Male Communities

[chrysostom]

Bump because we need some phorum content for discerning male lurkers.

And if you're lurking but not discerning...  maybe you should think about it.

[NadaTeTurbe]

The Assumptionist are amesome. They are augustinian. Their founder is super cool : http://www.assumption.us/about-us/assumptionists/dalzon . 

The spirit of Assumption may be summarized in these few words: love of our Lord, of the Blessed Virgin, his Mother, and of the Church, his Spouse. (Father d'Alzon, Directory, I, 1)

 

[chrysostom]

LAMP Catholic Ministries is a New York City-based lay missionary association.  It has "missionaries" a little like FOCUS does (Fellowship of Catholic University Students).  People from all states of life are in it.  It's focused on work among the materially poor.  It's pretty wonderful.

http://lampministries.org/index.htm

[Starets]

Christ in the Desert, Benedictine

Pecos (Our Lady of Guadalupe), Olivetan Benedictine. We have a new Postulant as of a few days ago and two of the juniors can make Solemn Profession anytime after April 2 of next year.

[NadaTeTurbe]

Resurrecting this thread because I spoke with two discerners who recommended these communities : 

http://www.mepasie.org/ Paris Foreign Missions Society. They are missionary priest who evangelize Asia. Amazing. If you meet a MEP priest, they always have some amazing stories to told. I wanted to be a volunteer, but can't because of my health - it's tough. They have a very high number of Saints because of all their priests who were persecuted. Theophile Vénard, that Ste Thérèse de Lisieux loved, is one of them. They're also very intelligent - the priest I met spoke 5 languages : french, english, normal language in his country, and two dialect. 

http://www.vincentian.org/ The vincentians brothers and priests were founded by St Vincent de Paul. Do you need more ? They work with the poors. 

http://www.jesuscaritas.info/jcd/lbj Litle brothers of Jesus, who live with the poors according to the spiritualizy of Nazareth and of Charles de Foucauld 

http://www.communautedelagneau.org/en/ Little brothers of the Lamb. I spoke with them. They're lovely. They are mendicants dominicans, with St Francis of Assisi and St Dominic as saints patrons. They are in the US : http://www.communautedelagneau.org/en/little-brothers-kansas-city/

http://www.alexianbrothers.org/vocation/why-we-are-different Don't know them or anything, but they look great.