GUAM
Guam Daily Post
By Neil Pang | Post News Staff
The Mother Superior Dawn Marie of the Order of the Discalced Carmelites, an order of cloistered nuns dedicated to prayer, held a press briefing yesterday in which she explained why the sisterhood had left Guam.
After 50 years of prayer for the island’s faithful, the Carmelite order celebrated their final mass on June 14 of this year and, the next day, left for their new home in California, Marie said yesterday.
Marie said she decided to hold the briefing in which she explained the reasons behind the move as an act of responsibility to the truth.
“Because we didn’t have a hope for a viable future, that’s the reason we had to move,” she said.
As Marie tells it, the decision to relocate came after a series of events that eventually resulted in what she called a “toxic environment” that made it too difficult for the nuns to continue in their way of life. That series of events, she said, stemmed from the Archdiocese’s acquisition of the former Hotel Accion property in Yona and the subsequent establishment of the Redemptoris Mater Seminary and the formation of the Blessed Diego Luis de San Vitores Theological Institute (BDTI).
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