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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 ...
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 .
In the Catholic Church, a religious order is a community of consecrated life with members that profess solemn vows. They are classed as a type of religious institute. [1] Subcategories of religious orders are: monastics (monks or nuns living and working in a monastery and reciting the Divine Office)
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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 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.
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 ...
The nuns take solemn vows of chastity, poverty, obedience, and enclosure. Their prayer life includes the Liturgy of the Hours. Some nuns engage in sewing vestments and religious habits to provide the necessary support for the community. The religious order currently has monasteries in Portugal , in Italy, and in the Philippines.