{"id":66054,"date":"2022-05-28T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-28T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldcatholicnews.com\/preservationists-seek-to-acquire-beloved-hollywood-convent-ap\/"},"modified":"2022-05-28T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-28T07:00:00","slug":"preservationists-seek-to-acquire-beloved-hollywood-convent-ap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldcatholicnews.com\/preservationists-seek-to-acquire-beloved-hollywood-convent-ap\/","title":{"rendered":"Preservationists seek to acquire beloved Hollywood convent | Ap"},"content":{"rendered":"
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LOS ANGELES \u2014 Fearing the Monastery of the Angels could be sold for private use or redevelopment, Los Angeles preservationists and advocates are forming a nonprofit as they seek to acquire and take responsibility for the beloved Hollywood home to cloistered Dominican nuns.<\/p>\n

Over the years, the community has been dwindling as the nuns age and after some died from COVID-19 and other causes, making it difficult to sustain the monastery\u2019s \u201cdemocratic way of life.\u201d The Dominican nuns have devoted themselves to studying Scripture and to praying for those who come to them for guidance and penance.<\/p>\n

An online petition to \u201cSave the Monastery of the Angels\u201d emerged last year, with LA residents referring to the four-acre property as a \u201cretreat\u201d and an \u201coasis\u201d amid the clamor of the city. It has garnered more than 4,200 signatures as of May 18.<\/p>\n

Local prioress Sister Maria Christine \u2014 president of the Association of North American Dominican Monasteries \u2014 said in December that no decision had been made to sell, adding that the Dominicans were \u201clooking at many options and trying to find the best suitable resolution.\u201d One of those options included seeking other religious communities who could manage the monastery.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe continue to wait for the official canonical permissions in order to proceed. Our goal is to retain the beauty of the property and continue to be a source of spiritual enrichment for all who come to pray,\u201d she told Religion News Service in an email Friday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe world needs prayer and we keep everyone in our prayer intentions,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

But preservationists aren\u2019t taking any chances.<\/p>\n

The Monastery of the Angels Foundation of Los Angeles, the nonprofit that\u2019s in the process of incorporating, wants to acquire the monastery to care for and maintain the property \u201cas a Catholic sacred space,\u201d according to the Save The Monastery Of The Angels website that went live on Thursday.<\/p>\n

\u201cLosing the monastery to non-Catholic redevelopment will both deprive Catholics in Los Angeles of the ability to take spiritual nourishment from its grounds and also remove a place of prayer from a community that badly needs it,\u201d according to the website.<\/p>\n

Behind that effort are Kim Cooper and Richard Schave, LA historians and preservationists who run a tour company exploring the city through an architectural, historical and spiritual lens; Rob Hollman, a nonprofit consultant whose clients have included PBS SoCal, Mr. Holland\u2019s Opus Foundation and Preserve Orange County; and Brody Hale, president of the St. Stephen Protomartyr Project, an organization that works to preserve historic Catholic churches and sacred spaces.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to be proactive,\u201d Schave said.<\/p>\n

Schave said he agrees with Sister Maria Christine that the monastery should remain a space for spiritual enrichment, but \u201cif we just let this go and put our faith in the Dominican Federation and the Holy See,\u201d he said, \u201cI do not believe we will achieve that goal.\u201d<\/p>\n

That part of town, Cooper said, has been subjected to overseas investors who \u201cdon\u2019t really have a sense of community.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey just want to do as much as they can as quickly as they can, in order to profit,\u201d Cooper said.<\/p>\n

Founded in 1924 by a New Jersey nun, the Monastery of the Angels has received financial support from wealthy LA families and celebrities such as the Dohenys, through the Carrie Estelle Doheny Foundation, and the late actress Jane Wyman, through the Jane Wyman Charitable Foundation. The nuns also bake and sell their famous pumpkin bread, peanut brittle, chocolate mints and other treats at the gift shop.<\/p>\n

Advocates behind this effort plan a fundraising campaign aimed at Catholics and others in the area and across the nation. They will determine whether it makes financial sense to continue producing the pumpkin bread and other goods.<\/p>\n

\u201cAny income derived from the production of these goods will be solely spent on the care and upkeep of the monastery and its grounds,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n

They\u2019ll also seek to retain the gift shop and explore the possibility of making the monastery available for retreats.<\/p>\n

Even though Dominican nuns would no longer inhabit the monastery under their stewardship, the group envisions keeping the chapel open for the occasional celebration of Mass, sacramental activities, 24-hour Eucharistic adoration and private prayer. Volunteers would be on hand.<\/p>\n

There appear to be fewer than five nuns residing at the monastery.<\/p>\n

The group is modeling its effort after other lay Catholics who have taken ownership of and responsibility for churches and monasteries across the country.<\/p>\n

One example is the Save Our St. Anne\u2019s group that for years has maintained St. Anne\u2019s Church in Columbia, California. The parish is within the boundaries of the Diocese of Stockton and Mass is celebrated there a few times a year.<\/p>\n

In Batesville, Indiana, the St. Mary\u2019s of the Rock Preservation Society has been caring for St. Mary\u2019s of the Rock Church since its closing in 2013. The parish is within the boundaries of the Archdiocese of Indianapolis.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose who wanted St. Mary\u2019s to remain a church available for occasional masses stepped forward and took on the responsibility of caring for it and its grounds, at their own expense,\u201d the group said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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