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Who are these men and women, these mothers and fathers of the desert, apart from the world, who set off one day in search of God ? Like her brothers monks, the nun remains in prayer, watching over the world, awaiting the dawn, in imitation of the Christ whom she follows.
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Life in the monastery rests upon five pillars :
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Resting upon these fundamentals, each order is called upon to emphasize a different Gospel value. Thus, like an artist’s palette, monastic life has a thousand different colours…
“We are only the different facets of a same answer to a same call…”
Thus can be schematized :
- The Benedictine peace
- The Cistercian simplicity
- The Franciscan poverty
- The Carthusian silence
- The Dominican study
- The Carmelite silent prayer
- The Visitation gentleness
What we have in common : “we are women inhabited by a same desire, a same passion, a same joy.” (Poor Clares, Senlis)
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