Word: prioress
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...independent, tormented Sister Blanche and the deathly ill First Prioress (Meghan D. McLoughlin ’09) dominate the first act. In particular, the natural, yet traumatic, death of the First Prioress hangs over the rest of the opera...
...supporting character, the Prioress is rarely examined with such poignancy; but the delivery of McLoughlin’s admission that “God has renounced us” alone is worth the admission and braving the cold weather...
...displayed an extremely powerful musical and dramatic presence; his immediacy brought his character to life. Jessica G. Peritz ’06 as Mother Marie, Caitlin C. Vincent ’07 as Sister Constance and Catherine L. Vaughan ’08 as the Second Prioress perform with similar success...
That was what, in 1966, brought the sisters of Dulwich Hill to Goonellabah, to a subtropical hillside adjoining the Nightcap Range. "There seemed to be the need for places of prayer in Australia at that time," recalls Sister Bernadette, now the prioress, who has seen three sisters buried in the high-walled garden. Prayer is the air that they breathe. It's what brings them from their cells with the toll of the bell at 5:10 each morning, and what shapes their day, spent mainly in silence. There's morning prayer, private prayer, thanksgiving prayer, Vespers, and streams...
...first international conference of a group called Women's Ordination Worldwide in Dublin. The conference clearly challenged the debate freeze, and there were even rumors it might "ordain" its own female priests. Accordingly, the Vatican's Congregation for the Institutes of Consecrated Life sent a letter directing Chittister's prioress, Sister Christine Vladimiroff, to issue a "precept of obedience" forbidding Chittister to attend on pain of undefined "just penalties...