A Franciscan or the order of Mother Teresa. I live in a First Nations Native American community. Can you discuss the similarities between Native American spiritually and the philosophy of St Francis?
THIS PROGRAMME IS VERY INTERESTING. I AM A SRILANKAN TAMIL ROMAN CATHOLIC FROM SRI LANKA. THE HOLY ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH IS VERY GOOD RELIGION AND MANY CHRISTIAN PEOPLE ARE FAITHFULLY RELIGION.
My uncle was a diocesan priest. I asked him once what was the difference between him and a visiting priest (a Salesian of Don Bosco). Without thinking, he replied, “Oh, well, he’s a religious priest, and I’m not.” 🤣🤣🤣
I think I'd fit in with Franciscan 3rd order...secular. I've always felt the need to feed the hungry, volunteer, help others in distress without judgement.
Try contacting the Natioal Fraternity of the Secular Franciscan Order online to find out where the nearest local Fraternity tou might be. Give us a try!
Yes! Beautiful!! I’m JUST NOW learning about these. I NEVER KNEW about third or secular orders!!! I wanted to be a part of religious orders all of my life but couldn’t. Or so I thought….Until now!
This is a remarkable and beautiful show you're doing. I just want to share that I was privileged and honored to have a confession with a Dominican priest it was the most beautiful experience of my life his ability to uplift with the grace of God help me become a stronger individual and following Christ.
Don't feel bad, my dad was a non practicing Massachusetts Irish Catholic and my mom was a practitioner of witchcraft. I don't even know if I've been baptized, I'm just trying to learn before taking that step.
@@marciwyrd8905 Even my dad was non-practising Catholic and my mom was Protestant. They mix-married. I was never close to my relatives of dad's side and more close to my relatives of mom's side. And they hate Catholicism. I grew up not actually knowing what catholcism was and believing only Protestant belief. I got baptized as a Protestant. But God had a different plan for me, He showed me the truth. 2014 I fell seriously ill and doctors didn't know the cause of my sickness. They just prescribed me sleeping pills (that too overdosed for my age). I didn't take the pills. Then At night I started seeing visions of Demons coming to attack me and I was praying to God to save me and send his Angels to my defence. I prayed to Saint Michael the Archangel, defend me O dear angel, then I saw Saint Michael and the demon fighting and the Archangel kicked down the demon. Then I saw Jesus appearing (in the form of Divine Mercy image of His, which I didn't know that time), and the ray of Red Light from His Heart was casts on the demon and the demon was burnt down to ashes. Then the ray of Blue Light from His Heart was casts upon me. Then I saw many Saints standing around me. Notable were Mother Mary sitting close to my head on bed and Saint Teresa of Calcutta (Blessed that time) who was praying her Rosary close to my bed and I saw Jean Vianey, Dominic Savio, Francis Xavier and many others who I don't know. Then I saw Jesus coming close to my ears and saying "Arise" and I woke Up and was fully cured. When I woke up to the reality I saw my brothers weeping and my mom and dad around me and others ( neighbours who came to visit me because I was ill) they said that they were scared because I was unconscious, not waking up and not coming to senses and murmuring. I told everyone there about it. Next day my dad took me to our parish (because I desired so and my first time going there)but the parish priest was not there, he was sick and had been hospitalized. He took me to the closest parish to ours but he was also not there. So he took me to another parish pretty far from ours, I was praying please God let me meet the priest today. And the priest was there. I narrated everything to him, he prayed and blessed me and gave me the relic of Mother Teresa's cloth. Henceforth that day I was cured of that unknown sickness. And you know what it will be 8 years now on 20th October for me being Catholic and I am grateful to God.
I love the Dominicans. I had nothing but positive experiences with them. I wanted to go to a Dominican high school but my mother found it "inconvenient." My first experience was when we traveled to Europe by ship when I was 11. There were a couple of Dominican sisters on board and one of them was a lot of fun. She taught me how to play ping pong! My secondencounter was when I was planning my wedding. My fiancè was a Ukrainian Catholic and we had to have a Byzantine Rite wedding. My parish absolutely refused even while admitting it was Canon Law. But his family was not religious and didn't belong to a Ukrainian parish so my mother, in one of her better moments, said "St. Vincent Ferrer church (NYC) has always been known for their music. Maybe they'll learn the rite and do it. It's a chanted rite, very beautiful. So we went to talk with those dear Dominicans and they were beyond enthusiastic. They learned the four part harmony and sang it beautifully. I was really glad to have such a beautful wedding. Unfortunately, the marriage was less beautiful and was annulled.
Benedictine! Did you guys even mention us? For 1,500 years we've been building communities, schools, farms, hospitals, universities, exploring the universe. Name, we've done it & continue to. What's so great about the Rule, is it's versatility. Thanks for the show. Also, you might mention the Institute of Religious Life. Pax.
My great great Uncle Tom’s first assignment as a newly ordained priest in 1917 was literally to serve in the trenches as a U.S. Army Chaplain. I can only imagine what it would be like for him to give sacraments to the Catholic soldiers before they jumped out of the trench.
I have never found an order that is willing to take older women which is a real shame because a lot of us have money, healthcare, and we know we are committed for the rest of our lives. So many of the young women I grew up with that went into religious orders all left after four years. I made it through the military for 30 years I am absolutely positive I could make it in a religious order for the rest of my life and be a real asset to them. However I have not yet found one that would except me because of my age of 63
Have you looked into the carmelite in New Mexico? Father Jose which is a carmelite fryer recently told me that they took this older lady that had a daughter she only was there for a couple years. God bless you.
That's sad because in the past, it was common for widows of a certain age to enter the convent. I agree with you. I'm 76 but I know I wouldn't fit in to communal life. I was an only child and I have had to be strong and take care of myself most of my adult life. Now that my Catholic life is back on track, I am praying for a good, Catholic husband because I am alone and want a companion in life.
This is good to know. I'm Jewish and one of my best friends actually she's more like a sister is Catholic and I just love learning about Catholicism so I can feel as close as I can to her.
Jesus loves you. And is waiting for you to come to him. He is the Messiah of your people. Please read Isaiah 53. I know it is a forbidden chapter to Jewish people but read it and discern for yourself
You guys should do a show specifically on the third orders or lay versions of these. Most people don’t even know about them. Even me I just recently learned about them! I’m so overwhelmed and overjoyed that I can finally be a part of and involved in this. Always wanted to be involved with these orders but everyone thinks you have to be a monastic type or whatever and single to join these. But they invented third orders/or secular lay versions since centuries ago just for people like me. It’s wonderful! Also just learned they brought back the Catholic Knights Templar order! This is awesome we need men and women of God to take a stand and on fire to defend our holy Catholic faith sometimes even physically. In these evil times I see why they brought them back. We are back in a modern day form of the Crusades.
I grew up here in NC and was taught at Cardinal Gibbons High School by the Sisters of Notre Dame We didn't have but 3 Catholic High Schools in NC back when I was in High School. They were excellent teachers. They molded me into who I am today.
This is one of the parts of my faith that I never understood. Looking forward to learning the differences. Growing up I just assumed that all priests were the same and were taught the same.
Just came across this episode! So fascinating and learnt alot.. thanks guys! Over here in South East Asia (Singapore to be exact), the MEP priests played such a big role in bringing Catholicism over. I have been blown away by their kindness and great love. Confessed to one when I came back to Church after 15 years and was overwhelmed by the love of the Father. Also discovered about the Dominicans and was introduced to Aquinas through their teaching and really drawn to their intellectual charism. Our faith is beautiful in its diversity, complexity and richness!
I don’t know how true it is..But sadly I hear so many negative things about them saying they are abusive, irresponsible, neglecting those there that they are entrusted to care for. There’s even movements to expose them now. 🤷🏻♂️ So I wonder what this is about.
