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Guide to the Catholic Sisterhoods in the United States (Paperback, 5th Revised edition)
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Guide to the Catholic Sisterhoods in the United States (Paperback, 5th Revised edition)
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The Guide To The Catholic Sisterhoods In The United States has a
threefold purpose. Its primary objective is to place the hands of
young women interested in entering the religious life, a manual
briefly describing the history, mode of life, nature of the work or
works carried on, the spiritual life, training program, general
qualifications for admission, and the descriptions of the habit
with photographs of three hundred and fifty-two congregations of
women in the United States. This information should prove of great
value to girls in the selection of a community whose rules and
apostolate are most suitable to their talents, desires, and
aptitudes. A secondary purpose is to provide a compact
informational directory for priests, sisters, parents, teachers,
and others who are employed in the vocational guidance of young
women. The volume is also intended as a reference for the general
public. More than six hundred sisterhoods with foundations in the
United States are included. Also included are pictures of professed
members of the respective congregations in their distinctive
habits. This should not only serve to make each community better
known to the general public, but it should also result in a better
understanding of the ideals of the religious life and a greater
appreciation for the noble work being carried on by the sisters,
not only in the United States, but throughout the entire world. The
Guide has well defined limitations. It is not intended as a
complete historical or statistical account of the communities of
women with foundations in the United States. Moreover, to keep such
an extensive undertaking within the confines of a convenient
manual, each congregation, with a few exceptions, has been given a
single page. In every instance, a young woman interested in a
particular community of sisters is provided with an address to
which she may apply for more detailed information. In this edition,
the communities of sisters have been arranged according to their
general apostolic work, viz., contemplative, domestic, foreign and
home missions, nursing, retreat and social work, teaching, and
writing and publications. Such an arrangement will prove beneficial
to the reader. By arranging the congregations according to their
main apostolate, it is hoped that the Guide will become a definite
aid in fostering vocations to the sisterhoods. It will be helpful
not only for girls who are interested in a particular apostolate
but especially for those who are unaware of the many works of
religious life. Another feature of this edition is the inclusion of
community addresses by city and state. Since many girls are
interested in entering a congregation, which is close to their
homes, a special index has been added which lists the location of
every principal house alphabetically arranged by city and state. To
further aid the reader in interpreting the various names and
nomenclature of the religious life used throughout this book, a
special glossary of terms has been added. Special consideration has
been given to the over-age and under-age candidates to their
religious life. Most congregations will not accept girls who are
over thirty years of age. Some religious communities will receive
late-vocations if they have sufficient intelligence and possess
those qualities, which make them good religious women. The
communities that will accept candidates over the age of thirty have
been noted in the section under QUALIFICATIONS. While a greater
number of communities are reluctant to accept non-high school
graduates, there are a few that will receive teen-age girls who
have not yet graduated from high school, as candidates for the
religious life. Such religious groups conduct what are known as
aspirancies. These are community-supervised secondary schools,
where girls may complete their high school studies while living and
enjoying the spiritual benefits of convent life. Girls, who desire
to enter the religious life, although they have not completed their
secondary school training, are asked to take special notice of the
section on TRAINING PROGRAM, where congregations conducting
aspirancies may be found. This edition also contains a section on
the SECULAR INSTITUTES. There has been a notable increase in these
societies in our own country. The last edition recorded eleven.
Today there are twenty-three such organizations in the United
States. Young women interested in the lay-apostolate, under vows,
are advised to investigate the SECULAR INSTITUTES located at the
end of the book.
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