Secular Institute devoted to the TLM?

[TeaGrace]

Pax et bonum!

I’ve been discerning my vocation for some time and have just recently “discovered” Secular Institutes. Up until now, I was focusing on religious life, but I find something very beautiful about the hidden life of a consecrated person living in the world.

Does anyone know of any Secular Institutes devoted to promoting the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite? Or perhaps an Institute with a different focus, but one that included the EF Mass as part of its spirituality? Or at least one that’s very favorable toward the EF Mass and Traditional Catholicism?

If no one is aware of one, is anyone here a member of a Secular Institute whose members wouldn’t identify themselves as Traditional Catholics, but you do think of yourself as such? How does that affect your life of community (which I know varies among the different Institutes as to the degree and frequency of contact)?

I know I could’ve posted this in the Vocation section, but I thought I might get more responses to this particular topic from those on this board…

Thank you all, and God bless!

 

[TeaGrace]

By the way, I forgot to mention I’m a woman, so I’m obviously not thinking of Secular Institutes of preists

 

[pollycarp]

Don’t know of any except the SSPX. They have a third order with devotion to the Mass - SSPX.org).

 

[laszlo]

The FSSP has its confraternity

fssp.org/en/confraternite.htm

 

[Marsha_Adams]

The Discalced Carmelite Secular Order may interest you. discalcedcarmelites.net/

The Discalced Carmelite Sisters near me have a Latin Mass on first Saturdays. That says to me that Discalced Carmelites are favorable to the EF.

 

[TeaGrace]

Thanks for the responses. I’m already a member of the FSSP Confraternity, looking at the local Secular Carmelites, and don’t feel really comfortable with the SSPX. And actually, these aren’t quite what I’m looking for.

Really, I’m hoping for a Secular Institute. The US Conference of Secular Institutes says this about them: “Members of secular institutes are ‘in the world and not of the world, but for the world.’ They live in whatever providential circumstances God gives them, but they wholly consecrate their lives to God through the evangelical counsels of poverty, obedience, and chastity.”

They’re a newer form of consecration (though actually begun before Vatican II), so I can see why they wouldn’t be too common among Traditional Catholics. But there could be much good done from them, especially in terms of helping people to understand the EF and Traditional Catholicism.

I feel that there aren’t too many options for a woman discerning a traditional vocation. I think, unless I study some French, there are maybe 5 or so, maybe not even that many, religious institutes (meaning nuns and sisters). As I don’t feel called to marriage because I want to give myself completely to Christ, I don’t know where to go. The Secular Carmelites seem beautiful but not as much as I want to give. However, there are wonderful Saints who were tertiaries and made personal vows… still, I feel called to something more.

I’m praying for a Spiritual Director and would appreciate your prayers for this, too. Any more advice or suggestions is definitely welcome. God bless!

 

[laszlo]

I feel that there aren’t too many options for a woman discerning a traditional vocation. I think, unless I study some French, there are maybe 5 or so, maybe not even that many, religious institutes (meaning nuns and sisters).

In your case I would start to visit that 5 or so institutes what you found, and would ask advise from them. Such visit definitely forms you, and may be gives some ideas.

 

[The_Curt_Jester]

The Discalced Carmelite Secular Order may interest you. discalcedcarmelites.net/

The Discalced Carmelite Sisters near me have a Latin Mass on first Saturdays. That says to me that Discalced Carmelites are favorable to the EF.

Many of them are. My sister is one and she looked into a lot of the monasteries before entering. Three that I know have the TLM (I’m sure there are more) and others are favorable to it, but don’t have it (yet). They’d certainly be a good choice.