"To serve those most in need: A look back on the Society of Saint Edmund - Roman Catholic Diocese of Burlington

"To serve those most in need: A look back on the Society of Saint Edmund - Roman Catholic Diocese of Burlington

Day to day, the status of religious orders within the Church seems quite fixed. The Benedictines have followed the same Rule for some 1,500 years; the Franciscans have held custody of the Holy Land since the days of the Fourth Crusade; the Carthusians, as their motto, say stat crux dum volvitur orbis; the cross stands still as the world turns. It is comforting, and easy, to think of such communities as existing separate from time, eternal, unmov…