The Dominican Secular Institute of Orleans
The Dominican Secular Institute of Orleans is a community of women living the evangelical counsels in the midst of the world. We live in our secular environments and pursue our vocation in daily life. In accordance with the teaching of St Dominic, we strive to proclaim Christ "to everyone, always and in every way, and when it is no longer possible otherwise, even in words". We want our lives to be a clear sign of God's presence in the world to others, but without revealing that we have fully consecrated our lives to God through the vows of chastity, poverty and obedience.
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NEWS
Study Days UK November 2024
On 27th November 2024 the English group of the Secular Institute of Orleans met at St Paul’s convent Birmingham for three study days. We were warmly greeted by Sister Margaret who says that our bi-annual visits help the sisters financially with the Retreat Centre which only opened last year. We certainly appreciate the facilities they offer of spacious bedrooms, a meeting room, a chapel, daily mass and our own dining room.
Present were three members of the English Group, two Polish and one friend of the Institute. Our theme was the book of Revelations which provide the daily readings for these last two weeks of the church’s Year. To aid us we watched each evening a video recorded by Shalom World (Cini’s employer, a twenty- four- seven television channel) and enabled by all the technological facilities provided in the Meeting Room. The speaker was Francis Hogan from Ireland, a great scripture scholar, who expounded the underlying message and literary style of the book in a very skilled way, giving us the background to this quite difficult book. The next morning we took the reading of the day from Revelations and did a Lectio Divina with people offering some very personal and thoughtful reflections on the verse that spoke to them.
The afternoon sessions were geared to a new enquirer of our way of life who was visiting us, in that we spoke on the theme of the universal Call to Holiness and how the institute helped us to live this in our lives. In the second session we talked of and shared our individual apostolates which are very varied and despite their obstacles very fruitful.
We are very blessed and fortunate to be able to take part in these days of recollection, punctuated by prayer together and sharing our lives, even if briefly, only to go out again, strengthened, into the world so much in need of that Christian witness and presence which we can continue to give supported by the prayers and love of our sisters in the Institute.
Present were three members of the English Group, two Polish and one friend of the Institute. Our theme was the book of Revelations which provide the daily readings for these last two weeks of the church’s Year. To aid us we watched each evening a video recorded by Shalom World (Cini’s employer, a twenty- four- seven television channel) and enabled by all the technological facilities provided in the Meeting Room. The speaker was Francis Hogan from Ireland, a great scripture scholar, who expounded the underlying message and literary style of the book in a very skilled way, giving us the background to this quite difficult book. The next morning we took the reading of the day from Revelations and did a Lectio Divina with people offering some very personal and thoughtful reflections on the verse that spoke to them.
The afternoon sessions were geared to a new enquirer of our way of life who was visiting us, in that we spoke on the theme of the universal Call to Holiness and how the institute helped us to live this in our lives. In the second session we talked of and shared our individual apostolates which are very varied and despite their obstacles very fruitful.
We are very blessed and fortunate to be able to take part in these days of recollection, punctuated by prayer together and sharing our lives, even if briefly, only to go out again, strengthened, into the world so much in need of that Christian witness and presence which we can continue to give supported by the prayers and love of our sisters in the Institute.