Friday, 17 October 2025

Four new novices receive the habit at our novitiate in Naples, Italy

Friday, 17 October 2025
Four new novices receive the habit at our novitiate in Naples, Italy - The future novices wear bridal gowns as they take this step toward becoming Brides of Christ
Four new novices receive the habit at our novitiate in Naples, Italy
Four new novices receive the habit at our novitiate in Naples, Italy
Four new novices receive the habit at our novitiate in Naples, Italy - Our Reverend Mother and the professed sisters are very glad to welcome His Eminence, Cardinal Willem Eijk, of Utrecht
Four new novices receive the habit at our novitiate in Naples, Italy - The ceremonies begin with the vesting of the prelate in the Chapter Room of the convent
Four new novices receive the habit at our novitiate in Naples, Italy
Four new novices receive the habit at our novitiate in Naples, Italy - The clerics will process from the Chapter Room into the church
Four new novices receive the habit at our novitiate in Naples, Italy - The four future novices are ready with their fathers
Four new novices receive the habit at our novitiate in Naples, Italy - Procession into the convent church
Four new novices receive the habit at our novitiate in Naples, Italy - The future novices process into the church with their fathers
Four new novices receive the habit at our novitiate in Naples, Italy - Monsignor Gilles Wach, Prior General, asks the future novices to declare their intention
Four new novices receive the habit at our novitiate in Naples, Italy - They each respond: “I have asked of the Lord. . . . to live in His house and to serve His Royal and Divine Heart for all of my life.”
Four new novices receive the habit at our novitiate in Naples, Italy - His Eminence Cardinal Eijk gives an address to the future novices
Four new novices receive the habit at our novitiate in Naples, Italy - The celebrant prays before the ceremonial cutting of a lock of hair: “that in submitting to an exterior transformation, they be transformed likewise in spirit by the interior operation of the right of the Most High. . . ”
Four new novices receive the habit at our novitiate in Naples, Italy - “Grant, we beseech Thee, Almighty God, that Thy handmaids, who today divest themselves of their hair for love of Thee, equally renounce affection to vanities and rest affirmed forever in Thy love.”
Four new novices receive the habit at our novitiate in Naples, Italy
Four new novices receive the habit at our novitiate in Naples, Italy - After the blessing of habits, each sister receives a lit candle: “Receive, my dear daughter, this corporal light, sign of the spiritual light, which we implore God to shed upon you. . . .”
Four new novices receive the habit at our novitiate in Naples, Italy - The white veil is imposed upon the head of each sister: “May the Lord clothe you with the new Man, created in the image of God in true Justice and true holiness.”
Four new novices receive the habit at our novitiate in Naples, Italy
Four new novices receive the habit at our novitiate in Naples, Italy - The novices return to the church clothed in the holy habit.
Four new novices receive the habit at our novitiate in Naples, Italy - As the novices kneel before the sanctuary, they each receive their new religious name
Four new novices receive the habit at our novitiate in Naples, Italy
Four new novices receive the habit at our novitiate in Naples, Italy
Four new novices receive the habit at our novitiate in Naples, Italy - All stand for the chant of the Magnificat in thanksgiving.
Four new novices receive the habit at our novitiate in Naples, Italy - The new novices join the other sisters in the choir stalls behind the altar
Four new novices receive the habit at our novitiate in Naples, Italy - Solemn High Mass celebrated by Monsignor Wach with pontifical assistance at the throne
Four new novices receive the habit at our novitiate in Naples, Italy - The schola sings the propers of the Mass
Four new novices receive the habit at our novitiate in Naples, Italy - The deacon is blessed before he chants the Holy Gospel
Four new novices receive the habit at our novitiate in Naples, Italy - Monsignor chants the preface
Four new novices receive the habit at our novitiate in Naples, Italy - The Elevation of the Body and Blood of Our Lord by the celebrant, as the cardinal kneels before Our Lord
Four new novices receive the habit at our novitiate in Naples, Italy
Four new novices receive the habit at our novitiate in Naples, Italy - The new novices hold lit candles during the Canon of the Mass
Four new novices receive the habit at our novitiate in Naples, Italy - Ecce Agnus Dei
Four new novices receive the habit at our novitiate in Naples, Italy
Four new novices receive the habit at our novitiate in Naples, Italy - His Eminence Cardinal Eijk bestows the final blessing
Four new novices receive the habit at our novitiate in Naples, Italy
Four new novices receive the habit at our novitiate in Naples, Italy - The Cardinal gives his blessing to all of those he passes in the pews
Four new novices receive the habit at our novitiate in Naples, Italy - After exiting by the public doors of the church, the procession continues down the street toward the convent entryway
Four new novices receive the habit at our novitiate in Naples, Italy
Four new novices receive the habit at our novitiate in Naples, Italy - The sacred ministers and clergy in the chapter room after the morning’s grand liturgy
Four new novices receive the habit at our novitiate in Naples, Italy - The new novices greet and thank His Eminence
Four new novices receive the habit at our novitiate in Naples, Italy - His Eminence Cardinal Eijk with the Reverend Mother, the Novice Mistress, the new novices, and the newly professed sisters
Four new novices receive the habit at our novitiate in Naples, Italy - The new novices happily greet our Reverend Mother and the novice mistress….
Four new novices receive the habit at our novitiate in Naples, Italy - ….and each other!
Four new novices receive the habit at our novitiate in Naples, Italy - Deo gratias!
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