HE AND i by Gabrielle Bossis
p.39 1937 Part Two
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July 18 – Le Fresne.
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Showing
me the decorations on the altar.
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“Yes, you gave Me all that, but it
would be nothing if you hadn’t given Me your heart at the same time.”
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Similarly a small visual is vivifies the presence. The Sisters of Perpetual Adoration at Dumfries were to were the small ostensorium on the breast to indicate their special function of perpetual adorers. After the death of one of the Sisters, one of the very worn away pectoral monstrances, was very kindly donated to me - see the picture.
Originally
printed in the
26th September 1986
issue of the Catholic Herald
Scots' Feast
The Benedictine convent of
Dumfries marks its centenary in style, writes Felicia Houssein,
FOR the Benedictine Nuns
of Dumfries, the birthday of Our Lady marked the centenary of
the very first Mass to be celebrated in their Priory Church of the Immaculate
Conception — but this year with a difference: the Feast was celebrated in their
newly consecrated Church.
It was in 1880 that
Marcia, Lady Herries, a member of the Constable-Maxwell family,
was inspired to build a monastery on Corbelly Hill, where in the 16th century
the contents of nearby Lincluden Abbey had been burnt at its dissolution. Three
years later she invited the Benedictines of the Blessed Sacrament in Arras
(France) to introduce Perpetual Adoration, in reparation for the dissolution of
so many abbeys in the Border Country, and to pray for Dumfries and the whole of
Scotland.
Mechtilde of the Blessed Sacrament (birth name Catherine de Bar, 1614–1698), was born at at Saint-Dié,Lorraine in northeastern France. At first an Annunciade nun and then a Benedictine, in 1654 she founded the Order of the Benedictines of the Perpetual Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament in Paris. This was the first society formally organized for the Perpetual Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.
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