Information notes i wish to begin writing having a hard time finding info

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Alright so I’ve been wanting to begin writing notes down on the following Carmelite’s, Benedictine’s, Francision’s, and Dominican’s like info like how they got started, their practices, the life of their friars, monks, brothers, priest etc. and also their spirituality cause lately I’ve been trying to gain a better understanding of the four.
 
Have you tried “googling” each of the orders??? I “google” all the time and am amazed at the information I receive – if you decide to try it,hopefully it will work out for you .
 
Alright so I’ve been wanting to begin writing notes down on the following Carmelite’s, Benedictine’s, Francision’s, and Dominican’s like info like how they got started, their practices, the life of their friars, monks, brothers, priest etc. and also their spirituality cause lately I’ve been trying to gain a better understanding of the four.
The best place to go is to the website of each community. However, I warn you, there are four Franciscan orders subdivided into over 120 obediences. Though there are only four Franciscan rules, there are over 120 constitutions, because the rule does not speak to many situations that came after Francis died. Statutes had to be drawn up to speak to them. Since there was disagreement on how Francis would respond to these situations, different Franciscan communities obey different constitutions, hence we call them obediences.

A better bet would be to go to the writings of St. Francis, which all Franciscans follow, because those cannot be edited or interpreted. They have to be taken at face value.

The Benedictine family follows one rule, but has five orders under the one umbrella. Each of those orders has several congregations. Again, the best place to go would be the writings of St. Benedict.

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New Advent is not a good resource for religious orders. The articles are not updated frequently enough. While the original charism, mission and vision of each order and congregation should not change, the daily life and work of these religious does change according to time, place, needs and the gifts of the religious. It’s impossible for them to keep up with these changes.

New Advent is very good if you want to read about the beginnings of the religious families and their founders. That . . . does not change.

Fraternally,

Br. JR, OSF 🙂
 
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