Your Favorite Religious Life Video

[EJames2]

well...since yu asked..VOCATIONS PLAYLIST
[url="http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB0F8D53995E673E8"]http://www.youtube.c...0F8D53995E673E8[/url]
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"St. Benedict's Rule"-life prayer,forgiveness
[url="http://www.gloria.tv/media/126708/"]http://www.gloria.tv/media/126708/[/url]
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Grande Chartreuse Monastery (Carthusian Monks)
[url="http://en.gloria.tv/?media=111731"]http://en.gloria.tv/?media=111731[/url]
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and![b]I[/b]nto Great Silence!!
[url="http://gloria.tv/?media=159742"]http://gloria.tv/?media=159742[/url] pt1
[url="http://en.gloria.tv/?media=177963"]http://en.gloria.tv/?media=177963[/url] pt2
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Beyond the Silence
[url="http://en.gloria.tv/?media=133317"]http://en.gloria.tv/?media=133317[/url]
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Ostrov..(Orthodox with truth about the deeper vocation of all..)
[url="http://en.gloria.tv/?media=256486"]http://en.gloria.tv/?media=256486[/url]
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[url="http://en.gloria.tv/?media=214359"]http://en.gloria.tv/?media=214359[/url] The Nuns Story...good for reflection....

FFI's

[url="http://en.gloria.tv/?media=10418"]http://en.gloria.tv/?media=10418[/url]
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[url="http://en.gloria.tv/?media=261429"]http://en.gloria.tv/?media=261429[/url]

think ill stop now.. PAX

Edited March 21, 2012 by EJames2

[EmilyAnn]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bFVOxaQKH0&feature=g-hist&context=G259cab9AHT2kcTgAPAA

The third sister in the video, she comes in at about 1.20, speaks so beautifully on the vow of chastity. She comes back towards the end of the video, at about 3.05, and makes some very good points about the habit.

[Kayte Postle]

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[media]http://youtu.be/sLTTpyM029w[/media]

I know these guys. THey are just too much hahah
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Hahahah!! This is great! It's so wonderful to watch something that's funny but not crude. Catholics do it best. =)

[the171]

[quote name='Kayte Postle' timestamp='1332388973' post='2405166']
Hahahah!! This is great! It's so wonderful to watch something that's funny but not crude. Catholics do it best. =)
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Yup, so proud of my southern spiritual sons. hahah

[Kayte Postle]

[url="http://kplr11.com/2012/02/07/more-women-choosing-a-life-of-faith/"]http://kplr11.com/2012/02/07/more-women-choosing-a-life-of-faith/[/url]

I have been searching for this one for DAYS, (could of sworn it was somewhere on the phorum already) but I finally found it!!

[marigold]

[quote name='Kayte Postle' timestamp='1332392276' post='2405196']
[url="http://kplr11.com/2012/02/07/more-women-choosing-a-life-of-faith/"]http://kplr11.com/20...-life-of-faith/[/url]

I have been searching for this one for DAYS, (could of sworn it was somewhere on the phorum already) but I finally found it!!
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So smiley! I like when people are so happy they can't wipe the grin off their face.

[EJames2]

-Famille Monastique de Bethléem( et de l'Assomption et de Saint-Bruno)-
http://www.tagtele.com/videos/voir/28786/2/

[mysisterisalittlesister]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=uFFiNRvXBQw


love the elderly nun at 7:55!!


sry, that's just the Little Sister of the Poor in me

[Katiebobatie94]

[quote name='Kayte Postle' timestamp='1332388973' post='2405166']
Hahahah!! This is great! It's so wonderful to watch something that's funny but not crude. Catholics do it best. =)
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i just died laughing, that was avvesome

[Clareni]

A very good priest vocation video. If its been posted befiore it's worth seeing again!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ey9OZNk0Y5U

[EJames2]

This Side of Eden-Westminster Benedictine Abbey,Canada
http://en.gloria.tv/?media=278745
[u][b]2010 Documentary[/b][/u]

[EJames2]

'The Nuns Story'-film
http://en.gloria.tv/?media=214359

[mantellata]

Unfortunately - there is much here about religious life that isn't accurate. Either that or it depicts a Jansenistic-type infected convent. I mean [i]really[/i].... any Sister seeing another Sister keel over is going to help her..... custody of the eyes does not mean lack of charity.

[marigold]

[quote name='mantellata' timestamp='1335021547' post='2421647']
Unfortunately - there is much here about religious life that isn't accurate. Either that or it depicts a Jansenistic-type infected convent. I mean [i]really[/i].... any Sister seeing another Sister keel over is going to help her..... custody of the eyes does not mean lack of charity.
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There are so many things in this story that make my skin crawl, like the no-touching rule and the obsession with 'the perfect nun'. Nothing to do with Christianity. But it's very interesting. And Audrey Hepburn is just a pleasure to watch.

[Antigonos]

[quote name='mantellata' timestamp='1335021547' post='2421647']
Unfortunately - there is much here about religious life that isn't accurate. Either that or it depicts a Jansenistic-type infected convent. I mean [i]really[/i].... any Sister seeing another Sister keel over is going to help her..... custody of the eyes does not mean lack of charity.
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The period depicted in the film -- the mid-1920s to early 1940s -- was another world altogether. If you look at pictures of nuns -- the formal portraits made [I suppose] at profession of vows, you will quickly see that they are not smiling; it was thought unseemly for those who were concentrating on religious purity, back then. Now, pictures of nuns show them beaming radiantly. In the book [the film is faithful to the book, but does leave a lot out] a great deal is made of developing one's spirituality in total detachment from other people and things. The community, in fact, lived very formally outside of recreation [and that too had rules] when the nuns came in contact with each other. The concept was that each nun individually was receptive to communion with God. In the book, the nun who faints is indeed assisted, since it was the duty of the infirmarian to be alert to this; the individual sisters were supposed to be so concentrated in prayer as not to notice.

V2 was in fact an immense revolution in the entire monastic/conventual world. I don't think Sister Luke's community was in the least "Jansenist", but it was a mixed active/contemplative order which put a great emphasis on personal perfection and not unusual for the time. Also, even today, from what I understand, European convents tend to be more old-fashioned and stricter than American ones. Even now, many contemplative orders keep the extern/choir nun distinction, so as to free the majority of the nuns from any outside distractions. AFAIK, many contemplative orders still use a considerable amount of sign language to avoid unnecessary conversation, and we've just had a thread about Chapter of Faults.

The proof of the pudding, I suppose, is in the eating. The pre-V2 model obviously was flawed, or there wouldn't have been the exodus from religious life that there was post-V2. And it seems that, given today's statistics, that there is renewal in certain areas in increasing vocations, but it has taken the better part of 50 years to come to the best model.

I found "The Nun's Story" deeply inspirational. At the time it was made into a film, the Vatican was openly critical [since it portrayed a failed vocation]. When the producer wanted to arrange for some convent time for his actresses, to get the "flavor" of the roles they would be portraying, all but one convent in Belgium literally slammed their doors in his face, calling the project a "desecration" [and this was in the second half of the Fifties]