Nuns on youtube

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For the 11 remaining “Barefoot Carmelite” nuns at the San Jose convent in Ecija, near the Spanish city of Seville, the future looked grim. No young novices had joined the convent for three years and, as is happening in convents all over Spain, their numbers were dwindling so fast as the elder ones died that it looked as though it may have to close after 400 years.Now the nuns have found salvation by breaking out of their cloistered world with the help of YouTube.Mother Superior Isabel was persuaded by friends that the best way to recruit nuns would be to put up a video on YouTube to show how life was inside the 14th-century palace-turned-convent.Thousands of YouTube visits later, not only has the phone been ringing almost continuously, but the first novice has walked in after seeing the video online.

http://www.thehindu.com/2009/01/18/stories...11857321800.htm

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[njade01]

Ok..... well, the video would have made WAY more sense if i understood more than 10 Spanish words, but good on them anyway. Not sure i could undergo a major life change with the main contributing factor being a youtube vid, but best of luck to the nuns and their upcoming novices

[HollyDolly]

I'm glad the sisters are getting young women to enter.

Old communities die out, or amalgamate to others, and new ones spring up.

The Vicentian Sisters of Charity of Bedford,Ohio voted to join the Sisters of Charity of Cincinatti, due to low numbers,and in 1974, the american house of the Sisters of Charity of Zams, Austria, became part of the Sisters of Charity of Our Lady,Mother of the Church in Baltic Conneticut.

The Sisters Auxiliares of the Apostolate ceased to exist when the last sister died in 2006.They were originally founded in Canada and later moved to West Virgina.The canadian order, Sisters of the Love of Jesus disbanded in 1977.

But new communities have sprung up. The Brothers of the Beloved Disciple, is a group for men here in San Antonio, and there are both men and women in the community known as The Mission of Divine Mercy, located out at Sattler Texas, North East of San Antonio out by Canyon lake.

There is the Society of the Body of Christ(nuns) in Corpus Christi,Tx. and the Sisters of Christian Love in Michigan.

There is also the Society of the Sisters for the Church,founded in 1980, The Servants of God's Love, The Sisters of the New Covenant, the Intersessors of the Lamb,and other new communities. There is even a book listing these groups, i think it is available from Georgetown University Press or some other catholic university press. I want to get the book.

Through research I have found some of these groups. I once wanted to be a nun, but because my mother had a stroke, I helped take care of her,and later my father fell ill, so maybe it worked out for the best.But I still sometimes think about it on occasion. But I am 53 years old,so who knows. There are a few communities with no age limit.