Carthusian Nuns

[EJames2]

Just putting the Carthusian related videos in one place..instaed of 5
pax!
[url="http://www.lovetobecatholic.com/video_428_World_of_Solitude_Grande_Charteuse-1964.html"]http://www.lovetobecatholic.com/video_428_...reuse-1964.html[/url]
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[url="http://www.lovetobecatholic.com/video_395_Le_Grand_Silence-Movie_trailer.html"]http://www.lovetobecatholic.com/video_395_...ie_trailer.html[/url]
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France
[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g02RJBOA32Q"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g02RJBOA32Q[/url]

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgxrM6SR-cY"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgxrM6SR-cY[/url]
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portugal
[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YndhzhHUZW0"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YndhzhHUZW0[/url]
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[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PS-z0-GSVyc"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PS-z0-GSVyc[/url]

[url="http://www.godtube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=a5a5870a2b5ff2bd2244"]http://www.godtube.com/view_video.php?view...70a2b5ff2bd2244[/url]
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[url="http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xtvk5_le-grand-silence"]http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xtvk5_le-grand-silence[/url]

[EJames2]

Carthusians being received as novices..
[url="http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=vSSa5zs9T78"]http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=vSSa5zs9T78[/url]

[Guest Perpetualove]

Great videos...thank you so much!

[sistersintigo]

[quote name='Perpetualove' date='17 September 2006 - 01:17 AM' timestamp='1158470235' post='1064779']
I have come to know (one personally), some former Carthusians. I did not know that the women in the Carthusian Order are still ordained as Deaconesses. I know, I didn't believe it, but I even looked in the Catholic Encyclopedia, and there it was...who knew??? Also, there has not been one American who has lasted in the Vermont Charterhouse, and I do not believe that speaks of the Charterhouse there, but rather the "pull" of the American culture.

I apologize for this long winded email! Please feel free to PM. And good luck...O Bonitas! Perpetualove
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Here is the quote that made me start a Vocation Station Thread about Carthusian monks and the Transfiguration of Our Savior Charterhouse in Vermont:
"there has not been one American who has lasted in the Vermont Charterhouse..."
Interesting. This quote is from a post dated 2006. The first North American vocation to persevere in the Carthusian order, Dom Raphael Diamond, is in fact the monk who made the quoted statement. Benefit of the doubt: when Dom Raphael was still young and still alive, his negative statement was accurate. He was Prior of the Carthusian Monks in the Vermont Charterhouse from the time their monastery was incorporated into the Order, roughly 1971, until 1995. Then the General Chapter granted "Misericordia" to Dom Raphael: this is retirement from the office of Prior, it was NOT exclaustration! In fact Dom Raphael wrote to the widow of his baptismal godfather, at that point, rejoicing that his priorate had ended and that now he could be the plain old choir monk that he always wanted to be. Dom Raphael was still a cloistered Carthusian choir monk when he died at the age of 73 in 1996....ten years before this post quotes him somewhat outside of context.