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Albertine Sisters
1501 Hoffman Street HAMMOND, Indiana 46327 USA tel. 001-219/ 937-05-75 e-mail: albertineusa@att.net
Albertine Sisters
1550 N Astor Street CHICAGO, IL 60610 USA tel. 001-312/ 642-58-38 fax 001-312/ 255-10-19
Albertine Sisters
5434 S. Lokwood Ave CHICAGO, IL 60638 USA tel.001-773-767-14-71 |
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God calls each per- son to live out of love and towards love.
The Albertine vocation is a way of experiencing God’s love and loving Him in return, such that a person gives back to Him her whole life, serving the least fortunate, the poor, and the abandoned. This vocation must be discerned. What can you do, if you feel that God is calling you on such a path ? * Pray to discern God’s will * Attain more information about the religious life and the life of the Albertine Congregation * Take up a deeper spiritual life – approaching the Sacraments, meditating on Holy Scripture, conversing with a person experienced in the Divine life. Get to know us better: contact us (call, write, or come) |
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The Sisters profess vows of chastity, poverty, and obedience,
in order to pattern their life after the earthly life of the Lord Jesus.
In a community of sisters, they take up their mission of serving the poor.
To embrace such a form of life in all its fullness, they prepare for several years.
Aspirancy, Postulancy: Over the period of several months, the
young woman enters more deeply into the Christian life and gets to know
our community.
Novitiate: for two years, the candidate prepares to profess her
first vows (temporary).
Juniorate: for several years, the Sister carries out the
Albertine apos- tolate, becoming strusathened in her vocation and
prepa- ring to profess perpetual vows.
Perpetual vows: for her whole life, the Sister strives for
greater union with God and tries to serve her neighbor better and
better, making use of various means of formation.
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About The Congregation :
The Congregation of Albertine Sisters Serving the Poor (CSAPU)
– a religious congregation, with distinctive habit.
Charism
Serving Christ in our neighbors, especially the poorest and most
rejected, through the witness of Christian mercy shown to them.
Coat-of-arms
Franciscan coat-of-arms, crossed hands on the background of a crucifix,
- supplemented by the symbol of bread, an expression of the goodness
which should distinguish every Albertine sister.
Date and place of founding
January 15, 1891 in Kraków (Poland).
Founder
St. Brother Albert – Adam Chmielowski
Co-Foundress
Blessed Sister Bernardina – Maria Jabłońska
Superior General
Sister Katarzyna – Danuta Krzystoń
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to the poor. St. Brother Albert was deeply imbued with the love of the
Suffering Savior, and full of gratitude for the pain of His Passion, he
gave his life in service to the least of Christ’s brothers and
sisters.
The Albertine Sisters see their charism reflected in the icon painted by their Father-founder entitled Ecce Homo. In this painting, Christ is depicted as despised, scourged, and spat upon....Behold the Man. The rent garments, concealing the wounded bosom of Jesus, nevertheless seem to reveal the mystery of the Sacred Heart, which challusaes us to discover the Divine image and likeness in each person. The Albertine Sister is called to serve the most needy of her neighbors, and this in an ever more sacrificial way, the more the image of Divine filiation seems to be disfigured or completely effaced, according to Brother Albert’s words: the more one is abandoned, the greater the love with which we must serve that person, since it is the wounded Lord Jesus Himself whom we salvage in the person of the poor. Christ manifests this attitude of sacrificial love most fully in the Eucharist: since He becomes Bread – so the Father of the Poor teaches – so let us be bread. [...] Let us give of our very selves. The Albertine Sister should therefore be marked by the type of goodness of which bread is the model. We should be good like bread, which is set on the table for all, so that each, when he is hungry, may cut off a piece for himself, and so be nourished. The Sisters likewise seek to become like Christ, Who became poor for our sake. The Albertine Sisters do not have personal possessions, and their simple way of living and working draws them close to those whom they serve. In accord with their charism, they combine the fulfillment of their mission with a deep and genuine life of prayer. The Congregation is devoted to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and following in St. Brother Albert’s footsteps, recognizes our Lady of Częstochowa as its Foundress. |
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and imitating her virtues. The spiritual treasure of the Congregation is
the example and intercession of St. Brother Albert and Blessed Sister
Bernadina, who before her death directed her sisters: Do good to all.
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who came from the Podlasie region of Poland. The first reception of the
habit on the part of seven sisters took place on January 15, 1891 in the
Kraków Bishops’ Chapel in the presence of St. Brother Albert and
Cardinal Albin Dunajewski.
The Sisters initially resided in Kraków at the shelter for the
homeless on Skawinska Street, where they took care of homeless women. As
the Congregation grew more and more in number, the Sisters opened new
homeless shelters throughout Poland. The oldest of those preserved is
the home at 47 Krakowska Street,the location to which St. Brother
Albert tranferred the main homeless shelter for women in 1908. |
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This is the account number of our Order for those who would like to support our ministry |
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Kredyt Bank S. A. II o/Kraków ul. Kapelanka 17
30-347 Kraków PL 28 1500 1487 1214 8002 4563 0000 KRDBPLPW |
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