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Showing posts with label Nuns. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nuns. Show all posts
Friday, January 19, 2018

Christus mansionem benedicat

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Monache Agostiniane d'Urbino Yes, sorry. I know I've been away a long time. Just found this lovely little video from Italian TV s...
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Monday, May 29, 2017

Nuns in the Umbrian hills

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These are the nuns I'm going to go and spend a weekend visiting week after next. June 10-12. They're a new thing, and normally I ...
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Friday, October 16, 2015

Church of Babel

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These nuns live not very far from here and have a business manufacturing and selling herbal remedies that are very popular. "Produtti m...
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Friday, August 07, 2015

Nun campaign

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Dear Miss White, Thank you for posting the link to my begging page. I'm a regular reader of yours, and was just tickled to death to s...
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Sunday, August 02, 2015

Vocation shortage?

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One of the biggest problems in the Church right now is not lack of vocations, it's lack of support for them. And student loan debt is ne...
Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Live as though God is real

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Live as though you're really going to live forever. Live for eternity. Start now. ~
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Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Is this the Faith you'll die for? - Grooving with the Dominican Greyhead Sisters of Swing

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I just can't imagine why they don't get vocations... can you? ~ I'm working on a thing about how failing in my vocation ...
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Thursday, January 30, 2014

Away for a few days

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This is the interior of the 12th century monastery church of the Benedictine nuns of Our Lady of Rosano , an ancient Benedictine house near...
Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Nope, no vocations crisis over here...

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There are a lot of reasons I live here and not in Angloland. One of which is the superabundance of monasteries, and the fact that the Itali...
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Monday, January 27, 2014

The thing with Catholic monasticism is

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it just can't be killed. The Emperors tried. The barbarians tried. The Calvinists tried. Napoleon tried. The anti-clericals tried. Th...
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Thursday, September 12, 2013

Found some new nuns

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So, I've been feeling the urge for a while now. Been looking around locally for some nice Benedictines to go visit and I've found th...
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Thursday, March 28, 2013

The Red Pill

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This is interesting. I remember being very curious about this project many years ago. By the time I discovered Sr. Irene and her lonely str...
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Monday, November 19, 2012

Real nuns!

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Doing real nun-work! Who knew? I suspect there are actually quite a few real nuns left in Italy, quietly and un-glamorously doing the Mas...
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Thursday, August 23, 2012

Norbies

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Got a lot of time for Norbertines ~
Tuesday, August 23, 2011

"Last one out turn off the lights."

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I read a piece today in the NYT about the death of active religious orders in the US. Some of it is pretty poignant with this stand...
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Wednesday, November 03, 2010

Well, Chickadees,

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I'm off again for a few days. I'll be in Dublin til Mon. No comments like, "Wow, Dublin. That's cool" if you please. I...
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