Protestant Religious Orders

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I came across another Protestant religious order and was going to attach it to an older thread on the subject but recalled the prohibition against bringing back to life an old thread.

The other thread had noted that in addition to the obvious (Episcopal/Anglican) there were some Protestant religious orders.

The Order of Saint Luke - (not to be confused with OSL the Physician). This disbursed order is based in the United Methodist Church and is open to married and single, clergy and lay and is ecumenical. saint-luke.net/

The Order of Corpus Christi - based on the United Church of Christ. This disbursed order is open to married and single, clergy and lay and I believe is restricted to members of the Churches Uniting in Christ (IIRC) orderofcorpuschristi.org/

There was a Lutheran religious order
staugustineshouse.org/index.html

The new order I found is based in Germany and was founded in the German Evangelical Protestant Church. It is the Evangelical Sisterhood of Mary
kanaan.org/international/default.htm

To me this says that there is a deep spiritual need/calling that the Catholic/Eastern Churches have sought to meet that Protestants are recognizing as well. In two of the orders above, it includes the genius of Third Orders (something the Catholic church has long had).
 
A friend was with the World Health Organization and worked in Suriname on malaria control. They worked closely with the Christian Brothers, a Dutch Reformed order.
 
The Servants of the Sacred Cross is a religious order for women than can be married or single and therefore Extern or convent based. They have Anglicans, Catholics and EO sisters and are in the US/Canada/and Australia. There is or was a picture of one of the Sisters being received by the Catholic Bishop of Perth and a supportive quote from the Bishop.

thesacredcross.org/album.htm

They have updated their photo section. Looks like a great opportunity. Though, their Bishop protector is Anglican and of the group that is ordinariate bound so I wonder if the order will follow fully into the Catholic Church.
 
RevDrNorth said:
I came across another Protestant religious order and was going to attach it to an older thread on the subject but recalled the prohibition against bringing back to life an old thread.

The other thread had noted that in addition to the obvious (Episcopal/Anglican) there were some Protestant religious orders.

The Order of Saint Luke - (not to be confused with OSL the Physician). This disbursed order is based in the United Methodist Church and is open to married and single, clergy and lay and is ecumenical. saint-luke.net/

The Order of Corpus Christi - based on the United Church of Christ. This disbursed order is open to married and single, clergy and lay and I believe is restricted to members of the Churches Uniting in Christ (IIRC) orderofcorpuschristi.org/

There was a Lutheran religious order
staugustineshouse.org/index.html

The new order I found is based in Germany and was founded in the German Evangelical Protestant Church. It is the Evangelical Sisterhood of Mary
kanaan.org/international/default.htm

To me this says that there is a deep spiritual need/calling that the Catholic/Eastern Churches have sought to meet that Protestants are recognizing as well. In two of the orders above, it includes the genius of Third Orders (something the Catholic church has long had).
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As I recall, there is an order of Lutheran nuns that reside in the Augustinian monastery where Martin Luther once lived.
 
ah nevermind…here’s what I found about the German Evangelical Church:
The Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) is a federation of 22 Lutheran, Reformed and United Protestant regional church bodies in Germany. The EKD is not a church in a theological understanding because of the denominational differences. However, the member churches (Gliedkirchen) share full pulpit and altar fellowship.
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Dale_M said:
Here is a list Anglican religious orders and communities
orders.anglican.org/arcyb/
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Yes, I was just reading about some Anglican Cistercians. They are open to married and single. Apparently legitimate and working towards official recognition within the Church of England.

ocista.webs.com/anglicancistercians.htm
ocista.webs.com/ourrule.htm

Looks like unlike the Order of Saint Luke that is denominationally based but ecumenical, they are strictly Anglican Communion and must be resident in a C of E diocese.
 
Interesting how the Dutch Reformed have Christian Brothers and the Church has the Christian Brothers of St John Baptist de la Salle.
 
The Ecumenical Community of Taizé is a Christian monastic order in Taizé, Saône-et-Loire, Burgundy, France.(taize.fr/en) I love the Taizé chant, have several recordings. My favorite is Laudate Dominum (youtube.com/watch?v=JmD6jkZWAMQ)

Bishop Desmond Tutu is member of the Tertiaries of the Society of St Francis, a secular Francisan third order in the Anglican Church.
 
LoyalViews said:
Unfourtunately, this is not updated. Good resource, but a few of those listed there, in particulare the All Saints Sisters of the Poor (USA) have come home to the Catholic Church!🙂
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They did indeed make the journey to Rome. So did the younger members of the Church of England order at the Anglican Shrine of Walsingham. They were received into the ordinariate.
 
RevDrNorth said:
I came across another Protestant religious order and was going to attach it to an older thread on the subject but recalled the prohibition against bringing back to life an old thread.

The other thread had noted that in addition to the obvious (Episcopal/Anglican) there were some Protestant religious orders.

The Order of Saint Luke - (not to be confused with OSL the Physician). This disbursed order is based in the United Methodist Church and is open to married and single, clergy and lay and is ecumenical. saint-luke.net/

The Order of Corpus Christi - based on the United Church of Christ. This disbursed order is open to married and single, clergy and lay and I believe is restricted to members of the Churches Uniting in Christ (IIRC) orderofcorpuschristi.org/

There was a Lutheran religious order
staugustineshouse.org/index.html

The new order I found is based in Germany and was founded in the German Evangelical Protestant Church. It is the Evangelical Sisterhood of Mary
kanaan.org/international/default.htm

To me this says that there is a deep spiritual need/calling that the Catholic/Eastern Churches have sought to meet that Protestants are recognizing as well. In two of the orders above, it includes the genius of Third Orders (something the Catholic church has long had).
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Pastor,
Here is a link to a list of Lutheran/ecumenical orders. The Lutheran High Church nature of many of them, particularly St.-Jakobus-Bruderschaft, is interesting.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Lutheran_orders_and_societies

Jon
 
There was a religious community in Little Gidding, England called the “Community of Christ the Sower” which later had a branch in the U.S. They are not longer around, as I understand.

They based themselves on the way of life established by the great Anglican Deacon, Nicholas Ferrar and his family who came to live in Little Gidding.

They lived very much like a strict monastic community, following the Book of Common Prayer.

Ferrar had studied abroad throughout Europe and was very familiar with the various Catholic and Orthodox monastic traditions. This is why he established the old Egyptian Thebaid-style daily Psalter. Beginning at 6:00 am in the morning, 12 or 13 Psalms would be recited at the beginning of each hour until 6:00 pm or so, to complete the whole Psalter in twelve hours. They would then hold a Night Vigil beginning at 9:00 pm, taking turns reciting the Psalter in chapel until completing a second daily Psalter by about 1:00 am.

King Charles I visited this community twice and was said to have later told his RC wife, Queen Henrietta, that “there is at Little Gidding an Anglican religious community that, by its way of life, would put to shame the strictest Roman Catholic monastic order.”

The Puritans later disbanded this community but the buildings are now being protected by a Little Gidding Trust and visitors are always welcome. Nicholas Ferrar is honoured in the Anglican calendar and he is entombed in a grave in front of Little Gidding’s church.

Among their good works, Nicholas Ferrar would have the children of the village come to services (he was ordained deadon by the Anglican Martyr, Archbishop William Laud). He also gave them a penny for every Psalm they memorized and could recite from memory before the entire community on Sundays (they also shared Sunday dinner with the Ferrar family). Many children memorized the entire psalter and their parents saw the tremendous change in their children’s lives.

Alex
 
Here is the Society of St John the Evangalist which is in Cambridge Ma. ssje.org/

Actually, the Bishop of Massachusetts is a celibate monk!
 
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