Traditional Nuns Are Being Attacked! Fairfield Carmelites Documentary 

United in prayer for the nuns. I am a non-canonical lay hermit and a member of the lay Carmelites.

The Pope needs to stop persecuting these Sisters. Personally I love the Carmelite Order and wished I had entered.

We need these humble prayer warriors now more than ever. Ad Glorium Dei!

God bless her,she is explaining what brides of Christ are supposed to do. I’m sure these beautiful brides of Christ have saved many souls. They are the true imitation of our Blessed Mother.

These nun's are powerhouse's of prayer, we need them imagine how terrible thing's would be without them, they hold back the wrath of God, we need to pray and sacrifice for them

God bless and protect these brides of Christ.Amen

I deeply believe without their prayers...so so many..like myself wouldn't be in the confessional after 60 years. Their holy prayers join with those we personally send to God, for our children!

God protect them

I love the way Catherine said "Its Pitch Black Outside" I lived in a town in Ireland and they never said Its dark outside . They always said "Its Pitch Black Outside "

Thank you. I will keep you guys and the most beautiful Carmelites in my Prayers . If God is with us who can be against us. Pax

🙏Thank you for sharing!

Our friend's daughter is there. I agree that that place is very mystical! I am haunted (in a good way!) by that place. I think 2 visits there all the time

I'm a nature girl who loves beaches, mountains, fields, gardens and farms... woods... you name it... I like living in a quiet place with no noise and neighbors are acres away.... when my dad told me, "how about being a nun?" We lived in the city and I saw no appeal to being a nun living in a ghetto city with a semi-okay novus ordo church and noisy traffic. I also am scared at the idea of living locked up, I like to go on walks.

This is unique in that this information is never divulged. There was an upload on RU-vid from a former Roman Catholic nun who divulged the horrors of her Convent in Mexico. This woman gets to the point of those atrocities ASAP.

This is awful! It breaks my heart! First, Perfectae Caritatis watered down the contemplative life. Now, this. Will those modernists never stop until they turn the contemplative life, from a mystery into something merely human, worldly, and completely devoid of the Grace of the Holy Spirit? And don't they realize the catastrophe that this means for the Church and for the world? Sadly, I think they know, and that's exactly what they want.

Why must these Carmelites lose their own charisma? Remember the enemies of Saint Teresa de Jesus!

We need a saintly pope to clean out the filth that has infiltrated the Church since the '60s. Remember that in your daily Rosary.

The prayer is the charism of the Discalced Carmelite. Every religious order had their own charism. To join a Federation of religious is going to be messy. The Federation's rule runs contrary to the Carmelite rule of life as St Teresa of Avila has set down for her nuns. You cannot put together a non contemplative with the contemplatives.

I just can't bear hearing this happen over & over again. It's evil. It just breaks 💔 my heart. It's an attempt to tear out the heart of the church & destroy one of its most precious & generative foundations. I'll never know how this Pope lives with himself. Or perhaps there's someone else forcing his hand, "thinking to change times and laws".

The practice of monasticism is centuries old. Seclusion to focus on prayer for humankind is a sacred calling ! It should not be altered for secular reasons.

Thank you for info. My favorite program.

The Camden, New Jersey Dominican Sisters of the Perpetual Rosary were in a monastery( next to Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital) for like a century. It was a beautiful chapel there that I loved to go for prayer. Their numbers dwindled and no one entered for decades (I tried to join but they didn't take black women back in the seventies). The diocese took over the property and now it's a huge PARKING LOT! It's simple. The men who run the Church want to get their hands on the property of these women who want only to live a life of prayer and penance in seclusion from the world.

God bless these nun's , keep on trucking, we are with you all the way 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Out here in the middle of Kansas we had an order of Carmelintes, about 15 of them, who facing being shut down by Francis...if I remember correctly it was because not enough vocations were being generated from there. A group Carmelites in New Jersey offered to take them in. So these poor nuns went from a bucolic setting of rural K@ansas to the pavemnt and car fumes of New Jersey. Thanks Francis.

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The gates of hell will not prevail! Our prayers are with you! UK 🇬🇧

Don’t understand why the Vatican is trying to suppress these sisters.

The nuns can save the world because in God they trust.

