Gallen Priory
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Daily mass is celebrated in our chapel which is open to everybody. Sisters are available to help the disabled where necessery. They also distribute Holy Communion in the chapel and in the Nursing Home.
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Every evening a Sister recites the Rosary with around approximately twenty residents.
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At removals Fr.O'Neill officiates. Sisters welcome relatives of the deceased, pray the Rosary and, on occasion, offer refreshments.
Sisters share responsibilty for receiving visitors tot the convent. Many friends still love to come and chat with the Sisters over a cup of tea. They often refer to the peaceful atmosphere of the house and the grounds. |
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A few Sisters attain the charismatic prayer group in the parish of Ferbane and spend an hour in the adoration Chapel once a week. Other sisters visit parishioners in their homes and a former missionary Sister has contact with pupils in seven schools in the area. Her aim is to promote vocations and to encourage missionary activitie.
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Gallen priory and St.Joseph's Ferbane have a vibrant group of associates who study the spirituality of the Congregation, and are always ready to work for worthy causes. |
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The Apostolic Workers in Ferbane are a tremendous support to our missions world wide. |
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A new venture in the process of being se up in the Parish is the bereavement ministry. One of our sisters has been asked to train members who will eventually take responsibility for this much needed apostolate. |
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Sisters in Gallen Priory live in the historical building where over 1.000 sisters prepared for religious life between 1922 - 1990. Most of them would have travelled all over the world as missionaries. |
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At present the community of 14 sisters gather daily in the convent chapel for the celebration of the eucharist and the divine office, and each evening pray for an hour before the Blessed Sacrament. |
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On Wednesdays their specials intention is promotion of vocations to the religious life. In this community of retired sisters it is edifying to see how caring and helpful they are to one another.
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After many years on the mission where they were happy to serve, though somethimes lonely, these sisters now prepare to meet their Lord by trying to be more and more contemplative. Their great wish is an increase in vocations to the religious life so that the good work begun by them will continue. They also ardently desire the canonization of their Foundress, Blessed Anne Marie Javouhey. |
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