Parish Visitors of Mary Immaculate We are contemplative-missionary Sisters, founded in New York City in 1920 by Mother Mary Teresa Tallon. Ourapostolate
of evangelization, religious education and social
service assistance is fired by a life of Eucharistic
prayer and love for Jesus and His Church. Mary’s
Visitation to Elizabeth, and Jesus the Good Shepherd,
inspire us as we visit parish families or catechize
children, youth and adults. We seek especially to
befriend and spiritually assist careless and alienated
Catholics while guiding and encouraging Catholic
family life. To learn more about us, see our website
at www.parishvisitorsisters.org or contact Sr. Dolores
Marie, Vocation Director, P.O. Box 658, Monroe, NY
10949-0658; (845) 783-2251; e-mail: pvmi@
frontiernet.net.
See ad on page 60. Code #292.
Passionist Nuns (C.P.), Ellisville, MO Brides
of the Crucified. Giving Him everything through
Religious vows. A spirit of poverty, solitude, prayer
and community builds a relationship with Jesus of
worshipful love. We love for those who don’t; pray for
those who won’t. Thus do we serve God, the Church,
the World. Loyal to the Holy Father. We pray the
Liturgy of Hours, daily Holy Mass and Rosary, coming
before the Blessed Sacrament at least 8 times daily
keeps us attuned to the beatings of the Sacred Heart.
Looking for something to fill the emptiness in life?
Write: Passionist Nuns, 15700 Clayton Rd., Ellisville,
MO 63011-2300; website: home.catholicweb.com/
passionistnuns. NO E-MAIL. Please provide a mailing
address when you write.
Code #047.
Poor Clares (O.S.C.) [Order of Saint Clare]—
Jamaica Plain, MA Mother Maddalena Bentivoglio,
O.S.C., asked her community to take care of their
“little sister in Boston”, the last she founded before
her death in 1905. The Franciscan hearts of our
present 20 sisters, thoroughly dedicated to our
contemplative life, are uplifted by the beauty of
creation in our enclosure garden and the surrounding
area. We are closely inserted into the lives of our
neighbors: they turn to us for support in their
spiritual needs and for a quiet place to pray, while we
depend on their generosity and help in our material
needs. Being poor sisters, we work quietly to earn our
living, designing and making liturgical vestments,
providing altar breads to parishes, making prayer
cards for all occasions, rosaries, and other items. We
are grateful for the grace of our vocation to be Poor
Clares. Please help us to continue our apostolate of
prayer within the Church of Boston. Contact: Sr. Mary
Francis Hone, OSC, 920 Centre Street, Jamaica Plain,
MA 02130-3099; e-mail: bostonpoorclares@yahoo.
com; website: www.stanthonyshrine.org/poorclares.
See ad on page 25. Code #438.
VISION 2013
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Poor Clares (O.S.C.) [Order of Saint Clare]—
Langhorne, PA Cloistered Franciscan nuns, founded
by St. Clare of Assisi, companion of St. Francis of
Assisi. For 800 years Poor Clares have been part
of the heart of the church, living the Gospel Life
in their contemplative life style which is nourished
by daily Mass, the Liturgy of the Hours throughout
the day, exposition of the Blessed Sacrament during
times of the day, and a joyous community life. A
year of postulancy follows a time of getting to know
the community. There are two years of novitiate
before vows. Each Poor Clare house is autonomous,
but joined in living the ideals with Poor Clares
throughout the U.S. and the world. Join us in living
a life of love of God and in loving and praying for
the world. Monastery of St. Clare, 1271 Langhorne-
Newtown Road, Langhorne, PA 19047-1297,
e-mail: vocation@poorclarepa.org; website: www.
poorclarepa.org.
Poor Clares (O.S.C.) [Order of Saint Clare]—
Travelers Rest, SC As Poor Clare Nuns, we the
sisters of the Monastery of Saint Clare in Travelers
Rest, SC live a life of contemplative prayer and pray
for the whole world. In the tradition of Saint Clare and
Saint Francis of Assisi we choose to live simply and in
community. Our daily schedule includes communal
praying of the full Liturgy of Hours, Eucharist,
personal prayer, sacred reading, and work within the
monastery. Eucharistic adoration is available daily.
We welcome unmarried women between the ages of
25 and 45 who may be feeling God’s call to live our
life of prayer, community, and contemplation. We
hope to hear from you: Vocation@poorclaresc.com;
(864) 834-8015, 37 McCauley Rd., Travelers Rest, SC
29690. We encourage you to visit our website: www.
poorclaresc.com. Please know that as you are reading
this your Poor Clare sisters are holding you in prayer.
Code #359.
