NET TV - "Radical Joy" - "The Community of Franciscan Sisters of the Renewal"

Fr. Andrew Apostoli founded the Franciscan Sisters of the Renewal community in 1988 in the Archdiocese of New York. In 1995 Sr. Lucille Cutrone, C.F.R., who was one of the original-founding members, is presently the Community Servant. (Superior)
The aim of the Community is to live the Gospel values in simplicity according to the ideals of Saint Francis as handed on by the Capuchin tradition.
The age limit for entrance is 35 years old; no college degree Is necessary.
The show is available on Time Warner Cable Channel 97, Verizon Fios Channel 48 and Cablevision Channel 30 in the New York Area. For more information, please go to www.netny.tv

[@polly2020]

I'm a lapsed Catholic in Ireland. When all the horrid details of abuse were made public I was angry, still am. But when I watch these videos and I've watched many I feel the love these women have for the Lord and their vocations. I wish I had that peace I once felt and wish these ladies a life of happiness in their vocation.

[@PickledKong64]

They are the real faithful. Ignore the church as you did not follow them. You follow Jesus just like these sisters

[@tessaadie659]

I moved to Ireland from UK in 2020 and was a Catholic at that time but a few months later I fet called to be back in The Salvation Army whose mission is to serve others just like these sisters. I live in rural Galway and my nearest corps, church, is in Dublin but this year I aim to be there once a month because that is where God is asking me to be.

[@nancycogar3864]

I always wondered if a woman that has been married had children can become a nun? I’m 63 and I would love to devote my to the order! I love my Lord with all of my heart and I’ll do what I can to please Him! 🙏🏼

[@yl5020]

​@@nancycogar3864 Yes! There are some that accept older women😊

[@valentinabartholl7984]

Yes of course! The carmelite nuns accept widows e.g. Saint Rita of Cascia or Saint Brigit of Sweden were married and had children for example and then entered religious life when their husbands passed away. God bless you!

[@mushaboom44]

Dear Lord, please protect these beautiful, holy women who are risking their lives helping the poor amidst the pandemic!

[@israeliana]

Amen

[@kathybuckley2338]

Truly touched by God ....all of them, such lovely kind caring women. God bless them all & protect them Amen 🙏🏻

[@lindawatkin9667]

Beautiful young women who have chosen a difficult but holy life. GOD bless them.

[@sstaylor4960]

Oh how I wish I could be there. My heart so desires it!

[@carmichael2359]

So do I but... Too old now. 😢. So may God grant these sisters long health and success in their vocations.

[@didi.a8567]

Me too :(

[@angelaartist7091]

Me to

[@vijimichael2424]

I am proud as a nun,...Live Jesus and give Jesus

[@paulyosef7550]

SO NICE TO SEE A WOMAN IN A HABIT TO REMIND ME THAT GOD IS WITH US.

[@Rose-qd2bl]

Yes! It means a lot to me to see the presence of Christ in the world.

[@ketchupking9972]

The purity within these women is truly beautiful - they are an inspiration to all women who suffer the most disgusting sin of whoredom. These are brides of God, as our women should be brides of men - they are blessed beyond all.

[@ekaterini2957]

Anybody considering the religious life needs to see this. I am a Mom and I even feel a tug looking at this. I am in the wold but I see this and know yet again we have to strive to not be of the world.

[@MrsScott-bx8sb]

It tugs at me, too. My home is my "convent."

[@Ujuani68]

Exactly. ❤✝️🙂

[@loeyjaymiculob7432]

Im actually a seminarian and its just such a nice thing to serve God in a different way. So nice to experience such a radiacal way of happiness..Pray for us😊

[@CVRCI]

Praying for all of you. God bless you!!!

[@jeremiahong248]

@ Loey Jay Miculob I pray for you and that one day, as an ordained priest can make a difference. 🙏

[@stephanieeppes8437]

Right in my neighborhood…. “God speak to you during the silence “❤️

[@cartoonromancer]

Thank you so much for sharing! I'm currently trying to discern my vocation, so this was very helpful and inspiring to watch!

