Lets play a game of guess the charism.
Pick the religious order by using the following clues of what
they offer.
- Therapeutic Massage
- La Stone Therapy
- Craniosacral Therapy
- Maya Abdominal Self-Care Workshops
- Australian Bush Flower Essence Practitioner
- Healing the Light Body Shamanic Practices
- Maya Abdominal Massage
- Introduction To Raw Food
- Native American Ceremonies
- Energy Medicine Sessions
- Reiki Sessions
- Lymphatic Drainage
- An Indepth Look At The Chakras
- Therapeutic massage with emphasis on trigger point,
chiropractic modalities, medical massage and relaxation techniques
enhancing circulation and the immune system - Dances of Universal Peace
- Animal Spirits/Animal Guides
- Reflecting On Reconciliation in a Quantum Universe
What you can’t easily pick what
religious order this is by a listing of what they are teaching and
practicing? Of course with new agey Dominicans and Franciscans it is
harder to determine which one has gone further around the bend.
Catholicism is sometimes associated
with rosary beads, statues, Latin Masses and novenas.
But this brand of Catholicism centers on meditation, dream work, global
spirituality and inner peace.
Under the umbrella term Collaborative Ministries, the Wheaton
Franciscans offer an ongoing series of programs and classes at Maura
Hall on the campus of Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital in Wheaton. The
program focuses on spiritual development and the healing arts.
“We were involved with ministries across the United States, and we
thought it was time to reach out to our immediate community,” said
Sister Gabriele Uhlein, who helped launch Collaborative Ministries in
2005. “It was our dream to provide a venue for spirituality to the
public.”
The name originated from the collaboration of the Wheaton Franciscan
Sisters and their covenant members, a group of laypeople who have a
special relationship with the sisters in their desire to follow the
traditions of St. Francis of Assisi and St. Clare.
“Collaborative Ministries is grounded in the Franciscan dimension,”
Uhlein said. “St. Francis had a tremendous respect for God’s creation,
and we wanted Collaborative Ministries to reflect that.”
Some Franciscans seem to over-emphasize one aspect of Francis’
spirituality to the detriment of the rest of it. Too much
Brother Sun, Sister Moon and not enough Mother Church and God the Father.
Francis’ love of creation was due to his love of the creator.
Going through the Wheaton Franciscan’s site the most
you hear about Jesus and Mary is in there name Province of the
International Congregation of the Franciscan Sisters, Daughters of the
Sacred Heart of Jesus and Mary.
Though maybe I am being a little hard on them. After
all when you want to hear about animal spirit guides surely the first
place you would go is the Catechism, or maybe not. I say
Shaman on them for such as travesty.
They also prove my rule about Progressive Catholic Religious
web sites – that you will always find a link to the United Nations and
never to the Vatican. Something that Fr. Powell has also recently discovered
concerning the United Nations Millennium Development Goals and
Dominican sites and publications.
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Don’t forget about the Sisters of Mercy of the AMericas … http://www.sistersofmercy.org/index.php
One of the Omaha congreation’s donations was to RESPECT … which links gURL. (http://www.gurl.com/topics/sex/0,,,00.html)
It’s also well known they regularly support pro-choice agenda.
They are NOT true Franciscans! St. Francis was first and foremost a true and obedient son of the Church and totally loyal to the Holy Father.
Not even worth the column inches anymore.
On the cutting edge of the late 80s or is that 70s?
Sad.
Old.
Dying.
Anymore I try to focus occasional attention on the orders whose members will still be breathing in 20 years.
The future of the religious life in America is here: Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious
Spend a few minutes looking at the pictures of the full novitiates of all the gals in their beautiful habits.
That is where the future is.
http://www.cmswr.org/member_communities_cmswr.htm
Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious
Wow. That’ll really rake in the evangelical converts from neighbouring Wheaton College.
It does, however, look like a good place to go for a massage. Is this a religious organization or a spa?
I tried be fair and look for any programs that might actually have a reason to exist.
Out of that long list, the therapeutic massage/ chiropratic treatment MIGHT have use in medical rehab, but only under professional guidelines.
At 1st I thought this was taken from an ad for the Shalom Center ran by the (alledged) Franciscan sisters here in DBQ.
We won’t go into what some of the other convents here in town are “weaving”.
It always baffles me how so many that claim to follow in the footsteps of St. Francis make it so incredibly apparent that they have never bothered to read his writings.
“Maya Abdominal Self-Care Workshops”
What the heck is that? How to avoid getting Montezuma’s revenge in Cabo?
Oh, they’re that bad. I’m in a nearby suburb, and they run a high school here, and their whole vibe is classic 70’s icky spirituality.
Sadly, the high school is pretty excellent academically, so they flourish.
They ARE a scandal to the Wheaton area. I’m sure they’re what many evangelicals think nuns are like. Yurp.
dont forget ” Understanding Anneagrams”
A course courtesy of Los Angeles, CA chapter
of Womens Fransiscans
Maya Abdominal Self-Care Workshops
Maya Abdominal Massage
Maya seems to have a lot of problems with her plumbing. I’d recommend a balanced diet with plenty of roughage, and a yoghurt every couple of days.
Wonderful how all of these orders have been allowed to flourish and grow while those that only want to adhere to tradition and faith have been chastised, excommunicated as Archbishop Lefebvre was, and now Bishops are revolting against the latest Moto which they will do nothing about
I recall how the church’s were gutted over a weekend with the new mass and guitar strumming nuns almost instituted overnight in the early 1970’s because the Vatican wanted this and the clergy wanted it as well
Today the corruption is from within unlike prior church threats to her where it was from without, this is the difference. The ones holding the keys to the church doors are the ones who are the evil doers
Pray for their souls
Wonderful how Lefebvrists always conveniently forget that their man was a whale on every tradition except that little one about obeying the authority of the Holy Father. Nobody can call me an admirer of nuns with guitars, but the answer to the distasteful excesses of the Seventies wasn’t to go into schism. It was to pray and endure, even during “Kumbaya”. Schismatics are no better than dissidents.
