Pope visits Dominican monastery, praises cloistered religious life

CWN reports that Pope Benedict XVI visited a Dominican monastery in Rome today, joined the nuns for the Liturgy of the Hours, and spoke about the importance of prayer of cloistered religious in the life of the Church.

The Pope told the nuns that their vocation to contemplative life is a “sublime and gratuitous gift” which makes them “living and vital members in the heart of the Lord’s Mystical Body which is the Church.” He paid tribute to the women who have "chosen to live in obscurity" in pursuit of a higher good: union with Christ.



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