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| | Grey Nuns |
 | | Grey Nuns, name commonly given to 5 distinct Roman Catholic religious communities of women, all springing from the original foundation, the Sisters of Charity of the Hôpital Général, in Montréal. | | | By the mid-1960s there were about 7000 Grey Nuns in Canada, but the general decline in vocations diminished their numbers to just under 3000 by 1993; Montréal had about 825, Ottawa 730 and Québec 900, while St-Hyacinthe has just over 300 and Pembroke just over 200. | | | A later development saw an English-speaking offshoot of the Ottawa community establish another separate congregation in 1926 in Pembroke, Ont. |
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http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0003455
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| | History |
| | The Grey Nuns of the Sacred Heart and the faculty and staff of Holy Angels Academy look forward to continuing this great apostolate for God and the Church of Buffalo for many years to come. | | | The first small group of five Grey Nuns of the Cross came to Buffalo from Ottawa in 1857 at the invitation of Reverend Chevalier of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, who had recently founded Holy Angels Parish in what is now known as the Lower West Side of Buffalo. | | | In addition to teaching, the Grey Nuns maintained their administrations to the poor, making hundreds of visits to inmates in the penitentiary at the foot of Porter Avenue, and the families living in the shanties along the Erie Canal towpath. |
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http://www.holyangelsacademy.org/History.htm
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| | Nun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Traditionally, Buddhist nuns were considered to be fully ordained; therefore, a Buddhist nun, just as much as a monk, is a priest. | | | The religious community of a nun is referred to as a "religious order" while the religious community of a sister is referred to as an "institute" or "congregation". | | | Nuns and sisters are distinguished by the type of vows they take (solemn vow vs. simple vow) and the focus of their good works. |
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http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nun
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| | Sister Mary Sue Thomas Celebrates 50th Jubilee |
| | Grey Nuns of the Sacred Heart like Sister Thomas strive to live out her mission of unbiased charity and love throughout many communities today. | | | Father Yander concluded the Mass by inviting all the Grey Nuns to gather before the altar to renew their vows. | | | Many of the Grey Nuns, like Sister Thomas, noted that there has been a return to the charism of their foundress, of “ministering to a variety of people in need,” and they have risen to this refocused vision. |
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http://georgiabulletin.org/local/2003/09/04/Sister_Mary_Sue_Thomas_Jubilee
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| | Grey Nuns of the Sacred Heart |
| | are one of six autonomous congregations of Grey Nuns who trace their spiritual roots to the faith and charism of St. Marguerite d’Youville. | | | Grey Nuns of the Sacred Heart help and heal, work to improve social and economic conditions and promote values of compassion, peace, justice and reverence for life. | | | For many years, Grey Nuns devoted themselves to serving in traditional ways in hospitals and in private, parochial and diocesan elementary and secondary schools, as well as in an orphanage and a nursing home. |
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http://www.greynun.org/ourfoundress/OurFoundress.htm
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| | RELIGION-Nuns |
| | Sweeney, who began her involvement with the Grey Nuns three years ago, is 34. | | | For example, nuns are much more involved with social justice projects these days, she said. | | | The next youngest nun in the building where she lives is 65, followed by women aged 75 and 92. |
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http://www.cp.org/english/online/full/family/030516/U051606AU.html
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| | wcr:12/06/1999 -- A history of heroic Grey Nuns |
| | Trading Quebec's Old World culture for the harsh frontier, the Grey Nuns responded to the Gospel challenge and numbered among the region's earliest missionaries. | | | Leap in Faith - The Great Nun Ministries in Western and Northern Canada is the first of two volumes narrating the arrival and missionary endeavours of the Grey Nuns from Montreal to the far West. | | | Written large in the history of the Church of the Canadian Northwest are the Sisters of Charity of Montreal - the Grey Nuns. |
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http://www.wcr.ab.ca/news/1999/1206/greynuns120699.shtml
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| | Sisters of Charity of Montreal, "Grey Nuns" |
| | Representatives from Covenant member organizations join the Grey Nuns from around the world for the ceremony of extraordinary solemnity. | | | Bernadette Poirier, Superior General of the Grey Nuns visits the United States and says of her visit: "I was tremendously impressed by the sense of 'mission' that prevails in each institution and the individual ministries. | | | Ira M. Shapiro, MD Today, the United States Region of the Grey Nuns is called "St. Joseph Region." The Sisters live and minister in Ohio, Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts and their apostolic endeavors are administered under a Regional Superior, Sr. |
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http://www.sgmlex.org/chronologicalhistory.aspx
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| | MHS Transactions: The Grey Nuns Travel West |
| | The Grey Nuns arrived in 1844, in response to the Bishop's invitation, to teach children and care for the sick. | | | At one o'clock in the morning of June 21, 1844, the Grey Nuns landed in front of the cathedral. | | | The Grey Nuns' Congregation was founded at Montreal in 1738 by Mother d'Youville. |