When I was in elementary school it was named Immaculate Heart of Mary and I was taught by the Sisters of St. Joseph. I went to high school at Notre Dame HS and was taught by the Immaculate Heart of Mary Sisters! So, IHM is a big part of my Catholic identity!
Yes....then they were destroyed starting in the 1960s. Just like everything else in the Church. But we have to keep hope alive! The Church will rise up again...like a Phoenix from the ashes! And, maybe, it’ll happen quickly, when we least expect it. Just like Our Lord on Easter Sunday!
I ama Franciscan 3rd order & have been for msny years ! I love your Programs that are so educational to Catholics, Cradle Catholics & would like to be a Catholic! God Bless you & your public mission! 🙏😇❤️🇺🇸⭐️
Love your guys show!!!! St. Andre Besette is actually from the Congregation of Holy Cross @21:00 !!! I go to Holy Cross College in ND Indiana and am blessed to have learned of the Miracle Man of Montreal!!!! God Bless!!! Sláinte ☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️
Went to an elementary and high school run by Benedictines. Attended a university run by the Dominicans. I have aunts who are missionaries of the Holy Spirit (SVD/SSpS). However, the charism of the Jesuits touched my life when I entered the workforce. The Jesuits probably have the most practical, down-to-earth advice for people.
On a practical level the real difference between solemn and simple vows is how poverty is defined and lived out. As a Salesian of Don Bosco I renounce the administration of property but not it's ownership. If I were to inherit money, for instance, It's "mine" but I could not use it without my provincial's permission. Other articles in our rule prohibit us from owning land, cars, or having personal bank accounts, but Don Bosco set the definition of poverty up this way because of the historical circumstances surrounding our founding. Italy's anticlerical government was revoking the citizenship rights of religious, so the constitutions were written to dodge the civil laws while still being in accordance with Church law. Sobering thought: many Salesians I know who may have an inheritance use it to cover their burial costs. Either that or for some project like renovating a chapel or classroom. Bottom line: Chastity is chastity, and obedience is obedience - but poverty is lived out in different ways in different congregations. After ten years of perpetual profession I have the option of making the solemn vow of poverty, but I don't know any Salesian who has.
I loved listening to this. Not sure why anyone would give you a thumbs down. I will have to watch again to see if I can figure out the different groups . Have a blessed Holy Week !
I am a new viewer of your channel. Have enjoyed learning and growing my faith. I grew up with diocesan priests at my church but as an adult I learned about the OFM Franciscan friars because of the church I started attending and fell in love with their attitudes. Very compassionate about everything they do.
My dad joined the Servants of the Divine Word, SVD., they are a missionary group and they’re still around today. He was the FIRST BLACK PRIEST ordained in Albany County, NY in 1946 and only the 19th IN OUR ENTIRE COUNTRY. Unfortunately, he felt he had to leave the priesthood due to racism in 1956. I was raised with a very rich Catholic background. I went to Providence College with the O.P’s. If they called today I would do anything in my power for them.
Great show! I will have to watch it again because there is soooo much great information about the fruits of the Spirits which we are all called into express, very exciting! Would love to see another segment like this on other religious orders that are never mentioned. It is time Catholics understand that we are all sitting on top of a unique mount Everest, filled with every kind of treasures waiting for us all to dive in head on! Keep it up guys, doing a GREAT job!
Jesuits are never popular in their own time. Only in retrospect do people respect the leadership and accomplishment of Jesuits. This is why they have always been 'cannon fodder' as Ryan said. Jesuits bring change because they question sacred cows and ask hard questions. They are stubbornly purist in their theological processes, even if it leads them into unpopular positions that question orthodoxy. If they didn't push the Church forward at a measured pace in order to mold it with modern thought, the Church could have been lost to a series of schisms over the centuries. In 100 years, today's Jesuits will be respected by Catholics; 100 years from now Catholics will be saying, 'those Jesuits from the early 2000's were great, the way they helped the Church walk through great social and political change without losing its core essence, but these Jesuits today - a bunch of trouble makers, because our Church today is perfect and doesn't need correction or change.'
Y'know I'm going to rewatch this and takes some notes before I forget the info I just learned. I found this podcast a few weeks ago and have been binge watching them because they really give a lot of information.
Great show. It’s crazy trying to explain to friends (including most of my Catholic friends) the different orders and congregations you discussed today. What fun. I was educated by SSND and Visitation sisters and I was raised in and still attend a Passionist Monastery church (which is now run by a terrific diocesan priest who grew up in the parish). I just love the history and the depth of our faith. And you three make it fun. Thanks.
I love that you guys are all tad guys, but you still offer loving service to the church and support support the pope and that’s a huge inspiration to me right now. Went to church for the first time in 20 years and I prayed sincerely for the first time in my life. I just want to thank you guys for that and I hope all Christians can read the book of Romans and really focus on humbling themselves before the Lord. Thank you so much.
Loved the program. I am a Perpetually Professed Lay Dominican. I am a member of the Regina Pacis Chapter in Ocala, FL. I was drawn in by the four pillars most significant or the first that struck me are study and prayer...BE careful what you ask for! I got both in ways I never imagined! Saint Dominic and so many of the Dominican saints are true individuals of faith, especially their devotion to our Blessed Mother.
I went to a private Catholic school in Woodbridge, VA. Saint Thomas Aquinas Regional School. We have Dominican Sister (not a nun 😉) as principal and teachers. I now work there, I have such a love for this Order. Father was right when he said musical and educators. I believe Saint Faustina was with the Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy. This was such an informative episode, I want to look more into the Little Lambs order❤ God bless!
There's a difference between a sister & a nun. A sister owns property, works in a profession like doctor, lawyer or teacher. Mostly lives in a community of other sisters. Nuns live a monastery & never leaves the monastery unless it's a very special reason. Nuns work within the monastery like cooking, singing & maintaining their garden & church. They pray several times throughout the day They usually doing arts & crafts like sewing, tailoring or writing.
Awesome I’ve been wanting for so long an explanation on this see in my childhood I assisted a parish run by Franciscan Friars we moved out of state so the Parish I went to was Trinitarian (I go to this same parish today and am quite involved) I was in the military for a while and well there was always a Catholic Chaplin on base but except for one of my duty stations that I know he was Jesuit (only know cause he Baptized my son) So I’ve always had the question why so many orders how do they differ? Being involved in church groups I’ve learned a lot but there’s still confusion in my head So you’ll understand why I am soooo looking forward to watching this episode I pray to get some clarity May You Be Blessed 🙏🏼
When I was then a student, I lived in a Catholic Boarding School of the Sisters of Mary then their Order of Sisters are in balance to be happy and strict sometimes because they always said that living life should be in balance. However because of their semi-contemplative life it was just so prolific for they always have the spirituality to serve the least or the poor people like me since then for their additional Vow is the Service for the Poorest of the Poor after the Traditional Evangelical Vows of Poverty, Chastity and Obedience. They mean a lot to me, I learnt so much from them about the values of Life and its Sanctity, including its fundmental virtues. I can't thank them more!
I was in a parish whose pastor was originally a Norbertine. He had a beautiful voice. He told us that the Norbertine order was founded to sing in the great medieval cathedrals of Europe.
I am a parishioner at a Norbertine Church. It is absolutely beautiful. Fervent Eucharistic adoration, vespers, Latin Mass. God blessed our family....so much spiritual growth!
I'm a member of the Order of Malta and is the 4th oldest religious order in the Church. Its a lay religious Order that predated the Crusades and is the oldest surviving Order of chivalry. Charism: Tuitio Fidei et Obsequium Pauperum
I eventually left Seminary and Catholicism for a while but have returned to Catholicism where i believe God wants me.studied as a diocesan priesthood and visited with the male order of the Missionary Brothers of Charirty . While studying for the priesthood, i knew many Franciscans . Great mrn of God.
Thank you for talking about our catholic different religious orders ….Im a secular Servites of the third order, living my promise the best I can. God bless you good people.
