There are Carmelites;Carmelite Ormiston | Carmelite Ormiston Homepage
There are Poor Clares;http://www.poorclares.org.au/
You may even find more......here;CVMA - Catholic Vocations Ministry Australia - Directory of Life choices for Catholics - Religious Sister
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Great! I'll let her know. I believe she may have been thinking of Dominican monasteries.....and orthodox ones at that...
Thanx!
Thanx!
I had been writing (emailing) and spoke to twice on the phone, the Carmelite nuns of Goonellabah, Australia. For anyone who has seen the Australian vocation hr long show that EWTN has showed in the past called "The Priceless Pearl" - which I had copied off EWTN a few years ago, the featured Carmelites in this vocational show is the Carmelites of Goonellabah. I had been writing them regarding my vocation and it was going well until Mother Prioress (Mother Johanne at this time) had to get the Carmelite Father General or someone's ok. He came back with a no to any oversea vocations so that was that!
I hadn't contacted any other orders in Australia but these Carmelites of Goonellabah. Below are some links on them that I have kept.
New website for them at https://www.flowerofcarmel.com/
One page site of them at http://www.rc.net/australia/aprel/APRELcarm.htm
Nice article on them at http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/...73610-1,00.html
Wonderful short article AND radio interview with Mother Johanne (no longer prioress at this time, was up to a few months ago) at http://www.radionetherlands.nl/radioprogra...humana/060811vh
I hadn't contacted any other orders in Australia but these Carmelites of Goonellabah. Below are some links on them that I have kept.
New website for them at https://www.flowerofcarmel.com/
One page site of them at http://www.rc.net/australia/aprel/APRELcarm.htm
Nice article on them at http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/...73610-1,00.html
Wonderful short article AND radio interview with Mother Johanne (no longer prioress at this time, was up to a few months ago) at http://www.radionetherlands.nl/radioprogra...humana/060811vh
QUOTE(Laudem Gloriae @ Jul 11 2008, 06:37 PM) 
He came back with a no to any oversea vocations so that was that!
Interesting. I was beginning to think I was the only person who thinks US communities should be given primacy over over-seas communities.
Thank you for the links. They seem like another good group of Carmelites.
Blessings.
I am looking at a few US orders but many more of the overseas orders. I have a common reason with other women who are often forced to look abroad for the simple reason that the majority of the US orders stick to an age limit and, in turn, this excludes women over the limit. The majority of overseas orders either have no age limit or have a much higher one.
As soon as orders in the US rethink, reconsider and raise the age limit and are willing to accept women who are given vocations later in late by God, the better for them and us "belated vocations". There are some in this country to do take older or have a higher age limit and I am looking at them and have recently visited 2 of them and plan on seeing at least 2 more in the US and then plan to visit 5 or more overseas in Ireland and the UK.
The Carmelites in Goonellabah ARE wonderful and the Mother Prioress was getting ready to pick an entrance day and wanted to accept me but this Father in charge has been close minded to many things including vocations.
But it is all in God's hands. He calls women at any age to where HE wants them. I know of a perfectly suitable 22 yr old woman who entered an order overseas because this is where GOD called her, not because she was being unpatriotic to the US orders or whatever.
I can't remember a great quote from St. Francis de Sales that said something like if orders lovingly took older women, than they would also be blessed with younger vocations. This is clearly witnessed by the Tyringham and Toledo Visitation monasteries who usually have several postulants and novices very often and who stay! So perhaps these orders who won't accept women over their limit should listen to St. Francis de Sales!
As a Carmelite Prioress in the UK told me, "I don't want to have answer this question from God when I die - 'Why did you turn away the X number of women I called and sent to you?'"!
As soon as orders in the US rethink, reconsider and raise the age limit and are willing to accept women who are given vocations later in late by God, the better for them and us "belated vocations". There are some in this country to do take older or have a higher age limit and I am looking at them and have recently visited 2 of them and plan on seeing at least 2 more in the US and then plan to visit 5 or more overseas in Ireland and the UK.
The Carmelites in Goonellabah ARE wonderful and the Mother Prioress was getting ready to pick an entrance day and wanted to accept me but this Father in charge has been close minded to many things including vocations.
But it is all in God's hands. He calls women at any age to where HE wants them. I know of a perfectly suitable 22 yr old woman who entered an order overseas because this is where GOD called her, not because she was being unpatriotic to the US orders or whatever.
I can't remember a great quote from St. Francis de Sales that said something like if orders lovingly took older women, than they would also be blessed with younger vocations. This is clearly witnessed by the Tyringham and Toledo Visitation monasteries who usually have several postulants and novices very often and who stay! So perhaps these orders who won't accept women over their limit should listen to St. Francis de Sales!
As a Carmelite Prioress in the UK told me, "I don't want to have answer this question from God when I die - 'Why did you turn away the X number of women I called and sent to you?'"!
