Aggressive Online Recruiting From this group

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I live in Colorado Springs and have a friend who attends. I haven’t discussed it with her much, I guess because I’m a coward and I really didn’t know how to approach the subject. Though I did tell her if you’re outside the authority of the church, you are not Catholic. I have been to church once or twice over the years (I didn’t not receive obv,. and couldn’t have even if I wanted to, as they don’t let you receive without jumping through a lot of hoops first). I did write the Bishop about it. At one point he did have a letter on the diocesan website about them, but eventually took it down. I can’t believe this happened to your son! I am so sorry. I am not sure what I can do, if anything, but I am still in good standing with my friend. She and her husband, and also their son and his family are all attendees. I’m sure if I told her your story she wouldn’t believe it. I will pray for your family. I’m so sorry, this must be torture for you.
 
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I did write the Bishop about it. At one point he did have a letter on the diocesan website about them, but eventually took it down.
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@Lucy_1 I wrote to Esperanza Griffith last week, Bishop Sheridan’s executive assistant, requesting an update concerning the diocesan position in regard to the “Servants” and the “Sisters”. I got an automated out-of-office reply, but she returns Monday the 20th of July, so I hope to hear from her this coming week. With the bishop’s coming retirement it is entirely possible that the new ordinary will take a new and different approach with these groups. If your friend has been attending for quite some time, perhaps she is brainwashed, too. But there’s also a chance that the Holy Spirit has been working on her heart and she is open to leaving. Hope springs eternal. If you take a look at the documentation I compiled and shared in a link in my previous post in a separate topic, that documentation dating back to 1988 may help you to explain that this group has been disobedient and schismatic for decades and decades. Let’s pray for one another.
 
While you aren’t happy with his decision which is very understandable, is there a way maybe you could show that you accept him and his decision and won’t try to dissuade him so that they allow communication? Once he is 18 it’s not your place to tell him what to do and it seems that trying to convince him that he made a bad decision may be contributing to you being cut off from him. I’m sure it would help if you were able to at least communicate occasionally even if just to share what’s going on. I’m not sure if that’s what your doing already though. It must be a very difficult situation
 
Yes. He is there for now. We send our love and communication constantly and hope he gets it.
 
Thanks for the resources, I may pass them to her on when the time is right. I don’t see her much, but they definitely have a lot of influence over her. I’m going to try to have see her a bit more regularly, and build more of a relationship. Put my toes in the water so to speak. Esperanza is on the ball, so I’m sure she will pass along your request. I will keep praying.
 
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Will this clip of the crowning ceremony from My Big Fat Greek Wedding suffice?
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It sure will. Same basic idea. Very nice.

I liked MBFGW very much aside from that scene where the fiance is baptized into Orthodoxy and they say “now you’re Greek!”. Made me want to scream! I really wish Orthodoxy could find some way to decouple ethnicity from religion, at least in this country. Having separate hierarchies for each ethnicity is an aberration.

Along the same lines, I am very happy that the Catholic Church has finally started choosing Popes from some nationality other than Italian (even though Francis is “kind of Italian, kind of not”). On one level, it really did feel like the “Italian National Catholic Church” — nothing against Italians, but “catholic” means “universal”. (Of course, on the other hand, there really wasn’t an “Italy” until the 1800s.)
 
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Also consider an online support group for other families who have lost loved ones to this groip.

Honestly, going and speaking at parishes and Diocese events, both youth events and events for parents and educators could make a difference
 
If you read above, her son is now 18. They didn’t lure him away until after his 18th birthday.
 
He is over 18 now. They are very careful to make sure they turn 18 when they go there even if coaching them when 17
 
It means I am giving your thread a bump up the list to keep it from closing in 14 days if there are no new posts. 😉
 
Just visited their Facebook page. It is so sad to read comments from people who have no idea how far they have gone from the true Church.
 
It appears spiritual, Traditional and benign. They are anything but. You don’t want to be on the receiving end of their anger and bullying
 
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You don’t want to be on the receiving end of their anger and bullying
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I shared the results of our Carmelite investigation on Twitter, and the invective was intense against a fellow team member and me. A Twitter influencer who is convinced that the “Sisters of Carmel” are not schismatic (even though they live on the same compound and exclusively attend their liturgies) unfriended me and made a big stink about it. I lost a number of followers that week.

@Jfsteck you are right about anger and bullying! By their fruit, ye shall know them. How sad.
 
Except some people like to see actual new content on a thread instead of it being bumped with nothing new.
 
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