2016 Ordinations, Vows, Entrances

[linnie]

Sister Peter Marie professed her vows at the Carmel of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Utah

 

https://www.facebook.com/Intermountain-Catholic-128939567197387/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1147635251994475

Edited October 9, 2016 by linnie
fixing the link

[Luigi]

It looks like the Passionist monastery in Ellisville, MO will receive a new postulant in November. She will be the second postulant in two years. They nunsa re asking for prayers for Meg: 

 

Passionist Nuns' Monastery in Ellisville, MO

October 15 at 2:38pm · 

I'm thrilled to announce publicly what some of you probably already know. On November 11th, we will welcome a new Postulate into our home. Please, I ask everyone to pray heartily for Meg as she begins a new chapter in her spiritual life and discerns her potential call as a Passionist nun. 

[Luigi]

 Br. Timothy McMillan professed solemn vows this morning {Saturday, October 22] at St. Benedict's Abbey in Kansas. UIOGD

 

St. Anselm's Abbey; Washington, DC

8 hrs · 

We are very pleased to announce that on the morning of Sunday, October 16, Br. Samuel Springuel made his solemn profession as a Benedictine monk during our community Mass. Br. Samuel is a native of our metropolitan area and graduated from our abbey school in 1998 before doing college and graduate studies in New England. He then entered our community and made his temporary vows for three years in the fall of 2013. His parents and many of his relatives attended the ceremony on October 16 and were with us for a festive midday meal. The accompanying photo shows Br. Samuel lying prostrate in the middle of the abbey church as the cantors and community sang the Litany of the Saints after he had read and signed his profession document.

[Julie]

Sr. Marie Elizabeth of the Blessed Trinity was clothed as a novice at the JMJ Carmel in Nebraska on Monday, October 17, one day after her new patron was canonized!

 

[Maggyie]

8 new priests for the diocese of Cleveland this year (2017) ordained to the transitional diaconate last weekend. 

Edited October 24, 2016 by Maggyie

[Luigi]

From Genesee Trappist Abbey in New Rok: 

November 13, 20216:  At this month’s meeting of the Abbot’s Council our senior postulant, Br. Placid Larkin, was approved for entering the novitiate upon completing six months of postulancy. After making a five day retreat he will begin the new liturgical year with a ceremony in chapter November 27th, the first Sunday of Advent in which he will be clothed in the habit of a novice.

[Luigi]

Conception Benedictine Abbey in northwest Missouri:

Novice Nicholas professes first vows on November 11: 

https://www.conceptionabbey.org/5089-2/

 

 

################################ In other news...

Corpus Christi monastery in the Bronx is the oldest monastery of Dominican nuns in the US - it may well also be in the worst neighborhood of any Dominican monastery in the nation (that's not stated explicitly on their website, but one gets that impression by inferring from occasional comments here and there). I get the impression that their convent was the model for the large nearly-empty monastery in "Sister Act" ...  but I've been wrong about bigger things than that!  

They have a capital campaign under way to renovate their chapel. 

But the big news is they have a postulant! http://www.opbronx.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Dominican-Nuns-Newsletter-November-2016.pdf  I've been checking on their website for a few years now, and I don't remember them ever mentioning a postulant before, so this may be their first in a long time. 

Whatever the case may be, if you know any prayers, you might want to say them for postulant Teresa. 

Edited November 14, 2016 by Luigi

[Luigi]

St. Joseph's Benedictine Abbey in Louisiana - Novice Chad (Brother Jerome) made first vows on September 29, 2016:

http://www.saintjosephabbey.com/brother-jerome-aubert-professes-first-vows-at-saint-joseph-abbey/  

[Luigi]

On August 15, 2016, Br. James Jensen, OSB, Br. Peduru Fonseka, OSB, and Br. William Sprauer, OSB made their solemn professions as monks of Saint Meinrad Archabbey. The full event can be viewed on St. Meinrad's YouTube channel, but I can't post the link here.