The Community of the Transfiguration is an Anglican

Anglican Communion

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 (Episcopalian) religious community

Religious order

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 of women founded by Mother Eva Mary, the former Eva Lee Matthews, in 1898.

At that time, Christians of all persuasions were beginning to rediscover the mystery of the Transfiguration

Transfiguration of Jesus

The Transfiguration of Jesus is an event reported in the New Testament in which Jesus is transfigured and becomes radiant upon a mountain. The Synoptic Gospels describe it, and 2 Peter 1:16-18 refers to it....

, 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

Oxford Movement

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 in the 1830s.

The Community's Mother House, in Cincinnati, Ohio

Cincinnati, Ohio

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, USA, is the center of ministries which include Bethany School

Bethany School (Glendale, Ohio)

Bethany School is a private day school in Glendale, Ohio, on the outskirts of Cincinnati in the United States. Founded as Bethany Home for children in 1898 by Eva Lee Matthews and Beatrice Henderson, it began offering instruction in 1898 and officially changed its name to Bethany School in 1958...

, retreat work,and a recreation center. The Sisters live under the evangelical counsels of poverty, chastity and obedience, and pray the Divine Office

Liturgy of the hours

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four times each day. In addition to their main house in Ohio, the sisters also work in California and the Dominican Republic. The motto of the Sisters is "Benignitas, Simplicitas, Hilaritas"—Latin for "Kindness, Simplicity and Joy."

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