Posted on 07/17/2014 8:17:49 AM PDT by Mercat
I spent last weekend learning about Sacred Art. Got this in an email from one of the wonderful people I met there.
I suppose we have to differentiate now between those & the “secular” nuns you see all the time…
There is a rebirth of true devoted women religious and even men who choose to be brothers and deacons but not priests. It is a quiet revolution.
+ Prayers for that +
for later
. . . or worse yet, the irreligious nuns.
ping
I appreciated that. Thanks for posting.
The Franciscans are traditional. So are the Felicians. My kids went to Catholic schools run by Felicians for which I am very grateful.
I can’t believe the remarks after the youtube about religious art being boring.
Obviously these people have never written or read an icon before — a story in art where everything from color, shape, placement, means something special.
A good example is Our Lady of Guadalupe. The black belt means she is pregnant. The blue green mantle was a color the Aztecs had. She is standing in front of the sun which the Aztecs worshipped. Scientists have discovered that the eyes have a reverse photo of the bishop as St. Juan Diego shows the Bishop the roses he picked and the icon appears on his cactus-fiber tilma.
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Those who serve a diocese are considered “secular,” including bishops and their priests and sisters, because they confront “worldly” (Latin, “secularis”) authorities.
The word, “religious” literally means those vowed (bound) to pietical practices such as obedience and poverty. Hopefully, all priests are religious in the modern, broader sense of “acting on faith,” but the word has historically been used to refer specifically to those taking the special vows of a religious order (such as Franciscans), to which diocesan priests do not typically belong.
Of course, unlike “priests,” “nuns” are almost always religious... but that’s because a “nun” doesn’t mean what you think it does either. “Sisters” aren’t “nuns.”
Thanks for the thorough explanation… I guess I was referring to the way nuns are portrayed in public these days, where there’s hardly any “religious” nature involved in what they’re doing.
My wife actually has a cousin who is in a cloistered order, whom we visited a few times – the circumstances & ground rules were a bit strange, to say the least ;)
Do you know of David Clayton?
Amazing thank you for posting.
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