I don't know why the picture of him didn't show up... but here are professional shots of the ordination. Click on "Fr. Toby Collins"

regarding previous post here are direct pics of
The Little poor Brothers (and Sisters) of Jesus and Mary(who follow a Rule of St Francis, without papal interpretations/mitigation, regarding property/money i.e. the non-use and non-touching of monies, as prescribed in the Rule of St. Francis)
they hitchhike and walk everywhere, and spread the Gospel of Christ incarnate ,dead, Resurrected.primarily with green tracts explaining the Good News.in the streets,bars,hiways and biways,homes and Parish missions etc.Though Franciscan they have a great devotion to Our lady of Mt Carmel.

they have an Australian, and French and German, amongst them..


below a brother Studying -deskless-for priesthood





below -winter day in Assisi, eating food donated from a bakery,in exchange for preaching the Gospel, and giving booklets..

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Trappist Monks at St Sixtus Abbey

EJ, do you know why these Brothers (and Sisters) have short scapulars in/on their habits?

Carmelite Monks Hermitage,Christoval- Texas


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CFR's(Franciscans of the Renewal) at a Youth2000 in Lyon, France


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Brothers of St John, at the same Youth2000 in Lyon, France

Dominican Brothers/Priests

Cistercian monk (French,Hauterive)

more of the Little Poor Brothers of Jesus and Mary,Italy(from earlier post)

watching Christ-mass tree prep in Rome
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in South Italy, the 'toe' of the boot

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and some more of the 'todo Franciscans' -Little Fraternity of the Holy Eucharist ,of Brazil/Columbia, at the recent Papal Holy Mass.

what i want to know is,

1. who has the biggest hoods, and

2. who has the most comfortable footwear. i have flat feet that hurt when standing for more than a few minutes.

Carthusian Monks
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Les Petits Frères de la Croix/Little Brothers of the Cross, Canada
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Monstrance for Adoration

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a Brother With some visiting Domincans from Ontario

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Is it me, or is this brother wearing an abercrombie and fitch hat? Bizarre. I do like his chaco's though.

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Who are these Franciscan sisters? Website?

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This is great, but what happens when they become old and infirm and can't walk everywhere? Will we see them wheeling each other around in wheelchairs? This is very much a lifestyle for the young... There quotes sound rather hippiesh... Any danger of that with them or are they solid? Then again, Saint Francis sometimes sounds rather hippiesh himself...

I've never heard of a "mixed" community... what does that mean practically and spiritually?

ps This thread is GREAT!

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This is great, but what happens when they become old and infirm and can't walk everywhere? Will we see them wheeling each other around in wheelchairs? This is very much a lifestyle for the young... There quotes sound rather hippiesh... Any danger of that with them or are they solid? Then again, Saint Francis sometimes sounds rather hippiesh himself...

I've never heard of a "mixed" community... what does that mean practically and spiritually?

ps This thread is GREAT!

i doubt very much he has any idea it is Amercrombie and fitch..its just hat for the sun, given..i didnt know until you said, i also had to look up amercrombie and fitch on Google, after that knowledge, it is odd.....

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It reminds me of being around Piazza di Spagna a couple years ago. I walked into a high-end retail store and they had American music blasting the most awful obsenities, but the store employees and workers didn't know it because they couldn't speak English! I could just say "molto male" and point towards the speakers. lol.

He gave the catechises on Corpus Christi. (Corpus Christi Thursday we have a pizza supper for the 'youth' at 5, then a catechises, then Mass at 7:30 at Notre Dame, Eucharistic procession to St. Pat's, and then benediction.)

i always wondered what the story was with the old friar bowl-cut hair?

