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ORDER OF JULIAN OF NORWICH   OJN

 

  The Order of Julian of Norwich is a contemplative semi-enclosed Religious order of nuns and monks in the Episcopal Church, living together in one house.  We profess traditional vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, with the added vow of prayer ‘in the spirit of our Blessed Mother Saint Julian’, the fourteenth-century English anchoress and our patron.  

  The ministry of the Order to the Church is to be a community of prayer and contemplative presence, expressed in communal liturgical worship in chapel and in the silence and solitude of the cell.  Gregorian Chant is used for most of the four-fold Divine Office of the Book of Common Prayer.  The Eucharist is the centre of our life, the genesis of our work of contemplative and intercessory prayer.  This primary apostolate supports a limited exterior apostolate of the teaching of classical contemplative spirituality by retreats, spiritual direction, study and writing.

   Founded in 1985 by the Revd John Swanson, the Order was canonically recognized by the Episcopal Church in 1997, and is affiliated with the Conference of Anglican Religious Orders in the Americas.  For further information on the Order or its affiliates, please address the Guardian.

 

2812 Summit Avenue, Waukesha, WI 53188-2781, USA

Tel: 262 549 0452

Email: ojn@orderofjulian.org

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