Sr. Mary Roberta: Are you reading any good Advent devotional material?
Dec 8 2014, 1:11 AM
Dawn L: For Advent I felt drawn to read and do a Marian Consecration…to be closer to her who first opened her heart and life to Jesus
Dec 8 2014, 1:12 AM
Sr. Mary Roberta: I always like the Magnificat and something called The Little Blue (not Black, as I said last week) Book for Advent and Christmas.
Dec 8 2014, 1:12 AM
Anne M: My parish passed out the little blue book again this year.
Dec 8 2014, 1:12 AM
Dawn L: how she must have been anticipating his birth at this time,as I am
Dec 8 2014, 1:13 AM
Sr. Mary Roberta: That’s a great idea, Dawn! My spiritual director has also suggested I pray for guidance from Our Lady for a particular intention.
Dec 8 2014, 1:13 AM
Carol Ann C.: I have been trying to maintain my quiet time and finish an online course
Dec 8 2014, 1:13 AM
Anne M: I like to do the novena to the Holy Spirit each advent.
Dec 8 2014, 1:14 AM
Sr. Mary Roberta: and then tomorrow is the Immaculate Conception – a day I knew nothing about as a Presbyterian
Dec 8 2014, 1:15 AM
Gail F: As I moved and do not have my books I just tell her how much I love her. She is my strength and courage. She has taught me how to suffer quietly and reach out to help others.
Dec 8 2014, 1:15 AM
Sr. Mary Roberta: Which online course, Carol Ann? Do you know about the Institute of Catholic Culture online courses – really good ones?
Dec 8 2014, 1:16 AM
Gail F: Hi 8258.
Dec 8 2014, 1:16 AM
Carol Ann C.: I’ve looked at the ICC a little bit, but haven’t paid for anything yet. This one is on the Benedctine rule at Abbeyofthearts.com
Dec 8 2014, 1:16 AM
Guest8258 (guest): Hi Gail. Sorry I lost track of time.
Dec 8 2014, 1:16 AM
Sr. Mary Roberta: Hello, Guest 8258!
Dec 8 2014, 1:17 AM
Guest8258 (guest): Hello Sr. Mary Roberta. Looks like I just in time to say “hi” and “bye”
Dec 8 2014, 1:18 AM
Sr. Mary Roberta: SFdS in his Treatise says: “Mary was forever preserved from all sin, forever most poor in spirit, forever most pure, forever most humble, and forever the peaceful mistress of all her passions.”
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Carol Ann C.: me too
Dec 7 2014, 8:20 PM
Gail F: And me also.
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Sr. Mary Roberta: Our priest at Mass this morning was ON FIRE for Our Lord. He ended his homily by saying, “If any of you are not here for Jesus, you are fools – BIG FOOLS! , 1:21 AM
Gail F: HI GUEST 5974.
Dec 8 2014, 1:21 AM
Dawn L: that is beautiful..what SFdS says
Dec 8 2014, 1:21 AM
Carol Ann C.: He really was on fire. I hope he shook some people awake
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Sr. Mary Roberta: I think some in our congregation were taken a little aback by Father!
Dec 8 2014, 1:22 AM
Carol Ann C.: There are those who want to hear only the happy messages, without realizing that the shakeups are critical to our growth
Dec 8 2014, 1:22 AM
Sr. Mary Roberta: As a former Presbyterian (not an Evangelical), I myself was surprised – pleasantly so.
Dec 8 2014, 1:23 AM
Guest8258 (guest): We had a priest in Virginia who called people fools for believing in angels!
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Carol Ann C.: really? Angels are in the catechism and have been taught about since beyond the beginning
Dec 8 2014, 1:23 AM
Sr. Mary Roberta: Have you ever seen ChurchMilitant.com – really powerful – but also a little reactionary – too much negativity.
Dec 8 2014, 1:24 AM
Guest8258 (guest): I think it best not to call ANYONE a fool. Even when one may have to call an idea foolish, or an action foolish.
Dec 8 2014, 1:24 AM
Sr. Mary Roberta: True, but sometimes a shake-up is helpful.
Dec 8 2014, 1:25 AM
Sr. Mary Roberta: Did your mother tell you what you did was bad, or did she say you were a bad girl?
Dec 8 2014, 1:25 AM
Guest8258 (guest): I took that pastor to task about his false believe after Mass. A week or so later he admitted to me “I looked it up: Engeli sunt.” He never aopolgized to the congregation however.
Dec 8 2014, 1:25 AM
Carol Ann C.: what is a combat rosary? Church Militant really likes to extend metaphors!
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Sr. Mary Roberta: Prayer is combat – against evil, don’t you think?
Dec 7 2014, 8:26 PM
Carol Ann C.: Yes, and this is from their site: The Church Militant Combat Rosary is based upon the original pull chain rosary that was commissioned and procured by, believe it or not, the U.S. government and issued by the military, upon request, to soldiers serving in World War
Dec 7 2014, 8:27 PM
Gail F: Prayer is the most powerful thing we can do.
Dec 7 2014, 8:27 PM
Sr. Mary Roberta: CM keeps quoting Pope Leo XIII, who said the Christian is made for battle – against the devil.
Dec 7 2014, 8:28 PM
Sr. Mary Roberta: Some of our students and I are making what are called RANGER ROSARIES for the military that have the same purpose.
Dec 7 2014, 8:28 PM
Gail F: That battle may not be on the physical plain.
Dec 7 2014, 8:28 PM
Sr. Mary Roberta: And the chaplains who request the rosaries are both Catholic and Protestant.
Dec 7 2014, 8:28 PM
Gail F: That is great.
