Monastery of Our Lady of the Rosary
Formerly of Buffalo, NY/Heath, OH
To contemplate, and to give. Thus flows the rhythm of Dominican life, sustained by the overtones of Eternal Love. It is a ceaseless rising and falling – an upward surge toward God, in contemplation; an overflow upon men of the Divine largesse, in action.
A Brief History
The Monastery of Our Lady of the Rosary was founded on May 24, 1905, by nuns from the Dominican monastery in Union City, N.J. Over the decades the community flourished in the contemplative Dominican life, with numerous vocations, a Dominican friar chaplain, an active chapter of the Dominican laity, and a strong liturgical life and ministry of intercessory prayer.
In 2020, the community relocated to the Diocese of Columbus, Ohio. After deciding to close in 2022, the remaining nuns transferred to other Dominican monasteries. The Monastery of Our Lady of the Rosary received official closure in 2023.
Society of Perpetual Prayer/Our Lady of the Rosary Mass Association:
All the members of the Society from 1918 – 2022 will be perpetually enrolled in each of the following Dominican Monasteries:
Dominican Monastery of St. Jude, Marbury, AL
Monastery of the Mother of God, in West Springfield, MA
Monastery of Our Lady of the Rosary, in Summit, NJ
Monastery of Our Lady of Grace, North Guilford, CT
The Monastery Cemetery
As part of the sale of the monastery in Buffalo, the Dominican Nuns of the Perpetual Rosary arranged for the transfer of the remains of 69 sisters who were buried in a cemetery on their former property, with some interments dating back to the early 1900s. The remains were reinterred in a special section of Mount Calvary Cemetery in Cheektowaga designated as Our Lady of the Rosary; the formal blessing and dedication of the sisters’ new resting place took place in August 2021.
The remains of two Dominican friars buried in the cemetery, chaplains to the Nuns, were transferred to the Dominican Friars Section of St. Francis Cemetery, 163 Smithfield Avenue, Pawtucket, RI.
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