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| Franciscans at Spiritual Exercises |
(Madrid) In the shadow of the great Franciscan religious innovator, mystic and preacher of repentance, Peter of Alcantara (1499-1562) spiritual exercises for members of the Franciscan order took place in Arenas de San Pedro.The well-known Catholic journalist Francisco Fernandez de la Cigoña on InfoVaticana published a photo.
"The group of Franciscans is not numerous, but few are better than none. After all, the brothers who wear the habit, compared with those who have passed on their habit, is a slight majority. The two youngest among the brothers wear it anyway. About a brother's shorts I am silent. With a minimum of respect for his status, he would have at least made it to the back row. The older brothers, the more they seem to seek camouflage. The Franciscans once differed between shod and unshod brothers. Today they differ between Franciscans who are recognizable as such, and camouflaged Franciscans," said de la Cigoña.
Vocation crisis: Six Provinces Joined to One Province
The Franciscans are from the Province of the Immaculate Concepcion, which has arisen due to the vocation shortage a few years ago from the merger of six provinces and one custody.
The Franciscan in the chasuble shows that the retreatants, as they appear, have just a Mass.
Peter de Alcantara reformed the Spanish branch of the Franciscan order and founded a new branch of the Strict Observance. He himself lived in the strictest asceticism. As confessor he was at the side of Emperor Charles V when he abdicated and retired to a Hieronymite in Extremadura. Although the most powerful man in the world, he laid down the imperial crown, as he had recognized with the Peace of Augsburg, that he had failed in his role as Emperor to preserve the unity of the Faith of the Holy Roman Empire. Peter de Alcantara was at an advanced age, also the spiritual advisor of St. Teresa of Avila. In 1622 he was beatified by Pope Gregory XV. and canonized in 1669 by Pope Clement IX. canonized.
Text: Giuseppe Nardi
Image: InfoVaticana
Image: InfoVaticana
Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com
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6 comments:
They are ashamed of God and the true discipline of the Franciscan Order. They ought to stop pretending and acknowledge that they are laicised.
The American Daniel P. Horan, O.F.M. wears his habit too. Not sure the habit makes the friar.
A friar out of his habit is awol.
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We need such Saints again like St. Peter....except at the present modernist moment they would have persecution from the Vatican.
Real men don't wear shorts.
Thank you Lord, for Sr. Cigona, and the Catholic Spain at whose breast he suckled.
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