physical death, and use art as inspiration for their contemplations. They've lived in this Abbey since 1713 and host the Museum for Religious Art in a part of their building. They're very strictly cloistered: grilles and stuff (which is [i]special[/i] in the Netherlands). They have one hour of free time after lunch and about half an hour of recreation a day ("in which, unfortunately, everybody talks at the same time" ), and all meals are in silence (with reading).

I think I recall an article of some time ago mentioning six active birgitinnes from abroad who came to help out, but I must be mistaken, since there don't appear to be any actives anywhere in the world - or maybe they meant externs, I'm not sure. There's nothing about them on the web site, in any case.[/quote]

There are active Brigittine sisters. Large contingent in India. They also occupy St. Bridget's house in Rome.

There's only a handful of Brigittine cloistered NUNS of the Primitive Observance. But there are many Brigittine Nuns of the Recollection. The Brigittine Sisters are active and wear the full habit.

They should not be confused with the Brigidines from Ireland.

St. Bridget (Birgitta) of Sweden is always getting mixed up with St. Brigid of Kildare (Ireland).

HTH.

Blessings,
Gemma