Posted on 11/07/2011 1:42:32 PM PST by NYer
BALTIMORE (EWTN News)—A group of religious sisters in Maryland is believed to be the first U.S. Episcopal order to become a Catholic religious community.
On Nov. 1, the All Saints Sisters of the Poor professed their perpetual vows at the Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Baltimore.
Archbishop Edwin O’Brien, apostolic administrator of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, received the sisters into a newly erected diocesan priory at a special Mass on the feast of All Saints.
The 10 sisters had been part of a religious community within the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland.
After seven years of discernment, they contacted the Archdiocese of Baltimore in 2008 to inquire about the possibility of entering into full communion with the Catholic Church.
The sisters were accepted into the Church individually on Sept. 3, 2009.
Their chaplain, Father Warren Tanghe, also entered the Catholic Church and is now a priest for the Archdiocese of Baltimore.
Diane Barr, chancellor for the Archdiocese of Baltimore, explained that the All Saints Sisters of the Poor have been erected into a diocesan priory, a new diocesan institute.
When the sisters first entered the Catholic Church, they took private vows because the Church did not recognize their religious community, Barr told EWTN News on Nov. 3.
The sisters had to write a constitution and submit it to the archbishop, who then had to consult with the Congregation for Religious in Rome about erecting a diocesan priory before the community could be officially recognized.
The sisters will continue to live in their Catonsville convent, where their order has been since 1917.
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Welcome home!
God protect them from the social justice nuns that would never be caught dead dressed in such a way (or at a pro-life rally).
Always cool to see nuns in their classical habits.
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Welcome, Sisters!
That headline should read First Episcopal Order for Women. The Franciscan Friars of the Atonement in Garrison, New York swam the Tiber in 1909 under Fr. Paul Wattson.
Good catch! I interpret for the deaf at Christ the Redeemer parish in Northern Virginia, which is run by the Atonement Friars. Great community.
Let's say "First in a Century" and leave it at that. Welcome Sisters.
WELCOME home second it!
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We have a bit of a personal connection here, because we knew their former chaplain, Fr. Tanghe, when he was the rector of the ultramontane Episcopal parish here in Atlanta before he moved to Maryland.
When the Piskies ran completely and finally off the rails with the 'consecration' of 'bishop' Vicki Gene, we were touring around trying to find a new church home, and Tanghe's parish was thinking about Going Over to Rome. As it happened, they didn't - it is a very small, aging parish and they just didn't have the motivation (or, probably, the money) to make it happen. This is a very "low" diocese, not enough High Churchers here to start an Anglican Use parish (especially since many of us have already swum across the Tiber on our own).
Welcome home, indeed. And unlike many of the Catholic nuns who have sadly fallen away since the Spirit of Vatican II infected the Church, they will really be at home.
Indeed. Welcome, Sisters.
From what I understand these conversions are a result of the 40+ years of the liberalizing of morality, that is, women priests, practicing homosexual male and female ministers and now, same-sex married couples with one being the clergy for a parish.
I assume it was an accumulation of the last 40 years of all KINDS of moral relativism that pushed so many Episcopalians and Anglicans to ask the Vatican for a return to Rome..."Crossing the Tiber."
I also understand that these big group conversions will be allowed to keep their Liturgy, with the addition, of course, of Transubstantiation.
The liturgy has been 'tweaked' to make it more authentically catholic and there are other slight changes. You may find these articles informational.
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