SACRAMENTO, CA (CNS) – Rosalind Moss,
an author who is an Eternal Word Television Network TV host and one of
the network’s radio hosts, announced Feb. 13 that she is starting a new
community of sisters in the Archdiocese of St. Louis with the
permission of Archbishop Raymond L. Burke.
The new group will be called the Daughters of Mary, Mother of Israel’s
Hope, she told an audience of more than 200 at the Catholic Breakfast
Club of Sacramento.
Moss, 65, said she hopes to move to St. Louis within a few months,
intends to fulfill as many of her scheduled speaking engagements in the
coming year as possible, and plans to continue her radio program from
St. Louis.
She is working now on designing a floor-length habit, along with a
basket to hold religious articles which sisters will distribute both in
the poorest areas of the city and the richest.
“The purpose of this religious community is to flood the world with
holy habits as signs to God,” said Moss, who is also a staff apologist
with Catholic Answers, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting
the Catholic faith through all forms of media.
…”I want to tell the world that God hasn’t left. He is still here. We
are loved by the God who made us for himself. I want to show there is
no such thing as secular and religious. There is no division. All is
from God,” she said.
Moss said her group will be an evangelistic, teaching community
following in the spiritual tradition of St. Francis de Sales, whose
writings and sermons inspired many to convert to Catholicism. She
already has a few women who plan to join her, she added.
“I’ll come back to Sacramento one day in a habit,” said Moss. “Hold
nothing back from God.”
This is great news. I often
listen to Rosalind Moss on Catholics Answers and she has such a deep
spirituality and a great empathy for others in being able to give them
spiritual direction.
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This sounds wonderful, but forgive my less-than-superb understanding of the situation. So is Rosalind Moss herself going to be one of the sisters, or the Mother Superior, I suppose?
Your punishment for having the idea to found a new religious order is to be put in charge. Later, you either maintain your position despite hatred and opposition, or have the order taken out from under you and are thrown out or sent to dwell in obscurity with the worst jobs available. Either way, you’ll suffer health problems galore.
I’m not kidding about this much. Histories of religious orders usually point out that being the founder kinda stinks.
good news indeed!
May God bless her and the new foundation and shower vocations upon them!
Maureen, I don’t think that happened to Bl. Teresa of Calcutta. I also am thinking about the founders of the Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist, and they seem to be loved and respected. Ven. Maria Teresa founded the Carmelites of the Divine Heart of Jesus, and she didn’t end up that way, either. Then there’s St. Francis, St. Dominic, St. Alphonsus…. to which founders are you referring when you say they end up thrown out of their own order?
I’m not trying to argue; I’m just genuinely curious! My immediate thought is that it is surely a cross, but a joyful and blessed one, to found an order when God has called one to do so.
St Alphonsus Ligori was very badly treated by his order in his old age and I think I read somewhere that St John of the Cross didn’t have too good a time of it towards the end.
St. Teresa suffered a lot of opposition from her fellow nuns.
Yes, Mother Teresa and some other founders did manage people better and thus did not get thrown out; but we all now know that Mother Teresa suffered big time opposition from outsiders and a lot of interior suffering, aside from her own health problems. (Also, I think a lot of Mother Teresa’s “problem people” got sent off to Do Important Stuff or found new sister and brother orders, which got them out of her hair. Keep people busy and out of trouble, that’s the trick.)
St. Francis’ order split and one of his top brothers went off and betrayed him, though I can’t remember if the outright split happened before or after St. Francis died. St. John of the Cross was of course imprisoned by some of his own brothers for trying to reform the male Carmelites — and even though he managed to escape to St. Teresa of Avila’s nuns, that’s still pretty harsh convent politics.
St. Dominic and St. Francis de Sales don’t count, ’cause they were super-persuasive guys. Also, the good Lord probably figured they had enough trouble with the Albigensians and Calvinists, respectively. But then, I’m not intimately familiar with either one’s bio; and I might be missing some horrendous opposition from supposed friends who were charter members.
But I stand by my statement, and add that most saints get attacked most by those living with them. Human nature. You gotta love it.
I am so pleased to hear of this great news. When I was listening to Immacualte Heart Radio (out of Stockton, Ca) and they said Rosalind had big news to share, I actually guessed that she was going to announce she would be entering a convent. Little did I know she is starting a new one. I too, love the traditional style habits. I would be very interested in learning more of the qualifications to enter, but, I was divorced 30 years ago by my husband. We have never tried to get an annulment. I have not married again because I know I am not free to do so. I will pray for The Daughters of Mary, Mother of Israel’s Hope.
This is interesting. Do you know why she has chosen St. Louis to start her community?
Also, will there be a formation program and who will run it? Proper formation is very important. I would want to know about that before I pursue applying. Also,where and to whom would one apply? What will the formation program include. I wish Rosalind every blessings…her task is monumental.
God bless you. Josephine
I know that many orders that are starting up from the ground, so to speak, life with an another order, who help them in their formation.
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