QUOTE(EWIE @ Jul 12 2008, 06:39 AM)
There are Carmelites;Carmelite Ormiston | Carmelite Ormiston Homepage
There are Poor Clares;http://www.poorclares.org.au/
You may even find more......here;CVMA - Catholic Vocations Ministry Australia - Directory of Life choices for Catholics - Religious Sister
There are Poor Clares;http://www.poorclares.org.au/
You may even find more......here;CVMA - Catholic Vocations Ministry Australia - Directory of Life choices for Catholics - Religious Sister
I believe, in the other post regarding Sr. Mary Catherine's web article, that this may have been saying that there were no cloistered Dominican Nuns in Australia, and not that there were no cloisters at all.
There are no cloistered Dominicans in Australia. The non-cloistered Dominican sisters don't answer enquiries for whatever reason...
Cloistered choices out here are-
Carmelites several to choose from, try here to start http://www.carmelite.com/
Poor Clares have been mentioned.
Benedictine orders
Tyburn has a priory and I am bias about them
- http://www.tyburnconvent.org.uk/home/index.html
And Jamberoo Abbey also - http://www.jamberooabbey.org.au/html/home.htm
That's it in regard to cloistered orders.
Cloistered choices out here are-
Carmelites several to choose from, try here to start http://www.carmelite.com/
Poor Clares have been mentioned.
Benedictine orders
Tyburn has a priory and I am bias about them
- http://www.tyburnconvent.org.uk/home/index.htmlAnd Jamberoo Abbey also
- http://www.jamberooabbey.org.au/html/home.htmThat's it in regard to cloistered orders.
QUOTE(Laudem Gloriae @ Jul 11 2008, 11:39 PM)
I am looking at a few US orders but many more of the overseas orders. I have a common reason with other women who are often forced to look abroad for the simple reason that the majority of the US orders stick to an age limit and, in turn, this excludes women over the limit. The majority of overseas orders either have no age limit or have a much higher one.
As soon as orders in the US rethink, reconsider and raise the age limit and are willing to accept women who are given vocations later in late by God, the better for them and us "belated vocations". There are some in this country to do take older or have a higher age limit and I am looking at them and have recently visited 2 of them and plan on seeing at least 2 more in the US and then plan to visit 5 or more overseas in Ireland and the UK.
The Carmelites in Goonellabah ARE wonderful and the Mother Prioress was getting ready to pick an entrance day and wanted to accept me but this Father in charge has been close minded to many things including vocations.
But it is all in God's hands. He calls women at any age to where HE wants them. I know of a perfectly suitable 22 yr old woman who entered an order overseas because this is where GOD called her, not because she was being unpatriotic to the US orders or whatever.
I can't remember a great quote from St. Francis de Sales that said something like if orders lovingly took older women, than they would also be blessed with younger vocations. This is clearly witnessed by the Tyringham and Toledo Visitation monasteries who usually have several postulants and novices very often and who stay! So perhaps these orders who won't accept women over their limit should listen to St. Francis de Sales!
As a Carmelite Prioress in the UK told me, "I don't want to have answer this question from God when I die - 'Why did you turn away the X number of women I called and sent to you?'"!
As soon as orders in the US rethink, reconsider and raise the age limit and are willing to accept women who are given vocations later in late by God, the better for them and us "belated vocations". There are some in this country to do take older or have a higher age limit and I am looking at them and have recently visited 2 of them and plan on seeing at least 2 more in the US and then plan to visit 5 or more overseas in Ireland and the UK.
The Carmelites in Goonellabah ARE wonderful and the Mother Prioress was getting ready to pick an entrance day and wanted to accept me but this Father in charge has been close minded to many things including vocations.
But it is all in God's hands. He calls women at any age to where HE wants them. I know of a perfectly suitable 22 yr old woman who entered an order overseas because this is where GOD called her, not because she was being unpatriotic to the US orders or whatever.
I can't remember a great quote from St. Francis de Sales that said something like if orders lovingly took older women, than they would also be blessed with younger vocations. This is clearly witnessed by the Tyringham and Toledo Visitation monasteries who usually have several postulants and novices very often and who stay! So perhaps these orders who won't accept women over their limit should listen to St. Francis de Sales!
As a Carmelite Prioress in the UK told me, "I don't want to have answer this question from God when I die - 'Why did you turn away the X number of women I called and sent to you?'"!
Laudem Gloria,
Ave Maria.
I think you raise an interesting concern that some people have, and I can understand why one would be directed over-seas. I think it may be worthy to note that the age limit imposed by many communities is not necessarily a "hard and fast" rule. The superior has the authority to make exceptions, and I know a few communities who have made exceptions. It may have required a little more persistence on the part of the discerner (to spend time with the community and get to know everyone).
If a superior sees that a person is docile to authority, is malleable, does not grumble with their superior's decisions (even if they may disagree with them), and is not stuck in their ways (as older people tend to be), then she may make an exception. A superior should be able to discern this, and if not accept you, at least help point you in the right direction.
I am sure you probably already know all this, but I thought I'd bring it up for the sake of other readers who may not understand why there is an age limit in place.
My prayers are with you during this time of discernment.
Please pray for me.
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