Awake brain! Lol. I have the Catechism for 30 years and now start to understand some of the teaching. I think its all in the Catechism but it is so much that a laity found it a huge task to tackle. A page would take a week to process sometimes. Fr. Corapi has a series on the catechism and he is very good. To me, he is as good in theology as Bishop Sheen. ✝
Yes I had Franciscan nuns in perkyo school but I had no idea until I listened to this video I knew what the monks did or thought I did but, really had no idea there were so many different orders.
How's about the Tridentine orders? We've got the Tridentine Franciscans, quasi-Redemportists, Dominicans, and so much more. You guys do so much goodness for the Catholic Church 🙂.
I love the priests of The Sacred Heart Of Jesus. I grew up on Dominican Nuns (so that's why we sang so much😁) In high school I had Sisters of the Incarnate Word and sisters of the Blessed Sacrament. Here in Houston. I have to say the sisters of The Incarnate Word are TOUGH but they were great teachers of the word of God.
The first three orders formed by St. Francis were 1. The friars minor 2. The Poor Ladies , renamed Poor Claires, 3. The brothers and sisters of penance now known as Secular Franciscans. Capuchins and others came along later.
Hola,so nice to hear you Folks,good thing.I have an earpods now I could listen to you all even I'm working. I've learned many things about Catholicism.Thanks a lot
So i just realized 6 years ago that there were different types of priests. 😶 i used just know the diocesan priest (all black white collar is all i knew) i actually learned the proper term today on this episode😬. I found Franciscan priests 6 years ago at St. Lawrence of Brindisi out in Watts when we made the decision to enroll our kids in catholic school. I was in awe.
Jesuit Spirituality??? I’m not sure that such a thing exists. But let me introduce you to a faithful Catholic’s ‘Jesuit Spirituality’: to resolve every day to pray that the Company/Society of Jesus will either convert back to the Catholic Faith or be suppressed again (as they were in the 18th C.).
@@oledocfarmer repent, and turn back to righteousness. It's not for us to decide who is and is not in communion. Let's please avoid schism and division where we can
New subs here Padres...🙏🙏❤ Thanks for this... really helps us a lot. By the way, I am a Catechist from the #Philippines. 🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭 and a #MarianDevotee 🌹🙏
Perhaps a talk about third orders, secular order and associates for lay people. I am professed in the Secular Franciscan Order. It is a beautiful charism.
I am currently discerning religious life and have recently been interesting in contemplative life. Originally I was looking at active orders but after visiting one/speaking with them, I do not think that is where I can serve God best. I know my heart is one for contemplation.
I was a Capuchin Franciscan for almost 8 years and left when I met my wife. My ministry was working with drug addicts and inner city schools. Though I left, the Charism has stuck with me and will forever!
@@emiliocittadini6451 you must be dispensed of your vows and there is a difference between temporary and perpetual vows also. I left before Perpetual vows
St. Augustine absolutely wrote a rule and it was revived by the Canons Regular and charismatic Saints like St. Norbert. It was later adopted by various medicant groups, including the Dominicans, the Mercedarians and the various Augustinian Friars. He actually wrote two versions of it.
Great conversation ❣️after much searching and sad experiences with the Roman Catholic Church I finally found a Reformed Catholic that brings peace joy and especially the knowing of a Loving God and the love Of Jesus and especially to know the Holy Spirit❤️ my helper when I shout Help✝️
Do Franciscan Friars still say mass at church? When I was a kid my parish had a priest and 3 friars who said masses at different times. The friars were my favorite to serve with as an altar boy because they were such characters. All very different. One was all fire and brimstone. One was soft spoken and sweet. And the third told me to always keep my shoes shined.
When I was a child I told my mom I didn’t think I was going to get married, but wanted kids.. (thinking I wanted to be a sister/nun, but didn’t really know anything about any). My mom scoffed and said, why wouldn’t you want to be married. I had a rough, secular, young adulthood.. was a single mom with 2 little kids for 10 years... not very strong in my faith, but a simmering desire. I remarried in a less than great marriage. Still married but wish I’d had more resources to be able to know there was a such thing as discerning religious life.
Its not too late. St. Rita of cascia is our parish patron saint. Lots of mothers who went to religious life after their kods became older or were widowed
When I was in the middle of elementary school I had a chance to go to the local Catholic school. For some reason I chose not to. I don't now why I made this decision. I loved our local church and the Monsignor was such a wonderful, warm man. Even at this time period I was helping behind the scenes as a altar boy. Forty Five years later I no that this was a big mistake because I felt the calling from a early age and never acted on it.
Thanks guys, I enjoy the Breakdown. The playbook is real , still I will always Root for Salesians. I was drafted by Don Bosco Tech. Blessed to be taught by great order. Shalom Hermanos.
I once tries to join the Capuchin fryers, they said I couldn't be able to join because I have a felony on my record and that I have bipolar disorder. But I have such a deep desire to live as a monk or in a religious order. Before I was a Catholic or even christian I lived a few years in a Buddhist monastery training to be a zen monk but I felt a calling for something deeper than the nothingness of empty zen meditation. So I left and fell into a life of sinful behavior and ended up in jail where I had a series of dreams visions and signs that showed me that the Buddha was inferior in every way to Jesus Christ. AND that Christ is real. In one of the dreams I had in there Christ spoke to me as I stood in front of a door and put his hand on my shoulder and said "I know that you will walk through the door; for it is open and can not be shut. But not now." I'm still developing my spirituality. I will find the way that he wills for me. But not now it seems.
This is so beautiful. I'm sorry you faced rejection and that those were the reasons given to you :( but Jesus clearly has a different plan for you ❤ stay strong, He will get you through this.
Im an admirer of the Franciscans, Jesuits and Benedictines. I got my Vincentian education by way of the Daughters of Charity in high-school. Then with the Dominican Fathers during my undergrad and grad school, now I teach at a college run by the La Sallian brothers. Then I attend mass at a local church run by Capuchins. 😆
She was strict, but a funny Nun. When she entered religious life, Carmels were not the religious houses of today. Many wealthy families would send their daughters to Convents, where they would live lives of luxury, wearing find jewelry under their habits, and being served hand and foot by the Sisters who had come from poor homes. St. Theresa reformed the order and brought back the practice of poverty. She also introduced periods of recreation, including dancing within the cloister, so it was not all dower and strict. One of my favorite stories is of her riding on a horse as she was travelling from one Carmel to another, to encourage and check to see that the Sisters were adhering to the reforms she had instituted. She was thrown off the horse into a muddy puddle. The story goes, she looked up to heaven and said to God. "The way you treat your friends, it's a wonder you have any at all."
23:20 "You guys ever been with Augustinians?" You have one subscribing Augustinian friar here 😁 May I provide some additional insights, though: - It was the hermits themselves who requested the Pope to unite themselves, and the Pope turned these Tuscan hermits into a mendicant Order at the service of the Church in whatever way. - And our charism is *community life, plain and simple.* As our holy father Augustine reminds us who follow his way of life, "the main purpose for your having come together is to live harmoniously in one house, intent upon God in oneness of mind and heart" (Rule of St. Augustine, I, 3). - "Community is the axis around which Augustinian religious life turns: a community of brothers who live harmoniously in their house, united by a single soul and a single heart, seeking God together and open to the service of the Church." (OSA Constitutions [2008], 26). Whereas other Orders and congregations have community life as essential for the exercise of their common apostolate, for us Augustinians the community *is* the first apostolate. Without the community as our first apostolate, an Augustinian apostolate (which can be in whatever way, depending on the needs of the Church) simply cannot exist, kinda like "charity begins at home." That's how community is important for an Augustinian. Lastly, Augustinians in the US? You can consider those at Villanova University in Pennsylvania. There are also Augustinian provincialates in Chicago and California, so you can search them up. Hope these help. ANIMA UNA ET COR UNUM IN DEUM OSA (Order of St. Augustine): www.theaugustinians.com OAR (Order of Augustinian Recollects): www.agustinosrecoletos.com OAD (Order of Discalced Augustinians): oadnet.org 💘 📖
What a blessing to the feed you are my brother! Thanks so much for sharing more in depth. Send a group to St. Augustine, Florida.... what a great fit that would be ;) PEACE
Merrimack College is administered by the Augustinians and we also have the Order of St. Augustine of the Primitive Observance( OSAPrim) in Deland, Florida.
