"It does not have to be this way." EXACTLY. And that is why you wonder where the blindness comes from.
You actually meet people who think: "If the Novus Ordo and modernized religious life isn't attracting young candidates anymore, it must mean that our age is just not suited anymore to the religious life." Why not draw THIS conclusion: "i…
"It does not have to be this way." EXACTLY. And that is why you wonder where the blindness comes from.
You actually meet people who think: "If the Novus Ordo and modernized religious life isn't attracting young candidates anymore, it must mean that our age is just not suited anymore to the religious life." Why not draw THIS conclusion: "it must mean that our age needs the forms of religious life and liturgy hallowed and proved by countless centuries of trial."
"It does not have to be this way." EXACTLY. And that is why you wonder where the blindness comes from.
You actually meet people who think: "If the Novus Ordo and modernized religious life isn't attracting young candidates anymore, it must mean that our age is just not suited anymore to the religious life." Why not draw THIS conclusion: "it must mean that our age needs the forms of religious life and liturgy hallowed and proved by countless centuries of trial."
Amen. Tradition is saint~making and that’s what our souls crave.