Everyone pray for the Carthusian Order. Pray before the Blessed Sacrament that God spares them, and blesses them with many new vocations. They are the strictest monastic Order in the Church, and never were huge like the Jesuits or Franciscans, but the issue is that small Orders which are holy and good have suffered along with those that are liberal trash since Vatican II. The Carthusians according to some websites have between 280-350 monks and novices which is fairly good, but they had over 600 before Vatican II. I worry about some of the ancient Orders, because Vatican II has hurt them just like all the others....and the lower they go, the closer some become to extinction. One branch of the Camaldolese...a 1,000 year old Order, is heading that way because they have gone radical liberal even though they only have world wide about 80 members (about 200 before Vatican II). The Trappist monks had close to 6,000 monks before Vatican II, but only about 1,500 today. Before Vatican II, most …More