Thanks!

@@BreakingInTheHabit THAT. WAS. AWESOME !!!!!

But they all in order to be valid must be in union with Rome. Correct?

Joseph Castillo you are so lucky. I am kinda jealous.

His relic ?

He is my favorite saint, too. I'm envious. Haha.

Cap

I am blessed with relics of Saint Faustina, St Elizabeth Ann Seton, Pope Pius X who saved my Grama from cancer and she lived until 97 years old. One more Saint my mom holds. I would say we are in excellent company. Three rosaries a day. Would you please pray for Sister Clare Crockett from Ireland and say with Jacksonville Florida, Sisters of Home of the Mother? I will pray for you 🕯❤️🌹🕊🌹❤️🕯 Thank you, Theresa Kennedy 🌹🌹🌹

I never joined the Order, but I was instructed/catechized by the Dominicans, and still regard them as my "nuclear" (often dysfunctional!) family within the wider family of the Church. It was probably the right thing for me, but rather starkly intellectual. The phrase "too clever for their own good" could have been made for them/you/us. I sometimes feel I've missed out on the more touchy-feely part of the Church, which is how we thought of the Franciscans. We used to falsely and wickedly accuse them of adopting a "holier-than-thou" attitude, probably because we suspected they really were holier than us! If it's hard to find anyone with a bad word to say about the Franciscans, it's even harder to find someone with a good word to say about the Dominicans, and it's true that there are episodes in our history of which we cannot be proud. Am I wrong in judging a Dominican vocation to be a tougher one than a Franciscan? Leading you down a rockier road? You certainly have to be prepared to stick your neck out, and to get your hands dirty (metaphorically, of course!). Plunge yourself into your Dominican studies, but when you feel you're drowning (and you will), don't be too proud to give a call out to a Franciscan brother or sister to help you get through.

Marvelous presentation of the GREAT FRANCISCAN family. Fr -Casey you are a true son of st Francis.for this l thank God

Not brother just cousins..ok if you say that.I think that we all brother and sisters.

Pax and Bonum! Gospel to life and life to gospel. Yep too big a charismatic to fit into just one order.

Pax et Bonum...Congratulations on your profession as a Secular Franciscan. I've been a Secular Franciscan for 28 years now...and I haven't regretted a moment of it. I hope you are blessed with the same perseverance. Dios te bendiga. I am a member of the San Luis Rey Fraternity in Ponce, Puerto Rico. Santa Alegría.

Janelle Wingert OFS Congratulations on becoming an OFS. I've been a Secular Franciscan in the UK since 2008 when I was professed. Never regretted it. Pax et Bonum

Laudare - Benedicere -Praedicare. I'm happy for you, Janelle. Dominicans love you guys, even if we don't always show it (you know how we are... )-: )

I am ofs also from Montréal.. On you tube look for. Called to bè franciscan. It thé story of br mj

Me, too!!

SpencerRaySanders well, what of dummie? you make the cut?

How are you now? Please tell us.

When new churches are started they are mostly to reform the older churches which invariably get into apostacy.The older the church the more the traditions and errors thst get into it.This goes on until like minded people who want to maintain the purity of the Bible begin a church to worship and fellowship together.Thus there willl be many churches after a time..That is the reason there are so many denominations.These newer churches have voluntary membership depending whether they are in agreement with the truth. One cannot stay on in a church if the church is teaching erroneous doctrines.Despite of all this people stay on because they were there for generations or for fear of being excommunicateid if you say anything contrary.There should be freedom to be with the truth and with people who are like minded.That will be a Church according to the truth of God's word.

You count on your orders mohd 73 ? 173 ? dont try to peek your nose like a snoopy

Bless you! Peace and all good!

