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Dominican contemplative life came to the United States through the efforts of an American girl, Julia Crooks, and a French priest, Damien Saintourens, OP. Each founded a monastery in New Jersey, which evolved into a network of cloistered religious houses for women. As Mother Mary of Jesus, Julia made perpetual adoration of the Blessed Sacrament central to the lifestyle of her nuns, while Saintoursens dedicated his sisters to perpetual recitation of the rosary. Both networks reached peak numbers in the late 1960s, then slowly declined in the years following Vatican Council II. However, the new millennium has produced a resurrection of sorts in some houses, thus assuring the survival of a lifestyle “ever ancient, ever new.” |
