Orders To Visit In St. Louis

[stlmom]

[quote name='Domine ut Videam' post='1650762' date='Sep 8 2008, 04:08 PM']Wow! You guys are quick! Thanks for all the info. One more question/or addition rather. we are indeed looking for habited orders and also seeing as we don't have much time in St. Louis (only 2 1/2 days) have any of you visited any of these, where did you have the best visits, recieve the best advice, etc...

Right now we are for sure going to visit:

Carmelites of the Divine Heart of Jesus
Passionists
Discalced Carmelites[/quote]


I would make an effort to include 1-2 more active communities such as the ASCJ's and the FSGM's, if your schedule allows. If you are more focused on the cloister, then do try for the Pink Sisters. They are in the city proper, right off I-70. Do you have someone designated to guide you around the area?

[Domine ut Videam]

[quote name='stlmom' post='1650831' date='Sep 8 2008, 05:54 PM']I would make an effort to include 1-2 more active communities such as the ASCJ's and the FSGM's, if your schedule allows. If you are more focused on the cloister, then do try for the Pink Sisters. They are in the city proper, right off I-70. Do you have someone designated to guide you around the area?[/quote]

We are planning indeed on visiting some active com. Th Martyr's we are not because they attend school at my college so we know them pretty well. As for a guide. We have a couple of friends from the St. Louis area and we are pretty good with directions so it should be okay. (Besides, we like an adventure ) I think we might visit the MC's. I think that neither of us are sure on whether we are called to the cloister or not, but feel a slight pull. We are both starting SD soon and simply want to just check out, and get exposed, to some communities.

Thanks again you guys are awesome! Feel free to keep offering suggestions:

P.S. Does anyone know of any other orders in the KansasCity/southern NE/central/western KS area?

[littlesister]

Kansas City - Little Sisters of the Poor

St. Louis - the lsp's are not far from the Old Cathedral (don't miss it) and the Arch.

Happy Landings!

[princessgianna]

The Poor Claire Nuns in St.Louis Mo!
here is their address!

Monastery of Saint Clare of the Immaculate Conception
200 Marycrest Crive
Saint Louis, MO 63129-4813

Phone: (314) 846-2618

Pax~

[stlmom]

In western Missouri--the Sisters of St. Francis of the Holy Eucharist--Independence, MO
the Benedictine Sisters of Mary, Kansas City MO area
In Kansas--the Servants of Mary--Kansas City, KS
the Immaculate Heart of Mary Sisters, Wichita, KS

In Nebraska--Marian Sisters of the Diocese of Lincoln
School Sisters of Christ the King. Lincoln NE
Holy Spirit Adoration Sisters (Pink Sisters)
Missionary Benedictine Sisters, Norfolk NE
Poor Clares, Omaha. NE

I believe most of these communities have websites. Good luck!

[SaintIrene]

If you are at all interested in the traditional mass, consider these first four:

(Kansas City)
Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles (contemplative sisters, semi-cloistered, pray for priests, farm, make vestments. They are almost cloistered except that they do leave the convent for ordinations since that is their charism, to pray for priests.)
Priory of Our Lady of Ephesus
Attn: Mother Therese
1400 NE 42nd Terrace
Kansas City, Missouri 64116
[url="http://www.benedictinesofmary.org/"]http://www.benedictinesofmary.org/[/url]

(St. Louis)
Institute of Christ the King (priestly society with sisters also)
St. Francis de Sales Oratory is a very beautiful church and they have public tours!
[url="http://www.institute-christ-king.org/stlouis/"]http://www.institute-christ-king.org/stlouis/[/url]
This is the American candidate house for their seminarians, and they have sisters in Italy. A visit here might give you an idea about the religious order, even though the sisters don't have a location there, at least not at this time (They hope to come to the U.S. in the future). The sisters are currently non-cloistered contemplative and hope to have an active apostolate in the future, which will involve working at the parish to support the priests' work, and an apostolate for female youth. Currently their work is manual labor and they are learning to make vestments and altar linens. They also make wine and jam. I visited them so feel free to PM me with more questions etc. I know from personal experience, these sisters are wonderful!
Sisters: [url="http://www.institute-christ-king.org/vocations/sisters/"]http://www.institute-christ-king.org/vocations/sisters/[/url]
Also they have a church in Kansas City: [url="http://www.institute-christ-king.org/kansascity/"]http://www.institute-christ-king.org/kansascity/[/url]

(Lincoln, NE Diocese)
FSSP - priestly fraternity, with a seminary in NE. They are hoping to form sisters who would do some type of active ministry, but I would suggest contacting them for more info)
Our Lady of Guadalupe Seminary
P.O. Box 147
7880 W. Denton Rd.
Denton NE 68339
Tel. +1 402 797 7700
[url="http://www.fsspolgs.org/"]http://www.fsspolgs.org/[/url]

