Pope Pius XI warned religious orders to maintain rigorous discipline

Religious Orders and Consecrated Life:

Pope Pius XI warned religious orders to maintain rigorous discipline...

"Rigid discipline is necessary in the rule of all dedicated. Discipline and obedience to the will of God, and not the will of man, must be restored upon earth. Your offenses against your God and your destruction of souls leading more onto the path into darkness have not passed unnoticed by the Father. You have received your warning. Men of God in the House of God, turn back from your ways of satan! Recognize the hand of satan upon you! Starve your souls of the demons that you have allowed to enter upon you! Return to discipline and the rule! You will not take our words and rewrite them to satisfy the desires of mere man! Have you placed yourself beyond the angels? They, too, were cast from the Kingdom for their arrogance. Intellectual pride has led you down the wrong road. Many mitres will fall into hell." - St. Thomas Aquinas, February 1, 1973

In 1938, Pope Pius XI addressed the Capuchin General Chapter and passed on these words of wisdom for the preservation of religious orders:

"I am one of the oldest Tertiaries living and so I may speak a word of affectionate advice. Keep your standards of discipline high and be rigorous in testing those whom you admit to your Order. You are numerous, but beware of the danger of a mere crowd. The ideas of wild indiscipline and independence are rife in the world today, and if you are reproached with rigor in the selection of your subjects, you can answer, 'the Pope said it.' And I give the same advice to all superiors and bishops today. I say it not because you have any particular need of the warning, but because it is a need of the days in which we live.

"Be severe! This is a hard saying, no doubt, but full of love, for only severity can satisfy true love, worthy of the friends of our Lord. This recommendation, for which we take all responsibility, must be received as fatherly advice inspired by nothing but the desire for the good of all religious orders. A certain rigor is especially suitable when there is question of the discipline of an order or religious families or different houses, because discipline keeps life on the alert; without it, life is not, perhaps, completely absent, but it is then feeble, intermittent, and idle.

"We recommend this discipline, not only to religious families, but also to bishops, to priests, to the clergy in general, for the air is today thick with pernicious principles of indiscipline and independence, and it is necessary to prevent them from being propagated even in the ranks of the clergy, for, to repeat, without a rigorous discipline, there is scarcely anything left for the glory of God, the honor of Jesus Christ, and the salvation of souls."

The Pope then applied this principle to accepting candidates for the priesthood and the religious life: "We do not mean by these words to refer merely to the severity of discipline in general, but above all, and in a special manner, to the severity with which trial should be made of postulants. If some should say that there is already too much severity in this respect, we authorize you to reply that it is the Pope who wishes it, because, in his position and with his responsibilities, he can clearly see the necessity for it, and all the more because Providence has granted him a fairly long pontificate, thus permitting him to acquire great experience in this matter. If one wants to preserve religious life in its splendor, one must be severe, especially about vocations, because divine grace aids but does not destroy human nature, and so the necessity for the struggle remains."

"The present leaders of My Church in the city of Rome, in your arrogance you have set up My Church without honor, without holiness! In the name of peace and brotherhood, you have whittled away the foundation. I am the foundation! You must now rebuild My Church, for a church in darkness wears a band of death about it. I say unto you; it is better that there are few with quality than quantity with nothingness.
"The Red Hats have fallen and the Purple Hats are being misled. I say unto you, that satan has entered into the Holy City of Rome.
"You have been warned in the past by the descendants of Peter to guard My Church from humanism, modernism and satanism. When the world and My Church become as one, know that the end is at hand. Many of the descendants of Peter, men of knowledge and piety, gave you the reasons for shunning modernism and liberal attitudes. Many of those wearing the Red Hats have sold their souls to satan to get to the head." - Jesus, December 31, 1977

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THE DEDICATED ARE LEAVING
"My child, We watch and see the houses of My Son crumbling, being destroyed throughout your world. Doors are closing, convents are emptying, and the dedicated are leaving and falling into all manner of sin and abominations. Who shall be in the remnant? Only a few will be saved." - Our Lady, May 26, 1976

