Posted on 02/21/2010 2:06:03 PM PST by NYer
Ping!
If they stay away from people, how do they tell them about God or help them in any way? They could pray for people, but they don’t know enough about their lives to know what to pray about..
Similar to the Mormons' baptism of the dead?
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NYER I hear of this monsarty it well known monstarary in Alaska well known
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The way things are going we all may end up in Alaska, if not in Kamchatka.
They don’t have to know the particulars. God knows.
I read some articles awhile back about the cloistered nuns being terribly abused. It was a horror story. I wish I could remember the name of the convent and the 2 nuns who told their stories.
That is an excellent question! Cloistered nuns pray for all people. They don't need to know about their lives. They ask God to provide them with whatever it is that He recognizes they need. All prayers are answered. The best prayers are those of strangers who seek only to ask our Lord to watch over us and guide us to eternal life with Him in heaven.
The Catholic Church just built a new Cathedral down the street from me.......Since then I’ve seen lots and lots of security folk, but have yet to lay eyes on a Priest or Nun.
Barbara Ubryk. That was the name of the nun who told her story.
Barbara Ubryk was thoroughly debunked.
Chalk that one with Maria Monk and the fanatical anti-Catholic movement of the 1890’s.
There was another one, too. I wonder why these women would tell such a thing?
they get requests for prayers, and usually cloistered nuns have one who sees visitors requesting prayers.
But it all depends if you believe in the power of prayer.
I remember visiting Assisi, and having a Swedish lady mocking the Poor Clares there for “doing nothing”...yet later I found out that they had hidden Jews inside the convent, at risk of their lives, during the war...
And where would this be?
Not far from where I live, the Muslim community is constructing a mosque which just happens to be directly behind the Knights of Columbus Hall, a Catholic organization. Interestingly enough, the K of C host an annual pig roast as a fundraiser. My guess is that they will be raising more than funds this year ;-)
Excellent article! Thank you.
Lovely answer.
Many years ago, when I was a senior in a Catholic girls’ school, we spent a three day silent retreat at a cloistered convent in the L.A. area (which is still there, actually) and the Mother Superior came out and spoke to us (she stood beyond the altar rail). She said that in the 1920’s the at-that-time Bishop had asked her order to establish the cloistered convent in the area to “provide prayer and a counter balance to the sinful lifestyle that was glorified in the area”.
I’ve never forgotten that, and have often thought of it whenever I’ve come across some “new age” writing or belief about “balancing good and evil” or “countering evil with good”.
I very much admire the monks and nuns in monestaries and convents around the world who spend their lives in prayer (and this admiration extends to other-than-Catholic monks and nuns also).
A similar cloistered monastery of the Discalced Carmelite Nuns is found in Alexandria, South Dakota, “Little Carmel on the Prairie.
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