A combination of jarring liturgical innovations nand the liberalization of the catechetical education of the youth disturbed many conservative-minded Catholics and led them to seek out parishes where the traditional Roman Mass was still being offered by a small number of priests in the Detroit archdiocese. Anne’s in fact, that the SSPX established in the United States through successive years its first North American mission, school, seminary and sisters’ novitiate, all in the Detroit area.Īs elsewhere throughout the country, the many facets of the Church’s modernist crisis began to be keenly felt by Detroit area Catholics just after the closing of the Second Vatican Council in 1965. Anne's goes all the way to the earliest days of the Society of Saint Pius X in the United States - it was through the present-day St. ~ by the Sisters of Assumption Chapel, St.The history of St. May God grant us many holy religious vocations! After forty-five years, this little family has grown, but alas, the number is still too few for the immense field of harvest.

The Congregation of the Sisters of the Society currently has 212 Sisters residing in ten countries. His Excellency then invited the young ladies present at the ceremony to consider whether God may be calling them to this religious family in the service of our priests and to help save souls.

His Excellency thanked Divine Providence for protecting this little religious family amidst the current crisis comparing it to the hidden work of the heart, an unseen source of strength, which must beat regularly, and faithfully in the Mystical Body of Christ, the Catholic Church. Mary’s, Oregon, Idaho, and Kentucky.ĭuring his sermon, Bishop Fellay filled his listeners with gratitude for the work of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre in founding the Society Sisters, to whom he had transmitted the religious life and the treasure of the Faith, with a spirit entirely devoted to Our Lord Jesus Christ and His Sacrifice, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, and His Mother, Our Lady of Compassion.

Rutledge, as well as 75 young ladies from St. On this great day of joy and family reunion which brought together all the Society Sisters from their four American convents, the Sisters were honored by the presence of Fr. During the beautiful Pontifical High Mass, five young ladies received the religious habit, one Sister made her first vows, and another had the immense joy to make her perpetual profession, followed by the renewal of vows of numerous Sisters. On Low Sunday, ApHis Excellency Bishop Fellay officiated the ceremony of taking of habit and religious profession of the Sisters of the Society St. Sister Marie Thecla (Jackie Goldade), SMA alumna The newly Professed Sister given a crucifix New Novices receive their name in religion The new novices during their act of oblation The novices return to the sanctuary with their candles lit - sign of charity

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