Sorry if I offended anyone, I really think I’m falling into depression and just needed to vent. I layed in my bed for three hours staring at the wall today. It’s a new low for me
This is the key statement which needs to be addressed…and it cannot be addressed in an Internet forum but by recourse to health care providers
Beyond that fundamental reality is a view of Church history that is not in touch with reality. Saint Benedict’s Rule was so essential, when it was formulated in the sixth century occidental Church to correct all the aberrations which he himself lists in his Rule. Saint Robert of Molesme, in turn, begins a reform of the Benedictines because there was urgent need of reform. The Cistercian reform will similarly see an urgent need of reform which yield Trappists
The friars movement of the twelfth century is the introduction of a new form of consecrated life, urgently needed in the Church, because of the shortfall and shortcomings of monasticism…and yet monasticism still exists and thrives in the 21st century. The need for new forms of consecrated life continued from that era down to our own. It will always be so
In the history of women’s consecrated life, it took centuries before, finally, the Church accepted women who were not cloistered but engaged in apostolic endeavors. Each Order, each Congregation, each Institute of Consecrated Life has been a response to a need, a lack, within the Church – across centuries
The life of Saint John of the Cross, held under arrest for the reforms being implemented show that the Church of the past is not something to look back at with rose coloured glasses but to see the enormous crises & challenges and shortfall in every age of the Church
Saints are not simply of the past
Blessed Pope Paul VI is responsible for & celebrated Mass & the sacraments according to the reforms that emerged from the ecumenical council
Pope Saint John Paul II never celebrated Mass using the
vetus ordo after the reforms of the Council gave us the
novus ordo
Saint Teresa of Calcutta left the Loretto Sisters to form a Congregation which could respond to needs that the Loretto Sisters were incapable of – using an entirely new form of Religious Habit divorced from the medieval garb of women’s Religious Life but that was inculturated to the the culture in which she would henceforth minister. Her new Congregation beautifully exemplifies Religious Life urgently in need of the reform & renewal
Saint Josemaria Escriva embraced the
novus ordo as did the Blessed Alvaro del Portillo. In many ways, they were prophetically foreshadowing the direction of the Council for the Church
Blessed Michael Sopocko, Blessed Gabriele Allegra, Blessed Stanley Rother, & Blessed Jerzy Popieluszko were all priests who lived profoundly the reforms of Vatican II. Blessed Chiara Badano in her short life knew only the
novus ordo & realised her sanctity in the context of one of the new ecclesial movements…the Focolare, which is a gift of the Holy Spirit to the Church after the reform of Vatican II. Blessed Óscar Romero was martyred in the act of offering the
novus ordo Mass