My grandfather, mother and myself went to an agustinian university. And im friends with an agustinian priest... some in our formation house/study house became agustinian priests... so they when im sick in school they sometimes invite me, the pantry is awesome! Osa communal life! But im introvert so im with opus dei. :)..
"Yeah, the Franciscan divided up into ... like five thousand orders ..." 😂🤣🤣 You guys are hilarious! Not a religious, but I am sharing this with OP's, OFM's, OFM Cps, OMI's, SJ's & SDB's!!!!
I was taught by the Christian Brothers at LaSalle military academy in Oakdale Ny. I liked their dedication to education and their gentle non corporall punishment approach unlike what i experienced with the nuns in grade school.
I was taught by the sisters of St Joseph of Brentwood the mother house at that time had 5 thousand sisters including novices they were strict but very loving sadly they are dieing and almost gone!!!
I’ve always been a musician, since childhood. I’ve a long time liked teaching others in order to help them. And I’ve a long time been a bit of a contemplative, trying to put in order in my mind the spiritual dynamics to set oneself free and how these things make sense and are. A belief, of whatever sort, has been a focus of my life since childhood and hearing of Jesus. In younger adulthood l searched through varied beliefs. After returning to hoping in Jesus, l knew that l wanted to help others, and that beginning with an inspiration to work with special needs. As called, I began working with seniors, then at risk youth, then hiv-aids, then after 13yrs was hired as a music coordinator and 1:1 prevocational teacher for special needs these 11yrs. It’s been a long suffering way with lots of wonderful love, 20yrs. What l have left as an inspiration is to share music before high offices, at least the one, this being the case for almost as long. I’ve learned through many experiences that anything can happen, of what you have or have not been knowledgeable, and God has His hand through all of them whatever is. 🎼✌🏼📖💙⚖️🙏🏼🎶
My mother was my grand and gr. Grandmothers were taught by the st Joseph nuns. My mother went to 3 different high schools sts.of Charity/ Carmelite, st.Joseph, and stds. Of Charity depending if she was in New York, Sanfrancisco, Galveston or New Orleans. I was taught by the St. Joseph. The priests were all Franciscan or Redempterist.
I worked with the Institute of the Incarnate Word Fathers and their religious sisters, the Servants of the Lord and the Virgin of Matera in a parish for many years. Great order! They were founded in Argentina in the 1980s.
I learned something here. I had a great-uncle who was a diocesan priest in Italy. I had been told that he inherited the ancestral family home and left it to the church when he died. I didn't understand how he could inherit and hold property until he died so now I understand. I never knew that priests could own property. I thought everyone took vows of poverty that negated ownership.
4 Franciscan orders- Minor, Capuchins, Conventuals, TOR plus the many , including many that converted whole scale from other faith traditions & the Secular Franciscan Order
I would like to add that I am in formation to become a Secular Franciscan. I am married with children. Many orders have secular orders, third order, lay orders, or oblates for the lay faithful. If you are not aware of this, please check into it.
Yes! I’m just learning about this!! I’ve never known about secular/third orders before now. I always felt called or wanted to be a monk or something but being married I couldn’t. BUT all this time I could have been part of the third orders. I’m learning about each one now to discern which vocation/ order I can belong to. I’ve been in contact with some to start the process.
I told the diocesan vocations director that I wanted to be a Franciscan, and he suggested I look at the Capuchins. I went through the Novitiate, before it was discerned I should be a layman. I would do it all again. God still speaks to me particularly through their charism.
Which religious order would you join? Which order would you pick for DellaCrosse, Scheel, & Fr. Rich?
For Rich definite Augustinian Ryan a Valid him and Scheel Dominican
A Dominican for me
Servants of Jesus and Mary ("traditional" Jesuits) or Franciscan friars of renoval.
A Franciscan or the order of Mother Teresa. I live in a First Nations Native American community. Can you discuss the similarities between Native American spiritually and the philosophy of St Francis?
Dominican ♥️
I’m a Benedictine Oblate and I’ve been told I’m a Benedictine with a Franciscan spirituality! Simplicity…
God’s peace be with you all! 🕊
"People don't want to be a part of groups that are fighting, people want to be a part of groups that are building." Very profound!
thats code for NWO globalism and ecumenicism
THIS PROGRAMME IS VERY INTERESTING. I AM A SRILANKAN TAMIL ROMAN CATHOLIC FROM SRI LANKA. THE HOLY ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH IS VERY GOOD RELIGION AND MANY CHRISTIAN PEOPLE ARE FAITHFULLY RELIGION.
My uncle was a diocesan priest. I asked him once what was the difference between him and a visiting priest (a Salesian of Don Bosco). Without thinking, he replied, “Oh, well, he’s a religious priest, and I’m not.” 🤣🤣🤣
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He was very correct, that's the terminology that is used. Religious Men and Women
I think I'd fit in with Franciscan 3rd order...secular. I've always felt the need to feed the hungry, volunteer, help others in distress without judgement.
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Try contacting the Natioal Fraternity of the Secular Franciscan Order online to find out where the nearest local Fraternity tou might be. Give us a try!
Yes! Beautiful!! I’m JUST NOW learning about these. I NEVER KNEW about third or secular orders!!! I wanted to be a part of religious orders all of my life but couldn’t. Or so I thought….Until now!
This is a remarkable and beautiful show you're doing. I just want to share that I was privileged and honored to have a confession with a Dominican priest it was the most beautiful experience of my life his ability to uplift with the grace of God help me become a stronger individual and following Christ.
As a Catholic convert- I never understood any of the differences, thank you for this!
Don't feel bad, my dad was a non practicing Massachusetts Irish Catholic and my mom was a practitioner of witchcraft. I don't even know if I've been baptized, I'm just trying to learn before taking that step.
@@marciwyrd8905 Even my dad was non-practising Catholic and my mom was Protestant. They mix-married. I was never close to my relatives of dad's side and more close to my relatives of mom's side. And they hate Catholicism. I grew up not actually knowing what catholcism was and believing only Protestant belief. I got baptized as a Protestant. But God had a different plan for me, He showed me the truth. 2014 I fell seriously ill and doctors didn't know the cause of my sickness. They just prescribed me sleeping pills (that too overdosed for my age). I didn't take the pills. Then At night I started seeing visions of Demons coming to attack me and I was praying to God to save me and send his Angels to my defence. I prayed to Saint Michael the Archangel, defend me O dear angel, then I saw Saint Michael and the demon fighting and the Archangel kicked down the demon. Then I saw Jesus appearing (in the form of Divine Mercy image of His, which I didn't know that time), and the ray of Red Light from His Heart was casts on the demon and the demon was burnt down to ashes. Then the ray of Blue Light from His Heart was casts upon me. Then I saw many Saints standing around me. Notable were Mother Mary sitting close to my head on bed and Saint Teresa of Calcutta (Blessed that time) who was praying her Rosary close to my bed and I saw Jean Vianey, Dominic Savio, Francis Xavier and many others who I don't know. Then I saw Jesus coming close to my ears and saying "Arise" and I woke Up and was fully cured. When I woke up to the reality I saw my brothers weeping and my mom and dad around me and others ( neighbours who came to visit me because I was ill) they said that they were scared because I was unconscious, not waking up and not coming to senses and murmuring. I told everyone there about it. Next day my dad took me to our parish (because I desired so and my first time going there)but the parish priest was not there, he was sick and had been hospitalized. He took me to the closest parish to ours but he was also not there. So he took me to another parish pretty far from ours, I was praying please God let me meet the priest today. And the priest was there. I narrated everything to him, he prayed and blessed me and gave me the relic of Mother Teresa's cloth. Henceforth that day I was cured of that unknown sickness.
