Thursday, 16 October 2025

Four novices profess their vows at our novitiate in Naples, Italy

Thursday, 16 October 2025
Four novices profess their vows at our novitiate in Naples, Italy - The chapel prepared for the ceremony
Four novices profess their vows at our novitiate in Naples, Italy - The bell calls the sisters
Four novices profess their vows at our novitiate in Naples, Italy - The sisters enter the church in procession
Four novices profess their vows at our novitiate in Naples, Italy - The sisters have their places behind the altar
Four novices profess their vows at our novitiate in Naples, Italy - The abbés, priests, canons, and sacred ministers enter the church
Four novices profess their vows at our novitiate in Naples, Italy - Our Reverend Mother leads the four sisters who will be professing their vows
Four novices profess their vows at our novitiate in Naples, Italy - All kneel to invoke the Holy Ghost in singing the Veni Creator.
Four novices profess their vows at our novitiate in Naples, Italy
Four novices profess their vows at our novitiate in Naples, Italy - Monsignor Gilles Wach, Prior General of the Institute, pronounces an exhortation addressed to the four sisters as well as to all in attendance
Four novices profess their vows at our novitiate in Naples, Italy
Four novices profess their vows at our novitiate in Naples, Italy - 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.”
Four novices profess their vows at our novitiate in Naples, Italy - Monsignor 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?”
Four novices profess their vows at our novitiate in Naples, Italy - “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.”
Four novices profess their vows at our novitiate in Naples, Italy - The crosses are blessed: “Almighty and everlasting God, who consecrated the sign of the Cross by the Precious Blood of Your Son. . . . we beseech Thee, with great supplication, deign to bless these crosses by Your bounty, and grant them virtue and heavenly grace”
Four novices profess their vows at our novitiate in Naples, Italy - Monsignor blesses the black veils
Four novices profess their vows at our novitiate in Naples, Italy - Each sister kneels before Monsignor with a lit candle and professes her vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience
Four novices profess their vows at our novitiate in Naples, Italy - “O Heaven, listen to what I say; may the earth hear the words from my mouth. It is to Thee, O Jesus, my Savoir and Sovereign Priest, to whom my heart speaks, even though I am but ashes and dust. O my God, I vow to you to live in chastity, obedience, and poverty. . . .”
Four novices profess their vows at our novitiate in Naples, Italy - After the profession of vows, the sisters pray for God’s grace. “Receive me, O eternal Father, in the arms of your very merciful paternity, so that I constantly carry the yolk and the burden of your holy service, and so that I abandon myself forever and totally to your divine love, to which I dedicate and consecrate myself.”
Four novices profess their vows at our novitiate in Naples, Italy - “O very glorious, very sacred and very sweet Virgin Mary, I beseech thee, by the love and the death of your Son, to receive me under your maternal protection.”
Four novices profess their vows at our novitiate in Naples, Italy - The sisters then receive the Cross of profession. “Receive, my very dear daughter, the cross of Our Lord Jesus Christ. . . so that, being crucified to the world, you may. . . . triumph forever with Our Lord Jesus Christ.”
Four novices profess their vows at our novitiate in Naples, Italy - The black veil is placed upon the head of each sister: “so that you shall never receive any other sign of love than that of Our Lord Jesus Christ.”
Four novices profess their vows at our novitiate in Naples, Italy - The sisters now return, wearing the cross and the black veil
Four novices profess their vows at our novitiate in Naples, Italy - Each sister signs her vows.
Four novices profess their vows at our novitiate in Naples, Italy - The sister then gives her vows to Monsignor and receives his blessing. The signed vows will now be placed upon the altar.
Four novices profess their vows at our novitiate in Naples, Italy - All stand to chant the Magnificat in thanksgiving
Four novices profess their vows at our novitiate in Naples, Italy
Four novices profess their vows at our novitiate in Naples, Italy - Holy Mass follows the ceremony.
Four novices profess their vows at our novitiate in Naples, Italy
Four novices profess their vows at our novitiate in Naples, Italy - The schola sings the Gregorian chant for the Mass
Four novices profess their vows at our novitiate in Naples, Italy
Four novices profess their vows at our novitiate in Naples, Italy
Four novices profess their vows at our novitiate in Naples, Italy
Four novices profess their vows at our novitiate in Naples, Italy
Four novices profess their vows at our novitiate in Naples, Italy
Four novices profess their vows at our novitiate in Naples, Italy
Four novices profess their vows at our novitiate in Naples, Italy
Four novices profess their vows at our novitiate in Naples, Italy - Elevation of the Body and Blood of Our Lord
Four novices profess their vows at our novitiate in Naples, Italy
Four novices profess their vows at our novitiate in Naples, Italy - The newly professed sisters hold lit candles during the Canon of the Mass
Four novices profess their vows at our novitiate in Naples, Italy - The sisters receive Holy Communion
Four novices profess their vows at our novitiate in Naples, Italy
Four novices profess their vows at our novitiate in Naples, Italy - Final blessing
Four novices profess their vows at our novitiate in Naples, Italy - Procession out of the church
Four novices profess their vows at our novitiate in Naples, Italy
Four novices profess their vows at our novitiate in Naples, Italy
Four novices profess their vows at our novitiate in Naples, Italy - Family, friends, and honored guests rejoice together in the interior courtyard
Four novices profess their vows at our novitiate in Naples, Italy
Four novices profess their vows at our novitiate in Naples, Italy
Four novices profess their vows at our novitiate in Naples, Italy
Four novices profess their vows at our novitiate in Naples, Italy
Four novices profess their vows at our novitiate in Naples, Italy
Four novices profess their vows at our novitiate in Naples, Italy
Four novices profess their vows at our novitiate in Naples, Italy
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