Poor Clares (O.S.C.) [Order of Saint Clare]—
Wappingers Falls, NY We Poor Clares are a
cloistered contemplative community, centering our
lives on the Celebration of the Eucharist, the praying
of the Liturgy of the Hours, private prayer and
spiritual reading. Our daily work helps us to support
ourselves, and unites us in a meaningful way with our
sisters and brothers all over the world who must also
work for a living. St. Clare of Assisi began her mission
of prayer in the year 1212, following the inspiration of
St. Francis of Assisi and our community was founded
in the New York Archdiocese in 1915. In 1999, it
became evident that our Bronx location no longer met
the needs of our community, and after a temporary
move to New Rochelle, the Monastery was built here
in Wappingers Falls on the same property as our
Franciscan brothers on Mount Alvernia. Monastery
of St. Clare, 70 Nelson Avenue, Wappingers Falls,
NY 12590; (845) 297-1685; e-mail: clarelight@
gmail.com or claresny@gmail.com; website: www.
poorclaresny.com.
Code #444.
Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ (P.H.J.C.) We
Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ are an international
congregation of apostolic religious founded by Blessed
Catherine Kasper in Dernbach, Germany. We minister
with the poor, the sick and children in the United
States, Mexico, Germany, England, the Netherlands,
India, Brazil, Kenya and Nigeria. With prayer and
community living as our foundation, we carry out
the mission of Jesus in rural, urban and inner city
settings primarily in the Midwest. Focused on
partnering in the work of the Spirit, we invite others
to join us in various facets of education, pastoral and
social work, neighborhood based health ministries,
spiritual guidance, and care for the environment.
We are recognized more by the love and simplicity
with which we serve than by any particular ministry.
The Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ, together
with the Associate and Fiat Spiritus communities,
live the spirit of Blessed Catherine Kasper, their
foundress. In the U.S.A. - Sr. Kathy Haas, P.H.J.C.,
P.O. Box 1, Donaldson, IN 46513; (574) 936-9936;
e-mail: khaas@poorhandmaids.org; website: www.
poorhandmaids.org. In Mexico: e-mail: vocacion.
spjc@gmail.com; website: www.siervaspobres.org.
mx. See our web ad at www. VocationNetwork.org.
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Redemptoristine Nuns (OSsR) [Order of the Most
Holy Redeemer] Redemptoristines hear the invitation
to search for God in contemplative silence and solitude
within monastic community and surrender themselves
to conversion and transformation into the “Living
Memory of Jesus our Redeemer.” Redemptoristine life
centers on unceasing prayer begun in daily Eucharist
and continued through the Liturgy of the Hours, private
prayer and recollection. In silence and solitude we are
a praying presence, a memory of God’s love in the
Church and in the world. Solemn vows lived simply in
poverty, lovingly in celibacy and willingly in obedience
bring us to contemplation. Freely offering ourselves to
God, to be possessed by Him, we find the enclosure an
external expression of an interior value; the desire for
total availability to God. Contact: Sr. Hildegard Pleva,
OSsR, Mother of Perpetual Help Monastery; (845) 385-
6533; e-mail: ContemplativeCall@gmail.com; website:
www.RedemptoristineNunsofNew York.org or www.
rednuns.org; Blog: MonasticMusingsOSsR.blogspot.
com; also on Facebook.
Code #336.
WOMEN’S COMMUNITIES
Religious of Jesus and Mary (RJM) The Religious
of Jesus and Mary is an international congregation of
apostolic women founded by St. Claudine Thévenet
and committed to live a simple life style rooted in the
Ignatian spiritual heritage. We serve in 28 countries,
in various educational, pastoral, social, and spiritual
ministries, through which we make known God’s
goodness and forgiving love, as revealed in the hearts
of Jesus and Mary. Having witnessed the brutal death
of two of her brothers during the French Revolution,
Claudine Thévenet dedicated her life and resources
to alleviating the moral and physical ravages left in
its wake. She believed that the greatest misfortune
was to live and die without knowing God. Thus, she
gathered friends around her to offer shelter and basic
education for poor girls, whom she considered the
“weakest, the most shameful, the most deprived” of
post-Revolutionary French society. Today, the RJM
throughout the world continue to respond to this
call. Our life of prayer and community supports our
ministry to those most in need wherever we are sent.
Vocation Office: Sr. Janet Stolba, RJM; (202)884-
9798; e-mail: rjmvocations@gmail.com; website:
www.rjm-us.org.
See ad on page 50. Code #414.
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Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary
(R.S.H.M) We are an international Institute, founded
in France in 1849, by Fr. Jean Gailhac, to follow Jesus
Christ, who came “that all may have life, and have
it to the full.” (John 10: 10). Our mission, “to know
and love God, to make God known and loved,” calls
us to be women of prayer and to put ourselves and
our resources at the service of those most in need
of justice. We live in varied community settings
according to our ministries which include: education,
social services, pastoral work, health care, retreat
work, legal services and other ways of promoting
life, especially in those situations where it is denied
or diminished. Internationality is a gift from our
origins. We are in Brazil, England, France, Ireland,
