Community of the Transfiguration
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The Community of the Transfiguration is an Anglican (Episcopalian) religious community of women founded by Eva Lee Matthews and Beatrice Henderson in 1898.
At that time, Christians of all persuasions were beginning to rediscover the neglected mystery of the Transfiguration, a feast of Jesus Christ rarely celebrated until the end of the 19th century. In fact, there is no record of any medieval church or religious congregation being dedicated to the Transfiguration until about the time of the Oxford Movement in the 1830s.
The foundresses believed that there was a need for a group of women dedicated to the mystery of the Transfiguration. The Mother House, which is based in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, is the center of ministries which include Bethany School, retreat work, a nursing home and a recreation center.
The Sisters live under the evangelical counsels of poverty, chastity and obedience, and celebrate the round of Divine Office and Daily Mass.
The Sisters are an international community with houses in California and the Caribbean, where the Sisters work to enable the poor.
The motto of the Sisters is "Benignitas, Simplicitas, Hilaritas"—Latin for "Kindness, Simplicity and Joy."
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Mother Eva Mary, C.T.: The Story of a Foundation (1929 book on the order)
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