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Convent of Divine Love
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The Holy Spirit Adoration Sisters (SSpSAp i.e. Congregatio Servarum Spiritus Sancti de Adoratione perpetua) was founded by Blessed Arnold Janssen on December 8, 1896, in the village of Steyl, Holland with the assistance of Blessed Maria Virgo and Co-foundress Mother Maria Michaele. Blessed Arnold Janssen was a German diocesan priest, who did not plan to be a founder. At first, he only felt called to work for missionary animation in his country. In the course of his work, he saw more and more the great need for Germany to have a society for missionaries. With great faith, he responded to this need by founding such a society himself, the Society of the Divine Word. Seeing the need not only for missionary priests and brothers but also for missionary women, Blessed Arnold founded the Mission Congregation of the Servants of the Holy Spirit. He further saw the need for a third missionary Congregation, to support through prayer and sacrifice the work of his first two foundations. For this, he envisioned a strictly cloistered contemplative community with perpetual adoration and founded the Sister-Servants of the Holy Spirit of Perpetual Adoration, more commonly known as the Holy Spirit Adoration Sisters. He chose the first members of this foundation from among the members of the active missionary Congregation of the Servants of the Holy Spirit who had volunteered for this branch. With God's blessing, the Holy Spirit Adoration Sisters took root and began to flourish. It started modestly in 1896 in a separate wing of the missionary Sister's Sacred Heart Convent, then in 1904 also in a separate wing in their newly built Motherhouse. By 1914, through the efforts of Mother Mary Michaele, the cloistered Sisters could have a separate Motherhouse of their own, Holy Spirit Convent, which still exists today in its original structure. By 1915, Mother Mary Michaele was able to found our first convent after the Motherhouse, the Convent of Divine Love in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This foundation came about through an invitation from Archbishop Edmund Francis Pendergast, who desired to have an adoration convent in his archdiocese. A wealthy Catholic layman, Cornelius A. Lane, had bequeathed a generous sum to the archdiocese for the establishment of an adoration convent. Thus the archbishop was in a position to make a generous offer. He would purchase a suitable piece of property, build and furnish a chapel and convent for the Sisters, and could promise to contribute to their support. It was a very favorable offer which the Congregation could gratefully accept. In 1915, nine Sisters were sent from Steyl for the first community. Some American women soon applied and were admitted. This necessitated the establishment of a novitiate in the new convent. Up to the present, the novitiate has remained in the Philadelphia convent, where candidates from all parts of the United States are admitted and trained. Since its earliest years, the Sisters have kept adoration day and night before the Blessed Sacrament, and the people of Philadelphia have very frequently made visits to the chapel, joining the Sisters in prayerful vigil. In the course of time, more and more adoration convents would be founded by Mother Mary Michaele, and after her death by her successors. At present our international religious congregation has 20 Houses in 10 countries and about 420 members in all. You can find our Houses in Argentina, Brazil, Germany, India, Indonesia, the Netherlands, the Philippines, Poland, Togo and the United States of America.
Chapel of Divine Love
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The beautiful gothic church at 22nd and Green Streets is the Chapel of Divine Love. The name is meant to portray the Love of God for all people, yet one cannot help to feel that there is a romantic quality to the church. This is reinforced when the nature of the place is known. The Convent attached to the chapel is the home of the Holy Spirit Adoration Sisters, a religious community of women devoted to prayer. The cloistered nuns are rarely seen outside of the church. Behind the locked gates in the nave of the chapel, there are always a pair of sisters praying in front of the Blessed Sacrament. They are there 24 hours a day, praying for the souls of the living and the dead. The dedication of the sisters is noble in itself and precious enough to have been the inspiration for the name of their church. However, the Chapel of Divine Love becomes more romantic when one enters the chapel and discovers that the sisters are clothed in pink habits. The residents of the area, with deep respect and love, call the holy women the Pink Sisters, and the church has been dubbed The Pink Chapel. www.fairmountonline.com/Tour/pink.html
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What a beautiful skyline! My first week back in Philadelphia. Taken from the roof of my apartment at 22nd and Pennsylvania.
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Weird moon peaking through the clouds. Not captured very well because of the phone.
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Philadelphia skyline at sunset
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