Community Of St. John

[littleflower3]

Does anyone know the present situation of the Sisters of St. John?

[ToJesusMyHeart]

These guys? [url="http://www.communityofstjohn.com/"]http://www.communityofstjohn.com/[/url]

[littleflower3]

yes.

[Mary's Margaret]

Some stats from their website:

[font=georgia,palatino][color=#000000][size=2][b]On January 1, 2009, the Brothers were 546 in number; 385 (71%) were perpetually professed Brothers (of which 233 were priests) and about 40% were in formation. The Contemplative Sisters were 362, the Apostolic Sisters 147 and there were more than 2,500 secular Oblates.[/b][/size][/color][/font]

[center][img]http://www.communityofstjohn.com/images/stories/quebec%20famille.jpg[/img]
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[font=georgia,palatino][size=2][b][color=#666666]What is the average age of the Brothers?[/color][/b]
The average age is around 40.[/size][/font]


[font=georgia,palatino][size=2][color=#666666][b]Where do vocations come from?[/b][/color]
Below are the geographical origins of the Brothers who come from more than 30 different countries:[/size][/font][list]
[*][font=georgia,palatino][size=2]France: 58%[/size][/font]
[*][font=georgia,palatino][size=2]Other European countries: 14%[/size][/font]
[*][font=georgia,palatino][size=2]Africa: 10%[/size][/font]
[*][font=georgia,palatino][size=2]America: 15%[/size][/font]
[*][font=georgia,palatino][size=2]Asia: 3%[/size][/font]
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[font=georgia,palatino][size=2]In the States, they can be found in Loredo Texas (brothers and contemplative sisters), Princeville Il (brothers and contemplative sisters and the US novitiate) and The Oranges NJ (brothers and apostolic sisters).[/size][/font]

[emmaberry]

I was thinking about them after reading through their other VS threads, so the OP's question is mine as well.

[To Jesus Through Mary]

Last I heard (which was like 9 months ago) the Apostolic were still in good standing, but the contemplative branch was still struggling to nail out the details with the Holy See. From what I understand this is not schism issue... but more a canonical, new founding and let's-get-this-formation-right type of thing.

[dymphnamaria]

What happened to the sisters?

[mantellata]

If it is a formation situation (JPII asked for a new document, called a Ratio - which spells out formation) then it's not that the contemplative branch is lacking "good standing". It's likely an issue of being recognized canonically as a community as a Diocesan or Pontifical institute -- or even that they are already so recognized but are still hammering out the details of their Ratio (as in the case of the communities who were already so recognized and now had to come up with another document.)

[dymphnamaria]

[img]http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/394715_405693136133607_2063502288_n.jpg[/img]

A sister of St. John during the [color=#333333][font='lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif][size=3]IEC 2012 at Croke Park and RDS, Dubline[/size][/font][/color]

[color=#333333][font='lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif][size=3]photo credits to my Carmelite friend[/size][/font][/color]

[littleflower3]

Thank you for the picture!