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Excerpt from Spirit of the Constitutions for the Religious Congregation of Poor School Sisters of Notre Dame: Devoted to the Education of Female Youth Praised be God, the Father of mercies and God of consolation, the Father of Light that illumines all men who love not darkness more than light! It dawns! Increasing brightness proclaims the final return of day, succeeding a long, fearful night. We begin to feel and behold the sad effects of that spirit which, at the dawn of this century, after long and tedious efforts, by secretly setting every engine at work, succeeded in overthrowing all that our ancestors, in the course of a thousand years, had erected for the benefit of the Church and State. But, despite all boasts, these innovaters have reared nothing that is satisfactory or durable. The leaders of the sophistic, covetous party proclaimd their watch-word to the world: "Down with superstition! On with the march of reason! Light!" They directed their warfare against Christian faith and its only true foster mother, the Holy Catholic Church. The children of the world, more prudent in the prosecution of their plans than the children of Light, aimed their chief blow at ecclesiastical institutions for the Christian Education of Youth. Suddenly all these establishments were suppressed, as if mown down with a scythe. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
In 2008, the Vatican Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life initiated an Apostolic Visitation to examine the quality of life of women religious in the United States. Power of Sisterhood: Women Religious Tell the Story of the Apostolic Visitation serves as an historical record of the event and describes the experience of the women who participated in it. This book, initiated by a group of women in leadership in their communities during this unprecedented time, grew out of a survey that gleaned the essence of the experience from as many congregations of women religious as possible. After framing the Visitation as a story, situating it in an historical and theological context, tracing its chronology, and detailing the experience as revealed in the survey, the book delves into the deeper meaning of the Visitation for women religious as they experienced it and as they move into the future.