Come and help French cloisters! Why do they close? :'(

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But, 1234, many French congregations and orders DO have websites! There are quite a few abbeys on the web, plus all those vocations sites one can link to from www.cef.fr, the French episcopal conference website. I would say to the French Church, continue to make your presence felt on the world wide web, and keep doing it well.
I will concede that there are some individual contemplative monasteries who do not have a web presence-yet. On the whole, I find the French bishops and religious very much in step with the present times, and with one another.
 
Yea, I’m aware that many communities are mushrooming in France…
Yet, Contemplative Orders have great difficulty these days. 😦 I see lots of Carmelite Congregations, and other abbeys close… to become museums or I don’t know what.

I’m helping “my” dearest community to have a website but they don’t see how important it is. The majority is seventy-year-old and to convince such a bunch it’s hard, esp when you’re less than twenty and considered as new and inexperienced and prompt to obey.

So what I’m doing is talking about the community through my website but it’s not the same. I mean, it can’t be listed in other websites… I can’t pretend to be from the community, I’m not.

I’m saying that whereas people call me “Sister” through my website, not seeing it’s a “lover” who’s writing, and not somebody belonging to the abbey.

Well, that’s a complicated story…

Maybe contemplative orders are quite rigid in France, and that’s the reason why young people can’t stand such a live. I wouldn’t deny that it’s harsh (the way they treat me, besides I’ve got a metal-core heart.) 😦
 
Bebekoualy said:
Yea, I’m aware that many communities are mushrooming in France…
Yet, Contemplative Orders have great difficulty these days. 😦 I see lots of Carmelite Congregations, and other abbeys close… to become museums or I don’t know what.

I’m helping “my” dearest community to have a website but they don’t see how important it is. The majority is seventy-year-old and to convince such a bunch it’s hard, esp when you’re less than twenty and considered as new and inexperienced and prompt to obey.

So what I’m doing is talking about the community through my website but it’s not the same. I mean, it can’t be listed in other websites… I can’t pretend to be from the community, I’m not.

I’m saying that whereas people call me “Sister” through my website, not seeing it’s a “lover” who’s writing, and not somebody belonging to the abbey.

Well, that’s a complicated story…

Maybe contemplative orders are quite rigid in France, and that’s the reason why young people can’t stand such a live. I wouldn’t deny that it’s harsh (the way they treat me, besides I’ve got a metal-core heart.) 😦
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You can create a “fan site” like we did for Oulton Abbey.

Blessings,
Cloisters
 
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…IF they’ll let you!
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Fan sites are just that–unofficial sites. Here is a quote from the Franciscan Sisters Minor “unofficial” friend site:

“Because the Sisters, according to their life of poverty, do not have computers, we, the friends of the sisters, have established this web site out of esteem for their heroic life of service to God’s people. According to their life of “Minority” the Sisters do not do self promotion. So acting completely on our own, without the consent or knowledge of the Sisters, have decided to make them better known.”

franciscansistersminor.info/

So, yes, fan sites do exist.

The case with Oulton Abbey is very unique, and one that Catholics would not normally expect. Just pray for more vocations who persevere, and the situation will be taken care of more rapidly.

Blessings,
Cloisters
 
The website is very nice, but I wouldn’t do so without their consent.

Anyway, I’m glad, because when you type the name of the abbey, you find my website first, where I give main information about how to go there, and so on. Sone guests told me they had read things in my website and it had made them want to go there. Cool! 👍

Anyway… The monastery is getting old… and I’d love to make them younger.

I drew a comic strip for them, about a teen forcing his way into the cloister. I wrote everything in slang. I put asterisks and the different meanings in case they’re mixed-up. I really had fun!😃 I hope they won’t take it badly…😊

Thanks for your messages, anyway! 😉
 
France must pay for the French Revolution.
I believe St. John Bosco had a vision of a desert that the angel told him was a city called Paris.

Oh mon Dieu, mais ne pas détruire Notre-Dame!
 
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