[@TraditionalCatholicWisdom]

Same!

[@user-kr6lr5mf6g]

God bless you and help you! 💕

[@josephineraphael8977]

Dear Yasmin , if you are still thinking of religious life then if you want you can get in touch with me . I am nun and happily led by Jesus for the last 17 years . We work in schools , hospitals , missions and adapt according to the needs of the time . We are in England , Italy, Belgium, France and India .

[@archangelsaphalon8215]

God bless you sister and keep you holy, thank you for your witness

[@elizabethsackey4852]

This is practical Christianity. We pray that you win more people for Chris. May God continue to bless you.

[@diabolicaldebbie]

Sisters..thankyou for showing us that not all angels have wings. 👼✝

[@annmccolgan5929]

What a. Beautiful gift from God. Love Fr Benedict . And Fr. Andrew Apostila .. love this community. May;God continue to bless this order. Fr. Benedict Groeshel . Pray for this community to continue this love.

[@cecimeci4839]

All this beauty of these sisters, their love for people, helping them, that is through prayers, Holy Mass, and Holy Sacraments, all blessings from God, we all can have if we follow our Lord and keep his commandments.

[@BronxCat]

I am priveleged to be friends with these Saints in Harlem!!!

[@shanejasson5393]

I am a aspirant Deacon pray for me

[@jeremiahong248]

@@shanejasson5393 I pray for you and that one day as Deacon, make a difference.

[@n057828]

More required 🥰🥰

[@sandraatkins2539]

@@shanejasson5393 ❤❤❤

[@lonelywolf7706]

Dear sisters it was so inspired. I get go to a rough time. May God bless you and protect you all

[@pyxzkh]

Hello Sisters, I cant helping noticing your joyful expression when you talk about your life vocation... Its so amazing. Blessed.

[@kathyporcelli1531]

How blessed it is and a honor to be called to this beautiful life. I wish I could of been there for love and service.

[@kathybuckley2338]

Why though does God chose others and then not others? Or does he chose us all and we just don't hear !! Xx

[@williamMaezawa]

I will do everything I can financially to help these wonderful and loving sisters

[@warriorsforjesus2308]

We all need the 💖 of Jesus christ. 🙌

[@user-xi2bi2zh2n]

ا == on = wrong == أختي == you == need == to === god == jesus == غير موجود == jesus = no exist == him === existence == = = = == أنا جميع المسيحيين == خطأ == أدخل == في دين الإسلام == والتوجيه المعرفي

[@alexandergebreyesus7381]

@@user-xi2bi2zh2n Please try to find a book by Joseph Fadelle. The title of the book is called The price to pay. "He who loses his life for my sake, he will find it." (Matthew 10:39)

[@Ujuani68]

Amen. From the Parish of Saint Andrew in Copenhagen,Denmark. 🇩🇰👋✝️❤

[@pattyhansen7563]

"I get to serve the poor everyday". I GET to. What a beautiful sentiment. If we all looked to our daily tasks with that perspective, how much glory we would bring to God & how much joy we would bring to man. I GET to, not I have to or I am forced to. Christians all over the world, now more than even 6 yrs ago when this was made, are suffering & losing their lives, just because they are christian. Look at African Christians. Pray for all Christians. Pray for more young women & men to be called to the holy life. Or to answer the call when it is offered.

[@stevenrodgers6540]

It's hard not to be stunned by these sisters. Their lives are devoted to Jesus' perfect love, we see it, and it's just wow. Sister Marie Therese is amazing, saying how she GETs to help the poor, is just exactly what Christ did every day of his ministry, showed compassion for the broken hearted- how beautiful is that!

[@patriciaduggan4102]

Your love for Jesus & your joy is truly a gift from The Holy Spirit. I thank God & Blessed Mother Mary & St.Francis for your YES. I LOVE YOUR SIMPLICITY .

