What's Your Spirituality?

[SaintIrene]

My vote: Other (Institute of Christ the King, I think)

St. Francis de Sales is my all-time favorite author, and he has helped me so much. I love the charism of the Visitation sisters (that he co-founded) to pray for the salvation of souls. So Salesian.

Also Benedictine. I've always been drawn to the idea of Ora et Labora, and I love beautiful liturgy. The Benedictine life seems so peaceful to me.

I also love the traditional mass and I am seriously discerning with the Adorers of the Royal Heart of Jesus, sisters of the Institute of Christ the King. Their spirituality is exactly the above two.

Their third patron, St. Thomas Aquinas, has really grown on me since I started looking into this community. Not that I didn't like him before, but I hadn't read much of him. And the love of Truth is really important to me too!

[Nunsense]

I thought I was a Carmelite because I adore the Carmelite saints, especially St John of the Cross but I have also loved St Francis and St Clare, and more recently St Thomas Aquinas, so the Franciscans and the Dominicans are favorites as well. And of course, I identify with St Augustine, being a convert myself, and then St Scholastica is wonderful for praying to God and making her brother spend the night talking to her --- and since the charism of St Francis de Sales is behind the Daughters of Mary, Mother of Israel's Hope -- how can I choose now?

I just love Our Lord, and all the saints are an inspiration to me! I am finding it very hard to actually pin down one type of spirituality any more.

[phivan]

My first love had been Carmelite. Then, I have learned to love Alberione's Pauline Spirituality. It's a little bit more than 100 year old but it's as deep as the ocean. I'm still on the surface even though I've been exposed to it in a good number of years. Oh well, I'm slow.

This year is the Pauline year (June of 2008 to June of 2009). Of course, I have been extremly busy with Pauline readings. I have found that St Paul and I are alike in many ways. One big way is that we both were converted. I'm falling in love with God in a new different way through St Paul the Apostle's writings. My journey of faith has been a journey of joys, tears, strugglings, and misunderstoods by many (especially those in authority) but I'm at peace now. God is good!

Like my father St Paul, I'm now able "forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus." Phil. 3:13

Please pardon me for long post about my Pauline spirituality.
Many blessings

Edited May 27, 2008 by phivan

[Selah]

Franciscan, definatly <3

[Brother Ed]

[quote name='Selah' post='1545271' date='May 27 2008, 05:31 PM']Franciscan, definatly <3[/quote]


Totally Franciscan

[Saint Therese]

I'm very influenced by the spirituality of St. Therese and other Carmelites, and I really love Carmelite spirituality. I also think Franciscan simplicity and poverty is beautiful, and I love the Dominican emphasis on preaching the Truth, and their emphasis on the EUcharist. What does that make me?

[InHisLove726]

I know this is an older thread of last year, but I couldn't resist voting in the poll. I'm a Carmelite to the core, but I also love the Franciscan and Dominican spiritualities. When I was going through a rough patch of discernment not so long ago, I started looking at both the Franciscan and Dominican orders, but I rediscovered my home through St. Therese.

I'm a Carmelite, 110%!

[Lil Red]

+J.M.J.+
Dominicans rock

[VeniteAdoremus]

[quote name='Lil Red' post='1948062' date='Aug 13 2009, 08:23 PM']+J.M.J.+
Dominicans rock [/quote]

I knew there was a reason why I liked you so much

[TeresaBenedicta]

You know what I love about Dominican spirituality? It draws from so many places and then makes it all its own.

I was just reading [i]The Grace of the Word[/i] on St. Dominic (which is a must read for ANY Dominican soul) and it was talking about all the different orders that influenced St. Dominic as he established the Order. One of my favorite finds was that he based the contemplative aspect of the Order off of the Cistercians. :-) Awesome!

Edit: And can I just add that Teresa of Avila loved Dominicans and Dominican spirituality?

Edited August 14, 2009 by TeresaBenedicta

[Lil Red]

[quote name='VeniteAdoremus' post='1948659' date='Aug 14 2009, 05:35 AM']I knew there was a reason why I liked you so much [/quote]
+J.M.J.+
right back atcha babe!

[Lounge Daddy]

Bump

[HisChild]

You know... I've just realized that this is my 20 year anniversary of knowing I was a Carmelite at heart. Why I didn't join a Carmel from the beginning I'll never know. I was invested in the scapular in 92 and have been third order since...

[Indwelling Trinity]

I am definitely Carmelite. In reading of the early history of the Carmelites, the early rule was originally called the "Mystical Rule."

That is very charictaristic of Carmel as the rule of Albert does not preach a specific spirituality. Each Carmelite finds his or her way according to the inner promptings of the Spirit. For me that is one reason why the religious name and title one picks is so very important as it indicates a specific way in which the individual goes to God. Think... Elizabeth of the Trinity... Her deepest devotion was the indwelling of the trinity and the name of Elizabeth meaning house of God. It was through these mysteries that she found her deepest spirituality and response to Her Three. This is how she immolated herself as a victim to God the Father.

[HisChild]

I love that. Everything Carmelite makes me weepy for some reason.

[Jennifer G.]

Carmelite and a bit of Franciscan mixed in. (My great-grandmother's village she came from is just east of Assisi, down a winding mountain path. ).

Edited August 29, 2009 by Jennifer G.

[FSM Sister]

One more for the Franciscans, here! [img]http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/public/style_emoticons/default/saint.gif[/img] [img]http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/public/style_emoticons/default/birds.gif[/img] But honestly, if I have to listen to "Make Me a Channel of Your Peace" one more time, I'm going to have to hit something... [img]http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/public/style_emoticons/default/flex.gif[/img]

[Indwelling Trinity]

Laughing... ducking here!

[melporcristo]

[quote name='be_thou_my_vision' date='13 October 2006 - 06:38 PM' timestamp='1160786332' post='1091104']
There are aspects of all spiritualities that I love and seem like me... so this has been an ongoing question for me!

Is that the case with anyone else?
[/quote]

Yep. The basis of my spiritual formation began with a Lay Catholic Movement, Regnum Christi. But I have recently gotten really into Carmelite spirituality.

I just recommend pursuing your prayer life and see where that takes you. Then you'll get the groove of what you spirituality really is. It's also wherever Our Lord may lead you

[Julie de Sales]

Salesian, but if I were to be more specific about it, consoling the Sacred Heart of Jesus, praying for sinners and for priests, Eucharistic Adoration, these are the aspects of my spirituality so far.