Episcopal Sisters of Charity
Sunday 15 August 2010 - Filed under Episcopal Sisters
The Episcopal Sisters of Charity welcomes you to our web page. At this site you will fid information about our Community, our work. Please browse through and if you need additional informal, contact us on our email addressinfo@episcopalsistersofcharity.com.
The Episcopal Sisters of Charity is a religious order dedicated to the rule and principles’ of St. Vincent DePaul. Following St. Vincent’s rule, prayer is the center of our life is prayer, and all active work follows it. “To honor the charity of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, by works of mercy spiritual and temporal” dedicated to the Holy Spirit, we strive to be responsive to all of God’s creation.
Our Day is structured around the four fold Divine Offices and the celebration of the Eucharist. As a house of prayer, we welcome all who visits to join in our worship. Hospitality is important to us. We strive to make people feel at ease and relax and help them to enjoy the quiet country setting.
We believe in inclusiveness. We believe that each individual should be able to develop their own individual gifts and talents. There is one Sister who is ordained a Priest, and one Sister who is a Spiritual Director, certified internationally, to help guide your stay if you wish.
Each Sister is encouraged to develop their individual ministries, and we encourage further education to make this possible. We consider ourselves contemplative and active.
Associates, Oblates, and Friends of the Sisters of Charity
Who is an Associate? Any person who would like to develop a relationship with the Community, being of any age, gender, married or single, and can belong to any Christian denomination. An Associate finds value in what the Religious Communities have to offer and would like to pledge them to help support the community by their prayers, and by offering their gifts and talents as individuals.
An Associate agrees to a simple Rule of Life by attending Church regularly, aim at living a simple life, promote the interests and concerns of the Community and it’s work, to spend at least 10 minutes a day in quiet prayer, and attend a retreat once a year.
Who is an Oblate? An Oblate fulfills the requirements of an Associative and finds they want to go deeper into their Spiritual life. An Oblate develops their own Rule of Life with help from the Sisters. To be an Oblate one must include one or more of the following in their daily Spiritual life: Morning Prayer, Noon Prayer, Evening Prayer, and Compline (Night Prayer). An Oblate promises to spend at least 30 minutes a day in contemplative prayer, and work actively to help support the life and work of the community.
To be a friend of the Community all one needs to do is help support our work in some way. They may choose to be one of our Board members, a fellow missionary, someone who wishes to worship with us, or support some of our work, like collecting items for mission trips, or mission works. They have no obligation to the Community, yet like the Associates, and Oblates, the Sisters pray daily for them.
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