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Glory to Jesus Christ!
well , briefly, the 'bowl cut hair' is one form of 'Tonsure' (meaning to shear)
in the early centuries Greek and Roman slaves shaved their heads, as a sign of that possession, and service, later, monks did the same to show being possessed by Christ, and as outcast from and leaving the vane world, a slave to Christ etc. . Thus the earliest Monastic/consecrated tonsure was a completely shaved head...there are various forms of tonsure, the crown one as seen earlier. leaves the circle of hair as a visual reminder(personal and public) of Christs Holy crown of thorns.St Francis would have had a crown circle tonsure, because he was eventually ordained a Deacon. after some time, in Christian monasticism, only clerics or those studying for the Priesthood, had a crown, while 'lay Monks' just had the head shaved.
THe Celtic tonsure for example, was to be different from other clans haircuts, and showed possession by/to the monastic family, and distance from 'the world' and was thus shaved from forehead to the middle, leaving the back long.
in the Eastern Church, still today, and the Latin Church when there used to be all the steps of dedication through to ordination,until 1965 when it was stopped, because of the 'updating', one could be tonsured(small circle, and cuts of hair..) at baptism, chrismation, upon receiving acolyte, subdeacon,deacon etc etc etc..as a sign of sacrifice, leaving the world, and most importantly Consecration......VERY Catholic, these outward signs and symbols of inward actions/desires.
thankfully, this practice is returning in the Latin Church
lets also not forget St. Paul, shaving his head because of a vow( Nazarite vow?) he had made.
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candidate for Priesthood receiving first clerical Tonsure (snip of hair) Classic Roman Rite


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Carmelite Friars (O.C.D.) one of 2 of the more Contemplative Carmelite Friaries in the world ,both in France, of the Southern Province)
#1 Carmelite Monastery of Broussey (where they have a large retreat/conference Center for the general Public
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and the 2nd Contemplative OCD (Carmelite Friars) place is the
The Holy Desert of Our Lady of Mercy, in the former Carthusian Monastery at ROQUEBRUNE SUR ARGENS,South France
it is run by the Marseilles Province, very beautiful with wonderful hermitages, upo on a mountain, with perminant Carmelite Priest/hermits, who pray the office and Mass together, and thats about it...its also the place where Carmelites from the Province go for desert retreat..
Couvent des Carmes Saint désert Notre-Dame de Pitié
83520 ROQUEBRUNE SUR ARGENS
Tél. 04 94 45 18 18



- Carmes de Toulouse

http://www.tocadeassis.org.br/index.php?li...agina=instituto
scroll down

This is another community of recent formation based in Italy: "Piccola famiglia dell'Annunziata", founded by don Giuseppe Dossetti,a formerly anti-fascist activist, father of the Italian Costitution and expert invited to the Vatican II council.
Their motherhouse is in the ruins of Monte Sole a place fired down by Nazis troups in World war II.

http://lh5.google.it/image/ParrocchiaSamma....JPG?imgmax=512

http://lh4.google.it/image/ParrocchiaSamma....JPG?imgmax=512

http://lh3.google.it/image/ParrocchiaSamma....JPG?imgmax=512

It has a masculine and a feminine branch and both share the aim to live in "silence, prayer, work and poverty".
They don't have a website but there are some address and telephone references:

Masculine Branch:
1) Casaglia di Caprara - Via Casaglia, 7 - 40043 Marzabotto (BO) - Tel. (039)051.677.53.03

2) Monteveglio - Via Sassuolo, 2 - 40050 Monteveglio (BO) - Tel. (039)051.670.10.26

Feminine Branch:
1) Casaglia di Caprara - Via Casaglia, 5 - 40043 Marzabotto (BO) - Tel. (039)051.677.54.10

2) Monteveglio - Via Castello Oliveto, 47 - 40050 Monteveglio (BO) - Tel. (039)051.670.10.28

Note: I put 039 in phone numbers between parenthesis because it is the code necessary for calling in Italy pby foreign users, if you are in Italy, you don't have to do this.

Thank-you ,Ale ,for your contributions, nice to have an Italian connection, is the Community you mention (Piccola famiglia dell'Annunziata) 'Franciscan' in base and Charism? would they understand English if someone wrote to them?
thanks
Pace!