And you know what it will be 8 years now on 20th October for me being Catholic and I am grateful to God.
@@marciwyrd8905 Look up conditional baptism
@@user-AMaraj waow! Praise God 🙏🏽🙏🏽
I’m a Dominican from Grade school to College- live by the Dominican creed - LAUDARE, BENEDICERE, PRAEDICARE! To praise, to bless and to preach🙏🙏🙏
That's great, please pray for us here in Atlanta a lot is going on, and for new vocational calling
I love the Dominicans. I had nothing but positive experiences with them. I wanted to go to a Dominican high school but my mother found it "inconvenient." My first experience was when we traveled to Europe by ship when I was 11. There were a couple of Dominican sisters on board and one of them was a lot of fun. She taught me how to play ping pong! My secondencounter was when I was planning my wedding. My fiancè was a Ukrainian Catholic and we had to have a Byzantine Rite wedding. My parish absolutely refused even while admitting it was Canon Law. But his family was not religious and didn't belong to a Ukrainian parish so my mother, in one of her better moments, said "St. Vincent Ferrer church (NYC) has always been known for their music. Maybe they'll learn the rite and do it. It's a chanted rite, very beautiful. So we went to talk with those dear Dominicans and they were beyond enthusiastic. They learned the four part harmony and sang it beautifully. I was really glad to have such a beautful wedding. Unfortunately, the marriage was less beautiful and was annulled.
Caritas, Unitas, Veritas - Augustinians :)
Dominic! Oh Dominic!
i discerned the religious life and lived amongst the Salesian Sisters and the Daughters of Charity. Great religious sisters!
The Daughters had the best habits....until they didn’t.
Novus Ordo Church bullshit artists.
Salesian’s sister are amazing!
God bless 🙏
Benedictine! Did you guys even mention us? For 1,500 years we've been building communities, schools, farms, hospitals, universities, exploring the universe. Name, we've done it & continue to. What's so great about the Rule, is it's versatility. Thanks for the show. Also, you might mention the Institute of Religious Life. Pax.
They mention Benedictines from the beginning, at 3:37 and 4:40 for example
@@susanagarciamata9978 they missed a lot.
What di dd the Dimond Brothers do posing as Benedictine and are not. The young man lost his money 1.6 million.
WEARING the medal. PRAYING, meditating DAILY. Thank YOU.
I just bought a new copy of the Rule of St Benedict, I love his rule.
My great great Uncle Tom’s first assignment as a newly ordained priest in 1917 was literally to serve in the trenches as a U.S. Army Chaplain. I can only imagine what it would be like for him to give sacraments to the Catholic soldiers before they jumped out of the trench.
such a powerful account! thank you for sharing ❤️🔥
I have never found an order that is willing to take older women which is a real shame because a lot of us have money, healthcare, and we know we are committed for the rest of our lives. So many of the young women I grew up with that went into religious orders all left after four years. I made it through the military for 30 years I am absolutely positive I could make it in a religious order for the rest of my life and be a real asset to them. However I have not yet found one that would except me because of my age of 63
Have you looked into the carmelite in New Mexico? Father Jose which is a carmelite fryer recently told me that they took this older lady that had a daughter she only was there for a couple years. God bless you.
Eudist of the 7th Hour is for you
That's sad because in the past, it was common for widows of a certain age to enter the convent. I agree with you. I'm 76 but I know I wouldn't fit in to communal life. I was an only child and I have had to be strong and take care of myself most of my adult life. Now that my Catholic life is back on track, I am praying for a good, Catholic husband because I am alone and want a companion in life.
I'm a Catholic married to Filipino. In the Philippines if you're old they show respect even if they don't know you here in America they don't.
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This is good to know. I'm Jewish and one of my best friends actually she's more like a sister is Catholic and I just love learning about Catholicism so I can feel as close as I can to her.
Jesus loves you. And is waiting for you to come to him. He is the Messiah of your people. Please read Isaiah 53. I know it is a forbidden chapter to Jewish people but read it and discern for yourself
I'm a Jew to traditional Catholic convert. The Catholic faith is the fullness of the Mosaic Law. Your heart is drawn to it for a reason.
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God bless Amen
How intetesting to read your comment. Our beautiful Catholic Faith is rooted in your own Jewish faith. Peace to you.
You guys should do a show specifically on the third orders or lay versions of these. Most people don’t even know about them. Even me I just recently learned about them! I’m so overwhelmed and overjoyed that I can finally be a part of and involved in this. Always wanted to be involved with these orders but everyone thinks you have to be a monastic type or whatever and single to join these. But they invented third orders/or secular lay versions since centuries ago just for people like me. It’s wonderful! Also just learned they brought back the Catholic Knights Templar order! This is awesome we need men and women of God to take a stand and on fire to defend our holy Catholic faith sometimes even physically. In these evil times I see why they brought them back. We are back in a modern day form of the Crusades.
Yes! A show on tertiaries would be so great!!
I grew up here in NC and was taught at Cardinal Gibbons High School by the Sisters of Notre Dame We didn't have but 3 Catholic High Schools in NC back when I was in High School. They were excellent teachers. They molded me into who I am today.
This is one of the parts of my faith that I never understood. Looking forward to learning the differences. Growing up I just assumed that all priests were the same and were taught the same.
Yeah me too. I thought Holy orders were for nuns. My favorite priest and confidant is a Carmelite Fryer Priest. God bless you😀
I really, really hope you do a whole show on Ignatian spirituality. That would be awesome.
The jesuits are the ones..
Just came across this episode! So fascinating and learnt alot.. thanks guys! Over here in South East Asia (Singapore to be exact), the MEP priests played such a big role in bringing Catholicism over. I have been blown away by their kindness and great love. Confessed to one when I came back to Church after 15 years and was overwhelmed by the love of the Father. Also discovered about the Dominicans and was introduced to Aquinas through their teaching and really drawn to their intellectual charism. Our faith is beautiful in its diversity, complexity and richness!
Good to see that the Missionaries of Charity leave EVERYONE speechless, not just me!
I don’t know how true it is..But sadly I hear so many negative things about them saying they are abusive, irresponsible, neglecting those there that they are entrusted to care for. There’s even movements to expose them now. 🤷🏻♂️ So I wonder what this is about.
When I was in elementary school it was named Immaculate Heart of Mary and I was taught by the Sisters of St. Joseph. I went to high school at Notre Dame HS and was taught by the Immaculate Heart of Mary Sisters! So, IHM is a big part of my Catholic identity!
Yes....then they were destroyed starting in the 1960s. Just like everything else in the Church.
But we have to keep hope alive! The Church will rise up again...like a Phoenix from the ashes! And, maybe, it’ll happen quickly, when we least expect it. Just like Our Lord on Easter Sunday!
IHM Sisters excel
I was educated by IHM sisters as well. Loved those ladies.
I was educated through 8th grade by Sisters of St Joseph aka the Polish nuns from Stevens Point. High school by Dominicans.
I ama Franciscan 3rd order & have been for msny years ! I love your Programs that are so educational to Catholics, Cradle Catholics & would like to be a Catholic! God Bless you & your public mission! 🙏😇❤️🇺🇸⭐️
Love your guys show!!!! St. Andre Besette is actually from the Congregation of Holy Cross @21:00 !!! I go to Holy Cross College in ND Indiana and am blessed to have learned of the Miracle Man of Montreal!!!! God Bless!!! Sláinte ☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️
The oratory in Montreal is magnificent. St.Andre is buried there and draws many pilgrims there for prayer and reconciliation with God.
