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Last updated: June 28, 2009

The United States Association of Consecrated Virgins welcomes you in Christ

Behold! The Bridegroom comes!

New to the Catholic Church? Welcome!

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A Special Welcome Message from the USACV President

2009 Appeal Letter

USACV Newsletter ­ June 2009 (654k.pdf) NEW !

Brochure and Application Form for 2009 USACV Information Conference NEW !

All consecrated virgins are invited to attend the upcoming 2009 USACV Convocation Conference. Please fill out this application form right away and send it in.

Order forms now available for recorded sessions of 2007 National Convocation & Information Conference

Rome 2008 International Congress/Pilgrimage

NEW: Order form for conferences & homilies

 

Info Packet on Consecrated Virginity available for download (1.7MB)

Video (DVD) on consecrated virginity available

Annual USACV Membership Registration form available

Message to USACV members from the President


Recent Interview with Archbishop Burke

En route from Washington to the Eternal City, Archbishop Burke took some questions from National Review Online, expanding on some of the themes of his speech Friday, and addressing a new one or two.

KATHRYN JEAN LOPEZ: You’ve been very supportive of “consecrated virgins.” Is this concept important in the church? Does American society — one you say is in “crisis” — need it?

ARCHBISHOP BURKE: The consecrated virgins give a strong witness to the purity and selflessness with which we all should love one another, especially our brothers and sisters who are in most need. The consecrated virgin offers her virginity to Christ for consecration, so that she may give public witness to the love of Christ for all, without boundary and to the end. A society which is growing increasingly secularized needs desperately the life and witness of consecrated virgins who call all their brothers and sisters to love as Christ loves, that is, for the lasting good of all.

See full article at National Review Online

Kempe window at Carlton Scroop, Lincolnshire, England (1890). The window is at the east end of the south aisle. Detail showing the burning lamp of the Wise Virgin, and the Christic Chi Rho wheel symbol (courtesy of T. Manthorpe)


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