Religious Priests And Secular Priests: Does The Laity Appreciate The Difference?

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BSHoop96 said:
This has been a great topic. Very informative. Thank you.đź‘Ť
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You’re welcome.

We have some new information thanks to Jim-OCD

The Benedictine family, including the Trappists, do not discourage their monks from requesting Holy Orders.

That being said, they usually have more monks who are not ordained than ordained monks.

I would imagine that a person seeking to live a monastic life of prayer, silence and penance would not necessarily feel called to the priesthood. Especially in the very strictly contemplative communities the monks rarely leave to perfom priestly duties outside of the monastery.

Let’s face it, how often do we see Trappists, Camaldolese, Carthusians or Cistercians performing weddings and baptisms in a parish.

Those who are called to the priesthood will probably seek relgious communities that are active in the world.

Makes sense to me.

JR 🙂
 
This is a little off-topic. A very dear friend of mine attended a church in northeastern Oklahoma. She said some time ago the parish was run by a religious order but I don’t remember which one. I think Capuchin might have been it. Anyway, the priest had been liberated from a POW camp during World War II. When he was going to come to the United States they asked him where he wanted to go. Since he had been liberated by the 45th Infantry Division from Oklahoma he told them that’s where he wanted to go. I like that story.🙂
 
BSHoop96 said:
This is a little off-topic. A very dear friend of mine attended a church in northeastern Oklahoma. She said some time ago the parish was run by a religious order but I don’t remember which one. I think Capuchin might have been it. Anyway, the priest had been liberated from a POW camp during World War II. When he was going to come to the United States they asked him where he wanted to go. Since he had been liberated by the 45th Infantry Division from Oklahoma he told them that’s where he wanted to go. I like that story.🙂
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That’s a beautiful story.

Often, when a religious original community has been disbanded, as was the case with many during the French Revolution and World War II, the religious who survive are given the option by the Superior General of which province they want to join. Every religious must belong to a province. A province is a regional cluster of religious. Very large orders, such as Dominicans, Franciscans, Capuchins, Jesuits, have provinces, because it would be impossible to govern a community that is in 40 countries. The community is divided into regional clusters called provinces, each province is governed by a provincial superior who has the same legal power as a bishop. Canon law recognizes him as an ordinary, just like a bishop, even if he’s not a priest. Obviusly, since the Provincial Superior is not a bishop he cannot perform the sacramental ministries of a bishop, but he does perform all the other ordinary functions of a bishop, even deciding who can be ordained or not. The Provincial Superior answers to the Superior General.

JR 🙂
 
I’ll be honest, prior to coming to these forums, I’d never heard of a “secular” priest. While I knew there were difference between, say, a Marionist and a Franciscan, I thought that if you were in a parish, you were bound by the same rules, of all the other priests in the diocese. This one–presented as such–is an excellent tool for educating those of us who are in the dark about such things. Thank you.

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