State in Life Part 1: Priest & Religious ~ Fr Ripperger
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ก.ค. 2016
- Series on what does 'state in life' mean & how do we find out about it? From single life to the religious life. For more sermons & lectures please visit
sensustraditionis.org/ & remember to do the PenanceWare Fr asks for
Fr Ripperger's order of exorcists dolorans.org/
The website sensusfidelium.com/
To donate please visit sensusfidelium.us/donate-supp...
Some traditional Religious Orders I am aware of:
Men
oblatesofstaugustine.com/
www.religious-vocation.com/med...
www.papastronsay.com/resources...
www.carmelitemonks.org/
www.eremitaednmc.org/
www.marianfriarsminor.com/
www.dominicansavrille.us/
clearcreekmonks.org/
en.nursia.org/
cloisteredlife.com/cloister-s...
Women
sistersofcarmel.org/
www.redemptoristines.blogspot....
fssp.com/elysburg-carmelites-...
www.sistersofmary.org/
benedictinesofmary.org/
adoratrices.icrss.org/en/
cloisteredlife.com/cloister-s...
I really wish I'd had been able to listen to Fr. Ripperger when I was a kid. This is really this guidance I needed back then.
We need to pray for more vocations to the priesthood especially the Camillian order, whose particular apostolate is to care and administer the last rite to the sick and the dying, if needed.
It seems to me that simply doing the will of God, in accordance with the graces and talents He has given us, to the best of our ability, cheerfully and immediately, is what we ought to do. I shall always be thankful for the priest who stopped to help and minister to my son when, for reasons we shall never know, my son's car rolled across the highway and over the edge of a bridge, falling 100 feet. I am also thankful that medical care arrived quickly, but God saw fit to send Father Whomever before the ambulance.
Father R. is absolutely right to remind us that, whatever our state, we are given the graces to live it, but more importantly, that we must ask for additional graces in order to live it better.
My Godfather and uncle nearly died without the ministrations of the Church because nobody could be bothered to go to his house. My aunt called six churches starting their own parish without success. Never once did she actually get to speak with a priest. The closest she got was a deacon who said he could maybe come with Communion, but probably not as my uncle's parish should provide it. The home parish secretary told my aunt to bring him to the monthly healing Mass---impossible because he was entirely bedridden with 24/7 nursing care, also, he likely wouldn't live long enough. When she specified he wanted Last Rites, my aunt was told, "We don't do that anymore." There was a female eucharistic minister who said she could, "possibly stop by some evening next week."
Distraught, my aunt called a neighbor whose son was in a monastery in another state. She didn't know the neighbor all that well and assumed she was Roman Catholic. It turned out she was Ukrainian Catholic, Byzantine rite, but under Rome. Through this neighbor's son, a priest got in his car, drove five hours through the night, heard my uncle's confession, gave him Holy Communion, and the Last Rites. Uncle Bernie died peacefully the next afternoon.
Sadly, my aunt was gravely wounded by the experience and rarely goes to Mass. She says she'd go to a Byzantine rite parish, but there are none in her area, and she can no longer drive.
May your uncle's soul rest in peace, may God richly bless and keep the priest who drove 5 hours both ways, may your aunt's parish and those nearby receive the grace of correction and repentance, and may your aunt return to the Sacraments. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Thank you!
That is horrible.
This is typical. Catholics have terrible "customer service". When people who have left the Church are interviewed to determine why, one of the top reasons was because the clergy couldn't care less about them and responded as yours did. In comparison, Protestant ministers will be at your bedside within minutes. The Catholic Church has become a private club for men, many of them homosexual, focused on themselves and each other (especially the handsome young ones who are free and easy with their celibacy vow). They have little time for the common decency of pastoral care. They are obsessed with telling YOU what to do with YOUR life but have no interest in spending any time on you personally. If the nurses in a hospital treated you this way, you would never go back. Since the clergy are supposed to be in a serving capacity but don't do it, people are leaving in large droves.
@@ArizonaWillful @mariekatherine5238 Your comments breaks my heart... I hate that this is true, I am a prodigal but have returned to what I now see was Catholic faith in culture only in my family and had no idea that we were NO and that there's TLM and Byzantine and... Jesus help me stay faithful and strong, to whom else is there but Your Holy Church, the Truth alone and salvation alone.