[@Ujuani68]

❤✝️👋

[@SheltonDCruz]

These Sisters are amazing!

[@opalcosmic8328]

I was raised Baptist and am still technically Protestant (though non-Denominational). But I stumbled upon Richard Rohr and his books and became fascinated with the Franciscans... This is intriguing.

[@_hochrock]

Opal Cosmic Fr Richard Rohr is such a great teacher!

[@diannegazzola1957]

These Sisters are such a beautiful example if what it means to be a "Bride of Christ". Thank you, Sisters for being a selfless example of love to the world

[@lavander961]

The term Bride of Christ pertains to BOTH Nuns and Church, Church means ALL of us Bride of Christ. No ones greeater than the other, because His Loved is infinite, Equal means We are All loved by God remember his loved on us All, by suffering dying on his cross for Everyone so We Are All Bride of Christ. including Nuns, Priest, All Man Woman, Married couple or Single is called members of the Church bride and Body of Christ. Everytime WE Lay People live and we love God go to Pray, Confession, Mass and eat and drink the body and blood, soul, and divinity of Christ WE are one Now with OUR Spiritual husband Jesus, We renew our Spiritual marriage vows our consecration to him during existence, Prayer, Confession, Mass and Our entire life cuz we are ALL bride of Christ called Church. Jesus alreday married us All when he creted us bfore we exist, he married us when he is born on Earth through Virgin Mother Mary, He married us by his greatest proof of love of us all, his suffering dying on cross, resurrection just for us All. Nuns are just representative, models for us layman the Church to imitate them, to follow them to be more in love to OUR Bridegroom Jesus. Nuns are just teaching us to loved God first above all else and second the neighbors. Nuns are just teaching us to be intimate to OUR Bridegroom and kneel, worship yourself to Our Bridegroom Jesus and draw, embrace to his Nuptial Chamber his Sacred heart and enjoy Yourselves and Everyone else in Gods sweet, NO malice, divine, spiritual embrace, divine kisses to his Forehead, cheeks and wounds and Jesus will kiss you back to your foreheadd, cheeks, and he will kiss your soul, heart

[@citta144]

5.45 Rad ! " We are not made for this world, that the material things that the world says are so important to make you happy are simply passing away. That we're just here for a short amount of time, what we are made for is for that love of God which is what heaven is gonna .." Very beautifully said. :)

[@nusratjamia7953]

Enjoy your videos 📹. 📹 I feel so sad Watching this kind of videos makes me feel better.

[@jps55912]

Wonderful stories. Thank you sisters.

[@MichElle-sd6gj]

Myohmy! What a wonderful, humbling & most spiritual vocation for you dear Sisters. May God Most High Bless all of you & may His Mother Mary interceda for all you wonderful Sisters. ( no technology, Yahoo!).

[@feaokautai7354]

GREAT young ladies following GOD IN JESUS CHRIST FOREVER as CATHOLICISM FAITH wonderfully!!

[@feaokautai7354]

GREAT SISTERS for following CHRIST with all your hearts without anything....I 'm proud of you.

[@johnhealy4647]

Thank you loving Father for showing us your Mercy !!!

[@katy1282]

How beautiful ! Thanks for posting this video.

[@elenarogers5311]

What wonderful souls these sisters are.. living life in simplicity, service and authenticity, so different to the superficiality and confusion of the world. I live very close to Assisi and visit often. The city of San Francesco is a spiritual home to many and one of my very favourite places. Blessings and "Pace" to you all!

[@MPFXT]

Lovely ladies... thank you, Sisters. Glory to Jesus Christ +

[@alwayscatholicknight7920]

Amen Blessed Beloved Sisters Lkiving Out Our Faith Love For Christ and the Church and All others my Prayers Are With You All.

[@dinofredericks8637]

Thanks be to God.... Blessed be Jesus True God and True Man

[@larrydee8859]

Thank You all so much for all your Great Work!!! Your experience, working, and sharing, is the essence of healing social justice!!! God bless you.

