[Fish] Session 7 (Feb 23, 2010)

Dedicated women - religious sisters and virgins


Religious women:
Service - orphanage, school, clinic, hostel ...
Dedication - prayer, individual sanctification
Vision - specialized work
Mission - sent to be witness and to evangelize

decisive factors:
Marriage - personal decision, familiar attachment
Commmunity - communal commitment
Job - livelihood
Church work - sense of belonging to the Church
Church recognition - identity
Goverment recognition - registration

  • Chronology of the arrivals of Religious Sisters in Hong Kong

  • Category of female religious in Hong Kong

  • Association of the Faithful 教友組織:
    Secular Franciscan Order 在俗方濟會 1934
    Dominican Laity 聖道明在俗修會 1940
    Lay Canossians - HK 嘉諾撒在俗會(香港)
    Focolare Movement 普世博愛運動 1967
    The Secular Order of the Teresian Carmel Mother of God Fraternity 嘉爾默羅天主之母在俗聖衣會 1989
    Eucharistic Oblate for the Vulnerable 傷健聖體御侍團 2004

  • Secular Institute: 俗世會:
    Istituto secolare ancelle della misericordia, 仁慈婢女俗世會(香港)有限公司

  • Personal Prelature 自治社團:
    Holy Cross and Opus Dei 聖十字架及主業社團 1981
Recommended readings:

"The Foundation of the Catholic Mission in Hong Kong, 1841-1894": Chapters Three, Four

"The Story of A Hundred Years": pp. 31-33, 59-60, 88-89, 149-150, 154-156, 166-167.

"Sisters of St. Paul de Chartres Hong Kong, 1848-1998" by Sr. Josefina Santos, paper presented at the "Conference on History of Catholic Religious Orders and Missionary Congregations in Hong Kong" Dec.13-14, 2007

"Maryknoll Sisters, their ministries and educational work in Hong Kong, 1921 to the present" by Prof. Cindy YY Chu, paper presented at the "Conference on History of Catholic Religious Orders and Missionary Congregations in Hong Kong" Dec.13-14, 2007

"The Eldest Daughters of Hong Kong Catholic Diocese: The Sisters of Precious Blood" by Sr. Beatrice Leung, paper presented at the "Conference on History of Catholic Religious Orders and Missionary Congregations in Hong Kong" Dec.13-14, 2007