Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Where to Be a Sister in Italy

Some young American women have joined this order: http://www.sacrocuore.com/index-en.html.

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  1. Praiseworthy Order I suppose, but I was disappointed to see they wear the usuall, simplified "Vatican II" type habit. If you advertised it, I was sure it was going to be a traditional habited group. But it wasn't.

    MOstly old sisters. And the simplified habit.
    Now, if they were to return to wearing their "old fashioned habits", they'd have a house filled with vocations, including more Americans.

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  2. They have a plan to go back to the original habit. Pray and fast for the Lord's will.

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  3. Perhaps this individual convent plans to go back to the original habit, but I can't believe that this Order...the Religious of the Sacred Heart (founded by St. Madeline Spohie Barat in 1800 ...she died in 1865), plans to go back to the original habit.
    I say this only because the Religious of the Sacred Heart ( once known for their exemplary academies, boarding schools and colleges for young women and before Vatican II a flourishing Order of close to 8,000 nuns and known lovingly as the "female Jesuits" because of their traditionalism and zealous apostolate), became after Vatican II in the USA and elsewhere among the most radical and most liberal and most dissenting of religious Orders in the Church! The discarded the original habit....and also the modified habit worn briefly...in 1969 and adopted layclothes.
    They declined from 7,800 (1965), to barely 2,000 today with a median age of 76+ worldwide.

    If this is the same Order depicted in this photo, and they plan to go back to the traditional habit....then GOD BLESS THEM WITH THE COURAGE TO DO SO AND MUCH SUCCESS AND GRACE!!
    iF ONLY THIS ONE CONVENT PLANS TO GO BACK TO THE ORIGINAL HABIT, THEN PERHAPS THIS IS A MIRACLE IN THE MAKING, AND THESE BRAVE SISTERS WILL HELP RESTORE their presently corrupt and dissident Order recover from the disaster of Vatican II agenda.

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