[@heleenglazenburg1405]

I AM member of the 3 orde of St Francis in the Netherlands

[@kasianawr4241]

Beautiful,thank do much ,greets grom Poland 🥰

[@joanbsimon4955]

Thank God for religious sisters who are faithful to the Sacred Traditions and teachings of our Catholic Church.

[@Christabbaword]

Matthew 13:52 He said to them, "Therefore every teacher of the law who has become a disciple in the kingdom of heaven is like the owner of a house who brings out of his storeroom new treasures as well as old." New wine is blessed Mary Old Wine is Mother Sarah.

[@germanvazquez885]

Is much better given than receiving the joy it self is the greatest bless

[@pierrejaoude766]

Sisters pray for us. We love you.!

[@vivacristorey9108]

Bergoglio and Co. don't like nuns, they are going after their communities. Praying for these women; brides of Christ. May Our Lord Jesus do justice for them. Virgen of Guadalupe ora pro nobis. God bless them.

[@valward8195]

God bless you all sisters. Love from Moyross parish.

[@alishadiaz-bole3359]

God bless all of you. Thank you for sharing your vocation with the world.

[@balukuroben7458]

Praise be Jesus Christ. Our Lord and King .

[@jovialmoshahary1556]

I heard all the sisters say.. 'a sense of purpose and deep joy' again and again and this is what most in the secular world find very difficult to comprehend, serenity without possibly possessing nothing. I feel we have gone wrong somewhere in not teaching where real joys is found. When many see such joy they want to have it and yet not able to let go many of the things. I came across quite few whispers 'what it that u Christians got that makes u peopl glow (meaning joyful)' . I can see that joy in these nuns. Pray for our world so that we put back God at the center of all that we do.

[@kristinamaldonado386]

Beautiful testimonies! Thank you for this video. Praying for more vocations to this community of sisters 🙏🏻

[@emilytoscano721]

My prayer as well are for your dear servants please protect and keep them safe in their day to day service to the community bringing your Love to them. That they keep their focus on you, in prayer and devotion to your Word of truth with no distractions and learn discernment of what comes from you and what is not from you. 🙏🏻✝️♥️💯

[@graces4845]

Wow this is looks like a heaven ❤

[@Ravishankar19682]

Hail Holi Sisters service to almighty god !! Ave Maria !!! Praise the Lord with Tribute and Glory !!!!

[@user-tf9fh4sy4c]

Ta siad iontach agus alainn. Greetings from Ireland.

[@worldview730]

Amen, praise this, mission & movement! 🙏🙏🙏

[@BronxCat]

Sr.Joseph !!!!! Yay!!!! I love you!!!

[@theclapaolini4322]

This excellent and complete sharing of your call is the best l have watched and so clear. Young women will be joining your joyful community. We are very grateful to God for your congregation.we Daughters of st Paul are very very acquainted with your super special CALL IS A GRACE TO THIS CONFUSED WORLD. GOD BLESS YOUR DAYS AND BECOME SAINTS.

[@Soundofmusic777]

The U.S. being a backward society because of so much social injustice, is in special need of such sisters. God bless them!

[@amandad.2322]

How is it a backward society?

[@Soundofmusic777]

There is no freedom. Everyone is enslaved by money - either by lack of it or by its affluence. Ethics is governed by anarchical economy, and not vice versa. Psychologically people have a conscience of being either slaves or masters, but all together worship money. Without mentioning American foreign policy, which consists in trying to enslave the whole world in the same way, America is the most anti-Christian country in its principles and reality: the weak are trampled down by the strong - with strength and weakness being determined solely by the amount of money one has - no one has a dignity there, every person is a means towards the goal of someone’s enrichment. In a nutshell: it’s a backward society, because, just like its technology - e.g. American cell phones, washing machines, cars look and function today like they cone from the 1930s - it lives by the similarly primitive, jungle categories of social Darwinism - the extreme form of capitalism that has been long ago outlived and rejected by civilized, developed countries.

