The monastery of Bocairent (Valencia) will once more host a spiritual neighborhood after 20 years for the reason that Augustinian Nuns was dissolved and 16 years for the reason that parish acquired the constructing, as reported by the Archbishopric.
The parish priest of the Asunción de Nuestra Señora church, Vicent Femenía, has reported that the neighborhood of Discalced Carmelites was in search of a monastery to settle in. The prioress of the convent of the Discalced Carmelites of Piedrahita (Ávila) proposed going to Bocairent to see the convent, in a go to that came about on March 2. Three days later, Mother Joaquina knowledgeable the parish priest that the neighborhood had unanimously accredited the switch.
Now, the parish offers up using the monastery and the non secular neighborhood will deal with its upkeep. Vicent Femenía factors out that, as well as, “the vacationer use of the ‘Monestir Rupestre’, an Asset of Local Relevance, is revered, in addition to the liturgical celebrations and festivities that we have a good time within the monastery.”
With the permission of the Bishop of Ávila, the Archbishop of Valencia and the Federal Mother of the Discalced Carmelites, the paperwork have been despatched to the Holy See for authorization by the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life. The affirmative reply got here in writing on May 26.
Young cloistered nuns “very strict”
It is a neighborhood of Discalced Carmelites made up of 10 nuns, all of them younger, 9 Spanish and one Canadian. Some of them are from close by cities, reminiscent of Banyeres de Mariola, Villena, Aspe, Yecla and Elche.
It is a neighborhood that observes a “very strict” enclosure, the so-called “papal”, and that’s devoted to prayer and handbook work, particularly embroidery, making First Communion and Baptism souvenirs, and different crafts. With these actions they handle to be economically self-sufficient. They are additionally devoted to the non-public and religious care of people that need it by means of the sales space.
The arrival of the non secular neighborhood is scheduled for the month of September. The adequacy of some areas will imply their adaptation, such because the elimination of architectural obstacles.
Big treasure
The parish priest thanked God for this present that he has given us, in addition to all of the individuals who have prayed for this trigger through the years and those that have collaborated financially and proceed to collaborate, in addition to Sister Celia and Sara who’ve stored burning the flame of consecrated life within the Monastery over the past years”.
According to the Archbishopric, the so-called Monastery of Nuestra Señora de los Dolores y Santos Reyes de Bocairent hides “an awesome treasure” beneath its foundations: a novel underground cave monastery for being excavated within the rock.
Its historical past goes again to the yr 1556, when Mosen Melchor Hierro determined to construct a website excavated within the rock to shelter some nuns, a complete of six nuns from Valencia from the now-defunct Convent of Hope. After its building, the nuns entered the monastery beneath the invocation of the ‘Sacred Virgin Mary of Sorrows and the Blessed Magi’.
By its structure, the place was an instance of “simplicity, humility and penance”. They lived in an enclosure of about 48 sq. meters carved into the rock, some rooms that obtained little daylight and had a number of humidity. In 1700 the cave chamber was sealed, since a second convent was constructed. In 1902, the present constructing was created.
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