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Monasteries of Dominican Nuns
In the United States
By their way of life, lived entirely within the monastic cloister, Dominican nuns "build up in their own monasteries of the Church of God which they help to spread throughout the world by the offering of themselves" (LCM, 3.II). Saint Dominic himself associated the nuns with the work of the Order, his "holy preaching," by their prayer and penance (LCM, 1.I). The nuns' contemplative prayer and life of observance, "inasmuch as they are truly and properly Dominican, are from the beginning and by their very nature ordered to the apostolate which the Dominican family exercises as a whole, and in which alone the fullness of the Dominican vocation is to be found" (Letter of Br. Anicetus Fernandez). The nuns bring before God the joys and hopes, the sorrows and anguish of the people of today (LCM, 45).
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Association of the Monasteries of Nuns of the Order of Preachers in the United States of America
