Sisters of the Blessed Virgin Mary found a home in Birmingham
26 August 2013
by Susie Turner
The new religious community of the Personal Ordinariate, the Sisters of the Blessed Virgin Mary, has moved into a permanent home for the first time since being received into the full communion of the Catholic Church.
The community includes 11 sisters who had been part of the Anglican Community of St Mary the Virgin in Wantage, Oxfordshire, and one sister who belonged to an Anglican community in Walsingham.
They are now part of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham adopting the Benedictine rule, and officially became part of the Catholic fold on New Year's Day.
They had no endowments to sustain them financially and have spent the last eight months as guests at an enclosed Benedictine abbey on the Isle of Wight...
Read the rest at Christian Today.
Hat tip to Mary Ann Mueller
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Great news! May the LORD Bless them with many new vocations, young & old.
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