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http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/transactions/3/greynuns.shtml
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| | CLOISTER.TXT |
| | The nuns are called Poor Clares because they are poor, living by the work of their hands and their minds and on the alms of the faithful, and because they are followers and daughters of one of the most charming women who ever lived. | | | But it is to her priests and contemplative nuns that Holy Church entrusts the Liturgy of the Hours of the Divine Office to be recited officially in her name. | | | Clare had grown up surrounded by servants, but she wrote in her Rule that her nuns were to consider work as "a grace." And they were expected to use the grace persistently. |
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http://www.ewtn.com/library/PRIESTS/CLOISTER.TXT
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| | Dawson Trail Dispatch - History Special - |
| | The first three nuns to arrive in St.Anne, MB on August 22, 1883 were Sister Adeline Lapointe, Sister Mary-Ann OBrien and Sister Marie-Louise Lagarde. | | | Marguerite dYouville, founder of the Grey Nuns, was born Marie-Marguerite Dufrost de Lajemmerais, in Varennes, Quebec on October 15, 1701. | | | They were dubbed the Grey Nuns because of their choice in dressing in plain grey outfits so as not to draw any special attention to themselves. |
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http://www.mts.net/~dispatch/history1.htm
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| | Sisters of Charity (Grey Nuns) of Alberta |
| | Formally known as the Institute of the Sisters of Charity of Montreal "Grey Nuns", the Grey Nuns and their story began with a simple pledge taken by a young widow, Marguerite d'Youville, and three of her friends on the last day of the year 1737. | | | Albert is one of the five provinces of the Sisters of Charity of Montreal "Grey Nuns". | | | There are approximately 800 members of the Grey Nuns of Montreal specializing in health care, education, social services, and church ministries. |
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http://www.greynuns.ab.ca/history.htm
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| | 800 Years of Valiant Women - Timeline |
| | The women who follow Clare today strive to be models and examples of the transcendent dimension of Gospel poverty and prayer, and to offer the service of loving intercession with God for the needs of all. | | | The vocation story of a north American Poor Clare, Bernadette of Texas, and another recent autobiography of the fascinating journey of Mother Veronica of France repeat the story of the call to be a Poor Clare today. | | | Those who follow Clare are challenged to be especially present to the world at this great moment of humanity's spiritual ascent, as the life-giving fountain Clare was for the people of her day. |
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http://www.stanthonyshrine.org/PoorClares/800years_timeline.html
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| | Boston.com / News / Local / A mission without end |
| | In 1992, the Grey Nuns asked the pope to allow them to let lay people carry on the mission of Covenant Health Systems, and in 1996, the Vatican approved the request. | | | The arrangement means the nuns can leave a legacy of steely resolve and rock-solid faith, as well as a structure that can function without them. | | | She is one of Canada's heroines, and admirers say she's the feminine face of God. |
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http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2003/12/07/a_mission_without_end?mode=PF
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| | Poor Clare Sisters the Second Order of St. Francis |
| | The Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration begin a new life of prayer and sacrifice in the desert of Arizona. | | | Each monastery is completely autonomous though all are linked by the beautiful charism of Gospel Poverty, Obedience and Chastity that Saint Clare of Assisi bequeathed to us over 800 years ago. | | | The Poor Clare Sisters in New Orleans made it through the hurricane inside their monastery but have now evacuated to Brenham, Texas. |
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http://www.poorclare.org
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| | [CONTEMPLATIVE] POOR CLARE NUNS - ORDER of ST CLARE - OSC |
| | As followers of Clare and Francis, we are committed to living the Gospel within a contemplative way of life. | | | Leaving aside his dreams of glory he started to repair San Damiano, but soon realised that Christ was calling him to bring to the whole church a message of peace and joy, poverty and penance, through a radical Gospel life. | | | The message was heard by Clare Offreduccio, a young girl of 17 or 18, who had already sensed the call of Christ. |
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http://www.ozvocations.catholic.org.au/directory/religious/poorclarenuns.html
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| | Amy's Rear View Mirror |
| | The Nuns moved to Hanceville on December 3, 1999, and the Temple was consecrated on December 19, 1999. | | | The Poor Clare Nuns of Perpetual Adoration are a Pontifical Contemplative Order of Cloistered Nuns with the privilege of Solemn Vows, Papal Enclosure, and Solemn Exposition of the Most Blessed Sacrament. | | | The cloistered nuns purpose is to pray and worship Jesus. |
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http://home.earthlink.net/~abclair2001/alabama2.html
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| | The nuns were painfully aware of the fact that, in the camp, others - such as Bishop Anthony Nowowiejski and Leon Wetmanski of Plock, and many other priests - were being tortured. | | | Mary Teresa belonged to the convent of the Capuchin Poor Clare nuns of Przasnysz. | | | In great pain, and knowing that death was imminent, she said to her sisters: "I will not leave here alive; I offer my life in sacrifice so that the sisters might return to the convent." Feverish and unable to rise from her bunk, she abandoned herself to prayer. |
