...here:

http://www.sbm.osb.org/Home/OurCommunity/J...51/Default.aspx


or:

www.obs.osb.org under women in Formation

Seven women in various stages, despite not wearing a habit!

That St. Joseph's is a town near Collegeville, I believe, where St. John's Abbey is. These sisters of St. Benedict's at St. Joseph's (so confusing!) teach or founded the women's college which is affiliated with St. John's University.

It is always wonderful when any community dedicated to God grows!!! How wonderful for them.

Correction and addition:

the town ( and community) is St. JOSEPH not St. Joseph's.

The same community also had three sisters die in the last 6 mo of 2007. so, if all 7 in formation profess, that means a net gain of only 4, based on losing those three (elderly) members.

In view of the advanced average age of sisters, there will be a lot more dying out before the numbers stabilize. Aside from the Cecilian Dominicans, the DMME's and a handful of other communities which are growing, but don't have nearly the growth numbers of the first two, most communities of any size are losing their elderly members and their numbers, no matter how fast they are growing now--because of the immense growth in religious orders in the 1950's and 1960's. Those that entered and stayed from this period are dying off now in large numbers. Sisters and nuns are notoriously long-lived!