Religious Orders & Congregations
The Red Nuns
An Order of Cloistered Contemplative Nuns, living a monastic life under Papal Enclosure
(All texts and photos in this feature were lifted from the website of The Red Nuns)
Charism
We are an Order of Cloistered Contemplative Nuns, centering contemplation of the Paschal Mystery of Redemption, living a contemplative monastic life under Papal Enclosure. We dedicate ourselves entirely to the Heavenly Father by committing ourselves to love Him above all by our religious profession with the desire to follow Christ very closely through His exemple of His chastity, His poverty, His obedience, all His attitudes and all His choices.
The essential of our charism is to respond the Intent of the Father and through His graces we are transformed in order to become a Living Memorial of the Paschal Mystery of Christ the Redeemer.
Heritage of Our Order
“ With desire I have desired to give my Spirit to the world and to communicate it to my creatures endowed with reason, in order to live with them and in them until the end of the world. I have given them, out of immense love, my Only Begotten Son and my divine Spirit the Consoler to make divine and to bind…