I give you my appreciation for what I have visually inherited and observantly analyzed. I hope to you a propitious day and night.

God hears us in all different languages and ways it’s surprises me that the pope is doing this their is such a shortage of nuns I’ve had beautiful memories of the nuns in my life they were the Nuns of St Joseph they were their for me and never gave up on me thank god I would like to send prayers to Sister Roberta bless her soul I don’t think I would of made it through please protect these nun’s Padre Pio 🙏✌🏻♥️

The grounds of the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament have that same feeling on their grounds. They now have to sell their grounds. She, her Sisters, and the Associates of the SBS have the same charism. The honor guards watched over her crypt. We are heartbroken. She saw a need, the Native American and African Americans had a great need. These sisters were then in danger, they tried to burn down their house with a burning cross lit by the KKK on horses. A bolt of lightening came from the sky directly at the leader. Saint Katharine Drexel started a college for black people, when there was nothing. It is sad to see these Sacred grounds sold. There is a beautiful chapel on the grounds. I just wanted to make people aware of such kind and Holy people. They stayed after mass to talk to everyone and you felt so welcome any time, day or night. Why are religious congregations of women being thrown out while they are putting women without congregations into places originally held by men. Are religious women congregated together and full of love for the Lord not necessary? Wherever 2 or more are gathered in my name, there is love. I also feel Grace, holiness, kindness, openness, and so many things only the femininity of a women's order dedicated to those who are marginalized can bring. I cannot imagi e what will happen to her dedication to Native and African American people when they don't have this place for the meeting of all races. Everyone is welcome and can feel it. Sister Katharine Drexel's order is the Sister of the Blessed Sacrament and are also devoted to having exposition 24 hours/day as often as possible, so we can come right to Him whenever we need or want to sing praises to him. They are brave and dedicated women. They fear no one in getting Christ's love and word out. I wish my words could portray the sacredness felt by so many as soon as they stepped on that holy ground. I don't know why it has to be sold. Many people have come there to learn and they are inspired. I was, and could not leave. Many miracles are observed there. I am wondering why there appears to be an attack, of sorts, on congregations of religious women.

So sorry for the nuns at this time.

In Mexico most families who live in the country side also get up at 4am, milk cows and goats, make tortillas and baked bread. Harvest their own vegetables and fruits. They also pray and make lots of sacrifices. You do not have to be a carmelite nun to live a primitive style life.

Sacrifice for God and self control through disciplines gives energizing graces.

She hit the modern nail on the head.

And so much for the US Constitution and freedom of religion. The Catholic Church has dug its own grave.

Miss Bower seems apologetic about the Carmelite Rite being Traditionalist at the beginning. She then expresses the attraction pretty clearly. There are Traditional cloistered Benedictines also, And they are Contemplative, not a teaching order like the New Order Benedictines here in America. What she describes here should be everywhere. This is the definition of the Universal Church. By rejecting the traditions and compliance to the rule of the orders as they were established we reject the whole tenor and Practice of Catholic life for those of us in the world also. This is a microcosm glimpse of the macrocosm of the slippery slope we have been sliding down for the last 50 years.

Other worldly? This world is in such great need. I'm a convert and dont understand why the treasure of faith is so quiet. Lots of people need the Catholic truths.

In the reform of st Theresa the number of nuns was limited to 12 with one extern.

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Many of these sisters must be saints if they get persecuted this hard.

The Church could use the space in monasteries to welcome lay Catholics or anyone that desires contemplative training. Something that is absolutely critical at this time. We need more silent spaces. Not less.

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God help the✝️ nuns 😇

“Watch therefore, for you do not know what hour your Lord is coming.” ‭‭Matthew‬ ‭24:42‬ ‭ “Let nothing trouble you, nothing frighten you. All things are passing; God never changes. Patient endurance attains all things. Whoever possesses God lacks nothing: God alone suffices.” ‘St Teresa's Bookmark’; found in her breviary after her death.

This story is heart breaking and disgusting. Bergoglio has instituted his own agenda every since the day he took office and now will destroy one cloistered community at a time.

The Pachimaniac, Martin Lutherized, co-concelebrator with heretical sects pope is not to be followed when he commits heretical acts. Our Foundkng Fathers, especially Jefferson, said to nullify (ignore) unconstitutional laws/edicts. The same applies here.