Went to an elementary and high school run by Benedictines. Attended a university run by the Dominicans. I have aunts who are missionaries of the Holy Spirit (SVD/SSpS). However, the charism of the Jesuits touched my life when I entered the workforce. The Jesuits probably have the most practical, down-to-earth advice for people.
On a practical level the real difference between solemn and simple vows is how poverty is defined and lived out. As a Salesian of Don Bosco I renounce the administration of property but not it's ownership. If I were to inherit money, for instance, It's "mine" but I could not use it without my provincial's permission. Other articles in our rule prohibit us from owning land, cars, or having personal bank accounts, but Don Bosco set the definition of poverty up this way because of the historical circumstances surrounding our founding. Italy's anticlerical government was revoking the citizenship rights of religious, so the constitutions were written to dodge the civil laws while still being in accordance with Church law. Sobering thought: many Salesians I know who may have an inheritance use it to cover their burial costs. Either that or for some project like renovating a chapel or classroom. Bottom line: Chastity is chastity, and obedience is obedience - but poverty is lived out in different ways in different congregations. After ten years of perpetual profession I have the option of making the solemn vow of poverty, but I don't know any Salesian who has.
Love the Carmelite and Mt. Carmel observations.
I loved listening to this. Not sure why anyone would give you a thumbs down. I will have to watch again to see if I can figure out the different groups . Have a blessed Holy Week !
I am a new viewer of your channel. Have enjoyed learning and growing my faith. I grew up with diocesan priests at my church but as an adult I learned about the OFM Franciscan friars because of the church I started attending and fell in love with their attitudes. Very compassionate about everything they do.
My dad joined the Servants of the Divine Word, SVD., they are a missionary group and they’re still around today. He was the FIRST BLACK PRIEST ordained in Albany County, NY in 1946 and only the 19th IN OUR ENTIRE COUNTRY. Unfortunately, he felt he had to leave the priesthood due to racism in 1956. I was raised with a very rich Catholic background. I went to Providence College with the O.P’s. If they called today I would do anything in my power for them.
What a beautiful story and how fortunate you are to be raised by such a man ❤️
@@phyllisanngodfrey6137 I adored him; Thank you!💖
Gosh l never considered Racism would be a thing among priests.
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@@bcfriardoyle7697would you consider being a deacon?
Great show! I will have to watch it again because there is soooo much great information about the fruits of the Spirits which we are all called into express, very exciting! Would love to see another segment like this on other religious orders that are never mentioned. It is time Catholics understand that we are all sitting on top of a unique mount Everest, filled with every kind of treasures waiting for us all to dive in head on! Keep it up guys, doing a GREAT job!
Blessings to you.
I went to Annunciation School in New York.
The nuns were Dominican Sister,they were very strict.
Well, a modern Jesuit would be the last thing I would ever want to become, but those of the past were indeed very incredible people.
It's a shame
Amen
Best models for prayer and discernment,, by far.
Jesuits are never popular in their own time. Only in retrospect do people respect the leadership and accomplishment of Jesuits. This is why they have always been 'cannon fodder' as Ryan said. Jesuits bring change because they question sacred cows and ask hard questions. They are stubbornly purist in their theological processes, even if it leads them into unpopular positions that question orthodoxy. If they didn't push the Church forward at a measured pace in order to mold it with modern thought, the Church could have been lost to a series of schisms over the centuries. In 100 years, today's Jesuits will be respected by Catholics; 100 years from now Catholics will be saying, 'those Jesuits from the early 2000's were great, the way they helped the Church walk through great social and political change without losing its core essence, but these Jesuits today - a bunch of trouble makers, because our Church today is perfect and doesn't need correction or change.'
I read that Jesuits are the ones most responsible for all the religious murders deaths and massacres in history?
Y'know I'm going to rewatch this and takes some notes before I forget the info I just learned. I found this podcast a few weeks ago and have been binge watching them because they really give a lot of information.
Great show. It’s crazy trying to explain to friends (including most of my Catholic friends) the different orders and congregations you discussed today. What fun. I was educated by SSND and Visitation sisters and I was raised in and still attend a Passionist Monastery church (which is now run by a terrific diocesan priest who grew up in the parish). I just love the history and the depth of our faith. And you three make it fun. Thanks.
I love that you guys are all tad guys, but you still offer loving service to the church and support support the pope and that’s a huge inspiration to me right now. Went to church for the first time in 20 years and I prayed sincerely for the first time in my life. I just want to thank you guys for that and I hope all Christians can read the book of Romans and really focus on humbling themselves before the Lord. Thank you so much.
Please cover Opus Dei and reasons why its controversial. Thanks
Loved the program. I am a Perpetually Professed Lay Dominican. I am a member of the Regina Pacis Chapter in Ocala, FL. I was drawn in by the four pillars most significant or the first that struck me are study and prayer...BE careful what you ask for! I got both in ways I never imagined! Saint Dominic and so many of the Dominican saints are true individuals of faith, especially their devotion to our Blessed Mother.
I went to a private Catholic school in Woodbridge, VA. Saint Thomas Aquinas Regional School. We have Dominican Sister (not a nun 😉) as principal and teachers. I now work there, I have such a love for this Order. Father was right when he said musical and educators. I believe Saint Faustina was with the Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy. This was such an informative episode, I want to look more into the Little Lambs order❤ God bless!
www.les-petites-soeurs-disciples-de-lagneau.com/en/
What about Passionists? They have a cool habit
@@CatholicTalkShow I never heard of The Little Lamb Order before. The Church always continues to amaze me.
What do you mean a sister but not a nun?.
There's a difference between a sister & a nun. A sister owns property, works in a profession like doctor, lawyer or teacher. Mostly lives in a community of other sisters. Nuns live a monastery & never leaves the monastery unless it's a very special reason. Nuns work within the monastery like cooking, singing & maintaining their garden & church. They pray several times throughout the day They usually doing arts & crafts like sewing, tailoring or writing.
Awesome I’ve been wanting for so long an explanation on this see in my childhood I assisted a parish run by Franciscan Friars we moved out of state so the Parish I went to was Trinitarian (I go to this same parish today and am quite involved) I was in the military for a while and well there was always a Catholic Chaplin on base but except for one of my duty stations that I know he was Jesuit (only know cause he Baptized my son) So I’ve always had the question why so many orders how do they differ? Being involved in church groups I’ve learned a lot but there’s still confusion in my head
So you’ll understand why I am soooo looking forward to watching this episode I pray to get some clarity
May You Be Blessed 🙏🏼
When I was then a student, I lived in a Catholic Boarding School of the Sisters of Mary then their Order of Sisters are in balance to be happy and strict sometimes because they always said that living life should be in balance. However because of their semi-contemplative life it was just so prolific for they always have the spirituality to serve the least or the poor people like me since then for their additional Vow is the Service for the Poorest of the Poor after the Traditional Evangelical Vows of Poverty, Chastity and Obedience. They mean a lot to me, I learnt so much from them about the values of Life and its Sanctity, including its fundmental virtues. I can't thank them more!
900 years witness and service of the Norbertine Order.
I was in a parish whose pastor was originally a Norbertine. He had a beautiful voice. He told us that the Norbertine order was founded to sing in the great medieval cathedrals of Europe.
I am a parishioner at a Norbertine Church. It is absolutely beautiful. Fervent Eucharistic adoration, vespers, Latin Mass. God blessed our family....so much spiritual growth!
I'm a member of the Order of Malta and is the 4th oldest religious order in the Church. Its a lay religious Order that predated the Crusades and is the oldest surviving Order of chivalry.
Charism: Tuitio Fidei et Obsequium Pauperum
I eventually left Seminary and Catholicism for a while but have returned to Catholicism where i believe God wants me.studied as a diocesan priesthood and visited with the male order of the Missionary Brothers of Charirty . While studying for the priesthood, i knew many Franciscans . Great mrn of God.
