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[MiscarriageSucks]

Is this community legit or is it just the founder and nobody else? 

[cruciatacara]

5 hours ago, MiscarriageSucks said:

Is this community legit or is it just the founder and nobody else? 

My friend joined her group in the very beginning. There were five women then but most (or all) of them left. There have always been one or two joining but they don't seem to stay. The newsletters never state exactly how many have actually made vows apart from the founder. She is a popular Catholic celebrity on Catholic radio and TV shows so always seems to generate enough money to keep going but personally from what I have heard about her and her community, I doubt it will survive after she is no longer able to lead - sort of a personality cult.

[GraceUk]

This community got a huge amount of publicity a few years ago. But ocassionaly I tried to find out how it was developping but there hardly seems any information out there.  Seems like the expectations were high snd a lot of women would follow. Doesnt seem to have happened. I agree that it looks unlikely to survive in the long term. 

[rosamundi]

I had a quick look on the website and it seems like it has had a very unsettled period, involving three separate moves in a very short space of time.

It worries me that there are few indications of "community" on the website, if that makes sense - no group photographs, no photographs of Sisters making vows, or going about the community's apostolate, or any other indications that this is a stable and growing community. For a community that was founded in 2011, this is very concerning to me.

I know new communities can have difficulties and periods of instability, and that it takes a special sort of calling to be "in on the ground floor" as it were, but this lack of stability both in terms of the membership and the community's location, gives me pause.

[cruciatacara]

7 hours ago, GraceUk said:

This community got a huge amount of publicity a few years ago. But ocassionaly I tried to find out how it was developping but there hardly seems any information out there.  Seems like the expectations were high snd a lot of women would follow. Doesnt seem to have happened. I agree that it looks unlikely to survive in the long term. 

She got asked to leave one diocese by the Bishop because he felt she was focussing too much on trying to convert Jews, which is not a culturally acceptable charism these days (if it ever was). Being a Jewish convert herself, this is very close to her heart of course, but it doesn't appear to be a viable charism in the long term.

 

7 hours ago, rosamundi said:

I had a quick look on the website and it seems like it has had a very unsettled period, involving three separate moves in a very short space of time.

It worries me that there are few indications of "community" on the website, if that makes sense - no group photographs, no photographs of Sisters making vows, or going about the community's apostolate, or any other indications that this is a stable and growing community. For a community that was founded in 2011, this is very concerning to me.

I know new communities can have difficulties and periods of instability, and that it takes a special sort of calling to be "in on the ground floor" as it were, but this lack of stability both in terms of the membership and the community's location, gives me pause.

One of the old newsletters did show some potential candidates in a photo but then nothing was ever heard from them again, so perhaps they left. The impression I get from reading the website and newsletters is that it is basically a one woman show.

 

[MagnoliaMs]

I've seen them at Mass. There are three novices and two postulants and I have also seen Mother Miriam who seems very sincere. 

[Totally Franciscan]

A friend of mine applied to join this community a long time ago.  She got a phone call from one of the nuns saying that Mother Miriam would be calling her in the next day or two.  Well, Mother never called her, and that was about a year ago.  I heard that there were five sisters in the community, so that jives with what MagnoliaMs posted above.