Monday, February 9, 2015

Commissar Closes the Cloister of the Franciscans of the Immaculate in Teramo

Teramo
(Teramo) The Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate are leaving Teramo, the capital city of the Italian region of Abruzzo. As the religious house of Teramo announced in a statement, the closing on February 11th of the Monastery of Teramo is "based on a decision of the Apostolic Commissioner," Father Fidenzio Volpi.
As a reason, a "decline of Brothers" and the "departure of some religious" were mentioned. In both cases, these were direct consequences of the provisional administration of the Order which had been blooming till July 2013.  The "decline" is due to resignations, which were triggered by the radical intervention of members appointed by the Commissar appointed by the Roman Congregation of Religious because the original charism of the Order was destroyed. The "departure" means forced displacements and exile of the friars by the Commissar.
On October 6, 2007 Bishop Michele Seccia of Teramo had entrusted the parish and convent of San Domenico to the young Franciscans.  In 2008 the  Marian lay community of Missione Immacolata Media Trice and the Third Order were established. Since the same year, the Fathers have celebrated the Traditional Rite since the implementation of the Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum, not only the convent's, but public worship, such as the  Office and Vespers. In a pastoral concern for the parish,  the Mass was celebrated in both the traditional and the new Rites.

In 2005, the Dominicans had Abandoned the Monastery for Lack of Vocations 

In 1287  the Dominicans in Teramo established  the church and convent of San Domenico. After a long flowering, the Dominican convent was dissolved in 1809 by the Napoleonic storm, the church  was converted into a stall and the monastery into barracks. After the Congress of Vienna, the Confraternity of the Rosary, founded in 1556 by the Dominicans in Teramo for the care of the restoration of the Church. Because of the anticlerical attitude of 1860 by the newly created Italian state, it would take 130 years for the Dominicans were to return to Teramo. Only the Lateran Treaty made it possible that in 1939, the church was adopted by the Dominicans and the monastery was repopulated.
The Dominican church "experienced then in 1969-1971 as part of the post-conciliar liturgical reform, interventions in the design of the presbytery," as it states on the remaining website of the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate Teramo. In 2005, the Dominicans had to abandon the monastery Teramo "for lack of vocations."
Soon the monastery was empty, then the Bishop of Teramo summoned  the Franciscans of the Immaculate summoned a young  Order, which had no staffing problems and had thus guaranteed the safe continuation of the monastery and pastoral care. Less than seven years later, the tide has turned dramatically through papal intervention. In two days, the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate will leave Teramo, but for very different reasons than the Dominicans.
Text: Giuseppe Nardi
image: Wikicommons
Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com
AMDG

16 comments:

  1. This is not the doing of Volpi, but of Francis.
    Lay the blame at the feet of who deserves it.

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  2. Rome has become the enemy of the Church.

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    1. Rome? Do you mean Francis?
      MairinT.

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  3. Check this out.

    http://www.lifeinitaly.com/news/teramo-bishop-inaugurates-islamic-cultural-centre

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  4. The Catholic Bishop opens the mosque!!!! There will be hell to pay eventually. And I suppose no negatives from 'the Vatican' on that one. But the FFI--can't have that prayer powerhouse going if you want to try to destroy the Church. No, let the disobedient dissenting friars have the upper hand and persecute the holy ones. Which may be counter productive in the long run because the suffering ones offer up their pain.

    But this so called year for consecrated life is a joke because the high churchmen have destroyed almost all consecrated life and continue to do so.

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  5. "decline of Brothers" ??? For God's sake Francis and Volpi destroyed the FFI. Now they cite "decline of Brothers". Thanks to Francis and Volpi the Traditional movement will now only flourish.

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  6. The persecution and suppression of the Franciscans of the Immaculate is an abomination. The stones cry out.

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  7. Unfortunately, things will only get worse before they get better. The Holy Father sends out a 'questionnaire' to the laity (yes, yet ANOTHER ONE) on their thoughts on marriage and family in the modern world? First of all, since when has the Church of Christ become a 'Democracy'? (this of course for the 2nd part of the SIN-OD on marriage and family this coming October) Hmm....funny I didn't receive one, they probably already have my number and won't bother......H and I have already signed the circulating petition to Francis asking him to 'get straight with Church Doctrine'.

    I am worried about Cardinal Burke. His last 'interview' he stated that if the Holy Father were to go in the direction of Communion for the remarried outside of the Church, and for SS unions, he 'would have to resist'. I am afraid Cardinal Burke along with a few others will be 'silenced' and treated just like the FFI. They've played hard ball with the FFI, you think they won't play hard ball with Cardinals that oppose their plans? Ha....I think they won't hesitate.

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    1. Didn't he later "clarify" (i.e. backpeddle) claiming that his comments about resisting Francis were "taken out of context"?

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  8. Francis can't stand up to most of the College of Cardinals and most of the Bishops. If you take the Bishops of the USA, Italy, Poland, possibly all of Africa, and many other places who are against Francis, not to mention due to his nutjob temper tantrum speech to the Curia at Christmas, 90% of them, you have enormous opposition . If he still would be determined to push his agenda thru, he is driven more by evil than by Jesus Christ and the Holy Church.

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    1. If 90% are against him, why don't they impeach him?

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    2. And if someone says "There's no such thing as impeachment in the Catholic church"...come on, they've been making the rules up as they go along for the past 50 years, so yeah, they can impeach him if they want to.

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  9. Now, what do Francis and Napoleon Buonaparte have in common?

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  10. The mystery of iniquity.

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  11. The papacy has been the mystery of iniquity from its beginnings which were post-Constantine.....just up till now there was a bit more mystery than iniquity. Seems they've decided to just throw the mystery part away now.

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