Thank you for talking about our catholic different religious orders ….Im a secular Servites of the third order, living my promise the best I can. God bless you good people.
Oh my gosh! I’m gonna need to come back and watch this with a wide awake brain! 😮🤣
Awake brain! Lol. I have the Catechism for 30 years and now start to understand some of the teaching. I think its all in the Catechism but it is so much that a laity found it a huge task to tackle. A page would take a week to process sometimes. Fr. Corapi has a series on the catechism and he is very good. To me, he is as good in theology as Bishop Sheen. ✝
Yes I had Franciscan nuns in perkyo school but I had no idea until I listened to this video I knew what the monks did or thought I did but, really had no idea there were so many different orders.
How's about the Tridentine orders? We've got the Tridentine Franciscans, quasi-Redemportists, Dominicans, and so much more. You guys do so much goodness for the Catholic Church 🙂.
I love the priests of The Sacred Heart Of Jesus. I grew up on Dominican Nuns (so that's why we sang so much😁) In high school I had Sisters of the Incarnate Word and sisters of the Blessed Sacrament. Here in Houston. I have to say the sisters of The Incarnate Word are TOUGH but they were great teachers of the word of God.
The turning point of my life when I was young man was when I joined the Third Order of Augustinian Recollects. Thank you for mentioning us.
The first three orders formed by St. Francis were 1. The friars minor 2. The Poor Ladies , renamed Poor Claires, 3. The brothers and sisters of penance now known as Secular Franciscans. Capuchins and others came along later.
You know what they say.2 things only God knows how much money 5he Vatcan bank has and how many different kinds of Francuscans there are.
I've been trying to teach myself about the different orders, but there's a lot of information to sift through so thanks for doing this episode!
Hola,so nice to hear you Folks,good thing.I have an earpods now I could listen to you all even I'm working. I've learned many things about Catholicism.Thanks a lot
So i just realized 6 years ago that there were different types of priests. 😶 i used just know the diocesan priest (all black white collar is all i knew) i actually learned the proper term today on this episode😬. I found Franciscan priests 6 years ago at St. Lawrence of Brindisi out in Watts when we made the decision to enroll our kids in catholic school. I was in awe.
Love and respect you three, may God bless you and your love ones!
Ohh yes please do an episode about the Jesuits and the Ignatius spirituality, gracias!!
Jesuit Spirituality??? I’m not sure that such a thing exists.
But let me introduce you to a faithful Catholic’s ‘Jesuit Spirituality’: to resolve every day to pray that the Company/Society of Jesus will either convert back to the Catholic Faith or be suppressed again (as they were in the 18th C.).
@@oledocfarmer repent, and turn back to righteousness. It's not for us to decide who is and is not in communion. Let's please avoid schism and division where we can
@@MarcillaSmith I’m not sure to what you’re referring.
@@oledocfarmer Many members of the Magisterium - up to and including His Holiness, Pope Francis - are Jesuits
@@MarcillaSmith I know. Very sad.
New subs here Padres...🙏🙏❤ Thanks for this... really helps us a lot. By the way, I am a Catechist from the #Philippines. 🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭 and a #MarianDevotee 🌹🙏
Perhaps a talk about third orders, secular order and associates for lay people. I am professed in the Secular Franciscan Order. It is a beautiful charism.
Good idea!! OFS also, but there are others. It has been a joy!
I am currently discerning religious life and have recently been interesting in contemplative life. Originally I was looking at active orders but after visiting one/speaking with them, I do not think that is where I can serve God best. I know my heart is one for contemplation.
I was a Capuchin Franciscan for almost 8 years and left when I met my wife. My ministry was working with drug addicts and inner city schools. Though I left, the Charism has stuck with me and will forever!
Aren't friars required to take solemn vows? Wouldn't that make marriage invalid?
@@emiliocittadini6451 you must be dispensed of your vows and there is a difference between temporary and perpetual vows also. I left before Perpetual vows
@@GiftofChaosStudio Thanks for your answer!
Have you considered reentering as a deacon? A permanent deacon, now that you’re married?
@@markv1974 I am funnily enough in formation now for the Permanent Diaconate and a Secular Franciscsn.
St. Augustine absolutely wrote a rule and it was revived by the Canons Regular and charismatic Saints like St. Norbert. It was later adopted by various medicant groups, including the Dominicans, the Mercedarians and the various Augustinian Friars. He actually wrote two versions of it.
the revival was inauthentic
The Franciscans are near and dear to my heart. 🥰
Great conversation ❣️after much searching and sad experiences with the Roman Catholic Church I finally found a Reformed Catholic that brings peace joy and especially the knowing of a Loving God and the love
Of Jesus and especially to know the Holy Spirit❤️ my helper when I shout Help✝️
Do Franciscan Friars still say mass at church? When I was a kid my parish had a priest and 3 friars who said masses at different times. The friars were my favorite to serve with as an altar boy because they were such characters. All very different. One was all fire and brimstone. One was soft spoken and sweet. And the third told me to always keep my shoes shined.
Franciscan priests say Mass not friarsq.
Our tribe owes a lot to the Salesians of Don Bosco (SDB) Missionaries. They were the ones who brought Catholicism to our tribe. May God bless them ✝️🙏
Definitely Franciscan❣ Serving the poor and elderly, loving and taking care of our earth. On my tombstone I want "Recycled to a better life".
When I was a child I told my mom I didn’t think I was going to get married, but wanted kids.. (thinking I wanted to be a sister/nun, but didn’t really know anything about any). My mom scoffed and said, why wouldn’t you want to be married. I had a rough, secular, young adulthood.. was a single mom with 2 little kids for 10 years... not very strong in my faith, but a simmering desire.
I remarried in a less than great marriage. Still married but wish I’d had more resources to be able to know there was a such thing as discerning religious life.
Its not too late. St. Rita of cascia is our parish patron saint. Lots of mothers who went to religious life after their kods became older or were widowed
When I was in the middle of elementary school I had a chance to go to the local Catholic school. For some reason I chose not to. I don't now why I made this decision. I loved our local church and the Monsignor was such a wonderful, warm man. Even at this time period I was helping behind the scenes as a altar boy. Forty Five years later I no that this was a big mistake because I felt the calling from a early age and never acted on it.
I’m a cradle Catholic. Maybe you got a vibe you didn’t like, and let’s leave it at that. God Bless. 💖🙏🏻
I try (and often fail) to do the examen at least once daily 💭🧠❤️🔥
But I pray for our misguided brothers out there.
God-willing I will join formation as an aspirant to the Secular Order of Discalced Carmelites (ODCS) in January.
Hi, how is your formation going? Hope you’re enjoying from the Wellspring of Carmel?
Just found this channel. Outstanding!!
Since the age of four I wanted to become a Carmelite nun Nostrovia thank you very much Philadelphia USA❤❤❤
Thanks guys, I enjoy the Breakdown. The playbook is real , still I will always Root for Salesians. I was drafted by Don Bosco Tech. Blessed to be taught by great order. Shalom Hermanos.
I love it when I see a can of a priest in the store. I love saying hi, father. It is wonderful to see a father
I once tries to join the Capuchin fryers, they said I couldn't be able to join because I have a felony on my record and that I have bipolar disorder. But I have such a deep desire to live as a monk or in a religious order. Before I was a Catholic or even christian I lived a few years in a Buddhist monastery training to be a zen monk but I felt a calling for something deeper than the nothingness of empty zen meditation. So I left and fell into a life of sinful behavior and ended up in jail where I had a series of dreams visions and signs that showed me that the Buddha was inferior in every way to Jesus Christ. AND that Christ is real. In one of the dreams I had in there Christ spoke to me as I stood in front of a door and put his hand on my shoulder and said "I know that you will walk through the door; for it is open and can not be shut. But not now." I'm still developing my spirituality. I will find the way that he wills for me. But not now it seems.
Have you looked into the Lay Fransciscans? They might have a place for you.