Elinor
If the Pope told you to worship as a Moslem tomorrow would you do it? I think that is what Frank was trying to say. If you recall the traditionalists did not change while it was the church that changed around them and actually if they are wrong now then the church was wrong then. At least he took a stand unlike what we have today
Lefebvre wasn’t in schism/excommunicated because of his adherence to the traditional Latin rite, it had to with a disciplinary measure regarding the ordination of bishops.
People who attend masses at SSPX churches are meeting their Sunday obligation and actually receiving the sacraments.
People who attend masses at SSPX churches are meeting their Sunday obligation and actually receiving the sacraments.
As a matter of fact that depends on a number of factors including their intentions. If they don’t mind being in schism, however, it’s no skin off my nose.
Vivian’s question doesn’t make sense. The Holy Father wouldn’t tell me that because Our Lord assured us that the Rock on which the Church was built would never fall into error. A Catholic who is distressed by one of the Holy Father’s actions – as I was, very much, over the altar girls thing several years ago – must always be willing to assume that he had a reason for his action, and that it was within his province to do it. What staggers me about SSUXers is their instantaneous assumption that if they don’t like what the Holy Father has done, OBVIOUSLY he’s wrong and they’re right, and this entitles them to set up their own bishops and tell themselves that they’re the real Catholics. Oh, please.
Elinor
I understand the question, many people who call themselves conservative/traditional, and also due to the Architect of the New Mass in Annibale Bugnini who was later exiled off to Iran and fired by two Popes for being a Mason, many of these people feel the new mass resembles a Protestant service and in many ways it does. The liturgy was handed down as part of sacred Tradition and the pope is supposed to safeguard it
I am not smart enough to know if there is something bad the Popes have done as I do love and respect them, but they are human beings and it seems everything went haywire in society in the 1960’s even to today. What I see on TV today at 8PM with my children I would never dream of seeing when I was there age. Commercial after commercial for “erectle disfunction”, to all kinds of sexual inuendoes
I dont think any of the other faiths changed their form of worship as Jews still use and learn Hebrew as children, Greek Orthodox children have to learn Greek, and so on and RESPECT their traditions and faiths
I’m with you Elinor. Hear! Hear!
Well I guess if you feel that :
Communion in the hand
Mass that is clower to Protestanism than Catholicism
Lax dress and respect for the mass
Eucharistic Ministers
Liturgical abuses and innovations commonplace
Catechism that has been changed
Canon law that has loopholes that allow communion to non catholics and permits 60,000 annulments a year in the US alone
Revised sacraments
Clergy abuse
Ecumenism that now teaches that even those that deny Jesus can be saved…
Etcetera-Is all fine and Ok then horray!!
I dont think anyone thinks they know more than the Pope, but if you are Ok with exposing your young children to the above today then the church today is for you
For millions others they want a restoration of the sacred back into the church, and some have decided to worship as Catholics have always worshipped and have turned to SSPX and other forms of traditional chapels
I am not saying it is the right thing, but to make fun of them while you sit around and do nothing (you said you have accepted altar girls) then you should take a look at yourself
Frank,
Are you borrowing enemy ammo? “Clergy abuse” clearly did not belong on that list.
Joann
You are correct, that should not have been put on that list as our enemies from WITHOUT have enough ammo
Thanks
Nevertheless, the essentials of the faith are the same. Yes the liberties, not allowed in the rubrics, taken with worship are awful and can be even harmful, as can at times the consequences of following the rubrics (eg face the people and become the star of the show). However the essentials of the faith are the same. (If we were asked to transgress any of those, including any of the ten commandments, we must disobey. Ther Church Herself teaches this.) The Novus Ordo Mass is valid, though not beautiful as it is in the Tridentine form, yet even that form had its drawbacks w/re accessibility of understanding and participation. Not that catechesis couldn’t have resolved these problems, but the problem was widespread among the laity pre-Vatican II. Not that dumbing down the Mass is the answer. However my point is that we cannot simply disown the authority of the Pope, as did, say, Martin Luther, because of some very legitimate and serious concerns. This is where the Lefebvrists went wrong. The Church has always made horrendous mistakes, that is, its ministers have, but the authority of the Pope (Peter) and the inerrancy of doctrine is “until the end of the world.” Our response is prayer, fasting, patient endurance, catechesis of those in our care, and tenacious yet respectful pleas to our shepherds to fix the problems. This is a lot of work. And this means no doubt that we have to endure the problems a long while, and endure the wrath of shepherds and laity who see no problems, but this is life in Christ.
My mistake above, the ennaegram course list is oferered by MSMC at the Doheny campus (not women fransiscans).
For more info look up the Los Angeles, CA archdiocese web site the class began Nov 3, 2007
John14v15-
just to clarify, the rubrics of the NO do not require versus populum celebration. The sacramentary several times uses terms like “facing the altar” and then “turning to the people.”
John
I agree with much of your post, except for one big thing
The Lefevbreits desire to worship as Catholics always have with NO change. Luther wanted to change the church to his liking, as we were all taught and read in school and history books with his hammering his demands on the church doors
The church is the one who changed around the Lefebvreites, not the other way around
Many many here and elsewhere would actually welcome for the most part a return to what once was, but for fear of being “disobedient” go along with this nonsense, myself included
And yes, altar girls, african dance, Pope JPII participating in these travesties as well to be ecumenical are all scandal, scandal that no other Pope before would ever allow so either the popes were wrong before in condemning ecumenism or they are wrong now