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Offline Brown Recluse

Re: hardly anyone should get married
« Reply #70 on: August 30, 2019, 11:05:49 AM »
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Ideally, someone should be allowed to join at any age ... except that the costs of healthcare increase with age, and so it would be hard for an order to absorb a lot of older people as the grow closer to the end of their lives.

That shouldn't stop religious orders from accepting older people, nor should it stop an old single person from joining. If a person in the order faces a serious health issue, they should offer the pain from lack of medical assistance up to the Lord. Both order and prospective candidate should have that understanding before anyone joins.
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Offline Troubled30

Re: hardly anyone should get married
« Reply #71 on: August 30, 2019, 05:14:26 PM »
Quote from: Seraphina on August 29, 2019, 11:18:28 PM
It sounds good, but where is this religious order that takes old lady novices?  I’ve found one, in France.  You need to speak fluent French and be debt free.  It’s novus ordo, for me, an automatic deal breaker.  
Dear Serafina
Maybe God is calling you to start a new order, I don't now.
But just think about it and talk with a good traditional priest.
Maybe in the past it wasn't common to enter to a religious order at 60 years old. But times have changed, catholics are isolated, the world is very dangerous than it was in the past.
I have read that there were widowers who took vows at mature age. Not the ideal for a single woman, but we don't live in 1940 when one could know at 18 if there was a religious vocation (people were raised catholic, attended Mass since childhood, it was more easy to know it).
Maybe Im wrong, but I believe catholics should live with other catholics.
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Offline Troubled30

Re: hardly anyone should get married
« Reply #72 on: August 30, 2019, 05:16:59 PM »
Quote from: Viva Cristo Rey on August 29, 2019, 11:24:35 PM
Seraphina, maybe you can start a teaching order of sisters.  
:applause:
Great idea!
A lot of married women are troubled because they don't know a trad school to send their children...
 A religious teaching order could also offer home schooling counseling via internet.
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Offline Miseremini

Re: hardly anyone should get married
« Reply #73 on: August 30, 2019, 05:47:43 PM »
Quote from: Brown Recluse on August 30, 2019, 11:05:49 AM
That shouldn't stop religious orders from accepting older people, nor should it stop an old single person from joining. If a person in the order faces a serious health issue, they should offer the pain from lack of medical assistance up to the Lord. Both order and prospective candidate should have that understanding before anyone joins.
Copy your response out and read it when you are old and in pain.
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Offline Miseremini

Re: hardly anyone should get married
« Reply #74 on: August 30, 2019, 05:48:56 PM »
Quote from: Troubled30 on August 30, 2019, 05:16:59 PM
:applause:
Great idea!
A lot of married women are troubled because they don't know a trad school to send their children...
 A religious teaching order could also offer home schooling counseling via internet.
Are you for real?  :fryingpan: Do you really expect a bunch of older women to start a religious order, then a school and have the energy and physical stamina to operate both that would tax much younger people?
These women would be at the age when serious medical issues are showing up.
There is good reason for convents not accepting older women.
What the trad world really needs is a truly Catholic retirement home set up by younger catholics.
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