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Free Cloistered Kittens Update
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A Special Species Shout Out: FREE KITTENS! (And some feline poetry)
- 07.29.24
Books For the Nuns
- 07.26.24
Prayers for the New Bishop of Knoxville!
- 07.19.24
10th National Eucharistic Congress
- 06.24.24
Snakes Alive! Again!
- 06.23.24
National Eucharistic Pilgrimage Stops in the Diocese of Knoxville!
- 06.08.24
Corpus Christi Mass and Procession at Cor Jesu
- 05.24.24
Lions, and Tigers, and Bears! Oh My!
- 05.20.24
Corpus Christi Newsletter 2024
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The Heavens Declare the Glory of the Lord!
- 05.07.24
Pope Francis Appoints New Bishop for Knoxville
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This week we are praying in a special way for the priests of the Archdiocese of Louisville KY. Each week we will pray for specific priests until we have prayed for all of the priests in the diocese. Please join us! #priestchalkboard
This week we are praying in a special way for the priests of the Archdiocese of Louisville KY. Each week we will pray for specific priests until we have prayed for all of the priests in the diocese. Please join us! #priestchalkboard
This week we are praying in a special way for the priests of the Diocese of Knoxville TN. Each week we will pray for 4 specific priests until we have prayed for all of the priests in the diocese. Please join us! #priestchalkboard
This week we are praying in a special way for the priests of the Diocese of Knoxville TN. Each week we will pray for 4 specific priests until we have prayed for all of the priests in the diocese. Please join us! #priestchalkboard
We return this week to our home Diocese of Knoxville and pray for the priests serving the flock in East Tennessee. Dear Fathers, thank you all for your selfless service to God, to the Church, and to us! #priestchalkboard
We return this week to our home Diocese of Knoxville and pray for the priests serving the flock in East Tennessee. Dear Fathers, thank you all for your selfless service to God, to the Church, and to us! #priestchalkboard
We return this week to our home Diocese of Knoxville and pray for the priests serving the flock in East Tennessee. Dear Fathers, thank you all for your selfless service to God, to the Church, and to us! #priestchalkboard
We return this week to our home Diocese of Knoxville and pray for the priests serving the flock in East Tennessee. Dear Fathers, thank you all for your selfless service to God, to the Church, and to us! #priestchalkboard
This week we are praying in a special way for the priests of the Diocese of Palm Beach, FL. Each week we will pray for 4 specific priests until we have prayed for all of the priests in the diocese. Please join us! #priestchalkboard
This week we are praying in a special way for the priests of the Diocese of Palm Beach, FL. Each week we will pray for 4 specific priests until we have prayed for all of the priests in the diocese. Please join us! #priestchalkboard
This week we are praying in a special way for the priests of the Diocese of Palm Beach, FL. Each week we will pray for 4 specific priests until we have prayed for all of the priests in the diocese. Please join us! #priestchalkboard
This week we are praying in a special way for the priests of the Diocese of Palm Beach, FL. Each week we will pray for 4 specific priests until we have prayed for all of the priests in the diocese. Please join us! #priestchalkboard
This week we are praying in a special way for the priests of the Diocese of Palm Beach, FL. Each week we will pray for 4 specific priests until we have prayed for all of the priests in the diocese. Please join us! #priestchalkboard
This week we are praying in a special way for the priests of the Diocese of Palm Beach, FL. Each week we will pray for 4 specific priests until we have prayed for all of the priests in the diocese. Please join us! #priestchalkboard
This week we are praying in a special way for the priests of the Diocese of Palm Beach, FL. Each week we will pray for 4 specific priests until we have prayed for all of the priests in the diocese. Please join us! #priestchalkboard
This week we are praying in a special way for the priests of the Diocese of Palm Beach, FL. Each week we will pray for 4 specific priests until we have prayed for all of the priests in the diocese. Please join us! #priestchalkboard
This week we are praying in a special way for the priests of the Diocese of Palm Beach, FL. Each week we will pray for 4 specific priests until we have prayed for all of the priests in the diocese. Please join us! #priestchalkboard
This week we are praying in a special way for the priests of the Diocese of Palm Beach, FL. Each week we will pray for 4 specific priests until we have prayed for all of the priests in the diocese. Please join us! #priestchalkboard
This week we are praying in a special way for the priests of the Diocese of Palm Beach, FL. Each week we will pray for 4 specific priests until we have prayed for all of the priests in the diocese. Please join us! #priestchalkboard
This week we are praying in a special way for the priests of the Diocese of Palm Beach, FL. Each week we will pray for 4 specific priests until we have prayed for all of the priests in the diocese. Please join us! #priestchalkboard
This week we are praying in a special way for the priests of the Diocese of Palm Beach, FL. Each week we will pray for 4 specific priests until we have prayed for all of the priests in the diocese. Please join us! #priestchalkboard
This week we are praying in a special way for the priests of the Diocese of Palm Beach, FL. Each week we will pray for 4 specific priests until we have prayed for all of the priests in the diocese. Please join us! #priestchalkboard
This week we are praying in a special way for the priests of the Diocese of Palm Beach, FL. Each week we will pray for 4 specific priests until we have prayed for all of the priests in the diocese. Please join us! #priestchalkboard
This week we are praying in a special way for the priests of the Diocese of Palm Beach, FL. Each week we will pray for 4 specific priests until we have prayed for all of the priests in the diocese. Please join us! #priestchalkboard
Our Comic Strip
At the Speed of Monasteries
On the secular level, today`s world is one of global intercommunication and connection of such astounding speed that it has passed boggling the mind and has settled into the arena of expected performance. Now, something is no longer a wonder if it`s done by instant information exchange across the planet. It`s the status quo and when it fails the assumption is that something is very wrong. In the business and education world, messages, and entire conversations, are sent back and forth with no more effort than it takes to talk to a person standing by your desk. Now, you don`t even need a desk.
