LIFETIME OF SECLUSION
CARMELITE SISTERS' VOWS LAST CONTACT WITH OUTSIDE WORLD [Pee United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, February 14. Clad in coarse brown serge habit® and heavily veiled, nine sisters entered the Chapel of the Carmelite Monastery at Mount Roskill yesterday and knelt at the altar rail. Bishop Liston then handed a key to the Mother Superior* who closed the door of the monastery and looked it from the inside. This was an impressive part of a ceremony at which Bishop Listqn enclosed the Car* melite Sisters and blessed the .convent! buildings and chapel. - . From the moment when the Mother Superior received the key from th« bishop, all external contact with the world was cut off, and the nine sister® may now receive visitors only at a grille, which is curtained. The sisters have devoted themselves to a lifetime of seclusion, contemplation, and prayer. The establishment of the order is an! innovation in the North Island, the only other convent of its kind in New; Zealand being at-Christchurch. 7
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Evening Star, Issue 22882, 14 February 1938, Page 14
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168LIFETIME OF SECLUSION Evening Star, Issue 22882, 14 February 1938, Page 14
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