Monks of The Cistercian Abbey of Lerins(France)
video
http://www.godtube.com/view_video.php?view...2fe89dd85b9beb5

a slideshow of Camaldolse Monks (not Benedictine like Big-Sur, but of the Mt Corona Congregation),just click the little plus sign on the bottom right of photos, as they come.( i never do understand why people dont use religious/sacred music for Monastic slideshows..seemz to be always the case,..,...anyhoo)
pax!
http://camaldolese.org/hfhermitage.php

No, it's uncorrect saying that they have a franciscan spirituality, because they live in poverty and joy but following the teachings of their founder don Giuseppe Dossetti.
He was a man truly involved in this time (first part of XX century), being an opposer of Mussolini dictature, taking part at the vatican conuncil II and in the first yers of the renewed italian political life,; but he left all of those thing to live like a "monk" founding this community.
Actually the "piccola famiglia" is formed by the two branches of consacrated communities (masculine and feminine) and an association of lay families living in the nearbies of their monasteries.
For the question of the language: I think that they can respond if you wrote to the addresses I previously wrote, because in Italy speaking English is very common for those who have an high-school degree and I hope that someone in the community has got it.

These are two member of the Teutonic Order.
The ancient medioeval order has been refounded in 1929 as a priestly congregation linked with a feminine congregation.
The headquarters of the orders ar in Wien near the Stephansdom and they have houses in Austria, Germany, Italy, czech republic where they work in parishes, hospitals and schools.
The general superior of the order manteins the anciet title of Great Master.
At now the Great master of the teutonic order is an Italian priest, Bruno Platter.
On the internet I've found only this website but it's in German language.

Yes,the Teutonic order doesn't have any houses in english speaking countries,though who knows they may some day.
They were in the middle ages not only in Germany and the Holy land,but up into the baltic region as well.They had houses in Latvia I know.The Livonian Knights of the Sword were later absorbed by the teutonic Knights.Some relatives of my grandmother,the vonLilienschilds,belonged to them according to german documents.

The Heralds of the Good News founded by two spaniards,wear a habit similar to that worn by heralds during the middle ages.

Carmelite Father Casimir Borcz celebrates a Latin Tridentine Mass at
the Carmelite Monastery in Munster, Indiana


http://www.carmelitefathers.com/index.html
The monastery, now led by a new prior, the Rev. Jacek Palica, also celebrates Novus Ordo Masses in English and Polish every Sunday.

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Good stuff everyone. Keep them coming

Dominican Friars at Oxford, England






Inclinatio, at compline,1948, during the confeteor, nowadays
usually only done by traditional Benedictines but standing with full inclination.

I'm not sure, but I think the one to the left is Paul Lew (can't remember his name in religion). I don't know him, but he has a blog.

Discipulos de Jesus de San Juan Bautista /Disciples of St John the Baptist.based in Argentina? thees from Chile,..looks great, lots of great things i see coming out of South America..not sure if they are in N/America or Europe?
i find their habits magnificent




and
http://casasanjuanbautista.blogspot.com/
hat tip to:cmariadiaz
Phatmasser

The Fraternity of Tiberiade/Belgium(french) and in Lithuania and Philippines(english)
bits in english http://www.tiberiade.be/







they have sisters too...

(oops my bad -- read the question wrong).

They're currently in Chile, Mexico, Argentina and I think Peru. Not yet in the US.

a Carmelite goes for a walk with a Benedictine at Saint-Guilhem le Désert

Brothers of St. John in Holland(with people on a Pilgrimage to Sweden, with relics)




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Two merry seminarians from Institute of Christ the King


Stockholm ICKSP


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Brother Seraphine Capuchin-Franciscan(europe)

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Thats it fer now, its hot, time to go ..

From this years Ordinations in Notre Dame, Paris
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sorry,hope your not too scandalized that the people are not kneeling during the Litany, Notre-Dame is known as a 'progressist' Archdiocese/cathedral...anyhoo..many parishes/ parishioners in France do not kneel for anything much, even the Holy Eucharist... exception a Traditional Blessing and sometimes Adoration...
still wonderful to have all those new Priests!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

FR B. Groeschel in London the other day..

Benedictine Monks at Fontgombault (Solesmes Congregation)
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Association of Saint Lucianus, Beauvais, France-
Assoc. of Motu Proprio « Ecclesia Dei » du Pape Jean-Paul II.

EJames very nice pics! very inspiring.



this one looks surreal (as if the background is from a movie or painting).

I love looking at these pictures... they just bring such peace. Thank you for sharing.