The Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles is a traditional monastic community of women. Founded first of all under the wing of the FSSP in Scranton Pennsylvania, they are now located in the diocese of Kansas City.The Most Rev Robert W. Finn, Bishop of Kansas City invited the sisters to come to his diocese and has offered firm support and protection of their charism and their use of the traditional liturgy. He erected the Priory of Our Lady of Ephesus as an official novitiate in accord with Canon Law and ratified the superior, Mother Therese's profession of monastic vows on 18 May last year so that she could receive the vows of eleven other sisters the following day. At the moment, the community is in a temporary home and they are hoping to build a permanent monastery.
Last Tuesday, one of the novices made her first profession of vows and four postulants were clothed as novices. The photograph above is from the Kansas Catholic blog which has two posts on the ceremony: Benedictines of Mary Queen, of Apostles (Part I) which has a one more photo, and Benedictines of Mary Queen, of Apostles (Part II) which has a lot more.
Here, the young sisters are cutting the cake prepared to celebrate this wonderful occasion:
H/T Fr Z.
11 comments:
It is moving to behold beautiful young women putting themselves within cloisters and pledging themselves to God's service.
Mary always succeeds!
Father:
I have been listening to a your interview on Fr Z's podcast in the middle of 2007 where you mentioned the Merton College Conference and a paper you delivered addressing the common objections to the EF in parishes. Is this document/paper publically available? It would be good to be armed with this arguments.
Thanks in advance
Kevin
Yes, here is the link to the page on the Latin Mass Society website.
Rosa Mystica ora pro nobis Amen
Fabulous photos Fr Tim. Who said that our youth are headed to nowhere! Our youth are our future! This is very inspiring and I have to say I have witnessed similar young, beautiful and joyous faces in real life when in Rome and in Krakow in Poland.
May God Bless all our youngsters (as well those not so young of course!) discerning a vocation at this time. The world so needs Priests and Sisters for without them ........???? Chaos and disaster, a world stripped of the Holy Eucharist, stripped of the sign of God's love for us, simply too horrible to contemplate.
Please pray for all religious that they continue to shine in the darkness and lead us all into the everlasting life which God has promised us through His Son Our Blessed Lord Jesus Christ.
Dear Father,
Could you take a little time to look at our blog. This news deserves to be broadcast. Maybe you could put up a post about it. The original website is in French. A link to it is on this post:
http://tradvocations.blogspot.com/2009/01/little-sisters-of-good-shepherd.html
Excellent post about the post polyester nuns.
Please, Father, pay a tribute to Father Richard John Neuhaus who died yesterday. There are many internet links to this man, who did more to help Catholicism in the last 20 years than anyone I know of.
Thank you
Anne Mansfield
Any opinions on the new bihsop of H&N, Father?
Thank you Father!
I say this in all chastity: there are no women more physically beautiful than young nuns.
Sorry for such an offhand comment...
Dear Father Finigan
As a father of a daughter Siobhan who is not a nun, I disagree with Gabriel +...'there are no women more physically beautiful than young nuns'.
Siobhan took her first Holy Communion in your Church, Our Lady of the Rosary, Blackfen, and your prayers for England's beautiful daughters, who are deeply in credit card debt would be greatly appreciated at this moment in time.
Rosa Mystica ora pro nobis!
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