ARE THERE ANY POST CATHOLIC ORDERS OF SISTERS THAT CAN BOAST ABOUT THEIR NUMEROUS NEW NOVICES?
One week ago today, our sister postulants received the Holy Habit of Saint Dominic! For more pictures, visit https://www.nashvilledominican.org/news-and-media/photo-gallery/view-gallery/?gallery-id=50
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Pierre
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This is truly a beautiful sight - such joy.
The Order that taught me, the Congregation of the Holy Cross Sisters rarely has a vocation in the US, just a few outside the US. They drank the Vatican II kool-aid big time!
I was educated by two separate orders of nuns, one of them being the Holy Cross sisters and I concur.
I don't know why, but there is something transcendentally beautiful about seeing a nun wearing her habit. It brings an elevated sense of their commitment and reminds everyone that these are people set apart who serve God first. When the nuns lost their habit, they lost a lot more. I am not denigrating the sisters who stuck with it in pant suits and polyester. I appreciate their efforts too, but the power of the message was either lost or weakened greatly when they forsook their habits.
Every time a see a sister from an order that still has habits, I make it a point to thank them for wearing their habit and how much I appreciate their sign to the world. It isn't an accident that those are the only groups of sisters that are showing any kind of growth.
You know I find so odd that the sisters after the Council ditched their habits, became social workers, anti-military, environmental wacko's, pro-abortion, and now 50 years later when I take a look at their various websites they are very very old or passed away with NO VOCATIONS at all! And now look at the many orders of nuns popping up such as the Nashville Dominicans, Benedictines of Mary in Gower MO who wear traditional habits and attend the TLM only, The Carmel of Jesus, Mary and Joseph another TLM order nuns all bursting at the seams with YOUNG girls waiting on lists to enter these convents and all of them so proud to wear their traditional habits. I won't be unkind to the sisters of post Vatican II, I truly feel sorry for them for tossing their habits, becoming for the most part Leftists and social justice warriors all it did was destroy everything they once stood for and that was the Church and to serve Christ Our Lord. Most of their convents have been shuttered and shortly most will no longer be on earth, yet the good news is all that I mentioned above with the young traditional sisters to fill the void that "old dying" orders have become. It didn't have to be these way but it must have been for a reason. The New Springtime promised by Vatican II destroyed all of the orders of nuns as we knew them, the liturgy, high altars, seminaries, convents, schools, hospitals the list can go on and on.
My wife and I will be visiting our daughter, Sister Anna Josephine, in Nashville, in September. She just finished her Canonical Novice year, which these new Novice's pictured here are now starting. The Motherhouse in Nashville is such a place of peace and joy. The fruits of the Holy Spirit are in abundance there and every time we go we get a fresh infusion of this infectious happiness. Where the fruits of the Holy Spirit are, vocations flourish. It's that simple!
When you see a nun in traditional habits in public you see God! Years ago when nuns were nuns people would give up their seat on a bus or train out of respect for them it was simple as that, like a priest it is not a life for just anyone you give up a husband, children, friends, and devout yourself to Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I firmly believe the Church will correct itself in time with our new young nuns and the return of The Traditional Latin Mass, I may not see that day but I firmly believe it will happen.
Yes, sisters in habit are always a delightful sight. I was taught by the Dominican Sisters of Amityville, NY. They were a great order, but have gone the way of most. It is sad. I do not have much contact with nuns, but when I do, you can sometimes sense a sadness in some. I think they realize that serious mistakes were made. One order a few years ago that I had contact with because my mom was in a home they operated is the Alton Franciscans. They are great. Also, the website on the Institute on Religious Life has a listing of many good orders, men and women, active and contemplative.
I, too, was educated by Sisters of Holy Cross (French Canadian branch) and find it so sad to see them snuff themselves out. They enthusiastically embraced the "Dawning of the Age of Aquarius." And they were so proud of their exceptionally beautiful habits!
One more little factoid. Our daughter, Sister Anna Josephine, received her First Holy Communion from Father McDonald in the converted parish hall at St Joseph Catholic Church in Macon. The main church was undergoing the incredible renovation Fr McDonald was leading at that time.
The Salesian Sisters are also full of joyful postulants here in the States (2 provinces, east and west). They do wear a slightly abbreviated habit. Mary, Help of Christians, pray for us! "The largest Congregation of women religious with over 11,000 Sisters serving in 98 countries. Founded in 1872 by St. John Bosco and St. Mary Mazzarello." https://salesiansisters.org/top-10-things-you-should-know-about-us/
The Passionist cloistered nuns in the U.S. are slowly dying off and have hardly received any new vocations in years. At the rate they're going they will cease to exist. Their founder, St. Paul of the Cross, was such a holy man. The nuns are traditional and have given their lives to God. Does anyone know why they are not attracting new vocations?It seems to be a problem globally with the Passionist cloistered nuns. Any idea what could be the reason?