God bless them indeed. I would tell the pontiff where he can stick his Cor Orans. Rebellll!!!

I’ve been praying for them & am wondering if they can form a new federation, as they have more than one monastery now. However there is no federation (possibly) who follows the ancient Carmelite rule founded by St. Teresa of Avila. They have two to three monasteries now; (moved from Elysburg to) Fairfield, PA; another monastery in Nebraska; and a third one in Valparaiso California. {I think that it right. I visited them in Elysburg PA in 2013}

You are so right, these Holy women are very dangerous, just as Christ was very dangerous for preaching the truth, the Demon would consider them, one of his deadliest enemies and the more he torments them, the more they help Our Lady to crush his foul head, their sufferings will be his pain as they bring him closer to God's judgment.

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I’ve been there and it’s like no place on earth. Visit if you can. We also visited the shrine of mother Seton. Her order this day is not impressive.

NOT unique in Church history! Since at least the 8th century, Benedictine monasteries of men have grouped themselves into "congregations" of monasteries. Each monastery retains independence in terms of electing its own abbot, having its own novitiate, in general making its own decisions about prayer and work. That said, there are "visitators" on the part of the congregation who visit every few years and advise the community about issues of relevance to them. This keeps the autonomous communities within the congregation from veering off into extremes. Women's monastic communities have traditionally not used the congregational model of governance of autonomous communities, often because they remained under the oversight of the nearest monastic community of men (that was in turn a member of a congregation). Today, women's monastic communities are becoming independent from male oversight; hence their need to form their own female congregations of autonomous monastic communities. It's all to prevent injustice and insanity within communities.

All the silence,customs and traditions are good But if one really know the Heart of St.Teresa ,She loved the Mother Church She would always want her daughters to Obey rather than to go against the Holy Father Obedience keeps one free from illusion

En la cruz,está el sentido de vida!

unbelievable.

These nuns dedicate their lives in prayer for all of us .

Hum is part of the reason this is going on because of what charlotte’s testimony 😢

Don't expect any help from the current Pope.

They will destroy the Pacha demon's power with the power of Christ!! Our Lady of Copacabana, slay the Pacha-demon for us!

What can we do for other than pray for them which I do all the time we we love and need them only two we are blessed. Sad when I hear our seminarys and convents do not have as many nuns and priests as we used toad yet the catholic faith is growing.

What is Popee agenda for modernizing everything? I thought God is God and does not necessary change with time?

French Revolution, anyone?

She explains the attraction. Clearly. I’m not the brightest bulb in the living room but I get it. And they STILL ask what attraction is( ??). Read Seven Story Mountain.

Where did you get your crucifix? I would love to get one.

This has happened in several orders after their probationary period after foundation. Usually all positions within the monastery or order, after 10 years of its existence, are decided within that order according to their rule. Yet Ecclesia Dei Commission for example made appointments for positions within the FSSP rather than honoring the orders own elections, essentially breaking Ecclesia Dei's own laws. And that was over 20 years ago.

"We ought always to hold the white which I see is black,if the hierarchical church so decides."~St Ignatius of Loyola

We keep praying ! In te domine Speravi

Good interview but I don't like the free way she uses the word "we" when she's talking about the Carmelite sisters. She may have a sibling who is a nun and she may be attached to the Convent but she isn't a religious member of the First Order

Thought she was referring to Kor'ans for a while!!!

To be hermits is the original charism of the Carmelite Order.

Why are religious being attacked for living a religious life according to the rule they have followed for hundreds of years. The demon is fearful of the prayers that wing their way heavenward and due to time differences every second of every day. There can only be one explanation, demonic forces are at work. The prayers of in the enclosed orders are so powerful causing such a strong resistance to satan must be the answer, pray the Rosary the 15 decades as given by our Lady to St Dominic.

Please forgive my ignorance, but if these nuns are completely autonomous, why do they need to depend on the Holy See for anything or even acknowledge Rome for that matter? Can't they just break away from the Church entirely?

My life long dream.

Question, why is the Our Father Catholic prayer not the same as the Lord Prayer as in the Bible ? I am a Roman Catholic of over 50 years but Irish priests don’t like answering any questions ..