[@twilliams4768]

May God bless you all and your ministry! 🙏🏽💞

[@williamsolomon5425]

Love the radicals!

[@gregorydsouza1895]

Praise the Lord Jesus Christ and mother Mary

[@sandradrumm5803]

Prayers for all

[@allanlindsay8369]

Wonderful! Thank God.

[@Anna-tj7mp]

The sisters are so astonishingly beautiful.

[@margareth137]

Que hermoso gracias por compartir su experiencia

[@abrahamdecruz5128]

The sister who wants to be a missionary doctor should be granted her wish. Some nearby University medical school or rich patron should give her a full scholarship to complete her medical studies and achieve her dream. From there as a missionary doctor she can go to South America, Europe or Asia. In Asia there are vibrant Franciscan communities in Singapore and Hong Kong and she can extend the CFR community in Asia. There are many ladies who might want to join this community.

[@pattyhansen7563]

It is not about 'granting wishes'. That is not in order with the vocational life. It is about answering GOD's call for your life. If God so wills it, she will be able to finish med. school. The order is not going to let her accept rich patron's $$$$ - they take a vow of poverty. This would be so prideful that I am sure it would be looked down on. tHey are to live a life of humility, it is not a stepping stone to grant their life's wishes/dreams. God's will is all that matters in this woman's life, not making a name for herself, not her education, not opening up new orders that she can take credit for....that would be so off track of what religious community life is all about.

[@JusaintVu2014]

Thank you “ NETTVCATHOLIC “ for sharing this post. God Bless You.

[@somyan8540]

Thao it is good and positive that you can be a nun and a doctor (study) and do what's important Not just pray However some nuns choose or are chosen to only look after children elderly or prisoners in prison (who had lost their religion and need forgivenes and hope to live and forgive themselves to continue) ...

[@lanceglassgow3761]

So inspiring. ✝️

[@jimbridson1731]

And we're a lot happier and a lot better than everybody else.

[@shawnadequan7893]

Praise the Lord! Enjoy! xxx

[@nerilynhinautan]

Pray for me and my 3 daughter

[@user-em6te2fb2s]

May God bless the life of my sisters. I am a Christian from Morocco. I need my sisters help

[@harekrishna10064]

Hare Krishna

[@Peirithous]

I like these nuns❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️. They are physically in the world helping, teaching and ministering not hiding behind some high walls being hermits their entire existence

[@mariececilefraner8958]

Peirithoüs Did Thérèse and Teresa of Avila hide, or were they following more radically the call of Christ? All are needed, both those who serve physically, and those who carry the cross in the cloister and win the graces for men to receive the gift of His grace-silently and in secret. All apart of the mystical Body of Christ. They work with eachother.

[@Fiftynine414]

Lovely. Thank you for your vocations.

[@mjfbb22]

Real people. Real contemplatives. Real givers. Real Christ followers. Real examples of the Sermon on the Mount. You see real joy in them flowing directly from God. Inspiring. Compare and contrast them with the Cardinals, Bishops, and Priests who are and have been destroying the Church. There is hope. IF the inherent financial and moral corruption in the Church hierarchy would just follows these beautiful nuns and give all its billions to these kinds of Orders, and seek forgiveness for the massive corruption the hierarchy has inflicted on the Church, there would be hope. God Bless these nuns.......

[@pattyhansen7563]

not all bishops/priests/cardinals, etc... are 'bad'. that is some very strong stereotyping there. AND not all nuns are 'good'. I am related to one who entered vocational life for a non-holy reason (it became apparent later on) and she was not always a 'good person'. I personally have come across much better priests, I guess, because all 5 in my life (I'm 43) have been decent human beings that do an awful lot of good for our parish - very loving, kind, energetic, and just decent.

