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Who are the Sisters Adorers of the Precious Blood
Identity
The Sisters Adorers of the Precious Blood are a cloistered contemplative religious order established in 1861 by the Foundress, Mother Catherine Aurelia. Mother Catherine's love for Jesus intensified and her trust became unshakable the more she meditated on the Blood of Jesus shed for us. As Mother grew in greater awareness of the immensity of Jesus' love for us, manifested by the outpouring of his Precious Blood, she was moved by a special charism to spread devotion to the Precious Blood.
Jesus thirst for souls to love seems to have increased proportionately the more His Precious Blood poured forth from His pierced side. Until. finally, Jesus uttered from the very core of his being that mysterious, mystical 'Sitio' summing up His insatiable thirst for souls.
For Mother Catherine Aurelia the 'Sitio, of Jesus enraptured her and summed up the goal of her life. Like the dying Christ, she wanted to die with a 'Sitio' on her lips directed in love to God the Father, Son and Spirit, thereby, expressing her thirst to love God and bring others to love Him.
Today in Precious Blood Monasteries throughout the country, Mother Catherine's spiritual daughters moved by the same charism strive to live out in love their own limited 'Sitio' in response to the infinite, loving 'Sitio' of Jesus. The Sisters Adorers of the Precious Blood are, then, a Community called to a life of Contemplative Prayer and Reparation lived in a Spirit Of JOY and Love in response to the great love which Jesus showed to all mankind in the shedding of His Precious Blood.
BLESSED BE HIS MOST PRECIOUS BLOOD
The Sacred Heart is the symbol of God's love for us. The Precious Blood, the symbol of the PRICE He would pay to show us that love. "Greater love than this no man has, that a man lay down his life for his friends." (Jn. 15,13). At the Last Supper Jesus said; "This is My Blood which will be shed for you" (Mk. 14,22).
Our Life
Ours is a Ministry of Prayer exercised within a contemplative community life. The spacious garden and the peace and silence of the cloister setting is a great blessing for our prayer life. At the daily Eucharist and Liturgy of the Hours we pray for the Universal Church and in a special way for the local Church in which we live, for the strengthening of the faith of its people, the holiness of its priests and the cares and concerns of the local Bishop.
Besides the community exercises, each sister in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament has special hours of adoration and reparation in which she prays for the intentions of all who share with us their needs for prayers. The time of prayer is balanced with a variety of other activities.
Each religious is encouraged to imitate and develop a sincere love and devotion to she who first contemplated His words in her heart, namely, Mary Immaculate, the Mother of God and Mother of the Church. The consecrated religious strives to live her life each day as a gift giving to God.
. . . CONTEMPLATIVE prayer sustains the
Church in her struggle to bring mankind to a proper
understanding of human dignity and spiritual
values. In the name of the Church I thank you. I ask
you to pray all the more, for the Pilgrim People, of
God and for the world.
Pope John Paul II, November 1982
Principle End
- Give glory to the Father through the worship of His Son, Jesus.
- Honor Mary Immaculate in her Conception.
- Procure the happiness and salvation of souls.
Spiritual Heritage
- Remain present in the Church and in the whole world through Ministry of Prayer and Reparation carried on in silence and solitude.
Ministry of Prayer
- Pray for the universal Church. especially for the local Church in which we live.
- For priests and their Ministry.
- For the sick and suffering.
- For the Unborn.
- For all the intentions entrusted to us.
Essential Characteristic
- Joy in giving love for love.
INVITATION
If you feel Jesus is calling You to respond to His thirst for souls, that is, to a life of love and reparation with Jesus, then please call or write to:
VOCATION DIRECTOR
PRECIOUS BLOOD MONASTERY
at any one of the following addresses:
5400 Fort Hamilton Parkway
Brooklyn, New York 11219-4037
(718)438-6371 Fax: 438-6381
400 Pratt Street
Watertown, New York 13601-4238
(315)788-1669 Fax: 779-9046
166 State Street
Portland, Maine 04101
(207)774-0861 Fax:774-3253
1106 State Street
Lafayette, Indiana 47905
(765)742-8227
700 Bridge Street
Manchester, New Hampshire 03105
(603)623-4264 Fax: 647-8385
