tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4404498638452030181.post1230505478086656575..comments2024-03-28T08:42:07.659-07:00Comments on The Eponymous Flower: Feast Days For the Franciscans of the Immaculate in the Immemorial Mass of All Ages -- 12 New Novices, 16 Temporary VowsTancredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16015531337154301560noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4404498638452030181.post-89805507021138287442013-08-04T06:43:56.390-07:002013-08-04T06:43:56.390-07:00The progressive Orders are all dead. Only those w...The progressive Orders are all dead. Only those which have remained "conservative", or traditional are at least stable. Those that are the most traditional are growing the most.<br />This is why the Vatican wishes to stifle the Traditional Latin Mass and the Franciscans of the Immaculate. It is because the progressive reforms of Vatican II in religious life have been a huge disaster, and once flourishing Orders like the Jesuits, Redemptorists, Benedictines, Trappists, Salesians, and Franciscans are rapidly collapsing. Here's a quick look at the disaster:<br />Before 1965:<br />Jesuits: 36,100 members<br />Franciscans (OFM): 28,000<br />Capuchins: 15,500+<br />Redemptorists: 10,500<br />Salesians: 22,550+<br />Trappists: 6,000<br />Benedictines: 12,500+<br /><br />TODAY:( after 50 years of Vatican II)<br />Jesuits: 17,200<br />Franciscans: 13,881<br />Capuchins: 10,500<br />Redemptorists: 4,771<br />Salesians: 15,101<br />Trappists: 1,880<br />Benedictines: 10,901 (with a dozen+ additional monasteries not affiliated with the Benedictine Congregation, perhaps 225+ additional members)<br /><br />This is not to mention the 440+ Orders of nuns around the world (mostly liberal feminist communities in USA and Western Europe), which have now less than 100 members are and on the point of extinction.<br />Even huge Orders of nuns in flourishing communities like the Daughters of Charity(50,000 before Vatican II), Sisters of Mercy(30,000+ in USA,Ireland, and Australia branches) Religious of the Sacred Heart(St. Madeline Sophine Barat)(7,700), Sisters of the Good Shepherd, School Sisters of Notre Dame(both over 12,000) Franciscan Missionaries of Mary(8,800) and Missionaries of the Sacred Heart(Cabrini nuns-2,100) have collapsed to 16,500, 6,100(in USA,Ieland and Australia branches), 2,311, 3,349,3,100,5,200, and 298 respectively (2013).<br />For traditional Orders to be growing is a supreme insult to the liberal Vatican II trash who will force the "reforms" down faithful Catholics throats until the Catholic Church is transformed into the same as a protestant "church", in which case the Catholic Church will be dead.<br />Faithful Catholics must oppose this, even if it is opposing the Pope. We must also oppose the neoconservative Catholics such as EWTN, and other groups which would applaud the Pope and others dancing around saying Mass in a clown suit.<br />I hope the SSPX experiences tremendous growth, and a rising tie of both new Orders of religious and Faithful Catholics coming to it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4404498638452030181.post-36118446929882697472013-08-04T05:06:43.678-07:002013-08-04T05:06:43.678-07:00All the more reason to pray unceasingly to our Ble...All the more reason to pray unceasingly to our Blessed Mother that justice is done in this case,that those members of the order who wish to continue celebrating the immemorial rite will be allowed to do so in peace. Nicholas Dysonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4404498638452030181.post-73786477699607134032013-08-03T20:25:19.541-07:002013-08-03T20:25:19.541-07:00Tell me again why this is being banned? Is it bec...Tell me again why this is being banned? Is it because there really is a desire for all orders to die out; is that it? <br /><br />The modernist progressive means have been most successful to the killing of orders after all. And if that is the goal then we know why this is banned.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com