SolarAngel Waldeck, in England at least the orders simply fractured, with most remaining Roman and therefore persecuted Catholic orders, and some maintaining allegiance to the bloodthirsty Henry the 8th in the Anglican Church. As for the latter, I wonder if it was simply that they were too attached to this life to undergo the persecution . I do not know the history of Lutheranism other than the fact that Luther did not found the Lutheran Church which came afterwards as the product of some of his aficionados, nor do I know if the so-called Lutheran versions of early Roman religious orders were invented or if they simply stayed behind with Luther's fans. I do know that the Benedictines split between Roman Catholic and Anglican versions, and I once heard a Dominican Friar priest comment that the Dominican order had not split in such a manner. Perhaps someone more knowledgeable than you or I can shed more light on the general Schism of the various religious orders versus the creation of CopyCat communities.

@@natewatl9423 id love to learn more on this too

There are now proximately 90000 + non-catholic Christian out there. Just FYI.

@@mikekean8344 Now you tell me...LOL What's truly amazing to me is how numerous Christians, regardless of denomination, seem to be attracted to the monastic life and it's countless challenges. As Jesus said, "You didn't choose Me, I chose you...many have been called, but few are chosen." I've heard nowadays some Methodists and even Presbyterians have decided to look into such a consecrated life dedicated to serving God and their fellowman in the selfsame ways as Catholic and some Eastern Rite nuns do in an active apostolate ministry as teachers, nurses, social workers, etc while others embrace the contemplative aspect as a religious behind the walls of the cloister in silence, solitude and prayer, for the salvation of the world. As the mother abbess told the young postulant Maria in 'the Sound of Music', "The walls of this convent were not built to shut out our problems...You have to face them head on!" Many people who know little about life inside convent walls and draw their own conclusions about what monastic life and what it entails, know what it offers some people. While those on the outside view it as a jail, those on the inside view it as freedom from earthly distractions and materialism. St Benedict of Nursia wrote over 1700 years ago his Rule the first line, "Listen, my child, to the Voice who speaks to you within the depths of your heart...." Prophets and sages of all religious and spiritual disciplines will tell its disciples the very same thing of the treasures that lie within silence and solitude.

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Peace and Good Chris !, this is the way franciscans salute to everyone ! . In my city the catholic Church and the Baptist church were at the corner of the same block, my family used to go to Mass on Sundays, after that to the Sunday school -:)

ghostlylover99123 I lived by her for 3 years. She was a rather hateful and self rightious woman. Threw many a young woman out onto the street because God gave her 'words' that these women were bad and had to go. She predicted the apocalypse at least 4 times between 1988 and 1996, caused folks to sell their property and move to her 'mountain' in preparations for the end. Im so thankful that I was able to leave her church and become Orthodox.

Please provide some evidence for these accusations Robert Kyril Jordan?

A Catholic religious sister predicting the apocalypse like some Protestant? I'm with Sarah in wanting to see some proof.

@@kyriljordanov2086 you're a liar!

@@kyriljordanov2086 so you was a sister? because she lived in a monastery.

And.....simple !

What was that at the end? Anyway yep fascinating woman.

Richard also IS a good friend of Castro brothers !, I'm keep him in my prayers . Peace and Good ! .

+Marius Baniulis I don't know any Marian Fathers so I'm not sure. They're not among the major Orders, but they could be!

Pope Innocent XII did place them under that "umbrella! initially. I find this website a good place to start, if you wish to delve deeper into this, Marius: www.marian.org/marians/history.php

Thanks. 1) Yes, Richard Rohr is the same community as me, although he is in a different province (local governing body). 2) The "Spiritual Franciscans" were an offshoot of the Franciscans early on that wan't to maintain extreme poverty but were declared heretical shortly thereafter. 3) As far as I know, there are Franciscan communities in the Anglican and Lutheran Churches who live by his example of humility, poverty, fraternity, and prayer.

Yes he did ! The conventuals have Kolbe and the Immaculate which is the PATRONESS OF USA ! .

I thought so and couldn't sleep for a week!

+Timothy Taormina You can use third-party sites like keepvid.com to download youtube videos if you need them without the internet.

+Breaking In The Habit, THANKS!! It took me a while to figure it out, but I now have it on a CD to share with my OFS fraternity! (Actually, Kathy Taormina!)