Carmen Álvarez Cuadrado
These cloistered nuns keep watch around the clock, taking shifts in adoration before the Blessed Sacrament. Known as Perpetual Adorers, they follow the Rule of St. Augustine and came to see the pope.
LEO XIV
That constant search for the face of God, which particularly characterizes monastic life, takes on a special character in the vocation you have received: it is expressed in a life completely devoted to the continuous and silent adoration of a God who has become bread and invites you to unite yourselves to Him in the sacrifice of the altar, to form one body.
Mary Magdalene of the Incarnation founded the order in the early 1800s. She was the abbess of a convent in Italy, but asked to establish another branch devoted to adoration.
LEO XIV
Dear sisters, by manifesting in the Church the specific charism you received from your foundress, you are called to be weavers of communion through the threads of prayer and work, Eucharistic adoration, and fraternal sharing in the monastery.
Their independent monasteries are located in Spain, Chile, and the United States. But some have joined together in federations, including the Federation of the Holy Spirit. So, to mark its 50th anniversary, they visited the pope.
