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Religious Orders or organisations worthy of admiration

Gamma GamalielGamma Gamaliel Shipmate
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This morning I attended a lovely and very simple Mass at the cottage home of the RC Little Sisters of Jesus in Walsingham.

I picked up a copy of their newsletter and was impressed by the work they do in and alongside poor or marginalised groups around the world.

Are there particular RC or other religious orders whose work we admire or faith-based organisations - not solely Christian ones - who we consider do things worthy of note or support?

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  • ArethosemyfeetArethosemyfeet Shipmate, Heaven Host
    I was checking some facts at work and stumbled across the Glasgow Children's Holiday scheme that started with one woman employed by the Scottish Episcopal Church in the Gorbals who realised there were kids growing up there who had never left, and arranged by correspondence with piskies and their priests in rural areas to set them up with a week's holiday, and to have them safely escorted to and from. It was done cheaply, and practically, but still with a rudimentary eye to child protection by having clergy vouch for host families. The scheme has evolved over the years, and now gives holidays to whole families, but the drive to make that happen with nothing but determination and existing church networks rather impressed me.
  • LatchKeyKidLatchKeyKid Shipmate
    This is a very good subject to start.
    Thanks @Gamma Gamaliel

    The Catherine Hamlin Fistula Foundation and its Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital started by Catherine Hamlin and her husband does work that I admire. The Byron Uniting Church has a yearly soup lunch to raise money to support their work.
    (There is a Sydney Ferry named for Catherine Hamlin)

    Catherine Hamlin was motivated by her Christian faith to start this.
  • NicoleMRNicoleMR Shipmate
    Religious but not Christian, my very dear friend's mother, who had practically no money, was prepared for burial and buried in a plot from the Hebrew Free Burial Society.
  • Gramps49Gramps49 Shipmate
    Mrs. Gramps is an oblate of the Center for Benedictine Living at St Gertrudes in Cottonwood Idaho. This is a monastic group that gives retreats for travelers, individuals and clergy of all denominations. Roman Catholic in origin. She started going there a number of years ago for their raspberry festival. She became an oblate a couple of years ago. The local oblate group meets once a month, and they have twice a year retreats at the Monastery. Simply put, it gives Mrs. Gramps a break from me.

    Also, when traveling, we sometimes stop at the St. John's Monastery and Bakery on the road between Goldendale and Yakima, WA. Greek Orthodox. They provide a great travelers rest which we arrive at about lunch time. Great sandwiches and breads and baclava. Our congregation will often buy liturgy related items from them.
  • RockyRogerRockyRoger Shipmate
    edited 8:09PM
    Mrs RR and I support and are very grateful for the Irish Jesuits. 'Sacred Space', is a wonderful resource we visit daily: https://sacredspace.com/
    And we're Anglicans!
  • mark_in_manchestermark_in_manchester Shipmate
    RockyRoger wrote: »
    Mrs RR and I support and are very grateful for the Irish Jesuits. 'Sacred Space', is a wonderful resource we visit daily: https://sacredspace.com/
    And we're Anglicans!

    Another protestant sacred space user here.

    A good (RC) friend of mine is at St Bueno's in N.Wales on retreat this week. I'm looking forward to asking him about it.
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