"Go ask Fr. Ripperger" lol But that's because he would have the best answer. That's why I listen to his talks so I can learn because he really knows his stuff. The man is truly a blessing.
23:51 priesthood & Religious
Are members of the third orders considered religious ? Like for OCDS for exemple...
No I am sure they are not religious as they don't make the religious vows as secular third order members (be it a third order carmelite or Franciscan or a benedictine oblate). However they are certainly affiliated officially with that particular order, and most third order members receive many spiritual privileges (indulgences, sharing in the orders prayers etc) while also receiving a religious name and being able to be buried with a modified habit.
I hate to disagree with father about something, but I definitely do! If it is me in a horrible wreck, I would much rather both father and the doctor stop, but if only one can, I would much rather it be father. The dr may be able to save my body if it is God's will, but i would much rather be able to give a confession and receive last rite's. At that point, God's will is, in one sense, irrelevant. If it is His will that i be saved, it is always good to make a good confession and receive absolution. Plus, there may be certain graces attached to receiving to receiving last rite's and surviving that may be beneficial for recovery. If it is God's will that my earthly life be ended, well, I would consider myself blessed far, far, far beyond what I deserve for my last few minutes on earth to be spend confessing my sins and receiving absolution. I can't imagine meeting our blessed Lord and His mother with a freshly was soul!
24:12
What about women who have made vows in the secular institutes ?
I wonder, is a monk-hermit and/or monk-priest objectively a superior state in life than a secular priest?
Yes, as explained to me by my Catholic secular priest & spiritual father.
Yes. St. Thomas Aquinas addresses this question, and says that the religious life is superior to the secular priesthood. He also says that monk-hermit is a more perfect state than living as a monk in community.
Good question. Yes, objectively speaking, as these monk priests have the 3 religious vows while the secular priest only has a vow of celibacy. In particular circumstances however, a certain secular priest by his level of virtue could be more holy than a certain monk priest.
What exactly is the difference of monk, hermit, secular, and religious priest? Did all of them preach?
@jackcollinson2358 do you know where St Thomas describes this? And what about a monk hermit? is that such a thing? I thought they reside in a monastery
If God has chosen you for the religious life, it means that He has chosen you to be
under His divine serve from ALL eternity........if He has given you a calling to the married
life, it means He has given you a calling to a state of life which is NOT quite as high of life
as the religious life. (as the religious state is a higher calling) .
I disagree on religious life is higher than marriage, both are life of mission & calling, just different expectations and obligations.
+etrnlygr8tful
Well, what action can a human being perform that is more important, more valuable, more meritorious, than the offering of the holy sacrifice of the mass? here in Sweden as well as in France, I have never heard the word vocation, calling, concerning anything else than the sacerdotal one. I guess it used to be the same in all countries. Anyhow, if you see the first calling of all men, the very reason they exist, as being to love God, there can not be a more perfect way of doing this than by reading mass, thus a priest must be the most excellent thing a man can be. I think it's wrong to put marriage at the same level as that. However, the fact that not all men are called to become priests doesn't mean that these ones shouldn't strive to mount as high in perfection they can, since that perfection doesn't lie in your creature (being inferior) but in what you do with it (by the help of grace etc). What I say might be difficult to understand, and I'm not an expert, but I'm trying to express what I've been taught in this topic.
In the hearts of Jesus and Mary,
Simon-Xavier
(To serve God in the religious life is the highest form of service, even though everyone is created equally in the eyes of God, the service they actually render to him differs greatly. A religious does much more penance and therefore is able to make up the debt of temporal punishment quicker....It's not a matter who is better, but who has earned the right to heaven quicker. One who is called by the Bishop to dedicate their lives to the service of the Church end up earning a higher degree in heaven, oftentimes much higher than those on earth because they are free from impediments to sin............)
etrnlygr8tful ,
(The spiritual works of mercy are above the corporal works of mercy, that is why it's known to be a higher life, so religious end up making atonement of their sins quicker because of the amount of those good works they do daily in the convent or seminary life; possibly avoiding purgatory altogether........)
@@etrnlygr8tful87 The Council of Trent officially declared religious life as higher than marriage, and this is because virginity/celibacy is superior to sexual relations:
“If any one saith, that the marriage state is to be placed above the state of virginity, or of celibacy, and that it is not better and more blessed to remain in virginity, or in celibacy, than to be united in matrimony; let him be anathema.” - Canon X