Our Yahoo Groups

Cloister Outreach sponsors several yahoo groups, and they're not just for discerners. We have vocational discerners; those who support such a group; and those just interested in learning more about Catholicism.



The first one we took over--Women in Discernment--is open primarily to women discerning religious vocations. When I say we took it over, the owner had planned to enter a monastery, and we took it over for her.



http://groups.yahoo.com/group/womenindiscernment/



I don't recall which ones came after that. We open them according to discerners' needs. Here are the others:



Young Vocations (for those 17 and younger):

http://groups.yahoo.com/groups/young_vocations/

Delayed Vocations (ages 30 and older):

http://groups.yahoo.com/groups/delayed_vocations/

Ecclesia Dei Vocations (those attracted to the Extraordinary Form of the Latin Rite/Latin Mass):

http://groups.yahoo.com/groups/Ecclesia_Dei_Vocations/

Nearly Nun Club (for women who were in religious life, but had to leave for one reason or another):

http://groups.yahoo.com/groups/nearly_nun_club/

Catholic Vocations Asia (for those discerners in that part of the world):
http://groups.yahoo.com/groups/catholic_vocations_asia/

Pardon the spacing there. The system has done something weird.

Other yahoo groups owned by Cloister Outreach:

Our own group: http://groups.yahoo.com/groups/cloister_outreach/

The Religious Habit: http://groups.yahoo.com/groups/thereligioushabit/

Gilbertines (extinct English order): http://groups.yahoo.com/groups/gilbertines/

Cloister Outreach Vocations Incubator (COVI): http://groups.yahoo.com/group/COVI/

COVI is for those who have been in discernment for a number of years. The "incubator" is dedicated to the Holy Ghost.

For Founders:

Private/by-invitation-only: http://groups.yahoo.com/groups/founders_forum/

Accessible to the public: http://groups.yahoo.com/groups/founders_and_friends/

For those embracing lay eremitism/monasticism: http://groups.yahoo.com/groups/cloisteroftheheart/

The only consecrated eremitics permitted on the "cloister of the heart" group are those who support lay eremitism/monasticism.

Then, there are the groups just for Cloister Outreach's projects:

Reparatrices of Charity of the Immaculate Conception

Homepage: http://cloisters.tripod.com/charity/

Yahoo group: http://groups.yahoo.com/groups/RCIC_Vocations/

Reparatrix Anchoresses of Our Lady of the Cloister:

Homepage: http://cloisters.tripod.com/cloisterites/

Blog: http://reparatrixanchoresses.blogspot.com/

We do not publish the address for the hermits' yahoo group.

If anyone is interested in starting a seminarians' cyberlounge group, please let us know. If there is an active one already in existence, please let us know that one also, and we'll link to it.

Blessings,
Gemma

Cloisterite Hermits begin formation

Albeit online, the Cloisterite Hermits have begun their formation.

We are going slowly, and have other hermits assisting us.

The hermits' blog is available at: http://reparatrixanchoresses.blogspot.com/

Before familial circumstances beyond my control popped up, we had been planning for the formation to take 2 years. Now, it may take 3. However, that being said, I would rather take things slowly than to rush into something that takes 10 years to undo. That is also the advice of someone who had been in a new foundation elsewhere.

Blessings,
Gemma

Pro Orantibus this Friday, Nov. 21

"Pro Orantibus Day" ('For those who pray') is this Friday, November 21.

Please remember your favorite cloistered religious orders and their vocations on this day.

We will also be starting the Cloisterite Hermits' foundation in earnest. There will be more information on the foundations' blog: http://reparatrixanchoresses.blogspot.com/

Blessings,
Gemma

British monasteries & American women

British monasteries have a lot to offer older women, but those who have grown up in warmer climates need to discern these monasteries a bit further.

An older vocation from South America, whom I just debriefed after her British "nun run," said that she would suggest those from colder climates look into the British monasteries. British heating systems are different from those in the U.S., also.

The situation in the UK is getting dire where vocations are concerned. There will be a few Discalced Carmelite monasteries who follow the 1991 Constitutions merging due to this shortage.

Cloister Outreach built an "unofficial" site for the Benedictines of the Immaculate Conception at Oulton Abbey, where a discerner we've been working with for several years has discerned as being her possible "True Home." Here's the link: http://cloisters.tripod.com/uk_osb_oulton/

Blessings,
Gemma