Bravo - Sister Christina Scuccia!

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Check out Sr. Christina and her entering Italy’s “The Voice”…what an awesome nun! She has gained international attention simply by making the decision to enter a reality TV show in order to find her path to finding a means to evangelize.

You can tell the audience’s energy was ignited by this nun and she has been characterized as bringing joy to singing, and the Italian people seem to find her an opening to their historical connection with Catholicism.

What do people think of her? I know she is criticized as a “New Order” nun in the most unkind words from extremists for the “old ways” but I can’t help seeing how she is connecting and touching hearts, and building a trust with today’s society… is that not the first step of evangelization…

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That is horrible. What a way to lose your vocation.

By the way, there was a nun already in the 70s who became “famous” because she was a singer. She died without the Sacraments and I think left the True Church.

We are to be in the world, not part of the world. Satan is the Prince of this World of Darkness, and we should strive to live a life of grace.
 
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Thank You
 
As far as I’m concerned, she’s evangelizing by just BEING on stage in her habit! 🙂

Looking forward to the “Live” phase which starts tomorrow ~ which, from what I understand, means people from home can vote. There are some, like Daria and Giacomo, who are probably more talented singers, but I think the charisma and popularity of Sr. Cristina might be enough to put her on top at the end. I certainly hope so! But we’ll see.

For those that haven’t seen the videos, here’s the 1st three in order:

Sr. Cristina singing “No One” by Alicia Keys in the Blind Audition
Sr. Cristina VS Luna Palumbo during the 1st Battle Round
Sr. Cristina VS Benedetta Giovagnini during the 1st Knockout Round
 
I read what some people posted on FB and YT. I’m getting the impression that people who think the worse in these cases are those who are not very familiar with the inner workings of religious life. We (religious) have been involved in many forms of the arts and sciences for centuries, not always religious art, but also secular art and sciences. We have been involved in music, painting, dance, theater, astronomy, chemistry, mathematics, history, social sciences, literature, and more.

As for the performing arts, Franciscans are no strangers to the stage. It’s been an accepted form of establishing a presence in the world for a very long time, at least in our tradition.

Sisters Can Dance

The Most Rad Rocking Capuchins

Everybody’s Gotta Suffer

Dancing Friar

Dancing friar is an interesting video, because this is the fastest growing province of Capuchins in the USA. It’s the Custody of San Juan, Puerto Rico.

I often feel sad when I see laymen making nasty comments about such people. I wish that they would speak to us, to our superiors, our historians and our community archivists before they speak. They may find that they have embarrassed themselves.

There are always going to be religious who are saints and those who fall by the wayside. Religious life is not so black and white that we can say that a religious who goes on stage will lose his or her focus, nor are we (religious) so fragile. We’re not children who need to be protected from the world. If a man or a woman is that fragile, he or she does not belong in the religious life and no matter how much we enclose him and buffer him from the outside world, something is going to happen that will cause him or her to crumble and leave. More religious leave because community life is intolerable than because of their exposure to the secular world.

When there is an absence of community, loneliness, depression, fatigue and concupiscence rear their ugly heads.
 
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MODERATOR NOTICE

I’ve removed some posts for going beyond what is appropriate for the laity. It is up to the major superior of a religious and the Sacred Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life to decide what is and is not appropriate for a religious, not up to us to trespass into an area that is the area of competence and authority of another.

The Holy See has already made a positive statement on this subject. Any disagreements, feel free to write to

Monsignore João Bráz de Aviz
Prefecto
Congregazione per gli Istituti di Vita Consacrata
e le Società di Vita Apostolica
Piazza Pio XII 3
00193 Rome, Italy
Europe

phone: 011.3906.69.88.41.28
fax: 011.3906.69.88.45.26

Or you can contact the Nuncio to the USA

**Monsignore Carlo Maria Viganò
3339 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC

Telephone: (202) 333-7121
Fax: (202) 337-4036**

Making judgments on things that one has no right to judge is not helpful, nor is it the purpose of this forum. Send your concerns to those who have the authority to respond to you. Our posters cannot give you authoritative answers. The only thing that happens when we begin to judge and pull out the devil and hell card is to create arguments that lead nowhere and scandalize non-Catholics.

Any questions or comment, you can PM me.