[@Somerfield12]

Beautiful in all meanings of the word . Thank you

[@JERSEYTOMATO]

Intense love - thank you !

[@luigiionascu7056]

_thank you sisters ..glory mother of the god.. ..

[@nabarun83]

Jesus, our saviour, the Son of God 🌺♥️🌺♥️🌺♥️

[@piotermakjuga2506]

God bless you all sisters :)

[@Kibblesss]

Met some of these today in the uk

[@sac1303]

As much as I look up to these women, and love their caring hearts, I cannot understand how they can consume animal products - especially, when Saint Francis, was a champion for animals, our fellow species. As he said: "God wants us to help animals, if they need help. Every creature in distress has the same right to be protected." Animals about to be killed are very clearly in distress. Animals in factory farms, animals in services and institutions are in distress.

[@misterdavid4072]

Jesus eat fish, a living creature. Was Jesus less compassionate?

[@liviagracie1443]

Being vegan is very expensive and health is really important to being in a religious order. Having a healthy balanced vegan diet is too expensive for the vows of poverty they take

[@balukuroben7458]

Saint Francis did not teach that you shall not eat the meat but rather to care for the animal from which u shall obtain yr food.

[@junielhermoso3302]

This kind of videos are the ultimate response to anti-catholics!

[@pawelsawicki7003]

Interesting series

[@roselytsapilastm6894]

God bless 🙏

[@ellenanortje3707]

Inspiring!

[@albertoruiz6037]

These sisters rock!

[@tessaadie659]

These sisters remind me of my own denomination, The Salvation Army, whose mission since 1865 has been to care for the poor, the homeless, the unloved.

[@teresaamparoguerrasousa8386]

Me gustaría saber inglés pero no lo sé, están muy interesantes sus videos pero quisiera poder escucharlos en mi lengua es decir en español. Que Dios los bendiga y me encomiendo a sus oraciones. Sé que toda Religiosa o Religioso son pararrayos de el mismo Cristo y sus Sacerdotes son Cristos a nuestro alcance para solución de nuestras miserias humanas.

[@teresaamparoguerrasousa8386]

No entiendo a, qué se refieren yo soy declaración o laico.

[@teresaamparoguerrasousa8386]

Seglar o laico. Corrección al comentario anterior. Dios los bendiga.

[@josephinebasas3795]

Please pray for me I was send out in the Handmaid Immaculate Franciscan Order.

[@WaseemAkram-os9oj]

Enlighten share your story with us

[@josephinebasas3795]

In 1995 now I'm retired teacher still single

[@roidalusiasimarmata6943]

Jezu Ufam Tobie.

[@abrahamdecruz5128]

Dear Mother Superior, Bring the congregation to Thailand and Hong Kong. Your sisters are young and dynamic. In Hong Kong get the support of the bishop there- Stephen Chow who is a Jesuot. I feel many ladies are waiting to join your community in Asia. Establish your community within walking distance of Hong Kong university for obvious reasons below. Send the nun who wants to be a missionary doctor. There are.many benefactors in Hong Kong who can support her medical education. She can do it at the university of Hong Kong where the instruction is in English. The course is 5 years and one year of practical training. Within 6years the nun would have achieved her ambition of becoming a missionary doctor in Hong Kong of all places. GOD TRULY WORKS IN MYSTERIOUS WAYS.

[@rafailbhatti3312]

Recepacted sisters we need your prayer for pakistan christion community please care us,Amen

[@magdasalazar6252]

Es una satisfacción trabajar en un monasterio de monjas para agradar a dios es más importante es maravilloso desempeñar esta vocación🌫️🌫️🌫️🌫️🌫️🌫️🌫️🌫️

[@magdasalazar6252]

Mother i want really peace i think the peace i can find in My place of god 🌫️🌫️🌫️🌫️🌫️🌫️🌫️🌫️🌫️🌫️🌫️🌫️🌫️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️

[@usmanjavaid2685]

how can i have a rosary like them? which they have on belt