Not getting the picture.
Dean Steinlage | 09.25.06 - 12:18 am | #

Hmm, clicking on it might help... but you are correct the image is not displaying correctly.
AmericanPapist | Homepage | 09.25.06 - 1:45 am | #

Okay - fixed.
AmericanPapist | Homepage | 09.25.06 - 1:57 am | #

orthodoxy also seems to equate with cuteness. Of course happy, smiling faces are always more attractive than the scowling, angry faces that seem to be found on so many of the heterodox.
Tim Ferguson | 09.25.06 - 7:22 am | #

See also the Cistercian Abbey in Dallas, which currently has three novices and several young professed brothers in addition to the awesome old Hungarians

(http://www.cistercian.org/abbey/index.html)

(http://thumbsnap.com/v/bLG0XD0C.jpg)

and the Dominican sisters in Nashville who are bursting at the seams like the ones in Ann Arbor.

(http://www.nashvilledominican.org/)
John Hammond | 09.25.06 - 8:13 am | #

Every time you post a bit of crummy news, please follow it up with this photograph!

We need to be reminded as to how great the future can be!
Ray from MN | Homepage | 09.25.06 - 9:03 am | #

This is, indeed, a bright and heartening picture!
Madame Sosostris | 09.25.06 - 10:24 am | #

THAT IS SO POSITIVE!!!!!!!!

God Bless the new generation!!!(and like the person above posted, it's wonderful to see the smiling faces of the Blessed, rather than the "sucking on a raw persimmon" faces of the Heterodox.
Lonevoice | 09.25.06 - 10:48 am | #

Yay my sister got on your blog!!! I'm so happy. Oh just to let you know here at SJV All the priest took the Oath of fiedelity and have pledge to serve the Church faithfully in their formation of priest. Pretty cool
Joseph | 09.25.06 - 1:35 pm | #

John Hammond,

Thanks for the reminder about the Nashvilled Dominicans.

Didn't know about the cistercians - that is promising, as well.

There are more orders to choose from these days for young people - male and female.
Diane | Homepage | 09.25.06 - 5:37 pm | #

Lovely to see these young faces....but what about the traditionally minded middle agers like me?

I'm 52 years old, and none of the newer Orders that have come up in recent years will even LOOK at women of my age!

It seems that we are being stereotyped as "too set in our ways"....
irishgirl | 09.25.06 - 8:59 pm | #

Yeah, I know - I contacted them after learning about the community and like many others they are capped at 35.

However, I once had a post up at Catholic.com on the more traditional orders which DO accept women over 35.

One such order are the Visistation Sisters. I'm sure each community is a little different. They are cloistered so this would not have you out among the people. Some provinces of this order though, have schools attached and they do teach. Here are some examples, and the second one does have an attached school

http://www.vistyr.org/ourcommunity.html

http://www.frederickvisitation.c.../ prayerlife.htm

This is their school. I could be wrong, but if I recall, this is the one where Latin is included in the curriculum. You can always email and find out.

God Bless

Diane
Diane | Homepage | 09.25.06 - 9:23 pm | #

Oops - that's "Visitation Sisters". Some communities have gone to the pant-suit variety, but others have held on tightly to the habit.

Some of these communities I might add, do not have websites. The more traditional, the less likely - a mistake, imho as people turn to the net for everything now.

There is one in the Toledo, Ohio area and a couple of those habited nuns have visited Assumption Grotto parish in Detroit - perhaps on retreat in the attached convent.
Diane | Homepage | 09.25.06 - 9:27 pm | #

Diane-I went on a retreat in 1998 to the Visitation monastery in Philadelphia. The Sisters were all very nice, but I really couldn't make up my mind at the time(I was getting ready to leave a longtime job a few months after the retreat).

I also know about the Visitandines in Tyringham, Massachusetts. They used to be in Delaware, but moved to Massachusetts in 1993 or so. I've seen their website that is on the Institute for Religious Life.

But I really don't have the time or the money to go on any retreats right now....
irishgirl | 09.25.06 - 9:33 pm | #

My age is the least obstacle to my joining a religious order despite "nun thoughts."
The age limit used to be 18-30 with some convents taking women as young as 14.
Most are now require a minimum age of 21 although I found a Carmelite convent taking 18 year olds. Learn a little about the world you are leaving.
What I am finding now is an age cap of 45 with a few monasteries even accepting 60 year old postulates.
From my reading, the more traditional orders are receiving more inquiries.
Deborah | 09.27.06 - 2:37 pm | #