Thank You
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Thank you Thomas for taking the initative to remove the comments you saw fit to move. I haven’t seen them…as I am not on the computer everyday (although this was yesterday… am just getting back to them now…on a side not Thomas, you will be happy to know I have a small Chrome Book now which is dependable and has access daily to wifi! Yippee 🙂

It’s interesting, but I am thinking that there must of been similar critisism to the original Singing nun… or maybe there was more appetite given that she sang “Dominque” as Vatican II was going on… I remember her as a 6 year old…she was great… .and my admiration to Sr. Christina goes the same way some 50+ years later 🙂

The dynamics that I see is that his nun has taken Francis up on his call, to get out of the safety zone of an inward looking Catholicism…(correct me if I am wrong, but even contemplative religious do not have an inward look, they have an outward look - to the world and heaven itself - but through the focus of absolute focus on prayer…)

What I see in this most wonderful nun is the fact that she is touching hearts, she is de-mystifying an image of Catholicism that has been seen as way beyond our real world…she is in the real world of today while remaining focused on her vocation…that is the most wonderful witness…and I am sure that she knows she has her critiques as we all do.

Respect and allowing the freedom of others to express their love for Our Lord, to me seems to be outside the realm of criticism…respect free will…as Our Father does…

Thanks again Thomas…cheerz, blessings and all that.

Bruce Ferguson
Trickster
 
JReducation said:
I read what some people posted on FB and YT. I’m getting the impression that people who think the worse in these cases are those who are not very familiar with the inner workings of religious life. We (religious) have been involved in many forms of the arts and sciences for centuries, not always religious art, but also secular art and sciences. We have been involved in music, painting, dance, theater, astronomy, chemistry, mathematics, history, social sciences, literature, and more.

As for the performing arts, Franciscans are no strangers to the stage. It’s been an accepted form of establishing a presence in the world for a very long time, at least in our tradition.

Sisters Can Dance

The Most Rad Rocking Capuchins

Everybody’s Gotta Suffer

Dancing Friar

Dancing friar is an interesting video, because this is the fastest growing province of Capuchins in the USA. It’s the Custody of San Juan, Puerto Rico.

I often feel sad when I see laymen making nasty comments about such people. I wish that they would speak to us, to our superiors, our historians and our community archivists before they speak. They may find that they have embarrassed themselves.

There are always going to be religious who are saints and those who fall by the wayside. Religious life is not so black and white that we can say that a religious who goes on stage will lose his or her focus, nor are we (religious) so fragile. We’re not children who need to be protected from the world. If a man or a woman is that fragile, he or she does not belong in the religious life and no matter how much we enclose him and buffer him from the outside world, something is going to happen that will cause him or her to crumble and leave. More religious leave because community life is intolerable than because of their exposure to the secular world.

When there is an absence of community, loneliness, depression, fatigue and concupiscence rear their ugly heads.
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Hello JREducation… it’s been a while since I heard from you…although I haven’t been on Catholic Answers too much myself 🙂 Thanks so much for sharing those videos… I remember Fr. Stan, the man is utilizing his “talents” given to him by the Creator and developed during his life…what a wonderful witness…the rap thing has already got so many negative lyrics that really make the soul and spirit depressed, why NOT use the tool of rap and poetry to create new messages for the human mind and heart.

I didn’t realize that there was such strong feeling by lay people when their image of nuns, religious, priests, dont’ fit their view of what these lives are about… is that is what is meant by clericalism?

Gosh, dance, expression to truths the heart understands, the gift of movement with respect to depression, quality of life, etc. how can anyone be against it? What happened to Jesus’ words about coming not to stop but to add to our life (paraphrased here 🙂 David, in the old testament danced… many Hebrews danced as part of their spiritual life…what’s the problem about a nun capturing the imagination of her own age group in breaking down stereotypes about nuns, rappers, "the evil world! out there… …what is the problem of this nun capturing the imagination, earning the trust and opening the door for the Catholic or Chirstian proposal to be revisited and reimagined for today’s people ?

Anyways, I appreciated your comments… and being Canadian, I had images of our own priests and brothers playing hockey with kids in their religious outfits…sacrilegious I am sure was cried…but it meant a lot to the boys growing up to be men…both hockey players and good Catholics…

Take care Brother

Trickste

Bruce Ferguson
 
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