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Aug 5, 2018 · Frequently in Catholicism there is talk about convents and monasteries, with the terms often used interchangeably. However, both words identify different types of religious houses and should be...
A convent is a home for religious sisters to live in community and is like a branch campus or satellite of the motherhouse. A monastery is a place where women who have entered a monastic order live, pray, and work.
Traditionally, nuns do not go out from their monastery, priory, or convent to participate in external ministry or engage in social activities. Sisters, even those who take perpetual simple vows, are more free to participate in forms of external ministry and engage with the public in general.
- II. Unfounded calumnies.
- III. Legislation as to Convents.
- IV. Dowry.
- V. Office.
- VI. Lay Sisters.
- VII. Conventual Buildings.
—It is not necessary here to refute the many base and vile charges that have from time to time been brought against the conventual system; a mere general reference to them is sufficient, for the evidence of the salutary work done by convents and the fruits of the lives of the nuns are in themselves ample refutation. In the past there have been “ant...
—Canon law contains a large and important section relating to the establishment and government of convents. The privileges of such as are exempt from episcopal jurisdiction, the appointment of confessors for the nuns, and the duties of the same, the regulations of the Church concerning enclosure, and the admission and testing of candidates, the nat...
—With regard to the dowry required of a nun, the customs and rules of the different orders vary much according to circumstances. Some convents, on account of their poverty, are obliged to insist upon it, and, generally speaking, most expect their members to bring some contribution to the general fund. A convent that is rich will often dispense with...
—In most of the older contemplative orders the choir nuns are bound to recite the whole Divine Office in choir. In only a very few of the English convents, e.g. Cistercians, Dominicans, and Poor Clares, do the nuns rise in the night for Matins and Lauds; in the others these Offices are generally said in the evening “by anticipation”. In some there ...
—In most orders the nuns are divided into choir sisters and lay sisters. The latter are usually employed in the household duties and other manual work. They take the usual vows and are as truly religious as the choir nuns, but they are not bound to the choir Office, though they often attend the choir at the time of Office and recite certain prayers...
—The internal arrangement of a properly constituted convent is, for the most part, similar to that of a monastery for men (see Abbey and Monastery), but from poverty and other obvious causes, many convents have had to be established in already-existing ordinary dwelling-houses, which do not always lend themselves to ideal adaptation. (See Cloister;...
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A convent is a community of monks, nuns, friars or religious sisters. Alternatively, convent means the building used by the community. The word is particularly used in the Catholic Church , Lutheran churches , and the Anglican Communion .
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