It can happen, given that environment, that `monastery speeds` seem a bit slow. But that`s on purpose as our first duty is to pray, not check the inbox. Does that cause a backlog in correspondence? Yes. Are good people left waiting for answers or long overdue, but sincere and grateful, expressions of thanks? Yes. Does it frustrate and perplex folks on occasion? Yes. Are even nuns left with messy desks and office papers? Most assuredly. But fear not! Recall the famous photo of Saint Maximillian Kolbe at his rather busy looking desk? He probably was behind in his letters too...but he was never behind in putting the only thing that matters first; God!
We thank you all for your patience and understanding whenever we aren`t able to answer the mail (regular or electronic) immediately. God bless you!
#SisterReginaComicStrip
Vocations News: Coping with COVID-19 and Come and Sees
Yes, 2020 has been quite a year. We managed to get in a couple visits with inquiring women before COVID became a byword and seeming harbinger of all that could go wrong with the year 2020. By lockdown in March it was hoped a few weeks would be sufficient to dispel the plague of 2020. Now, as fall approaches with lifts and more lock downs and Advent promises to arrive quickly, many wouldn’t be blamed for thinking things will never get back to ‘normal’. Even the phrase ‘new normal’ really can’t fit this strange culture of permanent distancing and sanitization. And yet...who really defines normal?
Take the normal process of discerning a vocation to the religious life. Correspondence, a building relationship, an in person visit or visits (Come and See) to experience a little bit of the life, further education and learning, entrance....etc. All the predictable steps that were standard now have a virus template to adapt to. And with our limited capacity to communicate via the internet in our neck of the woods, video meetings over a computer wouldn’t be just another strange hurdle to learn, they would be cost prohibitive given our data caps. You would think with this new COVID-19 ’normal’ that, between social distancing and communications obstacles, we would have to forego welcoming inquirers, candidates, and aspirants. But who really defines normal? God. He can work around EVERYTHING.
So this fall and God willing, into the new year as well, we’ve scheduled women for Come and See experiences, suitably adapted to the precautions of coronavirus. We plan on sharing lots of information and communication in both directions....just not any germs or viruses! It demands creativity, flexibility, and ingenuity. Perhaps we can add the live video stuff someday but for now, God’s providing! #sisterreginacomicstrip
How does the cat discern?
Yes, we are sort of sharing some of our news regarding how we are going to manage Come and See visits during COVID. But, thanks to the amazing qualities of fictional cartoons, we can do so all while respecting the privacy and discretion of the women discerning their possible religious vocations.
When you are lighting a fire with a match or a spark, you are careful not to expose the early flame to too much wind or it will go out. Gunther, however, has no such reservations. And he’s very discriminating about who can rub his ears. #sisterreginacomicstrip
GUNTHER’S FIRST ANNIVERSARY
This month we mark Gunther’s (a.k.a. Shadow) first anniversary of arrival. As we don’t know his birthday, we’ll consider this day the one to celebrate. The shy Russian Blue has made himself part of our religious family transitioning from his earlier life as a barn cat mouser to something of a monastic therapy cat with mousing on the side and has endeared himself to all.
We are grateful to God for gifting us with such an extraordinarily polite and gentlemanly cat. And to all the dear souls who have made it possible for us to have him at the monastery as well as those generous cat-lovers eyeing the wish lists for feline related needs.
#sisterreginacomicstrip
We are never alone
This week we celebrate two great feasts, that of the Archangels Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael followed by the feast of our Guardian Angels. We’re never alone and God’s mighty hosts are always at our side to help us stay on the right path - the path to Heaven.
#sisterreginacomicstrip
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