Every path to the vocation to the consecrated life is different. Here two Sisters of Nazareth share their vocations stories. Nicknamed to be a nun By Sr Priscilla Tumulumbe Mudimba CSN I was born...
Fr Chris Townsend – One of the functional jokes in the priesthood goes something along the lines that listening to the confessions of religious Sisters, particularly contemplative nuns, is akin to being stoned to...
The Benebikira Sisters, the oldest indigenous congregation in Rwanda, have sisters who are teachers, nurses, pharmacists, formators and administrators. But they also have religious with a unique title: Sister Listeners. “The genocide created many...
Fr PE Lavoipierre, Durban – As a happy, contented and relatively effective celibate priest (when either covered or uncovered by my cassock-robe) and rapidly approaching the 53rd anniversary of ordination, I find Romany Rubin’s...
Do not settle for a worry-free, comfortable life with an unhealthy attachment to money and an ambitious heart yearning for honours, Pope Francis told seminarians studying in Rome. “I’m telling you this as a...
Prayer Intention: That young people may respond generously to their vocations and seriously consider offering themselves to God in the priesthood or consecrated life. Why is it that the winners of beauty contests are...
The head of the Franciscans hopes the order’s new website will have a certain “hip-hop” style – being very modern or “hip” and inspiring people to move, act or “hop.” Franciscan Father Michael Perry,...
Catholic religious orders must have the courage to start new forms of outreach, knowing that the only people who “never make mistakes are those who never do anything,” Pope Francis said. “We will get...
In an age that often seems to be a “carnival of worldly curiosity”, Christians are called to lead people to the solid ground of the Gospel like St Dominic did, Pope Francis said. “We...
When religious orders focus on survival rather than on sharing the joy and hope of faith in Jesus, they end up being “professionals of the sacred, but not fathers and mothers,” Pope Francis said....
Just as “the habit does not make the monk,” taking a vow of poverty does not automatically mean a consecrated person lives with a detachment from material things and in solidarity with the poor,...
A little-known French nun whose cause for canonisation will be opened December 3 was known for mystical visions of the Eucharist. Mother Marie Adele Garnier, foundress of the Adorers of the Sacred Heart of...
