Canons Regular of the Immaculate Conception

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Canons Regular of the Immaculate Conception
Congregatio Canonicorum Regularium Immaculatæ Conceptionis (Latin)
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The Canons Regular of the Immaculate Conception (

Latin: Congregatio Canonicorum Regularium Immaculatæ Conceptionis) are a Catholic religious order for men founded in France in 1871. They follow the Augustinian Rule
and are part of the Order of Canons Regular of St. Augustine. They add the nominal initials of C.R.I.C. after their names to indicate their membership in the congregation.

History

Adrien Gréa was born on February 18, 1828, and studied law at L’École des Chartes in Paris, where he became friends with

Society of St. Vincent de Paul
. He later took a doctorate in theology at the Sapientia University, and was ordained to the sacred priesthood on September 20, 1856.

The

Diocese of St.-Claude, a position he had accepted in 1863 at the bishop's urging, despite his feeling of being called to life in a religious community.[7]

Through his position of authority in the diocese, Gréa came to see many of the troubles experienced in the lives of its clergy. He came to attribute much of the problem to the isolation of their lives, even when sharing a

ordination as a priest, he felt that a solution could be found in the communal lives of the canons regular, who combine a monastic way of life with the pastoral care of the secular clergy. He then determined to commit himself to that way of life.[7]

Together with two companions who wished to join him in this form of life, Gréa settled in a small house where they began to follow the traditional monastic practices of the canonical life, rising at midnight to start the day's cycle of the

Bishop of Saint-Claude, who simultaneously gave them official approval as a religious community. The new congregation received the papal Decretum laudis only five years later from Pope Pius IX, who also gave the congregation its name.[7] He and his successor, Pope Leo XIII, were to give their formal approval of the congregation in three different rescripts
(1870, 1876 and 1887).

The Canons took their first step toward the life they had envisioned in December 1880, when the bishop gave them the charge of a

anti-clerical national government learned of their presence there.[7]

In 1890 the Canons were given the ancient Abbey of St.

Feast of the Immaculate Conception (8 December) of that same year.[7]

The

Superior General
resides.

The congregation is international, having houses in France, Italy, Peru (where a mission was established in 1905), England (where the community has been present since 1932), Brazil, the United States, and Canada, the first mission of the congregation, established in 1891 at Nomingue in

Diocese of Ottawa, six in that of St. Boniface, two in Saskatchewan and one in Prince Albert
, a community was composed of eight priests and major clerics, and of about as many scholastics, postulants and lay brothers. The priests have been successfully employed in colonization and the education of youth.

The Congregation of the Immaculate Conception, together with eight other congregations of Canons Regular make up the Confederation of Canons Regular of St. Augustine.

The current Superior General, Rinaldo Guarisco, was elected at the 2018

General Chapter
.

In England, the Congregation has charge of the parish of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus

Archdiocese of Los Angeles. The house in California faced allegations of intimidation and abuse in June 2022.[8]

References

  1. ^ "Canons Regular of the Immaculate Conception (C.R.I.C.)".
  2. ^ "Canons Regular of the Immaculate Conception (C.R.I.C.)".
  3. ^ "Canons Regular of the Immaculate Conception (C.R.I.C.)".
  4. ^ http://www.gcatholic.org/ orders/185.htm
  5. ^ "Canons Regular of the Immaculate Conception (C.R.I.C.)".
  6. ^ "Canons Regular of the Immaculate Conception (C.R.I.C.)".
  7. ^ a b c d e "History: Dom Adrien Gréa". Canons Regular of the Immaculate Conception. Archived from the original on 2008-06-24. Retrieved 2006-07-07.
  8. ^ "Novices dismissed after reporting formator". The Pillar. Retrieved 2022-08-30.

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External links

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