Anglican nuns praised for joining Catholic Church


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A group of 11 Anglican nuns who were received into the communion of the Catholic Church Jan. 1 were lauded for their response to “the Holy Father's summons to unity” at their Mass of reception.

“You have responded, generously and courageously,” Father Daniel Seward, provost of the Oxford Oratory, told the U.K.-based sisters.

During his Jan. 1 homily on the feast of Mary, the Mother of God, he said the nuns  put themselves “at the service of Our Lord’s own prayer,” that “'they should all be one' as He and the Father are one.'”

The sisters, who were members of the Anglican Community of St. Mary the Virgin, received Confirmation at the Mass, held in the Oxford Oratory. Together with Sister Carolyne Joseph, formerly of the Anglican Society of St. Margaret at Walsingham, the twelve will form the Sisters of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

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