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This book consists of a collection of about one hundred short essays on the subject of the influence, for better or for worse, of religion in today's world. They were.
Table of contents
- Reflections on Practice
- What We Believe
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Sisters are also communicating more with their lay neighbors. Some of them, says Sister Annamae, "hold prayer groups and act as spiritual counselors for people who want to talk about prayer or their lives in general. But the nuns say they try not to let these involvements disrupt their lives of prayer. We're living in the world, but we're not of it. Perhaps no contemplative community is more aware of the world outside its walls than the Maryknoll cloister.
The 12 nuns in the tan brick convent on the grounds of the Maryknoll Sisters' headquarters are all former missionaries who have spent at least two years in active service, a prerequisite for entering the order's cloisters. Their special calling is to focus their prayers on the more than 1, Maryknoll priests, brothers, sisters and layworkers in their "loneliness and struggles on the mission.
In the mid's, the role of the cloister was questioned by many within the Maryknoll community, as it was throughout the Catholic Church. Now, many Maryknoll missionary nuns on home leave go to the cloister to make a retreat. Very often the missionaries can't even work because they're so curtailed by governments. Many come home because they're on hit lists. You can't survive in these times without prayer. The 12 nuns in the community range in age from 35 to A few of the older sisters still wear long, veiled brown habits.
The rest dress in brown knee-length dresses or skirts and blouses. The routine at Beacon is similar to that at most cloisters. Before the first light of day, each sister rises to pray privately in her cell - a small cement-block room, simply furnished with a desk, chair and bed, above which hangs a large wooden cross - or in the chapel, a modern octagonal building. At A. The office concludes with intercessory prayers, with each sister rising in turn to pray aloud for a particular person or group.
A local priest arrives at 8 A. The nuns gather in the chapel again at noon, in the late afternoon and early evening for communal prayers. During the afternoon, another hour is spent in private contemplation. The nuns also pray silently as they work. Some clean and maintain the convent. Others earn money for the community sewing clerical vestments or by doing keypunching for the archdiocese. For the rest of their financial needs, they rely on donations. The sisters at Beacon take turns preparing dinner, the one communal meal of the day, taken at 6 P.
For an hour afterward, they may walk around the grouns, or, when the weather is warm, take a rowboat out on the pond. This is one of the few times during the day when they break their silence to share their thoughts. In dramatic contrast to more open cloisters like Beacon are those that have left things much as they were in the Middle Ages.
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Tucked between rundown buildings in Brooklyn's Crown Heights section is a large white brick Carmelite convent enclosed by a foot-high cement wall, the outside of which has been irreverently covered from top to bottom with graffiti. Amid the jagged colored glass scattered on top of the fortress-like wall stand two larger-than-life-sized statues of Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary.
The rare visitor who is buzzed into the front parlor of the convent - the security system is a concession to the realities of 20th century urban life - will never actually see the 15 nuns who make up the community. He or she must talk to the sisters through the wooden turn in the parlor wall. A 4- by 2-foot revolving cupboard, the turn is employed to receive food and other necessities and to send such items as prayer cards out of the convent.
Reflections on Practice
The nuns, many of whom are young, believe they are living the life of prayer the way it is meant to be lived, and they feel no need to explain further. Less extreme and more accessible are traditional communities such as the Discalced Carmelites in Morristown, N. Inside this convent, however, the metal grille remains.
It is a symbol for the spirit of solitude. Local benefactors and an extern, Sister Eliane, buy their food and perform such worldly chores as banking. Modernization at the Morristown cloister has been more subtle than in progressive cloisters. The vows, for example, are still interpreted literally. We see in our Mother God's representatives. As at most cloisters, the Mother Superior, prioress or abbess, is elected for a three-year term. When she steps down, she must ask for permissions from her successor.
What We Believe
Although penances are no longer practiced in many convents - "We don't feel the need to linvent difficulty in our life," says Sister Michaelene - more traditional communities still believe mortification is an integral part of contemplative life. M, continue to go barefoot throughout the year, fast regularly and nightly interrupt their sleep for an hour and a half of prayer.
But perhaps the penance strangest to outsiders is "the discipline" - three times a week, the Roswell nuns whip themselves on their backs with scourges of knotted cord. The Roswell Poor Clares, who do not use surnames, have also retained the traditional clothing ceremony during which a second-year nun receives the formal habit of her order.
On the morning of her clothing, the novice attends mass attired in a long white gown and veil. After the liturgy, the nun walks in procession with her sisters to the community meeting room.
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There, in an act symbolic of divesting herself of worldly beauty, her hair is cut short by the Mother Abbess, who then dresses the new sister in the order's heavy habit of rough brown cloth, which ahd earlier been blessed by a priest. The high point of the ceremony comes when the abbess gives the sister a new name suitable for her new life of chastity, poverty and obedience.
To explain their retention of a ceremony many cloistered sisters have abandoned, the nuns at Roswell refer to a section of a paper they and nine other communities published in "The vow of chastity is the nun's human and public response to a divine call uttered in the depths of her own being to show forth the brideship of the Church in her total surrender directly to God. This blessed vow is our personal bridal covenant with God. One step beyond the cloister is the hermitage.
If the call to the cloister is exceptional, the call to hermit life is rare, indeed. Sometimes a sister who desires more solitude is given a few rooms in a convent for her exclusive use. There she eats, sleeps, works and prays alone. Others, such as the Carmelite hermits in Chester, N. Because the movement toward hermitages is still relatively new in the United States, statistics are difficult to come by, but it is known that the Handmaids of the Most Holy Trinity have established a hermitage at South Bend, Ind.
The four hermit sisters in Chester live on 10 acres of land. Each nun has her own sparsely furnished 6- by foot knotty-pine hermitage, built with the aid of local residents and other benefactors.
A nun's only contact with the other three is during Divine Office, at Mass, during daily spiritual counselings with the Desert Mother and an hour of communal recreation, the only time when they indulge in private conversations. The hermitage nuns eat only one full meal a day, and they never know from where it will come. Townfolk and visitors bring food and supplies on a sporadic basis. To augment such gifts, the hermits also do caligraphy and make spiritual cassette tapes. Desert Mother Mary of Jesus, whose title reflects an ancient monastic tradition, founded the small community in after spending 26 years in the Schenectady, N.
Carmelite cloister, because she wanted "a life of total abandon to God without the support of a lot of human security. But not everyone who comes to the hermitage can adjust to the severe regimen. Since its founding, half a dozen nuns have left the Chester hermitage, after what Desert Mother Mary calls "a period of discernment.
A brochure in Russian by Alexander Butiagin has been produced by the State Hermitage Publishing House for the exhibition giving a brief description of the history and archaeology of Pompeii, Herculaneum, Oplontis and Stabiae, and it will soon be followed by another on the decorative and monumental paintings of the Vesuvian towns by Yana Radolitskaya.
Both authors are on the staff of the Department of Classical Antiquities. Earlier the Council Hall was the setting for the signing of a collaboration agreement between the State Hermitage and the Prosecco DOC Consortium for the protection of wines from the region. The Consortium is a sponsor of our most important events connected with Italian art. The new agreement covers the production of a Prosecco wine for the Hermitage, but I want to point out immediately that the wine is not for sale in the museum.
It was served at the celebrations marking the th anniversary of the Hermitage. Besides participating in museum events, the Consortium has also devised an extensive cultural programme — new exhibitions, new books and new scholarly researches. It is a great pleasure for me to be in the Hermitage, after all Prosecco is not only a land that produces wine, it is a place that gave birth to a large number of artists whose works can be seen in the halls of the Hermitage.
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