Consecrated Life

Wednesday Discernment link

By Jodith | April 9, 2008

While this blog seems to be primarily devoted to men, it still is a very nice site with articles gathered from a wide variety of sources. Give it a check out: Roman Catholic Vocations

And here’s another site I discovered: Catholics On Call. Again, it’s directed mostly at young Catholics, but still an interesting site. Someday someone is going to start a site for older vocations!

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By Jodith | April 7, 2008

This video is from CBS News. Nuns use running to help troubled children.

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I have sent out e-mails to the first 5 communities that were randomly chosen to be featured weekly here on the Consecrated Life blog. Until I receive responses from them, I will be posting other communities chosen at random with bits I’ve learned about them from their website.

This week’s community is:

The Missionary Sisters of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus

This is a world-wide missionary community. The General house is in Italy, and the Mother House of the USA Province is located in Reading, PA.

From the website:

“Missionary Sisters of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus (M.S.C.) are religious women who are called to be the heart of God in the world. United in faith prayer, we are 850 women risking for the Gospel in nineteen countries including the United States of America.

Our mission is to serve those in need of the compassionate love of Jesus; we have been doing this for nearly 100 years in the United States of America through evangelization, social work, health care, education, pastoral care, counseling and parish ministry.”

If you check out their most recent newsletter, you’ll see that one of their sisters has even been awarded the Cross of Pro Ecclesia Et Pontifice (For Church and Pontiff).

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Wednesday Discernment Link

By Jodith | April 2, 2008

Wow…vocation.com has really had a great revamp since I first found it years ago. It’s got a beautiful new look, and a great deal of information not only for those discerning, but for those who wish to foster vocations.

I particularly like the Discernment Check List and information on adoration for vocations.

The only downside was much of the information is directed to “young people”, and of course, I believe that vocations to the religious life can come at any age.

Still, there’s a great deal of good discernment guidance there, so if you haven’t been out to vocations.com in a while, take a look at it.

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Video Monday

By Jodith | March 31, 2008

I’ll start of with a video of the Cistercian Nuns at Prarie du Sac, Wisconsin. It’s a beautiful slide show with the nuns singing in the background.

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So, what can you expect?

By Jodith | March 31, 2008

Now that I’ve added a blog to the site, you’re probably wondering what I’ll use it for.

Well, I thought I’d highlight some of the information I’ve been sharing with you for the last….how long has it been? 8 years? Somewhere around there, anyway.

So, here’s the format I’ll be using. I hope to update 3 days a week. Monday will be video day. Wednesday will be discernment day, where I share a website, book, or other information on discernment. On Friday’s I will highlight a randomly chosen community. I’ll be contacting the communities chosen so they can add to what I post, but until I start getting responses to inquiries, I’ll just post the link to the randomly chosen community.

Which brings me to my question. If you could ask a community that you know nothing about anything, what would you want to know. Leave a comment, and I’ll work the replies into the information that I ask the communities when I contact them.

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Welcome to the updated Consecrated Life!

By admin | March 30, 2008

As you can see, quite a few changes have been made. There will be more in the offing.

The retreat pages have been deleted as I just don’t have time to keep it updated. I still need to transfer over the links pages, but all of the community links pages have been transferred over. Some of the data may have been garbled, so if you see something odd, please let me know.

Stay tuned for more changes in the near future.

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