FSSP and Disabilities

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No one here will probably be able to give me an answer, but, do any of you know if having the inability to genuflect would prevent someone from joining the FSSP? And yes, I have talked to FSSP and they told me to talk to my vocations director, which I don’t have. Any insight you could offer in this matter would be wonderful.

Dominus Tecum,
James
 
Nowhere_Man said:
No one here will probably be able to give me an answer, but, do any of you know if having the inability to genuflect would prevent someone from joining the FSSP? And yes, I have talked to FSSP and they told me to talk to my vocations director, which I don’t have. Any insight you could offer in this matter would be wonderful.

Dominus Tecum,
James
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Have you spoken with the FSSP vocations director?

I know this would not impede you from diocesan or most religious orders, but those totally dedicated to the Extraordinary Form may have different requirements/needs.
 
Yes, I have. He told me to talk to my Vocations Director, but I don’t have one
 
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Yes, I have. He told me to talk to my Vocations Director, but I don’t have one
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I don’t understand this response. The vocations director for the FSSP is the one who would have the answers. Each diocese and religious order/community has their own vocations director.
 
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I don’t understand this response. The vocations director for the FSSP is the one who would have the answers. Each diocese and religious order/community has their own vocations director.
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You’d think so, but that’s what their vocations director told me.
 
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Yes, but it just doesn’t make sense. The physical demands for the EF and OF are quite different; Oh well.
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I mean no disrespect but know that I am talking from my own vocational discernment experiences.

Sometimes when a vocations director decides that he no longer wishes to engage someone he will do something like this, that is brush them off, rather than telling them that he is not interested.

I am not saying that this is what is happening but it does not pass the smell test for me as the only one who can answer what the requirements of their congregation/order/community/diocese is the vocations director of that group, no other group either knows or has the authority to answer those questions.
 
I can’t speak for the FSSP Director of Vocations, but I can share what I know about the EF. A priest cannot celebrate the EF if he has a physical impairment that prohibits him from performing all of the gestures required by the rubrics.

This topic came up in Fr. Benedict G’s show on EWTN, about a week ago. He said that he knew how to celebrate the EF, because it was the mass that he was trained in. But that he cannot celebrate it, because of his stroke. He has little mobility in one of his arms and hand. The rubrics do not allow for exceptions such as holding the host with one hand, as someone like Fr. Benedict must do.

We have a brother who is a priest, but he has CP. He stands on crutches or sits on a stool during mass. He can’t celebrate the EF either.

Maybe this was the answer that the Vocation Director was giving you. But I don’t understand why he was not more specific. Did you notice anything else during the interview?

Br. David is right. The FSSP is a canonically erect clerical society. Therefore, no other vocations director can speak for them. I don’t understand where one would go for a vocation director. Did he say vocation director or spiritual director?

Fraternally,

Br. JR, OSF 🙂
 
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