Pray For The New Guys, Please

[Luigi]

St. Vincent Archabbey in Latrobe, PA received four novices in July: http://www.saintvincentarchabbey.org/newsmodule/view/id/1445

 

Two other men made solemn vows.

 

 

Alelluia!

[Anselm]

That's amazing - I wish British abbeys had similar numbers!

[Lilllabettt]

praying...  when I entered I hated the word "postulant" because it made me feel like a pustule that needed to be popped. Although with as many missteps as I made in those first weeks the description sometimes seemed apt!

[Luigi]

praying...  when I entered I hated the word "postulant" because it made me feel like a pustule that needed to be popped. Although with as many missteps as I made in those first weeks the description sometimes seemed apt!

 

You are (or were) free associating words based on sound rather than etymology. A postulant is one who postulates. The -ant ending on many English words comes in from French, where -ant/-ent equals English -ing. So a postulant is postulating the theory(?) that she has a religious vocation. 

 

But you probably knew all that already, and it didn't stop you from free associating. Ain't brains interesting? 

[Nunsense]

praying...  when I entered I hated the word "postulant" because it made me feel like a pustule that needed to be popped. Although with as many missteps as I made in those first weeks the description sometimes seemed apt!

:pray:

 

Actually I preferred postulant to the newer word they are using in some Carmels, 'formandee' :shock: the Novice Mistress has become the formator and the Postulant or Novice becomes the formandee. Ugly words to me. :x

[Luigi]

St. Peter's Benedictine Monastery in Saskatchewan received five novices in March of this year. They're in Canada, but they were founded from St. Vincent's in Pennsylvania. 

 

http://stpetersabbey.ca/wp/?p=163

[Anselm]

Yes, not the most attractive of words! I like the Solesmes Benedictine titles of Zelator/Zelatrix for assistant novice master/mistress!

[AnneLine]

Hey I agree Formator and Formatee is HORRIBLE!!!!  But I guess it could have been 'Extruder' and 'Extrudee' or something... :eek:

 

I think Zealtor/Zealtrix have been around a LONG time...

 

in my Secular Order they keep trying to get us to use 'Formator' and talk about people being in 'Formation I' and 'Formation II' but everyone just calls us the "Formation Director' and people in FI and F2 as  'Novices' or 'Temp Professed'.   Sometimes the silly language just goes too far.... and then common sense clicks in.  One would HOPE!!!!!

 

Funny and true story... one of the novice friars at my parish started calling me 'Father Master' after they visited our community for a reception into Formation... which I thought was FUNNY AS HECK!   (English was his second language, and I don't think the realized that you wouldn't call a woman 'FATHER Master'!   And no one calls me 'Mother Mistress' --- trust me!   he he he

[Luigi]

Belmont Abbey in North Carolina now has four novices. Three were received recently and one had been received somewhat earlier.

 

Belmont hasn't updated its webpage in over a year, so I was reduced to hunting them up on Facebook. Which isn't terrible, but you have to scroll endlessly to find anything worthwhile.  

[AnneLine]

Welll.... Phatmass isn't the only server having problems.  :(

 

The Western Dominicans received their new novices last week AND 4 of last year's novices made their professions on Saturday, August 31st...

 

... but the Western Province's website is down. :(         So...no pictures!

 

We can still pray for them, and you can watch for the info to magically appear once the servers are feeling up to snuff....

 

http://www.opwest.org

 

I'll be back with photos as soon as they are up!!!