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| Community Profile |
| Passionist Nuns Monastery of St. Joseph |
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| Community Information |
International? | Yes |
No. in community (professed members) | 14 |
Year founded | 1771 in Italy; 1946 in Owensboro, KY |
Generalate/ motherhouse | Autonomous |
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Represented in US (Arch)dioceses | Owensboro, KY |
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| About Us |
Mission statement/description
The sisters' life as contemplative nuns flows from the personal love of Christ for them manifested in His passion, death and resurrection. They seek to comfort Him in His Sacred Passion by pondering the mystery of His undying love, by loving their sisters in community life and through Divine Worship. This is expressed most powerfully in their participation in the Holy Mass which is the highpoint of their monastic day. They have daily exposition of Blessed Sacrament, two hours of contemplative prayer and they pray the entire Liturgy of the Hours. In all their lives they seek to imitate Our Lady of Sorrows—the Handmaid of Redemption.
The nuns enjoy daily recreation with one another. Their work is simple and includes the normal domestic duties of kitchen work, laundry, cleaning, sewing, also computer work, answering letters, phones and doors, gardening and more. They host a small guest house, an oasis of prayer for people hungering for deeper union with God. They love being brides of Christ and daughters of the Holy Catholic Church! |
Qualifications for entry
Single, Catholic women in good physical, mental and emotional health. Along with a desire for prayer, the nuns look for maturity and sociability in a candidate. Although a college degree is not necessary there needs to be an ability for college level studies and the candidate needs to have a teachable heart. |
Formation program
One year postulancy and two year novitiate, with classes on the Catechism, prayer, virtues and self-knowledge, monastic decorum, religious life, the vows, and the Passionist Rule and Constitutions, liturgy, Sacred Scripture, monastic history and Passionist spirituality and more. Six years in temporary vows before making final vows. |
Age range/limit
18-35 |
Consider belated vocations?
No |
Belated/late vocations explanation
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Institute on Religious Life, P.O. Box 7500, Libertyville, IL 60048-7500
Tel: (847) 573-8975 - Fax: (847) 573-8960 |
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