Strange "Order" of nuns

[miyuki]

Well I found several communities named for St.Anne.
The Sisters,Daughters of St.Anne who are italian and in the Holy Land.
The Sisters of St.Ann Lucern who are from Switzerland and have convents in India
The Episcopal Society of St.Anna the Prophet in Atlanta
The Epsicopal Order of St.Anne in Chicago
and the Franciscan Sisters of St.Anna in Lwak.Their Facebook page is under Sisters of St.Anne.

Now you mention your friend lives in Eastern Europe.Does she live in Poland by any chance? I ask this because there is a group called the Marivitches.I maybe misspelling the groups name. You can Google them. A sister in Poland who I think was a Franciscan years ago had some visions.A group formed around here and the bishop got invovled etc.
In any case the group which formed around her broke from Rome.They are still around and do have nuns and clergy.Maybe these are the sisters she has contact with, though I think there have been some reaching out to Rome and the pope in recent years.
They might be the group she contacted.

No, she lives in Moldova. And I couldn’t find the Marivitches either.

 

[HollyDolly]

I think the polish group is the Mariovitch got to get the spelling down .Moldavia is in eastern Europe but I forgot exactly where.

 

[miyuki]

I think the polish group is the Mariovitch got to get the spelling down .Moldavia is in eastern Europe but I forgot exactly where.

I know where Moldova is and can tell you a bit about it.

Moldova is the poorest country in Europe though the latest figures I could find refer to 2009. It borders Romania and Ukraine and was part of the Soviet Union. Many people are unemployed and live in worse conditions than when the country was a part of the USSR.

I’ve read a couple of articles recently that say that when there is a recession or lack of jobs or general poverty that is when people turn to religion and to God or some sort of spirituality. To trust in God in hard times is obviously a thing to be encouraged but that is when people are more open to being conned or swindled.

Does any of this make sense?

And your spelling of Mariovitch turns out to be the same as some sports guy’s surname, so no luck finding anything on the group. Can anyone help?

 

[HollyDolly]

I found the group i was thinking of,it’s the Maravites a breakaway from the Catholic church
founded in Poland. Maybe you could get your friend to email you more information on this group,and maybe you might email them yourself and see what sort of response you get.

It might even be they are a secular institute of some sort. The Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary
have convents in the US.Some members live together in common,wear a regular religious habit,etc and they also have members who do not live in the convent.You can Google them for information.They are german and have houses in the US and they obey the pope.

Maybe this group is similar to them in a way,but not associated with them.
There was sometime ago in the news,not here locally but on the internet some polish nuns who had a falling out with their bishop and all sorts of trouble insued and the police came and locked them out of the convent.
Even though you might be interested in being a nun,I think we are all curious what is going on.Can’t trust anything on the internet.

 

[Wa_Michael]

As Christians we are called to live a good life, pleasing God and neighbour in truth ad spirit, INCLUDING HELPING THE NEEDY.

However, the “natural” groups of the faithful in the Catholic Church are known to ascend from family, which is the smallest (nucleus) Christian Community from which all other communities spring up. Then comes, SCCs (Small Christian Communities - a collection of Christian Families sharing their spiritual and social life together in the Lord, in the “immitation” of the life of the Primitive Church) which are divided according to locations of residences. As some come together make a Parish, and then parishes make a Diocese.

Together with this order of “sharing” in Christianity, the Church allows other “artificial” groups which turn into orders in their advancement. But, they must be APPROVED BY THE RIGHT AUTHORITY OF THE CHURCH! In this Canonical (Right) Authority of the Church, As the Pope is to the Universal Church, so is a bishop to a local Church. The bishop to whom a parish priest reports and is obedient, and the parish priest to whom all Christians are entrusted!

It means, this group, in order to be recorgnized as an order in the Catholic Church, must be approved by all these Authorities including the recorgnition of their presence to the Parish Priest where they live. And thus they must be fundamentally approved by their Bishop FIRST and then further applications may be done having their Bishop as their Advocate in the first position. If neither their Parish Priest nor their Bishop does not recorgnize them, AS A GROUP, then WHAT THEY DO IS NOT IN THE NAME OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH.

It should, thus, be known that they must abide themselves to the ways of the Church INCLUDING LOYALTY TO THE POPE, in order to stand as A CATHOLIC WORK. Otherwise, they declare it theirs, and in this case the last part of the Creed is to be put into question to them AS A GROUP!

With Love!