Posted on 11/23/2021 6:34:03 PM PST by marshmallow
These holy women need the fierce protection and ongoing support of Catholic laity in the face of a coordinated onslaught by this papacy to undermine, secularize, and monetize this cloistered order.'
FAIRFIELD, Pennsylvania (LifeSiteNews) — A community of traditional nuns have rejected Vatican instructions aimed at undermining their contemplative way of life.
Catherine Bauer, the official spokeswoman for the traditional Carmelite nuns of Fairfield, Pennsylvania, has given an interview to Catholic World Report explaining the situation of these nuns in the wake of a recent apostolic visitation that took place at the end of September. She described the changes being demanded by Rome since the publication of the Vatican’s 2018 instruction Cor Orans and made it clear that the Carmelite nuns at Fairfield and in Valparaiso, Nebraska “have chosen to stand up and fight.”
“We believe there are those in leadership in Rome who believe that contemplative orders don’t have a place in the Church any longer,” Bauer told Catholic World Report this month.
The Vatican instruction Cor Orans directs the individual contemplative orders that hitherto have been autonomous to join federations, thereby undercutting their individuality and their own charisms. The reform is to be done, according to this document, in light of the Second Vatican Council and “changed socio-cultural conditions.”
The Fairfield Carmelites include 25 nuns and receive about 100 inquiries per year. They have a hermit priest as their chaplain, Father Maximilian Mary Dean, who offers for them the traditional Latin Mass. They live a traditional Carmelite cloistered life with much austerity and many hours of prayer.
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So much they could really do. Guess they never heard of multi-tasking.
Pope is a nosy busybody. Needs a hobby.
This shows how lost some in the Vatican truly are. With all the evil in the world how could anyone oppose contemplatives who devote themselves to prayer and sacrifice for the salvation of souls?
We need more religious communities completely dedicated to being in constant prayer for the world, the Church, and this country, not less. It’s probably one of the only things that, thus far, has prevented the wrath of God from completely consuming our wicked world up to now. It doesn’t help that most other people in our day, including most Christians, spend precious little time in prayer for anything beyond their own narrow concerns.
Anyone who thinks prayer “isn’t really doing anything” is not a Christian.
Martha was the multi-tasker. Mary was the contemplative. Mary chose the better part.
The commie Pope loathes the Latin mass, which these beautiful sisters celebrate each morning. We visited this monastery, which is not far from Gettysburg. God bless these good Carmelites as they stand against this mandate with which the pope intends to destroy them and take their beautiful property- much of which they and volunteers have built.
Amen.
The Church is collapsing around their ears and yet the Vaticanistas focus like a laser on destroying the few sources of dynamism left. May Christ protect these good women.
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