Wednesday, 16 October 2024

Ceremony of Vows and Solemn Mass

Wednesday, 16 October 2024
Ceremony of Vows and Solemn Mass - Our Reverend Mother and the sisters gather to welcome His Excellency Bishop Athanasius Schneider
Ceremony of Vows and Solemn Mass
Ceremony of Vows and Solemn Mass - His Excellency meets the sisters who will be professing their vows
Ceremony of Vows and Solemn Mass - The chapel prepared for the ceremony
Ceremony of Vows and Solemn Mass
Ceremony of Vows and Solemn Mass - Entrance procession
Ceremony of Vows and Solemn Mass
Ceremony of Vows and Solemn Mass
Ceremony of Vows and Solemn Mass - The four sisters who will be professing their vows enter into the church
Ceremony of Vows and Solemn Mass - Each sister states her intention: “I ask, for the love of God our Savior, to be received in the sacred engagements in the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest… by obedience, chastity, and poverty.”
Ceremony of Vows and Solemn Mass - Monsignor Wach, prior general, asks: “Have you firmly established in your heart, under no obligation, but with the liberty of your will, to keep obedience, chastity, and poverty for Our Lord Jesus Christ?”
Ceremony of Vows and Solemn Mass - “We have voluntarily stripped ourselves of worldly habits; with help of God, we will never return. We have turned away from vanity, and having washed our feet of it, we will never return.”
Ceremony of Vows and Solemn Mass - The crosses that will soon be blessed.
Ceremony of Vows and Solemn Mass - After further questioning the sisters and praying for them, Monsignor blesses the crosses
Ceremony of Vows and Solemn Mass
Ceremony of Vows and Solemn Mass - Monsignor blesses the black veils
Ceremony of Vows and Solemn Mass - Each sister kneels before Monsignor with a lit candle and professes her vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience
Ceremony of Vows and Solemn Mass
Ceremony of Vows and Solemn Mass
Ceremony of Vows and Solemn Mass - The sisters then receive the Cross of profession, modeled after the pectoral Cross worn by Saint Francis de Sales
Ceremony of Vows and Solemn Mass
Ceremony of Vows and Solemn Mass - The black veil is placed upon the head of each sister
Ceremony of Vows and Solemn Mass
Ceremony of Vows and Solemn Mass - The sisters return, wearing the black veil
Ceremony of Vows and Solemn Mass
Ceremony of Vows and Solemn Mass - Each sister signs her vows
Ceremony of Vows and Solemn Mass - The vows are then given to Monsignor and placed on the altar, and Monsignor gives his blessing to each sister
Ceremony of Vows and Solemn Mass
Ceremony of Vows and Solemn Mass - All stand to chant the Magnificat in thanksgiving
Ceremony of Vows and Solemn Mass - Holy Mass follows the ceremony.
Ceremony of Vows and Solemn Mass
Ceremony of Vows and Solemn Mass
Ceremony of Vows and Solemn Mass - Chanting of the epistle
Ceremony of Vows and Solemn Mass - The schola sings the gradual and the Alleluia
Ceremony of Vows and Solemn Mass - The Holy Gospel is incensed
Ceremony of Vows and Solemn Mass
Ceremony of Vows and Solemn Mass - The celebrant is incensed first followed by all others in order of dignity
Ceremony of Vows and Solemn Mass
Ceremony of Vows and Solemn Mass - The newly professed sisters hold lit candles during the Canon of the Mass
Ceremony of Vows and Solemn Mass - Elevation
Ceremony of Vows and Solemn Mass - Ecce Agnus Dei
Ceremony of Vows and Solemn Mass
Ceremony of Vows and Solemn Mass - Final blessing
Ceremony of Vows and Solemn Mass - Procession out of the church
Ceremony of Vows and Solemn Mass
Ceremony of Vows and Solemn Mass
Ceremony of Vows and Solemn Mass
Ceremony of Vows and Solemn Mass - The four newly professed sisters with Monsignor Wach, our Reverend Mother, and the Novice Mistress
Ceremony of Vows and Solemn Mass
Ceremony of Vows and Solemn Mass
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