I saw Fr. speak about this topic on Pints with Aquinas. He did an amazing job putting it forth and really got me thinking. He totally gets it! Thank you Fr. 🤍
What if we begin Diocese sisters? Have a sister or 2 attached to a parish? I also believe we need to change the focus of who becomes a religious sister. I have many ideas on this because I have been thinking about this since 2015 when I first considered becoming a sister. I am an older woman who converted to Catholicism in 2015.
I like this idea. I don't know if you're familiar with Our Lady of Champion, the only approved Marian apparition in the US, but the visionary was known as "Sr." Adele Brise. She wasn't a part of a formal religious community as there were none in that area of Wisconsin at the time, but she wore a habit, lived with other women with likeminded living, and went around the diocese teaching the catechism. She'd be a great example of how that could work.
Spectacular theology of the bride! The priest is the "alter Christi" and the religious is the "altera Maria." The woman at Christ's sepulchre in Mt 27:61, can be identified (with a bit of scriptural sleuthing), as "the sister" who stood with the Mother of Jesus at the foot of the Cross (John 19:25). This ministry to religious vocations is desperately needed. Thank you Father Burns for your passion and zeal to protect and defend the brides.
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I saw Fr. speak about this topic on Pints with Aquinas. He did an amazing job putting it forth and really got me thinking. He totally gets it! Thank you Fr. 🤍
What if we begin Diocese sisters? Have a sister or 2 attached to a parish? I also believe we need to change the focus of who becomes a religious sister. I have many ideas on this because I have been thinking about this since 2015 when I first considered becoming a sister. I am an older woman who converted to Catholicism in 2015.
I like this idea. I don't know if you're familiar with Our Lady of Champion, the only approved Marian apparition in the US, but the visionary was known as "Sr." Adele Brise. She wasn't a part of a formal religious community as there were none in that area of Wisconsin at the time, but she wore a habit, lived with other women with likeminded living, and went around the diocese teaching the catechism. She'd be a great example of how that could work.
Spectacular theology of the bride! The priest is the "alter Christi" and the religious is the "altera Maria." The woman at Christ's sepulchre in Mt 27:61, can be identified (with a bit of scriptural sleuthing), as "the sister" who stood with the Mother of Jesus at the foot of the Cross (John 19:25). This ministry to religious vocations is desperately needed. Thank you Father Burns for your passion and zeal to protect and defend the brides.