Passionist Nuns

The online retreat is less than two weeks away. If you are a woman between the ages of 18 and 40 who is interested in a contemplative vocation (or know someone who is), please contact Sr. Mary Grace, CP.

Solemnity of Saint Paul of the Cross I would like to tell you some important things, . . . . The language required is learned only from love. Listen to the divine Lover and let Him teach it to you. . . . I want to be on fire with love, more and more. How I wish that we were so aflame with love that all who came near us would catch fire, not only our neighbors but total strangers, all tribes and tongues and nations, in a word, all creatures, so that all would know and love the supreme Good." (From a letter of St. Paul of the Cross)

The Passionist Nuns will be hosting an online discernment retreat on Saturday, November 7th. Please contact Sr. Mary Grace, CP if you are interested in participating.

September 15: Our Lady of Sorrows, Patroness of our Congregation and our Monastery I recommend to you a strong, constant devotion to Mary, our most holy and sorrowful virgin.Think often of her and sympathize with her in her sufferings.Then, this loving mother, who is never outdone in kindness will in turn comfort you. Pour out your heart to her.Speak to her of your trials and your needs.Commend your family to her, and the important concern of your soul. . . . How much we... cost her! . . . She chose that her own beloved Son should die bleeding on the cross rather than that we should be forever lost." (From a letter of Saint Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows, CP) See more

September 14: The Exaltation of the Holy Cross "When youpick up the crucifix to kiss it and offer acts of love, cast yourself into the great sea of God's loveas soon as you have finished your devotion. In pure faith and without images, enter through the doorof the mostpure heart of Jesus. Within that great Holy of Holies, throw everything into the bottomless abyss of God's endless charity. Rise up to the contemplation of God's infinite greatness, beauty and riches." (St. Paul of the Cross)

If you fall not merely seven times, but even ten and a hundred, you are not to lose your peace and confidence in God, but humble yourself sweetly with a loving sorrow and a sorrowing love. A word or two is sufficient; God will teach you. Here is the short way to consume imperfections. Say that you are drawn by God to interior recollection in that divine solitude and sacred silence of faith and love, rich with every good. Then you find yourself wounded by some imperfectio...n or dissipation of spirit. Then why not flee immediately into the bosom of the Highest Good with a loving flight of faith, losing yourself entirely in God with a loving and peaceful sorrow and allowing what is imperfect to be consumed in that immense furnace of charity? Acting in this way, not only are the imperfections consumed, but also you are reborn in the Divine Word, Christ Jesus, to a new godlike life, and the soul is divinized." (From a letter of St. Paul of the Cross to Sister Maria Innocenza of the Sorrowful Mother, November 5, 1757) See more