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Neighbors and Missionaries - A History of the Sisters of Our Lady of Christian Doctrine (Paperback)
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Neighbors and Missionaries - A History of the Sisters of Our Lady of Christian Doctrine (Paperback)
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The Sisters of Our Lady of Christian Doctrine community was founded
in 1910 by marion gurney, who adopted the religious name Mother
Marianne of Jesus. A graduate of Wellesley College and a convert to
Catholicism, Gurney had served as head resident at St. Rose's
Settlement, the first Catholic settlement house in New York City.
She founded the Sisters of Christian Doctrine when other
communities of women religious appeared uninterested in a ministry
of settlement work combined with religious education programs for
children attending public schools. The community established two
settlement houses in New York City-Madonna House on the Lower East
Side in 1910, followed by Ave Maria House in the Bronx in 1930.
Alongside their classes in religious education and preparing
children and adults to receive the sacraments, the Sisters
distributed food and clothing, operated a bread line, and helped
their neighbors in emergencies. In 1940 Mother Marianne and the
Sisters began their first major mission outside New York when they
adapted the model of the urban Catholic social settlement to rural
South Carolina. They also served at a number of parishes, including
several in South Carolina and Florida, where they ministered to
both black and white Catholics. In Neighbors and Missionaries,
Margaret M. McGuinness, who was given full access to the archives
of the Sisters of Christian Doctrine, traces in fascinating detail
the history of the congregation, from the inspiring story of its
founder and the community's mission to provide material and
spiritual support to their Catholic neighbors, to the changes and
challenges of the latter half of the twentieth century. By 1960,
settlement houses had been replaced by other forms of social
welfare, and the lives and work of American women religious were
undergoing a dramatic change. McGuinness explores how the Sisters
of Christian Doctrine were affected and how they adapted their own
lives and work to reflect the transformations taking place in the
Church and society. Neighbors and Missionaries examines a
distinctive community of women religious whose primary focus was
neither teaching nor nursing/hospital administration. The choice of
the Sisters of Christian Doctrine to live among the poor and to
serve where other communities were either unwilling or unable
demonstrates that women religious in the United States served in
many different capacities as they contributed to the life and work
of the American Catholic Church.
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