INFILTRATED
"Yes, My child, I spoke to you of the evil ones who have infiltrated into the clergy. They are not entering with dedication and spirits of light, but they are bringing in the spirit of darkness. By their fruits will you know them, My child. I have asked you to be not fooled by those who wear the garments of the dedicated but have fouled their garments. You must pray more for the light and recognize the faces of evil about you, My child." - Jesus, June 5, 1975

OBEDIENCE
"In the cause of obedience, pastors and Our dedicated nuns, remember this: you cannot be obedient to one who has defamed his habit, to one who has cast aside his Faith, to one who goes forward as a destroyer of souls. The rabat is the teacher of life, but do not be fooled by those who foul these habits." - Our Lady, August 5, 1976

COME FORWARD
"Will you not, My children, you who are children of the light, come forward and become nuns, nuns with good hearts, with a good foundation of the Faith and the truth, and nourish Our sheep?" - Our Lady, June 18, 1982

JESUS MADE THE RULE
"Jesus the Lord, your Lord, my sisters and brothers, has made the rule. You cannot change it to suit yourselves. You have been blinded by satan. The liberation in your hearts has been placed there by satan. You gain nothing but your own destruction. Nuns, those who have accepted the rule and taken the habit, must remain in the habit." - St. Theresa, October 2, 1975

GARMENT OF PURITY
"Holiness and piety! Man—men of God, you must wear your garment of purity, dedication, and piety. What manner of foul deeds do you perform for the destruction of your sheep! For what? Material gain and pride and arrogance? You shall be cast into the abyss! Rank shall give you no advantage when you come over the veil." - St. Michael, December 24, 1975

WOE
"And woe to the clergy who has given himself over to worldliness and sin! Woe to the clergy who rejects his vocation and chooses a life upon earth after he has taken his vows! I say unto him: the judgment will fall great upon him." - Jesus, August 4, 1979

MOCKED
"Know now, my brothers and sisters of religious orders, you will be mocked, you will be scorned, but you will please the Eternal Father and receive your reward in the Kingdom." - St. Francis, May 28, 1975

THE "BUCK-PASSER"
"I see, My children, a great evil transpiring upon earth. Those who have the power to stop the evil have chosen to go downstream like ducks upon water, letting everything slide off their backs, neither caring nor visualizing the future. And why? Because they have given themselves to the world.
     "Just as My Son stood before Pilate and he washed his hands and said: 'This man is innocent; I see no wrong in him,' however, in his heart he knew of innocence but he feared reprisal from the crowd, My children; he valued his life, he loved his sin, and he was too much involved with the pleasures of this life and the world.
     "You see, My children, it is taking place all over again for those in command in rule. They go along 'passing,' as you say, 'the buck,' each one not willing to admit his error or his participation in evil, but only too willingly allowing others to take the blame or the responsibility. And I assure you, My children, if evil is being allowed, the 'buck passer' is just as guilty as the original one who had started the evil.
     "If you know in your hearts, O pastors, that souls are in danger of being corrupted, misled, and even destroyed, and you do nothing about it, because you do not wish to offend your superiors, because you value your life in this world too much and your good living; I assure you, O pastors, you shall stand before My Son and He shall not know you. You will be disowned, banished from eternal life in Heaven, and you shall join your father who is the father of all liars, satan, and the prince of darkness." - Our Lady, March 18, 1977

DO NOT LEAVE
"Do not leave when you are discouraged by those who satan has sent into your convents. Stand forth as an example of purity and godliness. You will not be cast aside by your God, as you will by man, as you stand to defend your God. Pick up your cross and carry it." - St. Theresa, November 20, 1972

TELEVISION / RADIOS
"Modernism must not be a way of life for Our dedicated. Our nuns have to have discipline, My children. Do not bring the world into the convents. I ask that the convents remain free of all television and radios, and return to their prayer life." - Our Lady, June 18, 1990

FOR GOOD
"Pastors, you shall be called and shall you stand before, in judgment, the Eternal Father and say that your teaching has been pure in His sight? Better that you fear your God than man! Obedience? Obedience is commanded by the Eternal Father for good, not for evil!" - Our Lady, May 26, 1976

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