tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4404498638452030181.post8336960557338439171..comments2024-03-28T12:56:16.115-07:00Comments on The Eponymous Flower: Dominicans Abandon Priory in GrazTancredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16015531337154301560noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4404498638452030181.post-70193288222663480462015-02-03T16:42:54.668-08:002015-02-03T16:42:54.668-08:00This is tragic but it seems the Dominican priests ...This is tragic but it seems the Dominican priests brought this downfall themselves. They embraced Modernism....this is the result. They have not read the writings of the Holy Fathers, esp. Pope Pius X, on this subject. Really we can call them traitors to the Church. Look how the Dominicans are growing in the United States...the traditional men. God Bless them. It does seem the hierarchy in Germany and Austria have lost 'the plot' if not entirely their vocation. There appears to be a plan to deconstruct the Church. To what end? Certainly not in honor of Almighty God.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4404498638452030181.post-54600720832230938242013-08-09T07:27:21.982-07:002013-08-09T07:27:21.982-07:00What he did to this church reminds me of the inner...What he did to this church reminds me of the inner city kids in Philadelphia where I live, who roam the streets at night spray painting graffiti on the sides of trains, on bridges, buildings, and shops. It's ugly. Just like the walls of this Church.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4404498638452030181.post-82492858187809689382013-08-09T07:22:40.076-07:002013-08-09T07:22:40.076-07:00To do what he did to such a magnificent church, th...To do what he did to such a magnificent church, this Father Glettler, O.P. must be mentally ill....sick. For the Dominicans to ruin a church like that, they deserve to die out. And I hope they do.<br />They are nearly gone from Western Europe. Congratulations to worthless members of the Order like Fr. Glettler for ruining his own Order. No wonder there are no vocations to it, or to the Franciscans, Jesuits, Redemptorists, etc.<br />Before the Reformation especially, the Dominicans were among the largest Orders in the Church, with over 25,000 friars. The Franciscans before the Protestant Reformation had nearly double that. The Augustinians had over 20,000.<br />In Italy, there were thousands of Dominicans, all the way up to right before Vatican II. But never so many as before the Reformation. Most large towns had a Dominican monastery....some places like Florence or Rome had as many as 5-6.<br />There were in Italy even small Dominican "reformed" congregations of friars which developed a more cloistered/contemplative life even though the mainstream Dominicans of the time were not a cloistered Order.<br />The Order never really recovered from the Reformation, nor the religious wars, the French Revolution and the edicts from secular rulers such as Napoleon and Emperor Josef II of Austria who suppressed thousands of monasteries of all Orders.<br />But, the Dominicans were on the road to recovery, with 10,200 members right before Vatican II. Had the Council never happened, it is within the realm of possibility that the Dominican Order could have been back to the 20,000+ members they had prior to the Protestant Reformation.<br />But today, with priests like this Fr. Glettler, and Cardinal Schonborn, and radical liberals across Europe and elsewhere (they are all old men now), the Order deserves what it gets. Here and there Dominicans survive in the old ways and with the traditional Mass (affiliated to the SSPX). It is only here where true Dominican life for friars as well as sisters and cloistered nuns still lives and thrives.<br />The Vatican II Dominican Order for the most part is dead. Just like the Franciscans, Jesuits, etc.<br />When they do things like that to magnificent churches like the one pictured, shed no tears for their departure. Just thank God and say "Good riddance"!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com