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This is truly a beautiful sight - such joy.
The Order that taught me, the Congregation of the Holy Cross Sisters rarely has a vocation in the US, just a few outside the US. They drank the Vatican II kool-aid big time!
No Polyester pants suits here! Thanks be to God!
I was educated by two separate orders of nuns, one of them being the Holy Cross sisters and I concur.
I don't know why, but there is something transcendentally beautiful about seeing a nun wearing her habit. It brings an elevated sense of their commitment and reminds everyone that these are people set apart who serve God first. When the nuns lost their habit, they lost a lot more. I am not denigrating the sisters who stuck with it in pant suits and polyester. I appreciate their efforts too, but the power of the message was either lost or weakened greatly when they forsook their habits.
Every time a see a sister from an order that still has habits, I make it a point to thank them for wearing their habit and how much I appreciate their sign to the world. It isn't an accident that those are the only groups of sisters that are showing any kind of growth.
You know I find so odd that the sisters after the Council ditched their habits, became social workers, anti-military, environmental wacko's, pro-abortion, and now 50 years later when I take a look at their various websites they are very very old or passed away with NO VOCATIONS at all! And now look at the many orders of nuns popping up such as the Nashville Dominicans, Benedictines of Mary in Gower MO who wear traditional habits and attend the TLM only, The Carmel of Jesus, Mary and Joseph another TLM order nuns all bursting at the seams with YOUNG girls waiting on lists to enter these convents and all of them so proud to wear their traditional habits. I won't be unkind to the sisters of post Vatican II, I truly feel sorry for them for tossing their habits, becoming for the most part Leftists and social justice warriors all it did was destroy everything they once stood for and that was the Church and to serve Christ Our Lord. Most of their convents have been shuttered and shortly most will no longer be on earth, yet the good news is all that I mentioned above with the young traditional sisters to fill the void that "old dying" orders have become. It didn't have to be these way but it must have been for a reason. The New Springtime promised by Vatican II destroyed all of the orders of nuns as we knew them, the liturgy, high altars, seminaries, convents, schools, hospitals the list can go on and on.
My wife and I will be visiting our daughter, Sister Anna Josephine, in Nashville, in September. She just finished her Canonical Novice year, which these new Novice's pictured here are now starting. The Motherhouse in Nashville is such a place of peace and joy. The fruits of the Holy Spirit are in abundance there and every time we go we get a fresh infusion of this infectious happiness. Where the fruits of the Holy Spirit are, vocations flourish. It's that simple!
When you see a nun in traditional habits in public you see God! Years ago when nuns were nuns people would give up their seat on a bus or train out of respect for them it was simple as that, like a priest it is not a life for just anyone you give up a husband, children, friends, and devout yourself to Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I firmly believe the Church will correct itself in time with our new young nuns and the return of The Traditional Latin Mass, I may not see that day but I firmly believe it will happen.
Tom Makin,
Congratulations to you and your wife for raising such an exceptional young woman.
Yes, sisters in habit are always a delightful sight. I was taught by the Dominican Sisters of Amityville, NY. They were a great order, but have gone the way of most. It is sad. I do not have much contact with nuns, but when I do, you can sometimes sense a sadness in some. I think they realize that serious mistakes were made. One order a few years ago that I had contact with because my mom was in a home they operated is the Alton Franciscans. They are great. Also, the website on the Institute on Religious Life has a listing of many good orders, men and women, active and contemplative.
I, too, was educated by Sisters of Holy Cross (French Canadian branch) and find it so sad to see them snuff themselves out. They enthusiastically embraced the "Dawning of the Age of Aquarius." And they were so proud of their exceptionally beautiful habits!
One more little factoid. Our daughter, Sister Anna Josephine, received her First Holy Communion from Father McDonald in the converted parish hall at St Joseph Catholic Church in Macon. The main church was undergoing the incredible renovation Fr McDonald was leading at that time.
God bless Sister Anna Josephine! I remember that Girdt Communion in the basement! And I remember all of you as well. Time flies!,8
What is a "post Catholic"? I am not familiar with that term.
The Salesian Sisters are also full of joyful postulants here in the States (2 provinces, east and west). They do wear a slightly abbreviated habit. Mary, Help of Christians, pray for us!
"The largest Congregation of women religious with over 11,000 Sisters serving in 98 countries. Founded in 1872 by St. John Bosco and St. Mary Mazzarello." https://salesiansisters.org/top-10-things-you-should-know-about-us/
The Nashville Dominicans do not regularly have the TLM but the NO.
The Passionist cloistered nuns in the U.S. are slowly dying off and have hardly received any new vocations in years. At the rate they're going they will cease to exist. Their founder, St. Paul of the Cross, was such a holy man. The nuns are traditional and have given their lives to God. Does anyone know why they are not attracting new vocations?It seems to be a problem globally with the Passionist cloistered nuns. Any idea what could be the reason?
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