Posted on 02/15/2016 2:42:01 PM PST by Morgana
Six cloistered Catholic nuns, living nearly their entire lives praying behind the walls of an Alaska monastery, have embraced a new pro-life initiative.
The Sisters of Perpetual Adoration in Anchorage recently completed an inaugural batch of tiny handcrafted baby booties for a local crisis pregnancy center. The center will give the miniature shoes to women facing unexpected pregnancies.
Just before Christmas, the nuns were approached with the project by a member of Catholic Men For Life, a pro-life men’s group based out of Holy Family Cathedral in Anchorage.
Earlier, Peter Knox and several other members of Catholic Men for Life had visited the Community Pregnancy Center to learn how they might support its efforts to encourage and empower women to keep their unborn babies.
During the tour the men learned that along with providing counseling, parenting classes, sonograms, diapers, clothes and other baby accessories and resources, the pregnancy center also offers women a pair of delicately crafted baby booties when they resolve to keep their babies.
“It makes the reality of the life inside them very tangible, very real,†Knox said. “These are booties which their baby could wear someday.â€
Upon learning of the outreach, Knox immediately thought of the cloistered nuns who are known locally for their skill in cooking and handicrafts.
This past December Knox visited the nuns to see if they would knit baby booties for the pro-life outreach. Within a couple weeks the first box of little shoes was ready for delivery.
Knox swung by Blessed Sacrament Monastery just before New Year’s to meet with Sister M. Evelia Alicia Martinez who handed over the miniature gifts along with a thank you card relaying the nuns’ appreciation for being asked to help.
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This praying is fine. But they could do much more to actually help these women.
Oh really? Their charism is prayer, they are a cloistered order with a longstanding charter.
Cute. (Never cared for knitted booties, myself. Socks stay on better.)
They're cloistered, so they're very limited as to what they can do.
Their job is to pray for all of us, it is our job to do the work in the outside world.
There is a group of women here in Tucson who do much the same thing. God will bless them.
In this immediate situation, the men’s pro-life group is providing the practical efforts, supported by the enclosed Sisters’ prayers.
There are women’s religious orders devoted either entirely (Sisters of Life) or partly (Missionaries of Charity, others) to the care of women in crisis pregnancies and their children.
Catholic Charities in Alaska are responsible for bringing in serial killer refuges. I’m not impressed with baby booties!
You KNOW that they knitted their own woolens under their habits. I get cold just thinking of it. Brrrrrr!
Cloistered only means they don't leave the house. But they can do all the work, crafts, sewing, etc., and clothe the planet if they wanted.
They can also cook and have their meals sent out to homeless shelters and homes for unwed mothers, etc.
Their talents are all but free as they don't require all the "stuff" that we NEED.
What a GIFT they are to those cities where they live.
ALL true.
They are a GIFT from God to those locations where they live. They've been around for a long time.
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