Who Says Vocations Are Dwindling
Posted by: tony on 10/18/2005 12:20 AM
Updated by: tony on 10/18/2005 12:22 AM
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Expires: 11/18/2005 12:00 AM
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 Thanks to Elizabeth at A Little Flower Garden for the link to this group of smiling young women. Who are they? Here is the caption:
On August 17, 2005, the Dominican Sisters of Saint Cecilia welcomed the newest group of postulants to its ranks. The new group includes young women from across the United States, as well as from Poland and Australia. [Source]
The ranks are swelling. What sort of order has attracted these women? Do they have crop circles? Are they allowing married nuns? What is the deal? Let's look on the web site's Charism:
The community lives the contemplative dimension of Dominican life by our monastic practices which include:
•Places and times of silence;
•Cloister appropriate to our life;
•Wearing of a religious habit;
•Living community life
The greatest aids to this contemplative spirit are:
•Devotion to the Mass and the Blessed Sacrament;
•Choral recitation of the Divine Office and the Rosary;
•A dedication to prayer and the Passion of Our Lord
Essential to our identity as religious we are committed to:
•A regular prayer life.
•Living a poverty that grounds us in simplicity and detachment
•A classical sense of the Dominican charism.
Oh my! No crop labyrinths? No morning gongs? No signing the elements? Prayer, contemplation, devotion and the Eucharist.
These new postulants and all the others like them need our prayers.
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