This is so beautiful. I'm sorry you faced rejection and that those were the reasons given to you :( but Jesus clearly has a different plan for you ❤ stay strong, He will get you through this.
Im an admirer of the Franciscans, Jesuits and Benedictines. I got my Vincentian education by way of the Daughters of Charity in high-school. Then with the Dominican Fathers during my undergrad and grad school, now I teach at a college run by the La Sallian brothers. Then I attend mass at a local church run by Capuchins. 😆
Thanks for sharing this great program!
I was educated by Carmelites; I always think of them fondly, even though I find St Theresa of Avila tough going at times.
She was strict, but a funny Nun. When she entered religious life, Carmels were not the religious houses of today. Many wealthy families would send their daughters to Convents, where they would live lives of luxury, wearing find jewelry under their habits, and being served hand and foot by the Sisters who had come from poor homes. St. Theresa reformed the order and brought back the practice of poverty. She also introduced periods of recreation, including dancing within the cloister, so it was not all dower and strict.
One of my favorite stories is of her riding on a horse as she was travelling from one Carmel to another, to encourage and check to see that the Sisters were adhering to the reforms she had instituted. She was thrown off the horse into a muddy puddle. The story goes, she looked up to heaven and said to God. "The way you treat your friends, it's a wonder you have any at all."
Thank all of you so much for the explanation I love to learn pray god bless protect and direct all of you 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼shalom
In Scotland we had Passion and Cross who were missionaries
I went to a Dominican high school and Providence College, the best Dominican college. I love and respect The Dominicans.
I so much enjoy watching this show, big up.such love from Kenya, Africa
23:20 "You guys ever been with Augustinians?"
You have one subscribing Augustinian friar here 😁
May I provide some additional insights, though:
- It was the hermits themselves who requested the Pope to unite themselves, and the Pope turned these Tuscan hermits into a mendicant Order at the service of the Church in whatever way.
- And our charism is *community life, plain and simple.* As our holy father Augustine reminds us who follow his way of life, "the main purpose for your having come together is to live harmoniously in one house, intent upon God in oneness of mind and heart" (Rule of St. Augustine, I, 3).
- "Community is the axis around which Augustinian religious life turns: a community of brothers who live harmoniously in their house, united by a single soul and a single heart, seeking God together and open to the service of the Church." (OSA Constitutions [2008], 26).
Whereas other Orders and congregations have community life as essential for the exercise of their common apostolate, for us Augustinians the community *is* the first apostolate.
Without the community as our first apostolate, an Augustinian apostolate (which can be in whatever way, depending on the needs of the Church) simply cannot exist, kinda like "charity begins at home." That's how community is important for an Augustinian.
Lastly, Augustinians in the US? You can consider those at Villanova University in Pennsylvania. There are also Augustinian provincialates in Chicago and California, so you can search them up.
Hope these help.
ANIMA UNA ET COR UNUM IN DEUM
OSA (Order of St. Augustine): www.theaugustinians.com
OAR (Order of Augustinian Recollects): www.agustinosrecoletos.com
OAD (Order of Discalced Augustinians): oadnet.org
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What a blessing to the feed you are my brother! Thanks so much for sharing more in depth. Send a group to St. Augustine, Florida.... what a great fit that would be ;)
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Thank for this explanation
Merrimack College is administered by the Augustinians and we also have the Order of St. Augustine of the Primitive Observance( OSAPrim) in Deland, Florida.
My grandfather, mother and myself went to an agustinian university. And im friends with an agustinian priest... some in our formation house/study house became agustinian priests... so they when im sick in school they sometimes invite me, the pantry is awesome! Osa communal life! But im introvert so im with opus dei. :)..
"Yeah, the Franciscan divided up into ... like five thousand orders ..." 😂🤣🤣
You guys are hilarious!
Not a religious, but I am sharing this with OP's, OFM's, OFM Cps, OMI's, SJ's & SDB's!!!!
Do they all wear brown robes? 😬😬
You know the joke. There are 2 things only God knows. How much money the Vatican bank has and how many different types of Franciscans there are.
I was taught by the Christian Brothers at LaSalle military academy in Oakdale Ny. I liked their dedication to education and their gentle non corporall punishment approach unlike what i experienced with the nuns in grade school.
I was taught by the sisters of St Joseph of Brentwood the mother house at that time had 5 thousand sisters including novices they were strict but very loving sadly they are dieing and almost gone!!!
I am a member of the Fransiscan Lay order (OFS)
What do you do as a member? Am interested in joining
I hope your better than the true church demolishon mob that I met in 1984 I hate these monastery bullshit artists.
I’ve always been a musician, since childhood. I’ve a long time liked teaching others in order to help them. And I’ve a long time been a bit of a contemplative, trying to put in order in my mind the spiritual dynamics to set oneself free and how these things make sense and are. A belief, of whatever sort, has been a focus of my life since childhood and hearing of Jesus. In younger adulthood l searched through varied beliefs. After returning to hoping in Jesus, l knew that l wanted to help others, and that beginning with an inspiration to work with special needs. As called, I began working with seniors, then at risk youth, then hiv-aids, then after 13yrs was hired as a music coordinator and 1:1 prevocational teacher for special needs these 11yrs. It’s been a long suffering way with lots of wonderful love, 20yrs. What l have left as an inspiration is to share music before high offices, at least the one, this being the case for almost as long. I’ve learned through many experiences that anything can happen, of what you have or have not been knowledgeable, and God has His hand through all of them whatever is. 🎼✌🏼📖💙⚖️🙏🏼🎶
I'm currently discerning a vocation as a Clerical Brother of the Order of Friars Preachers (Dominicans). :)
This is going to be great !!!!
This is very interesting. God bless y’all!
You guys should do a episode on life in the seminary
thank you ,father for sharing,im learning everytime i watch you,im a product of the rvm religius of the Blessed Virgin mary here in the philippines.
My mother was my grand and gr. Grandmothers were taught by the st Joseph nuns.
My mother went to 3 different high schools sts.of Charity/ Carmelite, st.Joseph, and stds. Of Charity depending if she was in New York, Sanfrancisco, Galveston or New Orleans.
I was taught by the St. Joseph. The priests were all Franciscan or Redempterist.
I worked with the Institute of the Incarnate Word Fathers and their religious sisters, the Servants of the Lord and the Virgin of Matera in a parish for many years. Great order! They were founded in Argentina in the 1980s.
I learned something here. I had a great-uncle who was a diocesan priest in Italy. I had been told that he inherited the ancestral family home and left it to the church when he died. I didn't understand how he could inherit and hold property until he died so now I understand. I never knew that priests could own property. I thought everyone took vows of poverty that negated ownership.
4 Franciscan orders- Minor, Capuchins, Conventuals, TOR plus the many , including many that converted whole scale from other faith traditions & the Secular Franciscan Order
I learned so much. I’m glad I know this now and now know where to donate.
Great conversation! Thanks for sharing.
I would like to add that I am in formation to become a Secular Franciscan. I am married with children. Many orders have secular orders, third order, lay orders, or oblates for the lay faithful. If you are not aware of this, please check into it.
Yes! I’m just learning about this!! I’ve never known about secular/third orders before now. I always felt called or wanted to be a monk or something but being married I couldn’t. BUT all this time I could have been part of the third orders. I’m learning about each one now to discern which vocation/ order I can belong to. I’ve been in contact with some to start the process.
i love the habit of Hieronymites sadly only 9 of them are left. Praying for vocations for their community.
I told the diocesan vocations director that I wanted to be a Franciscan, and he suggested I look at the Capuchins. I went through the Novitiate, before it was discerned I should be a layman. I would do it all again. God still speaks to me particularly through their charism.
Join a third order regular/lay order. Or be a deacon! We sorely need more people
My heart is restless until it rests in Thee. - St. Augustine of Hippo
Excellent discussion for us newbs!!! Thank you!