Rejoice!
Cluny Sisters
attend the opening of the Year of Consecrated Life
in the Diocese
of Providence, RI
.
A Vespers Service was held on the Vigil of the Feast
of the Immaculate Conception inviting all the religious, clergy and laity of
the diocese to gather together in prayer for the official opening to this year
dedicated to consecrated persons.
The ancient church prayer of Vespers has been chanted,
said and sung throughout the church by religious men and women from the very
beginnings of religious life in the monasteries of the east and west. With the emergence of apostolic religious
life in the second millennium, religious continued this tradition in
communities worldwide.
As St. Paul noted, we are to pray always. The Liturgy of the Hours, celebrated by
religious men and women, monastic and apostolic, continues this praying of the
hours, as the incessant prayer of the Church to God. It is fitting that the Year of Consecrated
Life open with the manner of prayer that has been present in religious life
throughout the centuries, as consecrated persons have sought to follow Christ
in each age, in each time, in each culture.
The celebration opened and closed with the singing of
the newly composed song by Stephen Warner, “Wake Up The World”. Bishop Thomas J. Tobin presided and Bro. Clifford
King, SC offered a brief reflection.
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