REDEMPTORISTINE NUNS of NEW YORK, Inc.

We just celebrated Laetare Sunday and our hearts are filled with joy. Through Jesus’ Passion, Death and Resurrection we have be given the tremendous gift of reconciliation with a LOVE that we will always possess.
At Easter we give and receive baskets fill with chocolate eggs, Peeps, stuffed animals like lambs or rabbits or ducks, and all sorts of goodies.  In the ‘Golden, Olden Days,’ kids put on new outfits complete with hats and gloves and shiny new shoes to look their best at the standing-room-only Easter morning Mass.  
We all have been preparing these 40 days of Lent for this wondrous feast.  We have paid extra attention to doing good, paying more attention to the sorrows of the world, and praying more.  At Easter we remember the sacrifice of Christ’s love: Jesus redeemed us by his cross AND resurrection two thousand years ago.  But the truth is God’s LOVE is from the dawn of time, not the dawn of Easter morn.  It has always been, is and will always be.    
         Our foundress, Blessed Celeste, enthused (as only a Neapolitan can), “Oh most precious death which has brought 
me back to life! Because you wish that souls move through your dying, your precious resurrection revived in me a new life of love in you: the Word, my life, my everything.”       With what shall we fill our baskets with when all the candy is gone and our shoes become scuffed?   Memories of Love and Forgiveness.  Reconciliation.  Truth.   Faith, Hope 
and Trust. Compassion.  Perseverance.  Peace, Joy, abundant Mercy.   Love.   Always LOVE. 

"Life for me is Christ." Phil1:21

Redemptoristine Nuns are a worldwide monastic contemplative Order who strive to be a living memorial, an active participant of Jesus' life in today’s Church for the salvation of the world.  The Sisters celebrate this life of prayer, praise and intercession in the name of all, and in support of the missionary activity of the Redemptorist priests and brothers.