It made a good impression on me at the time. Between my personal health issues and Covid shutting down normal life, I have not gone there for years. There was a group that met at the SSPX chapel in Toronto that I attended a couple of times. They have/had a traditional Third Order Franciscan group associated with them. There are some traditional Capuchins based on Morgon, France. From what I can tell, there is some variation among fraternities, so it is theoretically possible that somewhere one exists where a trad would fit in. I happened to belong to an especially liberal group since our spiritual director was very liberal. I would be a hermit! Or if it nothing else will work, make my promises to God and just live the life as I can.Īre there any tertiaries or oblates here, or anyone who else dealt with this issue as well?īack in my Novus Ordo days, I was a Third Order Franciscan and I became completely incompatible with my fraternity as I became more and more traditional in my Catholicism. But then I don't believe that would be recognized by any Order, and being part of a spiritual family is of course a major part of belonging to an Order to begin with. The thought has occurred to contact a traditional order and see if they would do some sort of long-distance (north central WI is basically a desert!) formation, and see if my priest would be willing to take my private promises/vows. My fear is, even if I pursue it in a regular, secular, NO, third order, my "preferences" would lead to not being accepted in. The ICKSP, which I attend, has the Society of the Sacred Heart, but I'm not sure that's considered a Third Order. The only ones I'm aware of are the SSPX third order, and possibly some Benedictine oblates.
Plenty of traditional first and second orders for those wishing to be friars, monks, sisters, and nuns, but the laity in the world are literally left in the cold. However I still desire to do more, and the thought of joining a third order has always nagged me in the back of my mind, Discalced Carmelite to be specific.īut of course this is no recourse for a Catholic who follows the 1962 missal. Then gradually I realized that my health (type 1 diabetic) would not permit this vocation, so hear I am, married 7 years (not complaining about that! No doubt in my mind she is the woman God wanted me to find).
Regardless it was set, I was going to be a priest. In my adolescence and college years, I really wanted to be a priest and possibly join an order.
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