While monastic orders and a few active ones tend to receive new postulants and novices individually, many “active” religious orders tend to do so in groups. The end of August or beginning of September is that season when year-old postulants finally are invested in their longed-for habits and veils, and other sisters make their progressions from second-year novices to be simply professed or solemnly professed. A few religious orders have already begun, and these young women are all aglow:
Sisters of St. Francis of Perpetual Adoration
Franciscan Sisters of the Renewal
Sisters of St. Francis of the Martyr St. George
Hmph…lots of Franciscans, here. I guess the Dominicans and Benedictines do their things a little later.
Ummm, and of course, this all goes for the fellows, too.
Franciscan Friars of the Renewal, also here.
Some Dominican Novice Brothers.
A new friar here, and I believe the sisters at Moniales are receiving a new postulant tomorrow.
Meanwhile, an unusual discernment story.
And Gerald has thoughts on why some religious orders are thriving with young vocations while others are not. And Darcee has some fair thoughts on something seldom discussed but troubling regarding how we present ourselves in comments sections, sometimes.
More to come within the next few weeks.
August 21st, 2007 at 5:55 pm
[...] You can see the communities she links to here: A flourishing of novices, Part I [...]
August 21st, 2007 at 6:19 pm
Glad you’re feeling better….
August 21st, 2007 at 6:23 pm
You forgot The Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary at Saint Benedict Center Religious Sisters and Religious Brothers —– Website—www.saintbenedict.com
August 21st, 2007 at 9:53 pm
[...] Read more about a flourishing of novices reported by The Archoress. [...]
August 22nd, 2007 at 2:08 am
Ah these pictures make my day . We have had to go through a lot of nastiness down here today and this puts my mind in the correct mindset. It also has inspired me to get the LOTH out that I have neglected the last two days
August 22nd, 2007 at 3:21 pm
http://monialesop.blogspot.com/2007/08/we-welcome-new-postulant.html
A new postulant!!
August 23rd, 2007 at 10:23 am
On the other hand, I recently saw a copy of the mass booklet prepared for the first profession of candidates to a rapidly-aging women’s congregation. The front cover of the booklet depicted a labyrinth. Inside was an “inclusive” Nicene Creed, where most of the personal pronouns had been omitted, for safety’s sake, I guess. So precious and pretentious.
One sees this a lot in certain circles: the insipid holy-card piety of an earlier age being replaced by an equally insipid New Age ‘spirituality’; aging liberal Catholics on the cutting edge of 1968. Sometimes I think, maybe, just maybe, there’s a reason some groups are dying out . . .
September 21st, 2007 at 12:07 am
[...] A few of you have surprised me by actually asking for the Part II I promised here. [...]