And how can a religious order that is focused by name on "perpetual adoration" of our risen Lord disobey Holy Mother Church by ditching the habit? Notice in the video below that our Eucharistic Lord isn't mentioned much. His name comes up only once in the context of water massage. (I am not kidding!) This group sound like a bunch of liberal ladies, very nice probably, but, in view of their website, gone off the deep end. I can just hear them discussing God as she and altering the language of scripture to make it gender neutral. Here's a sample from their page on ecological advocacy (my comments in red):
We celebrate God’s presence in all of creation by:The sisters in La Crosse are clearly off base. Pray for them, but stay clear, very clear of their influence. You don't want to be standing next to a house built on sand during a hurricane.
•Honoring relationships with and promoting earth as sacred. No, ladies, the earth is not "sacred." God proclaimed it "good" and we have a duty to be faithful stewards, but the pagans were the ones who believed in earth-gods. Earth worship (we worship what is "sacred") is heretical.
•Devoting spiritual energies and economic resources to the care of God’s creation. How about caring for babies waiting to be born? They are the "pearls of great price," but your "social justice" program ignores them.
•Nurturing and increasing cosmic awareness and social consciousness. What the heck is "cosmic awareness?" Is this the heresy of the "cosmic Christ" spouted by the likes of Matthew Fox? In view of your new agey website and your support for Reiki, I must assume so.
•Educating members to advocacy: political involvement, social change, sustainability and healthy lifestyles. Ah...here we have it. The christian life is about protecting the earth from global warming, saving the wetlands, and banning Big Macs. Note the word "sustainability" which is the same language used by the population controllers to justify abortion and birth control in the third world.
In this section of our website, presents FSPA’s sustainability efforts, partnerships in conservation and personal reflections.
Ugh..sadly there are so many orders like them it's almost becoming the norm. :(
ReplyDeleteJust another case in point in church history of how these orders work. The Benedictine order was started to help bring order to life, but slipped into disarray. The Franciscan's were started as a reaction to worldliness in the church, but later slipped into worldliness themselves. The Dominicans formed in order to educate the ignorant church members, but later persecuted those who wanted to read the Bible for themselves.
ReplyDeleteThese Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration are nothing like Mother Angelica's Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration, the former being New Age and the latter being orthodox Catholic.
ReplyDeleteWe have an FSPA who will be making her final vows in Sept working with us. She is an amazing young lady with a fantastic gift of faith. She has truely been gifted to reach out to all. The young kids love her and she has connected with our community on a deep level. She is very faithful and adhers to church teaching, and especially draws her life from the Eucharist.
ReplyDeleteI also have a couple others I know who are also FSPA and they are much more liberal and probably of the older generation in the order. All of Sister's younger friends I've meet are very much like herself - interested in bringing the habit back, interested in spending much time in adoration and prayer.
You will always have people with wild ideas - gasp - yes even in the church. It doesn't make everyone in the order a bad or unfaithful - becasue if that were the case, where would we all be?
Of course you're right, Anon. (10:22 A.M.) A bad order doesn't mean all the nuns in it are bad. But the reality is that joining such an order in the hope of reforming it is historically unlikely.
ReplyDeleteReformers all LEFT bad orders to initiate reform; St. Teresa of Avila is a case in point. The women who really suffer in these orders are the old nuns who joined before the collapse and try to continue to live the rule.
One nun locally here (RIP) suffered because of her determination not to give up her habit. Her "sisters" treated her with contempt. To them she was an old fool. In the end we'll see who the fools really are. But I'll pray for these nuns. I plan to visit their chapel when I'm in Wisconsin.
This is definately not Catholic. This is New Age or Bhuddism. They will pay with a mill stone around their necks. They are puting themselves forth as Catholic but teaching all the wrong things. Maybe their intentions are good but I think they either don't know what their professed religion teaches or they think they know better.
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