Priests with...courage

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I used to belong to a parish (run by an order affiliated with Saint Vincent De Paul) in which the priest’s homilies always dealt only with love, being nice, get along, don’t offend, etc. The priests there also were afraid to mention any true catholic traditional doctrine, such as hell, heaven, purgatory, demons and angels. One time I mentioned to the pastor (That was the church of my Baptism and Confirmation) that If it was okay with him if I DONATED a beutiful statue of Saint Micheal the Archangel. Anyway, he developed a smirk on his face, laughed and ask me : “what for? Who is St. Micheal to you”? When
I told him that Saint Micheal is a great and powerful Archangel, which is protector of God’s people against the snares of the devil, he said: “yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah”, well there is no space in the church." Recently on Corpus Christi Sunday(sadly, this Archdiocese has it on Sunday instead of on the Thursday) he confused some people by saying that the before Vatican II people thought that the Corpus Christi processions were the priority, and that NOW that’s not important, the important thing is that EVERYONE recieves the Eucharist in Mass." Anyway, I left that parish, and now belong to a MODEL Catholic Parish in which the FULL doctrine of the faith is taught: angels, demons, hell, purgatory, sin, and special devotion to the Blessed Mother. The NEW Religious order(institute) that runs the parish is made up of priests in their late twenties and thirties (mostly). They have their black Cassocks on on Sundays, and when parish missions are going on (the Roman Cassock), and on weekdays, they ALWAYS have clerical regular garb: NEVER secular clothes. They are all well educated in Thomistic Theology, and most have Pontifical degrees (S.T.L.'S) from Roman Universities. Some are so young they look AS IF they are 20-22 years old(they are actually a little older), and very orthodox. The priests there tell all like it is from the pulpit, and well are not concerned who does not like catholic truth, they continue to preach. Confessions are always available before, and after mass, and by just walking in the rectory, there is ALWAYS (daytime) a priests of the order there. SOUNDS like UTOPIA? Well, I am blessed to be placed by God in that parish.
Good news! This religious order has been given the care of MANY parishes here in the USA, and the list continues to grow. I was told that Bishops (the faithful ones) are asking for priests of this order (founded only in 1985) take over some parishes: the request are a lot.
There seems to be hope!
The following is a link to that order’s website:
www.iveamerica.org
The same order also has a nuns/sisters branch.:clapping:
 
I am well aware with that order. In the most orthodox/traditional(and also I believe the largest) parish in the San Jose diocese, this order took over 2 years ago. They have kept this parish, Our Lady of Peace, tradition such as all altar boys, all male lectors and use of the altar rail intact, and have stern sermons that tell the truth.

Liturgically, no doubt they are solid at your parish as well. Another new order that is gaining ground is also from Argentina, and that is Miles Christi.
 
Here is a group of priest that have enormous courage, many of them celebrate the Traditional Latin Mass on sundays:
Right now, they are running out of space because too many people are joining the seminary at the Abbey. 👍

St. Michael’s Abbey of the Nobertine Fathers
abbeynews.net
 
Here is a story about a great diocesian priest in Orange County who did his best within the Diocesian structure to save souls. He walked around his jurisdiction and knocked on doors. Converted many people to the faith and increased the size of his parish from 400 families to about 1500+ at the end of his retirement. His parish was suppose to be his exile and punishment for refusing to give Holy Communion in the Hand.

Read about his story here:
christorchaos.com/FiftyYearsofPriestlyZeal.html

Then read about the revoking of the Indult Mass:

freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1132744/posts
uvoc.org/OC_Register_Retirement.html

Commentaries:
lewrockwell.com/ocregister/catholic-divide.html
losangelesmission.com/ed/articles/2004/0406rk.htm
 
I realize this may sound like it’s more about me, but here goes…
Our parochial vicar was preaching his last Mass before transfer. He spoke, as he often did, about sin and its effects on us and our relationship with God. But this time, he was more eloquent, concise, and direct than ever. I was so moved that I began applauding when he finished :clapping: (I’ll bet that’s not allowed in the GIRM.) Afterward I apologized for any embarrassment I may have caused him, but also thanked him for the courage to talk about sin so regularly. I believe he was one of the new wave coming out of seminary now, for which I am thankful.

When he asked me to pray for him in his new assignment, I said, “We’ll pray for you; and you, please, keep talking about sin.”
 
:crying: Your priests sound sooo wonderful!!!

(Those are tears of joy!)

God is SO good. May He call forth many, many more priests like these.

Oremus!!!
 
Panis Angelicas said:
:crying: Your priests sound sooo wonderful!!!

(Those are tears of joy!)

God is SO good. May He call forth many, many more priests like these.

Oremus!!!
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As for us Eastern Catholics, I wonder if our Seminaries are being packed ot overflowing as mentioned above about an ‘all Latin order’?
What Latin is to the Roman Rite, Old Slavonic (or known as Church Slavonic) is to the Eastern Catholic Church. I wonder if there are Eastern Catholic Churches what celebrate only in Church Slavonic here in the U.S.

I am sure with the ourpouring of people flocking to Latin Mass, if the same can happen to our Eastern Churches too.

Go with God!
Edwin
 
Mark my words, and yes you can say you heard it here first… but the seminaries are going to be blessing us with a more orthodox priesthood… i truly believe this with all i am seeing and hearing… now, will the spoiled laity be ready to accept and behave as we should, i see glorious but painful days ahead, but i promise you satifaction at the end of the ride… stick with the body of Christ, he won’t let you down… 👍
 
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Iohannes:
Here is a group of priest that have enormous courage, many of them celebrate the Traditional Latin Mass on sundays:
Right now, they are running out of space because too many people are joining the seminary at the Abbey. 👍

St. Michael’s Abbey of the Nobertine Fathers
abbeynews.net
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The Norbertines are wounderful priests. I am blessed to have one as one of the chaplains at my college. Their novices also come by to visit once per year.
 
Good seminaries produce good priests. I know two excellent seminaries in my diocese that produce very faithful and reverent priests.

God Bless
 
Recently, I heard a guest on EWTN’s World Over program saying that the young priests are the ones returning to tradition & orthodoxy, & they have much more in common with older priests than the ones in the generation directly ahead of them. Thank goodness. I went to Catholic schools that were very good & had many fine religious, but they were still influenced by the 60s social revolution & all that, so I’m quite tired of folk masses, etc. and I’m trying to learn some of the theology & history that I should have been learning back then instead of “social justice” & other courses on the same order.

I see a lot of hope in the new generation. Last week I was at the first mass of a priest who was in school behind me - a second-career vocation to boot. I also spend time in Rome every year visiting my family & I’m always fascinated by seeing so many young priests in cassocks & young religious in traditional habits. We need to keep praying for more of them!
 
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