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http://www.capuchin.com/Charism/PolishMartyrs/Sr_Mieczyslawa.htm
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| | Nun |
| | Nuns are generally thought of as Christian, but the term is also used in other religions. | | | A nun is a member of a religious community of women ordinarily bound by the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience. | | | A Nun is a member of a religious order for women, living in a convent under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience. |
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http://mb-soft.com/believe/txh/nun.htm
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| | Poor Clare Sisters of Spokane, Washington - Our Charism |
| | In 1950, by virtue of the Apostolic Constitution Sponsa Christi,Pope Pius XII restored to the orders of contemplative nuns the privilege of Solemn Vows and Papal Enclosure; and in 1956 this favor was accorded to the Spokane Poor Clares. | | | The faith of two lonely Italian Poor Clares who believed that the only lasting influence on earth is that of personal holiness and that the best service anyone can render to the world is to become a saint. | | | The faith of our saintly Bishop Augustine Schinner who believed that the little band of Poor Clares had a message to give and, still more, a power to exercise by prayer and sacrifice, which is a force cherished by the Church beyond all earthly help. |
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http://www.calledbyjoy.com/history1.html
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| | solemn vows |
| | The Poor Clare nuns are a contemplative order founded by St. Francis and St. Clare in Assisi in 1212. | | | Acknowledging the twofold cause for joy and the sacrificial offering of the religious life, the bishop said it was fitting that Sister Charitas should make her solemn profession on Trinity Sunday, as the consecrated life is a particular expression of the Trinitarian nature of the Christian life. | | | The bishop explained the consecrated life is a particular way of living out the universal call to holiness. |
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http://www.catholicherald.com/articles/03articles/poorclare.htm
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| | Origin |
| | From the beginning, the nuns joined the monks for Vespers and for Divine Liturgy. | | | This was also a help to the monks as the nuns paid them for their work. | | | Two more Poor Clare nuns joined the 5 and a small farm house was purchased with the help of the monks. |
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http://www.newskete.com/nuns_3.html
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| | Brother John Raymond St. Clare, the great friend of St. Francis and the Foundress of the Poor Clare Nuns was born in Assisi, Italy in 1194. | | | This is perhaps one of the first instances in the history of spirituality of uniting devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus with the most Blessed Sacrament. | | | St. Clare's Eucharistic love and confidence were demonstrated by her heroic defense of the City of Assisi. |
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http://www.monksofadoration.org/12.html
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| | Poor Clare Nuns of St. Louis, Missouri |
| | Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament is one of the focal points of the life of the nuns. | | | She embraced his ideal of Gospel living in most high poverty and became the first woman to write a religious rule, based on St. Francis's rule for his brothers. | | | Today the Poor Clares still follow the example of St. Clare in devoted loyalty to the Church and to the Holy Father, living a life of prayer and worship, and a community life of sisterly love, simplicity, poverty and joyful penance. |
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http://www.religiouslife.com/w_pcstlouis01.phtml
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| | Capuchin Poor Clares |
| | The final destiny of the Church is to contemplate eternally the face of the Lord. | | | Our MISSION as Capuchin Poor Clares is Living the Gospel, adhering faithfully to the spirit of Francis and Clare of Assisi. | | | Francis said, "I desire all to show themselves as sons (and daughters) of the same mother." Accordingly, it is in COMMUNITY that we Capuchin Poor Clares experience the close bond that makes us each love one another as true sisters enjoying the presence of one another. |
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http://www.midamcaps.org/sisters.asp
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| | Hold Your Holy Horses! - February 2000 Issue of St. Anthony Messenger Magazine Online |
| | The orders patron, St. Clare, was a spiritual protégé of St. Francis of Assisi. | | | Afraid her family was in pursuit, the friar hid Clare in a Benedictine monastery. | | | Called to vows of poverty, chastity, obedience and enclosure (a cloistered life), the Poor Clares are given exclusively to God in prayer. |
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http://www.americancatholic.org/Messenger/Feb2000/feature1.asp
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| | cantonrep.com |
| | However, the chief focus of the Poor Clare Nuns of Perpetual Adoration remains on individual and communal prayer, the Liturgy of the Hours and the adoration of Jesus and the Blessed Sacrament. | | | Sister Mary Anthony Magill (left) and Sister Anna Leskovec of the Poor Clare Nuns of Perpetual Adoration are being honored with a Jubilee Mass today at the Sancta Clara Monastery in Canton. | | | Shortly after Sister Anna joined the Poor Clares, she asked to serve at a newly formed Catholic foundation in what is now known as Bangladesh. |
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http://www.cantonrep.com/index.php?Category=8&ID=163088&r=0
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| | mmhhome |
| | in operation since 1981, is owned and operated by the Franciscan Poor Clare Nuns, a non-profit religious organization devoted to the contemplative life of prayer, penance, union with God. |
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