This page contains sections of photos for a PCPA monastery in Poland. from clicking and observing 'sluby' seems to mean vows or profession or ceremony... but you get the idea.

http://www.klaryski.odnowa.org.pl/galeria/

Habit watchers fun quiz: count how many differences you can find between this traditional PCPA habit and that of Mother Angelica's monasteries as well as differences in their practices at vow ceremonies.

Graciela

Thank you so much for posting this Graciela.

http://www.klaryski.odnowa.org.pl/galeria/...php?kategoria=3

I believe this sister may be an extern. Take a look at the beautiful pic where she's receiving her wedding ring

Beautiful!

Yaaay! I love professions! Thanks for the fun pics!

what a happy occasion

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Poland is awesome. It is such a witness to see the unity among PCPAs all around the world.

Yeah, in Lerma(Spain) They have a convent with more of 20 novices, and others in wait, But they have not website.

The neighbors of Lerma only see Poor Clares of the Ascent when they leave to vote. They rise six and the average one in the morning and dedicate six hours to the day to the oration.

They arrive from all Spain, with his titles under the arm: phamacists, physical, actresses, publicistas, lawyers, students, industralists or employees. Of all the social classes. Of Neguri, but also of Leganés. Some, friends of the president of ENDESA or the chief of a main directorate of the Police, Juan Cotino. Others, of humble districts of Madrid, Seville, Badajoz or Bilbao. Girls like Alejandra, executive brilliant of Arthur Andersen. “You are crazy, you do not beat there”, coreaban its companions when she said to them that one put closing nun. “I included/understood that to fight by the money and social prestige it was not sufficient to give sense to a life”, says she.

To Rouco cardinal Varela the mouth fills to him when they speak of the nuns: “ Can imagine that there is a monastery of Poor Clares of 72 nuns whose average age does not surpass the 30 years? All of them come from the most successful professions in those than the woman in Spain moves. They do not fit, are sleeping in bunks, eight are awaiting being able to enter the monastery. I do not say what monastery to them so that they do not disturb them in his peace”. The name that the cardinal does not give, the place where built the miracle of the vocacional fecundity, he is not other that the one of the Ascent of clarisas of Lerma (Towns).


While almost all the convents and monasteries (including the other two of Lerma) languish or are rejuvenecen with fiancèes of God concerned of Africa or India, clarisas of Lerma does not give supply and must jam to welcome in all the girls who call to their doors in the flower of the life. A 10% of the beginners of all Spain are concentrated there.

Rouco cardinal is excited with them. The visit often and follows close by its evolution through its auxiliary bishop, Eugene Romero Poso. It is rumored that no longer they fit and that they are thinking about being transferred to Madrid. They say that architect Santiago Calatrava is going to free construct a convent to them in Colmenar Viejo so that they pledge the fire from Christ to this descreído Madrid. Lerma, cortesana and conventual, will miss them. The key that advances Rouco cardinal to explain this vocacional phenomenon is theological: “To bet to go to the essential of Christian experience it gives result him”. A monk who knows clarisas well sharpens more: “The miracle of Lerma is and was possible by a nun, a woman with a special gift, an extraordinary charisma to connect with the youth present, and touched by the finger of God”.

To sister Veronica, some call “new the Clear one”, in reference to the founder of the congregation, Clear of You take root, enamored with God and san Francisco, whom the order guided by a motto created: “My God and my whole”. Verónica Berzosa was born the 27 of August of 1965 in Aranda de Duero (Towns). His father was retailer and professor of music. The day of its birth threw rockets because finally a girl arrived after four men. A precious baby, of green eyes, that grew happy in a family united like a fragmentation hand grenade. A girl who from small receives indications of God.

First, according to account she herself in the Clear book yesterday and today (publishing BAC), occurs to a confesor the day it of his first comunión: “If you want to be happy a day, she releases a pair of shoes; one week, kills a pig; all the life, nun of closing”. Veronica grows, it becomes a handsome girl who takes to the street boys, studies, comprises of a gang who goes to discotecas and smokes porros and a fiancè lies down who so was enamored with her that until he bought a horse to him. But all that did not fill it. “Something in my interior was urgent to look for to me without rest. Seeing how people destroyed her life, I wished to look for something that did not finish, that outside eternal”. And he found it in a dying convent of clarisas. When it arrived, 23 years ago the monastery of Lerma a beginner did not enter. Some bet that nothing would last.

Not only it lasted but that made revivir to the convent. To his 24 years, it decided on God, “because it is not worth the trouble to spend the forces in which it has aim”. The vocations began to flow attracted by the magnet of sister Veronica, the nun of green eyes and freckles turned teacher of beginners. The future nuns of closing find out the existence of this convent by the mouth mouth, through their friends or in youthful Passovers. They organize themselves in Easter and during them the girls, coming from monasteries, parishes and congregations of all Spain, have the possibility of knowing clarisas of Lerma. Thus they arrived sister Maria Olatz, a Bilbao an who had everything and all she left it: “Christ robbed the heart to me. It fills everything to it. I feel that he is worth the trouble to give it everything it and that everything is little”. And sister Isabel, sister Patricia, sister Ana Belen… until last postulant, that entered Saturday the past.

I do not believe the Poor Clares ruso is mentioning are Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration.

I so agree with you...........it is BEAUTIFUL

Ok, stupid question here...

Are the habits being worn in this Polish monestary specific to the region at all or are the traditional for PCPA's all over the world. I did see the resemblance to OLAM.

Thanks in advance.

It's true, mea culpa