Passionist Nuns Of Whitesville, Ky

[rosamundi]

[quote name='Cathoholic Anonymous' post='1394021' date='Sep 27 2007, 02:52 PM']Ah, those are different sisters - the Sisters of the Cross and Passion. They're apostolic, I believe. The Passionist sisters in this thread are contemplatives.[/quote]

They may have a contact address for the Passionist Contemplatives in England, though (if they still exist).

[VeniteAdoremus]

[quote name='Cathoholic Anonymous' post='1394021' date='Sep 27 2007, 03:52 PM']Ah, those are different sisters - the Sisters of the Cross and Passion. They're apostolic, I believe. The Passionist sisters in this thread are contemplatives.

It's nice to know about sisters in Manchester, though. That's not too far from me when I'm home. Always good to know that I am surrounded by religious on all sides.[/quote]

Yes, you're surrounded...

[Totus Tuus]

[quote name='Cathoholic Anonymous' post='1394021' date='Sep 27 2007, 08:52 AM']Ah, those are different sisters - the Sisters of the Cross and Passion. They're apostolic, I believe. The Passionist sisters in this thread are contemplatives.[/quote]

Yes, Passionist Nuns are contemplative, though different monasteries have different forms of enclosure. The Passionists featured in this thread, located in Whitesville, have Constitutional Enclosure. There are other Passionists who have Papal Enclosure (the ones in Erlanger, KY, who have Papal Enclosure, do not have a retreat house). While they do observe different types of enclosure (which is totally legit. with their Rule), they are all considered full-fledged [b]nuns[/b] according to Canon Law.

Edited September 27, 2007 by Totus Tuus

[EJames2]

[quote name='rosamundi' post='1394023' date='Sep 27 2007, 06:57 AM']They may have a contact address for the Passionist Contemplatives in England, though (if they still exist).[/quote]
[url="http://www.passiochristi.org/Documents/links02.htm"]http://www.passiochristi.org/Documents/links02.htm[/url]

[url="http://cptryon.org/passionist/links.html"]http://cptryon.org/passionist/links.html[/url]

[rosamundi]

[quote name='Cathoholic Anonymous' post='1393270' date='Sep 26 2007, 02:21 PM']That's odd. Another website says that the monastery is located in Daventry. And there can't possibly be two. [/quote]

I think they have moved from Daventry. Fear my elite Google skillz (or something) because [url="http://cptryon.org/compassion/67/pn.html"]this website[/url] says " The Monastery of Our Lady of the Passion, Daventry, England, was begun in 1964 from Erlanger, Kentucky."

Perhaps if you contacted them, they may know what happened to the nuns at Daventry? According to one website, they are now at Belmont Abbey, but I can see no mention of them on the Belmont Abbey website.

[Totus Tuus]

[sistersintigo]

On the subject of Passionist Nuns in England/UK
Their Belmont address is distinct from but close to the Benedictine Abbey of Belmont -- this might suggest that the benedictine monks of Belmont have provided the remaining Passionist Nuns with a place to live somewhere on their estate, but separate from the abbey of monks obviously. The Benedictine monks have a postcode of HR2 9RZ, while the Passionist nuns convent has a postcode of HR2 9RN -- distinct, yet close.
There are equal numbers of Internet references to Daventry and Belmont, for the English convent of Passionist Nuns. This includes the www.passiochristi.org website for the entire order. I don't believe there are two active foundations of Passionist Nuns in England -- I believe it is one community that re-located.
Here are links -- hope they work -- to brief dispatches regarding Mother Mary Catherine Brock, CP, a Passionist professed to the Erlanger, KY monastery in the diocese of Covington KY. It seems she is one of the nuns whom the Kentucky monastery sent overseas to found the English convent. She died recently, in England, she had been there at the newer foundation for something like forty years.
http://www.passiochristi.org/News_Bulletin/Inglese/August_2009.htm

http://pfcp.wordpress.com/2009/08/13/mother-catherine-c-p/

[Gemma]

[quote name='sistersintigo' date='21 September 2009 - 02:54 PM' timestamp='1253555680' post='1970476']
On the subject of Passionist Nuns in England/UK
Their Belmont address is distinct from but close to the Benedictine Abbey of Belmont -- this might suggest that the benedictine monks of Belmont have provided the remaining Passionist Nuns with a place to live somewhere on their estate, but separate from the abbey of monks obviously. The Benedictine monks have a postcode of HR2 9RZ, while the Passionist nuns convent has a postcode of HR2 9RN -- distinct, yet close.
There are equal numbers of Internet references to Daventry and Belmont, for the English convent of Passionist Nuns. This includes the www.passiochristi.org website for the entire order. I don't believe there are two active foundations of Passionist Nuns in England -- I believe it is one community that re-located.
Here are links -- hope they work -- to brief dispatches regarding Mother Mary Catherine Brock, CP, a Passionist professed to the Erlanger, KY monastery in the diocese of Covington KY. It seems she is one of the nuns whom the Kentucky monastery sent overseas to found the English convent. She died recently, in England, she had been there at the newer foundation for something like forty years.
http://www.passiochristi.org/News_Bulletin/Inglese/August_2009.htm

http://pfcp.wordpress.com/2009/08/13/mother-catherine-c-p/
[/quote]

Daventry closed a number of years ago. There are no cloistered Passionists in the UK now.

Blessings,
Gemma

[sistersintigo]

[quote name='Gemma' date='21 September 2009 - 03:15 PM' timestamp='1253556937' post='1970491']
Daventry closed a number of years ago. There are no cloistered Passionists in the UK now.

Blessings,
Gemma
[/quote]
If the above statement is true, then:
where was Mother Mary Catherine Brock, CP, when she died last month?
and
where was she laid to rest?
The "Laus Crucis" passionist blog suggests that she was close to some English passionist fathers, closer to them than to the Passionists in her country of origin, the US.

[sistersintigo]

[quote name='rosamundi' date='27 September 2007 - 05:03 PM' timestamp='1190923420' post='1394253']
I think they have moved from Daventry. Fear my elite Google skillz (or something) because [url="http://cptryon.org/compassion/67/pn.html"]this website[/url] says " The Monastery of Our Lady of the Passion, Daventry, England, was begun in 1964 from Erlanger, Kentucky."

Perhaps if you contacted them, they may know what happened to the nuns at Daventry? According to one website, they are now at Belmont Abbey, but I can see no mention of them on the Belmont Abbey website.
[/quote]

The following is an e-mail post, quoted in its entirety, from Belmont, Herefordshire, in England. This post was sent after it was announced that Mother Mary Catherine Brock, CP, who founded the Daventry convent from Erlanger, KY, had just died this summer.
"The Passionist Nuns in Daventry moved to Belmont in Hereford in 2005. Mother [Mary] Catherine was already in a nursing home in Daventry. We moved her to a nursing home in Hereford when we moved. This is where she died, at the age of 102, and is now buried at Belmont. Mother Regina [CP], who made the foundation with M. Mary Catherine in 1963, is here with me. She of course is American....thank you for your prayers. [name withheld, CP]"

[sistersintigo]

[quote name='Gemma' date='21 September 2009 - 03:15 PM' timestamp='1253556937' post='1970491']
Daventry closed a number of years ago. There are no cloistered Passionists in the UK now.

Blessings,
Gemma
[/quote]
It is strictly correct to observe, that Daventry no longer has cloistered Passionist nuns, since the nuns relocated from Daventry to Belmont, Herefordshire, in 2005. See previous entry in thread.