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On June 24, 2008, the feast of Saint John the Baptist, a special patron
of the monastic life, the Dominican Nuns arrived at the new St. Dominic’s
Monastery in Linden, Virginia.
Having lived the past two and a half years as guests of the Dominican
Nuns of the Monastery of the Mother of God in West Springfield, Massachusetts,
their homecoming was a most joyous and grace-filled one. Not only has a new page in the history
of the community been turned, but a new page for the Diocese of Arlington, since
the needs of the local Church hold a special place in the prayers of the nuns.
Made possible by the profitable sale of their Washington DC property, the
generosity of benefactors and their own frugal way of life, the new monastery
has become a reality on a beautiful mountain-top tract of land in Linden,
Virginia. The nuns now shoulder a
mortgage which demands that they continue to depend upon the support of
benefactors. Would you prayerfully
consider making a donation? Your tax-deductible gift will not only
aid the Dominican Nuns, but will insure a special share in a weekly Mass offered
for their benefactors in the monastery chapel. You and your family will also be
remembered daily in the life of prayer and penance of the nuns.
A monastery of Dominican Nuns makes present the mission of the Order of
Preachers: preaching and the
salvation of souls. Through their
hidden life of worship, silence, prayer, study and penance, the nuns witness to
the reality of the Word of God while their brothers, the Dominican Friars,
proclaim the Word in the pulpit, in the classroom and in the many parts of the
world where they are sent to evangelize.
The desire of the nuns of the new St. Dominic’s Monastery
is to continue to live a simple monastic life, faithful to the traditions of the
Dominican Order, and to respond
wholeheartedly to the direction set by the magisterium of the Church: a classical
Dominican contemplative life, lived in the midst of the 21st century.
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