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Pages in category "Roman Catholic religious sisters and nuns by order" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Order of the Visitation was founded in 1610 by Francis de Sales and Jane Frances de Chantal in Annecy, Haute-Savoie, France.At first, the founder had not a religious order in mind; he wished to form a congregation without external vows, where the cloister should be observed only during the year of novitiate, after which the sisters should be free to go out by turns to visit the sick and poor.
Passionist nuns make the vows of chastity, poverty, obedience, and enclosure. They also make an additional vow to promote devotion to and a grateful remembrance of the Passion of Christ. [3] Their primary apostolate is prayer. [4] The nuns celebrate the Divine Office in common and spend the greater part of the day in prayer and other duties of ...
A religious order is characterized by an authority structure where a superior general has jurisdiction over the order's dependent communities. An exception is the Order of Saint Benedict which is not a religious order in this technical sense, because it has a system of independent houses, meaning that each abbey is autonomous. However, the ...
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The Discalced Carmelites are friars and nuns who dedicate themselves to a life of prayer. The Carmelite nuns live in cloistered (enclosed) monasteries and follow a completely contemplative life. The Carmelite friars, while following a contemplative life, also engage in the promotion of spirituality through their retreat centres, parishes and ...
Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary; Sisters of Holy Cross; Sisters of Loretto; Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist; Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur; Sisters of Providence of the Institute of Charity; Sisters of Saint Anne; Sisters of St Joseph of Nazareth; Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart; Congregation of the ...
The fruit and advantages of fasting can easily be proved. And first; fasting is most useful in preparing the soul for prayer, and the contemplation of divine things, as the angel Raphael saith: "Prayer is good with fasting". Thus Moses for forty days prepared his soul by fasting, before he presumed to speak with God: so Elias fasted forty days ...