Then they need to leave and go underground.

If these nuns are living according to the rule devote and prayerfull with works why connect with our convents? More time wasting. More blah blah blah. More emails More things to do list They are not there to have a great time with as many friends as possible The life should be stripped down to the simplist lives. All focused on the core point is prayer.

They should align with the SSPX.

why not fight the fall in vocations by taking on the biggest obstacle to joining religious life for young women like me: STUDENT LOANS we cannot discharge in bankruptcy 😢

Theres Carmilites in the state of Washington that do excatly the same thing latin Mass France and spanish nuns one of them is my sister Estella Gonzalez. my brother David goes there to help with the gardens

Who ever wants to attack this saintly women is pure evil.

How nice is the cross you have behind you

Living without electricity - as the sisters do - is very healthy, both for body and mind, and spirituality. The pulsed electromagnetic fields (EMFs) from electricity and wireless technology "mess" (interfer) somewhat with the electrical signals in both the brain and heart, and also affect signals in many kinds of cells in the body. Also, some people are more vulnerable to those kinds of disturbances than others. It is easier to meditate, reach peacful states of mind, and to think deeply, for a person who is not exposed to man made EMFs.

Who is Shang mask for the sisters now?

Again, the answer is Sedevacantistism. Carmel will live on. No problem.

She’s correct the nuns aren’t actually interested in being exact to the Teresian model, 13 is the limit. They are supposed to divide and found a different Carmel. The new mass church hates the faith and we are seeing it play out under Bergoglio a wicked pastor. The nuns will need to be independent and not part of any specific order. Each house independent.

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Pope Francis, as a Catholic I will continue to pray for him. This Pope honestly needs to go, he his killing our ⛪️ church. This is insane, Does Pope Francis not understand Saint Teresa of Avila is Doctor of our Church. Not only a Doctor of the Church THE FIRST FEMALE DOCTOR OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH. I AM GOING TO HELP YOU FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT, GOD WILL PREVAIL.

Leave it to Bergoglio…

Nothing like having predatory administrators fostering failure.

There are 3 items that are missing,I believe, f

Praise God! We need more vocations. Also Dominican Nuns are devoted to prayer Dominican sisters are apostolic. Just a note. If you are thinking on a vocations go headlong God will give you a yes or no What the heck is the popes idea with executive orders? He taking tips from the presidents? Come on

The mother superior should take the Carmelite sisters to the SSPX if they wish to worship in Latin. Those who wish to worship in the English rite should remain with the Roman church. So there will be two branches. They should continue. They wear the full habit and live the Carmelite spirituality completely.

I'm going to throw this out there. Hopefully you can do the much needed research I cannot. Are the Fairfield "Carmelite" Nuns associated with the Discalced Carmelite Order? I have not seen any reports from the Carmelites about this. So my question is, are these just a bunch of women who got a few books by Teresa of Avila & decided to imitate her & her convents? If that's the case, it's a beautiful thing, but are these women truly Carmelites? I have not heard of any true Carmelites having issue with Cor Orans & I can't imagine they would since the order is already federated around the world.

Throughout the video, I kept waiting to hear some specific guidelines in Cor Orans that would be detrimental to the life of these nuns. I never heard any specifics. So it seems to me that if a monastery doesn't want to follow guidelines from the Holy Church, or avoid oversight and accountability, that in itself would be quite suspect.

Is that Blue out fit this young lady wearing is theirs Habbits / or it call uniform?

Popey is coming for all traditional orders.Nobody will escape.

Welling they followed the churches teachings there would be no issues

The Discalced Carmelite Order is a Papal Order and follows the SPIRIT of Teresa of Avila and St.John of the Cross, whose main teachings are Detachment and OBEDIENCE to Peter’s successors. This is all talking of external preferences of rites. The Church is a living organism and does not ossify at a particular time in history. This Carmel’s problems stem from their disobedience to the Magisterium, and this community has cut itself from the rest of the Order. Many Carmels aroind the world are very strict, but are obedient to the Pope and the Father General. The woman here talks about being faithful to St.Teresa. St. Teresa in her reform did not allow more than 21 nuns in any community….which is in the Rule and Statutes.

Yes Pachapapa Francisco and his minion are behind this