New Member: FranciscanSolitary
May 16, 2016 17:10:35 GMT -5
Voxxkowalski, Jayne, and 1 more like this
Post by Deleted on May 16, 2016 17:10:35 GMT -5
Thank you, Ms. jaynek, for the kind invitation you extended to me over at CathInfo to join the Trad Cath Forum and for directing me here. Needless to say, am delighted to be "here" in this virtual space.
I should mention that I am a Franciscan Solitary in the immediate lineage of St. Maximilian Kolbe as brought to America from Poland by Fr. Victor Mroz. Fr. Mroz was St. Maximilian's favourite disciple, escaped from Poland with the retreating German Army, became a translator for Patton's Third Army in Bavaria, died in 1991 and is buried near to his sister in a Catholic cemetery just east of Buffalo, New York. The effort to have him canonised is on-going in Poland where his cult advances steadily among the followers of St. Maximilian there. As a Franciscan Solitary I have made an informal but fully religious Franciscan vow of celibacy so that I will never enter into the married state. Like every Traditional Third Order Franciscan I took a religious vow of obedience as a part of my Profession into the Third Order during 2007 on the Feast of Christ the King at St. Mary the Virgin Chapel in Paulsboro, New Jersey. The Catholic man legitimately authorised by Fr. Mroz to profess me was Bishop John Hesson, O.S.B. Bishop Hesson later also sent me several Christmas cards and a fine Franciscan prayer book before his very advanced age forced him to retire to Florida for health reasons. May his prayerful retirement there be long and uneventful.
As a Solitary or Isolated Tertiary I have been able to associate with the Franciscan Fraternity "St. Francis of Assisi" of Resistance Catholics in Toronto, Canada.
I have also been privileged to receive an excellent literary education at the University of Oregon when that was still possible before the general destruction of quality literary education in the 1980s. As a consequence I translate Spanish, read French and pray in Latin. My main interest is the advancement of Catholic education, primarily among the burgeoning numbers of Pan-European Nationalists in Europe and the Americas. Only Catholic liturgical worship can provide the heart and soul of any such efforts and variations of Pan-European Catholic Nationalism will be key to any future victories for the liberty of Holy Mother Church. My interest in men's education conforms with the essential duty of Franciscan Solitaries to represent the clergy among the laity. Solitaries are within the jurisdiction of the Church and therefore legally among the lowest levels of the Catholic clergy. In a sense we are the clergy in the laity and are encouraged to wear the Franciscan habit as much as possible, are normally forbidden from bearing arms (except for purposes of Holy War) and are legally allowed to handle money because we are officially classed as the holy beggars of the Catholic Church. Anti-clericals have always regarded us as the most undesirable men on earth and persecute us accordingly. Our most important function is to proclaim the universal jurisdiction of the infallible Church of Rome.
Whatever can be done to truly advance the Franciscan Order and Catholic education would be most pleasing to the Triune Catholic God.
I should mention that I am a Franciscan Solitary in the immediate lineage of St. Maximilian Kolbe as brought to America from Poland by Fr. Victor Mroz. Fr. Mroz was St. Maximilian's favourite disciple, escaped from Poland with the retreating German Army, became a translator for Patton's Third Army in Bavaria, died in 1991 and is buried near to his sister in a Catholic cemetery just east of Buffalo, New York. The effort to have him canonised is on-going in Poland where his cult advances steadily among the followers of St. Maximilian there. As a Franciscan Solitary I have made an informal but fully religious Franciscan vow of celibacy so that I will never enter into the married state. Like every Traditional Third Order Franciscan I took a religious vow of obedience as a part of my Profession into the Third Order during 2007 on the Feast of Christ the King at St. Mary the Virgin Chapel in Paulsboro, New Jersey. The Catholic man legitimately authorised by Fr. Mroz to profess me was Bishop John Hesson, O.S.B. Bishop Hesson later also sent me several Christmas cards and a fine Franciscan prayer book before his very advanced age forced him to retire to Florida for health reasons. May his prayerful retirement there be long and uneventful.
As a Solitary or Isolated Tertiary I have been able to associate with the Franciscan Fraternity "St. Francis of Assisi" of Resistance Catholics in Toronto, Canada.
I have also been privileged to receive an excellent literary education at the University of Oregon when that was still possible before the general destruction of quality literary education in the 1980s. As a consequence I translate Spanish, read French and pray in Latin. My main interest is the advancement of Catholic education, primarily among the burgeoning numbers of Pan-European Nationalists in Europe and the Americas. Only Catholic liturgical worship can provide the heart and soul of any such efforts and variations of Pan-European Catholic Nationalism will be key to any future victories for the liberty of Holy Mother Church. My interest in men's education conforms with the essential duty of Franciscan Solitaries to represent the clergy among the laity. Solitaries are within the jurisdiction of the Church and therefore legally among the lowest levels of the Catholic clergy. In a sense we are the clergy in the laity and are encouraged to wear the Franciscan habit as much as possible, are normally forbidden from bearing arms (except for purposes of Holy War) and are legally allowed to handle money because we are officially classed as the holy beggars of the Catholic Church. Anti-clericals have always regarded us as the most undesirable men on earth and persecute us accordingly. Our most important function is to proclaim the universal jurisdiction of the infallible Church of Rome.
Whatever can be done to truly advance the Franciscan Order and Catholic education would be most pleasing to the Triune Catholic God.