ARLINGTON — Nuns living in an Arlington monastery are inviting the faithful back to their chapel for prayer and Mass, while the Bishop of Fort Worth is pleading with parishioners not to participate or offer the nuns their financial support. The Arlington Carmelites offered the invitation in a ...
ARLINGTON — The Carmelite nuns in Arlington have transferred ownership of their expansive wooded monastery to a new foundation amid an ongoing dispute with the Catholic Bishop of Fort Worth. The foundation, Friends of the Discalced Carmelite Nuns of Arlington, is made up of supporters an...
The erection of a monastery requires the consent of the bishop, and (at least in practice nowadays) of the Apostolic See. The bishop, by himself, or in consultation with the regular superior, determines the number of nuns who can be received according to the amount of their ordinary revenues...
“We want to call Cliff Maloney to account for his blatantly false post that accuses our sisters of fraud,” they said. “We do live at Mount Saint Benedict Monastery and a simple web search would alert him to our active presence in a number of ministr...
“The recording of our album, in our monastery chapel over a period of several months, was a great adventure which we entered into wholeheartedly. “We hope that all who listen may find a sense of calm, peace and serenity which lies deep within each one of us.”...
“The sense of time in a monastery, and in the chant, is rather like we are experiencing in this period,” he says. “Everything is regular, and while one day can feel very long, three months can feel like a week. You lose perspective of where you are in time. ...
“A monastery is a true ‘powerhouse’ of spiritual energy that is nourished at the source of contemplation, after the example of prayer to which Jesus devoted Himself in solitude, immersing Himself totally in dialogue with God the Father, to draw the necessary strength for His saving mission....
The Discalced Carmelite Nuns of Goonellabah, NSW, Australia, are an enclosed, contemplative community of Religious Sisters, whose vocation is a life of prayer for the needs of the Church and of the world. The Carmelite Monastery was founded in 1966. The
a.m."I was far from God," she says quietly, wrapping her hands around a hot mug in the monastery's drafty dining hall. "I experimented with everything you can experiment with to find happiness. Now that I've left everything, I've found everything."She isn't alone in her devotion...
Earlier this month, church authorities said 76 Catholic nuns tested positive for COVID-19 after an outbreak at a Franciscan convent in northwestern Germany, forcing health authorities to put the entire monastery under quarantine. Sciano said that Our Lady of the Angels in Greenfield has ...