Congrats, Sr. Edith Marie!

Many congrats to Sr. Edith Marie of Our Lady, Ark of the Covenant (Thuy Ha) upon receiving the habit!  We're very proud of both of our former students who are currently novices with the Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration in Hanceville, AL!  Above is a photo of Sr. Kateri and Sr. Edith following Sr. Edith's investiture.

Following is the reflection presented to Sr. Edith Marie at the investiture:

You have received the holy habit of the Poor Clare Nuns of Perpetual Adoration.

With this habit, you have taken on a journey in faith.  Like Abraham, you have left home and family in obedience to God's call, and you travel now toward an unseen land of promise, flowing with all good gifts.  Like St. Paul, you strain forward toward Christ, your goal. 

With this habit, you have taken on publicly the life and responsibility of this community before God an all who are here to witness and celebrate this joyful event in anticipation of the day when you will profess the vows of chastity, poverty and obedience for which you now prepare.

• By the grace of God, you have undertaken to live the life set down by the Rule of St. Clare, the Constitutions of the Poor Clare Nuns of Perpetual Adoration, and the customs of this house.

• By the grace of God, you have undertaken a life of adoration, of prayer and of penance for the sake of the world for which Christ died and rose, and for which he lives to make intercession at the right hand of the Father.

The life you have undertaken is one you share with those who have lived it before you and those who will live it with you.  You now wear the habit of your Sisters, the community of the Poor Clare Nuns of Perpetual Adoration at Our Lady of the Angels Monastery. 

• Like these, your Sisters, you have left home, family, possessions, to journey in Christ, to Christ, and for Christ. 

• With these, your Sisters, you have accepted His invitation to live a life in common, to work in common, to pray in common. 

• From these your Sisters, you will receive the help and support of prayer, of love, and of the example of fidelity to this life, which some here have lived for a short time, some for many years.

• We are here with you, and we will not leave you to travel alone.

• With you, we all journey in the company of a great cloud of witnesses - St. Francis and St. Clare, the Franciscans of all ages, Mother Marie Claire and all her Poor Clare Nuns of Perpetual Adoration in many lands.  They are our inspiration, our guides and our companions on the way.  Look to them for help. 

In a moment, you will receive the new names by which God has chosen to call you.  With His cloud of witnesses, visible and invisible, around you, may you journey in peace and in joy, under the protection of your new patron saints, and with Mary, the Mother of Christ, and your Mother to show you the way.