Convent Of The Holy Infant Jesus
The Congregation of the Holy Infant Jesus (whose members use the postnominal initials of C.H.I.J.) is a religious institute of Religious Sisters founded by the French Minim friar, Father Nicholas Barré, to provide an education for underprivileged schoolchildren. Today, the IJ sisters and their lay volunteers have a presence in every continent, except North America and Oceania, through social projects and schools.
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“The nightingales are singing near
The Convent of the Sacred Heart,
And sang within the bloody wood
When Agamemnon cried aloud,
And let their liquid siftings fall
To stain the stiff dishonored shroud.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“The nightingales are singing near
The Convent of the Sacred Heart,
And sang within the bloody wood
When Agamemnon cried aloud,
And let their liquid siftings fall
To stain the stiff dishonored shroud.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
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That are quick-eyed Pleasure’s foes!
We convent nought else but woes,
We convent nought else but woes.”
—John Fletcher (1579–1625)
“The Holy Ghost is not a Sceptic, and He has not inscribed in our hearts uncertain opinions, but, rather, affirmations of the strongest sorts.”
—Martin Luther (1483–1546)
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—Michael K. Meyerhoff (20th century)
“Oh who and oh who will sing Jesus down
to help with struggling and doing without and being colored
all through blue Monday?
Till way next Sunday?”
—Robert Earl Hayden (1913–1980)