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Benedictine sisters to shutter midtown monastery
By Johanna Willett Arizona Daily Star
20160927
For about 75 years, the Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration have called the monastery at 800 N. Country Club Road home.
But no more.
This past weekend, the sisters announced to volunteers, benefactors and other friends that the monastery will shut its doors within the next two years.
“It was a difficult decision to come to, but it has to do with basically a fewer number of sisters today and the fact that everyone is aging,” said Sister Joan Ridley, superior of the Tucson Monastery. “We don’t have many newer members, so we want to regroup forces and consolidate sisters in one spot.”
The 16 Tucson sisters are part of a larger congregation based in Clyde, Missouri. Including the Tucson nuns, there are about 65 sisters, Ridley said.
Leadership at both sites has worked toward this decision for about a year with the hope that consolidation will revitalize the aging order.
The decision is still too new for the sisters to say for sure whether all will leave Tucson for Clyde. Some of the nuns have lived here for about 25 years, Ridley said.
Stay or go, they will all have to develop a few new habits. The sisters plan to sell the property, which is about 7 acres between East Speedway and East Fifth Street.
“We may be in touch with some other national Catholic organizations that purchase property and convert it to senior housing or things like that,” Ridley said. “Our first desire is that it would be used for the good of seniors and stay within the religious tradition.”
The Tucson convent’s history as documented on its website begins in 1935 with an invitation from Diocese of Tucson Bishop Daniel Gercke to the Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration. Until the completion of the Tucson Monastery in 1940, the sisters lived in the Steinfeld Mansion , 300 N. Main Ave. Architect Roy Place designed the current monastery.
“The Benedictine Sisters have been a blessing and gift in our community since 1935,” said Bishop Gerald Kicanas of the Diocese of Tucson in a prepared statement. “They have held us in prayer and opened their home to us all. … They cannot imagine the impact they have had on us, not just as Catholics but all in our community.”
Valencia orange and date palm trees dot the property, along with an ancient avocado tree that Ridley suspects is one of the oldest in Tucson.
The sisters sell soaps, salves and lotions and make liturgical vestments, or clothing.
Every day, the monastery holds four services in its chapel, along with Mass on Sunday.
“We’re very sad,” Ridley said. “It’s a real loss to the city of Tucson and the people that we have grown to love and who love us.”
Contact reporter Johanna Willett at jwillett@tucson.com or 573-4357. On Twitter: @JohannaWillett
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Monk was showing his money to the beggar and beggar the one who decided which note he wants...however i have noticed that beggar asked 100/- note and this foreign monk gave it to him without any doubt....
yea..this monk is really great to be a human...
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A bottle of water can be $1 at the market, $3 at a restaurant, $4 at the movies and $6 at the airport. It's the same exact water. The only thing that changed it's value, was the place. So, the next time you feel like you have no value, maybe you are in the wrong place.
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson delivers remarks on the Value of Respect to employees at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. on January 12, 2018. [State Department Photo/ Public Domain]
GRANVILLE became VANCOUVER in 1886. The Post Office was located at the Hastings Mill about 1/3 mile from the townsite of GRANVILLE. There had been significant economic activity in the area and across Burrard Inlet at Moodyville since the early 1870's.
The old Hastings Mill Store and Post Office (circa 1865), is thought to be the oldest building in Vancouver, and was one of the few buildings to survive the great fire of 1886 that swept through what was Vancouver. In 1930 the store was moved from Burrard Inlet to its present site at Alma and Point Grey Road. Link to photo - www.findfamilyfun.com/images/hastingsmill1a.jpg
On the morning of Sunday, June 13, 1886, the City of Vancouver was only two months old. The fledgling settlement comprised no more than a thousand buildings on a small pocket of land along the Burrard Inlet, now Gastown and the Downtown Eastside. By that afternoon, only about three buildings still stood. The rest had burnt to a crisp in under an hour. The blaze started midday when fires burning mill waste spread wildly out of control due to strong winds. According to a newspaper account, the men watching over the clearing fires could do nothing but “flee for their lives.” Minutes later, the whole city was awash in smoke, ash and ember. Most of Vancouver’s buildings had been built with freshly-milled lumber that lit up like tinder. Residents had no time to pack up their lives before heading for safety. According to eyewitness accounts, flames engulfed Vancouver’s wooden sidewalks “faster than a man could run.” LINK to the complete article - bcanuntoldhistory.knowledge.ca/1880/the-great-vancouver-fire
LINK to a newspaper article from - 19 June 1886 - VANCOUVER in Ashes - www.newspapers.com/article/nanaimo-daily-news-vancouver-i...
