Montfortian Consecration: Society of Our Lady of the Trinity (SOLT)

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Thanks for sharing.
As a society of apostolic life, its my understanding that they have both secular and religious members. The brothers and sisters are presumably religious. Is it true that their priests are secular priests, not religious?
 
Sounds like they are consecrated persons then…religious. Hmm… I remember it being clearly stated that Fr Corapi was NOT a religious, but maybe he was. Hmm.
 
Everyone in a community has to have a canonical novitiate for a year. Perhaps that is the case in this particular charism. That’s the only explanation I can come up with.
 
My canonical evaluation of the group:
  • Priests = priests (ordained men) who belong to a Society of Apostolic Life = non-consecrated secular clergy
  • “Sisters” = vowed members of the Society of Apostolic Life = non-consecrated laywomen with private vows
  • “consecrated widows” = non-consecrated members of the Society of Apostolic Life with private promises/ = laywomen with private promises
  • Collaborators = laypeople (if lay) or clergy (if clergy)
Also, it is interesting that at a recent Vatican gathering, Societies of Apostolic Life requested to be granted a consecration, thereby negating the whole point of their form of organization.
 
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Sounds like they are consecrated persons then…religious. Hmm… I remember it being clearly stated that Fr Corapi was NOT a religious, but maybe he was. Hmm.
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I read that completely differently than you. It sounds to me that these men are religious in the novitiate, but are ordained specifically to be incardinated in a diocese.
 
Religious life is a vocation… It’s not meant to be a temporary phase?
 
I agree. The question is jurisdiction. Does it somehow transfer to the diocese upon ordination?

Do I even know what the heck I’m talking about? (No)
 
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