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Updated: July 9, 2025
The motherhood in the monastic woman made her the mother, the caretaker, the nurse, the teacher, and the helper of all those who needed maternal care, while condemning and ignoring its common aspects and place in everyday life. This absence of domestic ties was not, however, obligatory upon all sisterhoods.
"Ah, Leonora, if he had but a sphere of his own," cried Miss Dora, "where he would have other things to think of than the rubric, and decorations, and sisterhoods! I don't wish any harm to poor dear old Mr Shirley, I am sure; but when Frank is in the Rectory " "I thought you understood that Frank would not do for the Rectory," said Miss Leonora.
L. B. was a member of one of those brawling sisterhoods that frequently disturbed the peace of the town of Port of Spain. She had a "pal" or intimate chum familiarly known as "Lady," who staunchly stood by her in all the squabbles that occurred with their adversaries.
They put their castles together, and they turned out to be for an orphanage, or rather asylum, not too much hampered with strict rules, combined with a convalescent home. The battle of sisterhoods was not yet fought out, and we were not quite prepared for them; but Frank Fordyce had, as he said, 'the two best women in the world in his eye' to make a beginning.
Cecilia, the refuge of the last nuns of the orthodox creed left in Memphis; for, though all the other sisterhoods of her confession had long since been banished, these had been allowed to remain in their old home, not only because they were famous sick-nurses, a distinction common to all the Melchite orders, but even more because the decaying municipality could not afford to sacrifice the large tax they annually paid to it.
At last she said: "Dion, as you've given me him, I'll tell you. Very often in the past I've had an urgent desire some day to enter into the religious life." "D'you d'you mean to become a Roman Catholic and a nun?" he exclaimed, feeling, absurdly perhaps, almost afraid and half indignant. "No. I've never wished to change my religion. There are Anglican sisterhoods, you know." "But your singing!"
What led me to the place was seeing some ladies in grey cloaks exactly such frights as you used to make yourself, my dear flickering about. He has got up a sisterhood, I have no doubt; and to find all this in full operation in one's own parish, without so much as being informed of it! and you know I don't approve of sisterhoods never did; they are founded on a mistake." "Yes, dear.
I saw your sister Madge about twenty minutes ago. She seemed very happy about something or other. 'Mr. Jacomb, said Nan, 'do you know the lady who left a minute ago? 'No, said he, wondering a little at the earnestness or rather the absentness of her manner. 'I only caught a glimpse of her. She belongs to one of the visiting sisterhoods. Nan was silent for a second or two.
"Why in these days, when for ten years past the Benedictine Sisters have made a study of Latin, when many of them translate from Hebrew and Greek and are skilled in exegesis, when others draw and paint the pages of missals, reviving the art of the illuminators of the Middle Ages, when others again as, for instance, Mother Hildegarde are organists of the highest attainment, you may easily understand that the woman who directs them all, the woman who has created in her Sisterhoods a school of practical mysticism and of religious art, is a very remarkable person; nay, in these days of frivolous devotions and ignorant piety, quite unique."
That's as great a mystery as the mystery of death. Why should there be such a principle in the world? But it's been felt, and more or less dumbly, blindly recognized ever since Calvary. If we love mankind, pity them, we even wish to suffer for them. That's what has created the religious orders in all times the brotherhoods and sisterhoods that belong to our day as much as to the mediaeval past.
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