VANCOUVER today is the third largest metropolitan conglomerate in all of Canada. The founding name was Granville with the Post Office opening - 1 April 1874 and became Vancouver - 1 May 1886.
Link to an article - Early Vancouver Postmarks (to 1905) Compiled by Gray Scrimgeour (starts on page 684) - www.bnaps.org/hhl/newsletters/bcr/bcr-2011-06-v020n02-w07...
- sent from - / VANCOUVER / JY 14 / 86 / B. C. / - split ring cancel - an early strike of the second VANCOUVER split ring hammer (A1-2) - this second split ring hammer was proofed - 24 June 1886 - dia - 21.0 mm / left arc - 5.0 mm / right arc - 5.0 mm. There were at least 7 different split ring hammers issued for the Vancouver Post Office.
- arrived at - / VICTORIA, B.C. / AM / JY 16 / 86 / CANADA / - cds arrival backstamp
Message on Canada Post Card reads - Vancouver, B.C. / July 14 / 1886 - Messrs - We returned the "Imperial" Cigars - they are a little too high for our taste. Please credit us with same. Yours truly - Malee & Brown
Malee & Brown were wholesale Wine & Spirit Merchants in Vancouver - during the June 13, 1886 fire they lost their business valued at $8,000.
(clipped from - The Victoria Daily Times newspaper - Victoria, British Columbia, Canada • Tuesday, Jan 18, 1887) - FAILURE AT VANCOUVER. A heavy failure is reported from Vancouver, it has been known for some time back that the wholesale liquor firm of Malee & Brown were in "deep water" financially. A few days since Mr. Brown sold his interest in the business to Mr. Malee, who, it now appears, was not able to finance the concern any longer, and yesterday made an assignment of his estate to trustees this city for the benefit of his creditors. The amount of his liabilities are said to be large, in the neighborhood of $10,000. A number of firms in Victoria are said to be interested in the estate to a considerable extent. LINK - www.newspapers.com/article/the-victoria-daily-times-malee...
Addressed to: Messrs Robt. Ward & Co. / Victoria, B.C.
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Paul Bulcke visits a school close to our new plant in Karnataka, India. Nestlé works with local government in the region to provide clean drinking water and sanitation facilities to village schools
In the session, Big Data, Big Stories - Putting a Value on Marine Life, Ralph Chami and Joe Roman discussed the benefits of marine life giving back to the earth and the session took place at the IMF Headquarters during the 2019 IMF/World Bank Annual Meetings, October 18, 2019 in Washington, DC. IMF Photograph/Stefani Reynolds
It's brilliant to see stuff like this still wearing cherished numberplates, this one would not normally stand out to me but I just had to document it. Still, I feel it may be worthwhile taking photos of every single 5 on the roads now, they are slowly but surely thinning out....
This one is a 1989 model, still taxed into next year too.
Eco Fashion Week April 22, 2013 Three stylists with $500 each made three runway collections from outfits presented by Value Village. Photos by Sean Herd.
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Very Old machine it is one of the effects of the English colonization of Egypt
Are currently in one of the old houses whos owned by one of the very poor Egyptians in a very very poor area.
The most IMPORTANT ISSUE is that no one knows its there and no one knows the value of this ...ARCHEOLOGICAL...MACHINE...
...UNTIL NOW !!!
...IMAGINE THAT ...?!?!?!