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In your charity would you please take a moment look at the requests and to pray for the people about whom you read?
Continued from THESE.
Let’s remember all who are ill, who will die soon, who have died recently, who have lost their jobs, who are afraid.
I get many requests by email asking for prayers. Some are heart-achingly grave and urgent.
As long as my blog reaches so many readers in so many places, let’s give each other a hand. We should support each other in works of mercy.
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- In your kindness continue prayers for my mother, who has been diagnosed with something grave, progressive and incurable. She has been in the hospital for over a week and we are in discussions about hospice care.
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I received this via email. A key piece to this is the Holy See 2016 document under Francis called Cor Orans which has been used to “reform” especially more traditional communities of women religious out of existence and to force contemplatives to shut down or change to a more active life. There was a piece about it at Crisis some time ago which sketches out the problems. HERE It is alarming and unhappy reading. Be sure to read to the end, wherein something is recounted that sounds like the fraud discovered in Minnesota, but in this case in Rome, with Franciscans, a hotel, under a certain prior whom Francis chose to be the guy to “reform” the traditional communities of women.
In an event, this is what I received:
Dear Fr. Z,
I would like to ask you to pray for me and my community. I am a cloistered nun in France, though of American origin. I followed your blog fairly regularly before entering the monastery.
I am afraid that things are not well in my community. There is conflict over the following of our Rule and Constitutions – and even Cor Orans. It is a case where following what Cor Orans says would actually mean having a more radical/restrictive enclosure than what certain sisters want. In fact, as far as I can tell from their words and actions, they seem to not want us to have papal enclosure at all and to live like apostolic sisters. So it is not just the papal enclosure that seems ultimately to be in question, but our fidelity to our vocation as contemplative nuns.
I am just temporarily professed, and, as far as I can make out, I’m in the minority in this matter. I’ve considered whether I ought to ask for a transfer to another community, but I feel that the Lord wants me to stay and that He is going to intervene, but that I need to pray. So I am praying, and I ask you to pray. And if you could ask your prayer network to pray as well, that would be appreciated.
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Thank you. I’ll keep you in my prayers.
In the Hearts of Jesus and Mary,…