What Catholic spirituality attracts and inspires you?

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One thing that I am confused about that, in many orders, one is not supposed to be ambitious? I am fairly sure that many priests would like to “advance through the ranks,” for instance. Are Jesuits also allowed to serve as Vatican diplomats(such a position normally has be sought after, since it involves a professional diplomatic corps)?
 
I am most attracted to “the French school.”

You can see the French school of spirituality manifested in the lives and teachings of St. France de Sales, St. John Eudes, St. Jeanne Jugan, and St. Therese … and in communities that follows in their footsteps.
 
Young_Thinker said:
Are Jesuits also allowed to serve as Vatican diplomats(such a position normally has be sought after, since it involves a professional diplomatic corps)?
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I guess so; I found that Fr. Drinan(the pro-choice Congressman whom was the reason behind Pope John Paul II forbidding priests to run for public office) was a Jesuit.
 
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I am most attracted to “the French school.”

You can see the French school of spirituality manifested in the lives and teachings of St. France de Sales, St. John Eudes, St. Jeanne Jugan, and St. Therese … and in communities that follows in their footsteps.
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French Spirituality during the times of these Saints was heavily influenced by “Jansenism” which was a very rigid view of God as Judge. It also played so much on the idea that the only way to please God was to perform extraordinary deeds of mortifications and penance to appease an angry God. Therese did not buy that. She saw God as Mercy. So it depends on what you mean “French Spirituality.”
 
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You can find information about the French school here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_school_of_spirituality

and here:
ewtn.com/library/Montfort/Handbook/Frenchs.htm

St. Francis de Sales, St. Louis de Montfort, etc. were definitely not Jansenists. St. Therese was influenced by Salesian spirituality; her aunt was in the Visitation. if you ever see a comparative critical index of the Autobiography and the Introduction its amazing to see where they match up.
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Interesting. What was the Auntie’s name? Was she the sister of Louise or Zelie? Is there a biography, books, or any information about her?

Thank you in advanced for answering my questions

God bless,
goforgoal
 
I’m drawn to the incarnational aspects of Franciscan and Ignatian/Jesuit spirituality but am definitely a contemplative sort. At times I happily sit on a park bench with a slim volume of Merton and at other times I’m in quiet Adoration in front of the monstrance…yet to some degree, in both instances, I am empyting myself out…listening…and falling in love.

[Please don’t get your scapulars in a snit. I am not equating nature with the Real Presence in the exposed Host! I always seem to post these things in the middle of the night and worry that I am too unclear. Peace.]
 
I always felt called to the Little Sisters Of The Poor nursing order. They devote their whole lives to God and caring for the sick and infirmed. They take on a 4th one Hospitality! Which is my moto for life. I want to be in a nursing order and devote my whole life to it.
Plus I love the idea of wearing white habits, So beautiful and pure looking.
But I also love the Carmelites devotion to Mary and I relate very deeply to St Therese. But I got several years to discern my call to what order needs me.
 
goforgoal said:
Interesting. What was the Auntie’s name? Was she the sister of Louise or Zelie? Is there a biography, books, or any information about her?

Thank you in advanced for answering my questions

God bless,
goforgoal
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She was Zelie’s sister-Sister Marie-Dosithée. St Therese’s sister Léonie also became a Visitation sister (Sister Francoise-Therese). I don’t know that there is a specific book on St Therese’s aunt, but you might try The Story of a Family
 
Faustina123 said:
She was Zelie’s sister-Sister Marie-Dosithée. St Therese’s sister Léonie also became a Visitation sister (Sister Francoise-Therese). I don’t know that there is a specific book on St Therese’s aunt, but you might try The Story of a Family
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I haven’t seen a book about her aunt but there is one about her sister called God Made the Violets Too.

JMJ+
~Betsy

Totus tuus Maria! Let’s see what the good God wills.
 
What about the Sevites’ Seven Founders and their wonderful relationship with Our Lady of Sorrows, or the story of St. Juliana Faconieri(sp.)? Servites wear all black so as to be in perpetual mourning(i.e. in sympathy for the Holy Mother). Having already been through a lot in life and, admittedly, having a pessimistic spirit, I think that I, myself, can identify with Mary(though, fortunately, She seems to be a little more positive than I am).
 
Hi,
When i am on age of all understanding than i saw catholic is one of the simplest and high well knowledge spirituality.

Thanks,
Mark Janet
 
The intellectual variety: all philosophy and contemplation with no warm, fuzzy feelings of religious high. It gives me room for a more… individualistic lifestyle. 😛
 
I have been most focused & attracted to the Good Shepherd Charism of St. Mary Euphrasia Pelletier. My formation was that of a Companion of Jesus the Good Shepherd. I was with them for 7 years, making my vows of the evangelical counsels on April 2002. They always said that once she gets her hands on your heart, she never lets go. This is so true.

The way of life that I am attempting to form, Oblate Sisters of Mary Magdalene, has her as a patron, along with St. John Eudes & St. Mary of Magdala. The formation I offer is very similar to Good Shepherd Sisters, but I am not as “liberal” as they. I feel that the Good Shepherds, the sisters in the USA that is, have strayed too far from the original intent of her charism. There is great controversy among the congregation as to the validity and nature of the Companions, because they don’t want to be responsible for seculars, especially after the debacle of the Laundry Houses in the British Isles. St. ME originally wanted sisters in the nature of a secular institute, but after she died, they comprised the Magdalens, as the were called, to the lower class & previously compromised in their morality, having them as forced labor in the laundries. They not only ran the corrupt business of the laundry, but were part of the scandal of religious running homes for unwed mothers and selling their babies. So, their hesitation does have some merit.

But, Companions, the brainchild of the late Sr. Rose Virginie Warig, were to update & make contemporary lives of consecration, making the vows of the evangelical counsels along with the vow of zeal, as do all RGS & CGS. But then, different Provincial Sisters had different ideas. They are not on the same page. The group here in Ohio who were given a way of life by Sr. Rose, lived lives of secular consecration. Others want only to make the vow of zeal. One woman was a former RGS, and left. She wanted to only take the vow of zeal BECAUSE SHE WANTED TO HAVE SEX! How can one live as a consecrate by being disobedient to the Magesterium? So, I left.

Now, on my own, living my way of consecrated life & follow much of the same rule of the Good Shepherds. I am not able to let go of St. Mary Euphrasia. She has my heart.:getholy:
 
I am attracted to the Franciscans. I love their desire for serving God’s people, and their simplicity, and ease in the spiritual life.

I have a strong devotion to The Blessed Mother, St. Maximillian Kolbe, and St. Theresa Benedicta of the Cross… I will be a nurse next year, and would love to find an order where i can be a nurse and combines all 4 of the devotions i love.

Peace of Christ.
The love of a single heart can make a world of difference. - Immaculée Ilibagiza
 
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