Seserų kazimieriečių nekasdieniška kasdienybė Pažaislyje
LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Kasdienybė; Katalikų bažnyčia; Kaupaitė, Kazimiera; Misija; Pažaislio vienuolynas; Pirmoji komunija; Seserys kazimierietės; Švento Kazimiero seserų kongregacija; Catholic Church; Congregation of the Sisters of Saint Casimir; Daily life; First Communion; Kaupaitė, Kazimiera; Mission; Pažaislis Monastery; Sisters of Saint Casimir.
ENOn 2 November 1920, the Pažaislis ensemble was transferred to the Sisters of Saint Casimir, a women's apostolic monastic order founded in 1907 in the United States of America, by an official act of the Catholic Church. The entire complex was conferred the name of the Monastery of the Congregation of the Sisters of Saint Casimir. The mission of the Sisters of Saint Casimir in Lithuania was to become established and open schools offering integral Christian and national education. The Sisters of St. Casimir were in charge of the works of renovation of the Pažaishs monastery. From 1920 to 1940 the sisters spent 800 thousand litas for that purpose. In the autumn of 1921 a primary school was established at the monastery, in 1923 a boarding school for gills was opened in the northern wing of the guest house, and workshops for the sisters began to operate: a book bindery - in 1925, a tailor's shop for liturgical clothes - in 1927, and a knitting shop - in 1928. In 1927 almost a hundred sisters lived in Pažaislis. A novitiate and a church operated at the monastery. During 25 years until 1948,166 girls took their first vows of chastity, poverty and obedience, and 24 batches of nuns graduated from the novitiate and spread around Lithuania to the mission sites. In 1940 the Pažaislis sisters experienced the first results of the Soviet occupation: the Central State Archive was transferred to the monastery, and the farm with gardens was inventoried and confiscated. On 16 August 1948 the sisters received the order of the occupational authorities to move out in three days. By the government's act of 15 June 1992, Pažaislis was returned to the Sisters of Saint Casimir. On October 3rd the sisters' chapel and cells were consecrated, and three years later the church was reconsecrated; the picture of Our Lady of Beautiful Love was returned to the church in 2000, and the traditions of pilgrimage began to grow.During more than twenty years of apostolic work in Pažaislis, the Sisters of Saint Casimir have been holding camps for children and youth and sessions of spiritual exercises, preparing children for the First Communion and the Sacrament of Confirmation, continuously meeting with people of various experience for spiritual conversations and seeing them off with a prayer of intercession, and have created a favourable ambience for personal and communal prayer. People come to the monastery to meet the sisters. The monastery receives an average of90-100 thousand visitors annually. Each sister helps approximately 1,555 persons with a prayer, words or a concrete gesture. [From the publication]
