Here's an interview with two of the Apostolic Sisters in Belgium. They absolutely rock. Don't tell my mother I'm going back to French classes because of them

http://catholique-lepuy.cef.fr/actualites/...eport-0404a.htm

VA is smitten!

PP

I am But don't get too much into your head. I'm still going to get married and have an even number bigger than two of babies. I just have to find the guy (and probably convert him, since he'd be Dutch )

I wish they had an Apostolic house here, though...

I'm terribly sorry, but you know you need to have a prime number of children. Seven or eleven would be good.

PP

i met a good amount of these wonderful sisters at WYD supposedly there are suppose to start an active community here in the states. I too thought....Maybe I should learn french so that i could join there.


In JMJ

You don't have to actually know french i think. I think they can teach it to you if you know the basics. I know the community and they are soo awesome. I have actually met many of the brothers and an apostolic sister from france who was helping out with the Eagle Eye's in the US. I know that all of the Brother's are taught French.....sooo....who knows. Why don't you write them. I think that is what i am going to do. The community is growing by leaps and bounds. Including the contemplative sisters. Check them out HERE.

-Yours in Christ
Lauren

Maybe I should have pi children... two normal ones and a big one :P

I wonder what it is with mathematicians and primes. As a physicist, I prefer squares - and especially cubes! (That would make eight, then, 27 isn't happening :P).

But to get back on topic

We met the brothers at a vigil for the unborn life, where they did the "spiritual coordination". Walking around the church, in the middle of the night, with only a few lamps around the altar lighted, and praying the Via Crucis by the appropriate paintings, was especially powerful. I liked being on the receiving end of their apostolate very much And the next time I meet Br. Clemens I'll have to ask him to teach me his song about coffee!

There are three or four Houses of brothers in our country, and a House with contemplative sisters. The novitiate is in France - there was a German brother at our vigil who's fluent in German, French, Dutch and English, and the Father who's name I forgot managed to preach to us in Dutch at one in the morning (he's French) before he went back to his monestery with the excuse that he had Mass that Sunday - twice.

So. Yes. They rock.

There will be apostolic sisters in the USA, they're just not here yet....

When are they coming?? Or more or less why arent they here yet.....I heard last year they were suppose to come. I do hope they come soon...they are wonderful sisters

Yes.......do do tell...when is the time frame?....curious budding vocations are curious. I have a feeling that their vocations would flourish here in the US if they put down roots here.

I honestly don't know the timeframe. I do know that they've been wanting to come and people want them here, but that's all I know.

It will be soon because I was in touch with the sisters who are in France. I looked at them when they were featured on "Life on the Rock". Some friends said I should look at them because they were opened to older vocations. They don't have an age limit for the apostolic sisters. I was surprised to learn that they have a contemplative house here in Canada in Quebec. French will be a bit of an issue in the beginning for the new sisters in the US because I said to sister if she wanted write to me in French it wouldn't be a problem. She wrote back and said to me knowing French is a definate asset.

I would be SOOO interested if they had an apostolic branch (I haven't told you all, but I have been seriously discerning and i have found that God might indeed be calling me more toward the apostolic life more than i ever imagined ) and it would be soooo amazing. Because i am in french IV, but I can only speak un peu francais.... But the community of St.Jean is just something that i really feel God has just pushed my way all of a sudden and so i feel the need to look into it.

and anyone know exactly what their apostolate is? I can never quite figure it out get a clear description.

Anyone have any clue at all how soon they would be coming......2 yrs.....4 yrs...?

You'd do well to contact Fr. Joseph Mary Brown at (309-385-1193) and ask him. He might have a better idea. I think some things fell through that were supposed to happen to get them here, but that was a while ago. Also I think that you can go visit them in France, or anywhere else for that matter.

Also, if you're really interested in the Community you should look into becoming an oblate. That way you'd get a real feel for the spirit of the community.


Oh, yes, and sometimes the Apostolic Sisters are in the US visiting and doing sorta mini vocation thingys....

Talk to FJM. He'll hook you up. And once they know you're interested, esp since you're so close, when they're in town someone would likely give you a holler.

my brother is in that order!!! he knew absolutely NO FRENCH before he entered...and now he has a french accent and messes up when speaking english! it is so funny!

I can't believe they're only 31 years old as an order - look how they're growing!

I do hope that their noviciate remains solely in France. You have enough bouncin' orders over there, don't get greedy :P

Well, I don't mind if the noviitiate is in France as long as we get to return to the US for the apostolates.... Or maybe they can do what the brothers did. Keep the main novitiate over there and build another one in the US.....by Princeville

as far as i know...the apostolic sisters have the same basic operating principle as the brothers. they do tons of different apostolates depending on the need of the diocese in which they operate. the brothers do have certain apostolates that are closest to their way of life (preaching, teaching/retreats) but they do other things if requested by the bishop who invites them so long as they can keep their contemplative way of life. it is my understanding that the apost. sisters work the same way. not entirely sure...so don't quote me on that. but i will be willing to bet that is how it works for them.

I'll second that explanation

thanks that is what i thought....but i wasn't ever really sure

LOL, it's the Community, get used to mystery

haha......i learned that at Eagle Eye. The chaos and craziness is hysterical, but it seems to be a part of the vocation almost. They seem to thrive off of the spontaneity of it all.

Well, that's one thing that's the same for Europe and the States, then

During a break at the Vigil, one of the brothers asked me whether I spoke German, because then I HAD to come to this-and-this camp. I had other plans? Oh, no problem, there's a camp in Scotland later. And would I kindly check their web-site about the youth ministry course, elderly visiting program, or...

I wonder how I could ever think the religious life is about peace and quiet! (Peace and hurry sounds more like it.)

Oh my gosh! You should have gone to the camp in scotland! It was the Eagle Eye in Scotland and they were staying in this awesome,old monastary and KAYAKING on the OCEAN!!!!! We were soooo jealous because Illinois is soo boring compared to scotalnd.

Deo volente, next year!

~ VA