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Chocolates, Easter eggs, pastries... These Benedictine nuns use recipes that seek to bring the love of God to those who taste their products.
The Benedictine nuns chosen to take over the Mater Ecclesiae (“Mother of the Church”) Monastery, established by St. John Paul II to support the Holy Father in his ministry, have arrived.
Late last year, the Vatican announced that the monastery, which was used by Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI during his retirement, would have new residents, taking up again the mission that John Paul II had established for it.
The women religious who live in the monastery support the Successor of Peter and the Curia through a ministry of prayer, adoration, praise, and reparation, thus being “a prayerful presence in silence and solitude,” as the Holy See explains in the official communiqué.
Six nuns from the Benedictine Abbey of St. Scholastica, province of Buenos Aires (Diocese of San Isidro) in Argentina, arrived on January 3. Pope Francis had invited them in a handwritten letter dated October 1, 2023, and the nuns “generously accepted the invitation.”
The president of the Vatican Governorate, Cardinal Fernando Vérgez Alzaga, went to Fiumicino Airport at dawn to welcome them. As established by the pope, the Governorate is responsible for all matters concerning Mater Ecclesiae.
As soon as they arrived to their new convent, the nuns went to the Lourdes Grotto in the Vatican Gardens for song and prayer before the statue of Our Lady, an identical copy of the image venerated at Massabielle.
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The Benedictine nuns chosen to take over the Mater Ecclesiae (“Mother of the Church”) Monastery, established by St. John Paul II to support the Holy Father in his ministry, have arrived.
Late last year, the Vatican announced that the monastery, which was used by Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI during his retirement, would have new residents, taking up again the mission that John Paul II had established for it.
The women religious who live in the monastery support the Successor of Peter and the Curia through a ministry of prayer, adoration, praise, and reparation, thus being “a prayerful presence in silence and solitude,” as the Holy See explains in the official communiqué.
Six nuns from the Benedictine Abbey of St. Scholastica, province of Buenos Aires (Diocese of San Isidro) in Argentina, arrived on January 3. Pope Francis had invited them in a handwritten letter dated October 1, 2023, and the nuns “generously accepted the invitation.”
The president of the Vatican Governorate, Cardinal Fernando Vérgez Alzaga, went to Fiumicino Airport at dawn to welcome them. As established by the pope, the Governorate is responsible for all matters concerning Mater Ecclesiae.
As soon as they arrived to their new convent, the nuns went to the Lourdes Grotto in the Vatican Gardens for song and prayer before the statue of Our Lady, an identical copy of the image venerated at Massabielle.
From Argentina to the Vatican
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Nuns known for their sweets are moving into the Vatican
Chocolates, Easter eggs, pastries... These Benedictine nuns use recipes that seek to bring the love of God to those who taste their products.
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