(Lincoln, NE Diocese)
Cloistered Carmelite nuns
Carmel of Jesus, Mary and Joseph
9300 Agnew Road
Valparaiso, NE 68065
[url="http://www.dioceseoflincoln.org/mauve/carmelite.htm"]http://www.dioceseoflincoln.org/mauve/carmelite.htm[/url] (there is another site linked here with more pics)

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(General)
Institute on Religious Life for Missouri: [url="http://db.religiouslife.com/reg_life/irl.nsf/wa_byState?OpenForm&count=1000&state=MO"]http://db.religiouslife.com/reg_life/irl.n...00&state=MO[/url]

Institute on Religious Life for Kansas: [url="http://db.religiouslife.com/reg_life/irl.nsf/wa_byState?OpenForm&count=1000&state=KS"]http://db.religiouslife.com/reg_life/irl.n...00&state=KS[/url]

Institute on Religious Life for Nebraska: [url="http://db.religiouslife.com/reg_life/irl.nsf/wa_byState?OpenForm&count=1000&state=NE"]http://db.religiouslife.com/reg_life/irl.n...00&state=NE[/url]


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(Oklahoma, in case you're thinking of taking another trip)
The Clear Creek Benedictine monks have a website, but the sisters do not yet. Both communities have the traditional mass in Latin, and are cloistered Benedictines. [url="http://www.clearcreekmonks.org/"]http://www.clearcreekmonks.org/[/url]

The sisters are still in the beginning stages of forming, as a sister community to the monks. They do wear a black traditional habit, and you can see a few pics of them linked from the monks' site, if you really dig.
Sisters' contact:
Queen of Angels Convent
9582 N 387 Rd.
Hulbert, OK 74441
tel.: 918-772-2170

Edited September 9, 2008 by SaintIrene

[IamMyBeloveds]

[quote name='Domine ut Videam' post='1650762' date='Sep 8 2008, 04:08 PM']Right now we are for sure going to visit:

Carmelites of the Divine Heart of Jesus
Passionists
Discalced Carmelites[/quote]

Yay! Carmelite Sisters of the Divine Heart of Jesus is my soon-to-be-community in about 9 months! What did the folks on the nun-run think?? Prayers lifted for all of your vocations!

[HollyDolly]

[quote name='stlmom' post='1650396' date='Sep 7 2008, 09:56 PM']I would include the Sisters of St. Francis of the Martyr St. George in nearby Alton IL, they are practically in the backyard of the Archdiocese of St. Louis.
We also have a province of the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul and a motherhouse of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd located near the University of Missouri-St. Louis. We have a small house of the Sisters of Our Lady of Peace, a community that is not well known. We have the Visitation Sisters (second Federation) that operate an academy on their monastery grounds.
Are you looking mainly at habited communities? If not, we also have the motherhouse of the Sisters of the Precious Blood in O'Fallon, MO and the motherhouse of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet and the Franciscan Sisters of Mary. Have a great visit, and if you need any more information, please PM me and I will try to help.

Now where is shortnun? She went on one of these a while back. She could be of some help here too![/quote]
Who are the Sisters of Our Lady of Peace? There is a Monastery of Our Lady of Peace in Columbia,Mo who are Benedictine, is this the community you mean? Or are these sisters a different group?

[stlmom]

I didn't get the name of the sisters quite right, sorry. Here is a link from the CMSWR website:
[url="http://www.cmswr.org/member_communities/SMP.htm"]SMP[/url]

Thanks for asking!

[moon_child_anne]

I think that the Sisters of Mercy have a branch in St Louis

[Luigi]

[quote name='moon_child_anne' post='1725137' date='Dec 10 2008, 10:53 PM']I think that the Sisters of Mercy have a branch in St Louis[/quote]

Indeed they do; my father worked for them. They operate a large hospital and have a number of other ministries as well.

[HollyDolly]

[quote name='stlmom' post='1724896' date='Dec 10 2008, 08:26 PM']I didn't get the name of the sisters quite right, sorry. Here is a link from the CMSWR website:
[url="http://www.cmswr.org/member_communities/SMP.htm"]SMP[/url]

Thanks for asking![/quote]

Your welcome.I know who these sisters are,as many years ago I went down to the National Shrine of the Little Flower in San Antonio and spoke to Father Hilary Smith OCD. who had married my parents there.I was in highschool at the time.Father mentioned the community which was founded by a friend of his,Father Placid Guste. I never got to discern with them ,but did write them.I would have liked to go there,but my mother had health problems,and later wound up having a stroke, so no convent of any kind for me.