Dec 7 2014, 8:29 PM
Guest8258 (guest): I don’t like that question about my mother. I don’t remember what she said. I remember what she did, and her explanation years later: that she would have killed me had she thought she could get away with it. I think all I did was tug on her apron when she was cooking. I was only about two. Glad I’m incognito right now.
Dec 7 2014, 8:29 PM
Sr. Mary Roberta: True, Gail, but most of our military men and women seem to feel the power of prayer more when they’re holding a rosary in their hands.
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Sr. Mary Roberta: Oh, sorry to have touched a sore spot! My mother usually called us bad girls.
Dec 7 2014, 8:30 PM
Gail F: I agree Sister Mary Roberta. Prayer saves lives and souls on the battle field
31 AM
Guest8258 (guest): Glad I have Mary as my mother now. I still need a mother!
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Carol Ann C.: Mary is the best Mother you can have
Dec 8 2014, 1:31 AM
Gail F: It gives Spiritual Strength to our military.
Dec 8 2014, 1:31 AM
Sr. Mary Roberta: I think that’s when I began to realize my deep-down need for Confession, even tho’ I wasn’t yet a Catholic1
Sr. Mary Roberta: Yes, Carol Ann, and our troops really need Mom-Mary watching over them!
Dec 8 2014, 1:32 AM
Gail F: I hunger to become closer to her.
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Sr. Mary Roberta: Yes, Carol Ann, and our troops really need Mom-Mary watching over them!
Dec 7 2014, 8:32 PM
Gail F: I hunger to become closer to her.
Dec 7 2014, 8:33 PM
Carol Ann C.: and through her, Jesus
Dec 7 2014, 8:33 PM
Gail F: and to introduce all who will listen to Mary
Dec 7 2014, 8:33 PM
Gail F: Yes..
Dec 7 2014, 8:34 PM
Sr. Mary Roberta: I just noticed these words of SFdS on tomorrow’s feast: “the Virgin Mary was born as our Queen, with the use of reason, and in this birth she already made the same renunciation she would later make with such perfection.” (Sermon on Our Lady’s Nativity)
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Dec 7 2014, 8:34 PM
Sr. Mary Roberta: That’s the kind of Mom we all need!
Dec 7 2014, 8:34 PM
Guest8258 (guest): I know an Episcopal man named John who bought a rosary because it was beautiful. He’d been adopted and bounced around to many homes. I’d prayed for him, and shared Jesus’s words on the cross: Mary behold your son. John behold your mother. He got it!
Dec 7 2014, 8:35 PM
Carol Ann C.: I’ve never understood why people won’t turn to Mary for help, as if it were wrong to ask for help from anyone but Jesus
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Sr. Mary Roberta: Mary’s not divine, but she’s the best path to the divine – her Son.
Dec 7 2014, 8:35 PM
Gail F: Nor I.
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Sr. Mary Roberta: Mary’s not divine, but she’s the best path to the divine – her Son.
Dec 8 2014, 1:35 AM
Gail F: Nor I.
Dec 8 2014, 1:36 AM
Carol Ann C.: No, not divine, but if we can imitate her, then we will be more like Him
Dec 8 2014, 1:37 AM
Sr. Mary Roberta: Mary’s key virtue, I think, is her humility: “In her room at Nazareth she shows her modesty in all that she is afraid; her candor in wanting to be instructed and in asking a question, her submission, her humility in calling herself a handmaid.”
Nice idea, Carol Ann!
Dec 7 2014, 8:42 PM
Gail F: I will pray as well.
Dec 7 2014, 8:42 PM
Guest8258 (guest): Yes, we know her from previous chats.
Dec 7 2014, 8:43 PM
Guest8258 (guest): A cyber monastery?
Dec 7 2014, 8:43 PM
Carol Ann C.: if you look at abbeyofthearts.com you’ll get an idea what I mean
Dec 7 2014, 8:43 PM
Sr. Mary Roberta: How would that work, I wonder? Possible topic for another chat…?
Dec 7 2014, 8:44 PM
Sr. Mary Roberta: Thanks, Carol Ann. I’ll check it out.
Dec 7 2014, 8:44 PM
Carol Ann C.: yes, sign me up for that chat@
Dec 7 2014, 8:44 PM
Guest8258 (guest): I’ll check it out.
Dec 7 2014, 8:44 PM
Gail F: So will I.
Dec 7 2014, 8:44 PM
Sr. Mary Roberta: G’night! Sogni d’oro!
Dec 7 2014, 8:44 PM
Carol Ann C.: it might be something the monastery starts, like a separate page, sort of like the one for your postulants
Dec 7 2014, 8:45 PM
Gail F: Good night Sister Mary Roberta…
Dec 7 2014, 8:45 PM
Guest8258 (guest): Benedictine Sr. — has a book Monastery of the Heart.
Dec 7 2014, 8:46 PM
Rosemary NY: Good night
Dec 7 2014, 8:46 PM
Guest8258 (guest): Joan Chittister.
Dec 7 2014, 8:46 PM
Sr. Mary Roberta: Now the tech problems are such that I can’t figure out how to log off. I guess I’ll just turn everything off!
Dec 7 2014, 8:46 PM
Gail F: Good night all.
Dec 7 2014, 8:47 PM
Carol Ann C.: Good night all!
Dec 7 2014, 8:47 PM
Guest8258 (guest): Good night. God bless you all with a very special Advent.
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Dec 7 2014, 8:47 PM
Guest8258 (guest): I’ve never figured out how to sign off.
Nice idea, Carol Ann!
Dec 7 2014, 8:42 PM
Gail F: I will pray as well.
Dec 7 2014, 8:42 PM
Guest8258 (guest): Yes, we know her from previous chats.
Dec 7 2014, 8:43 PM
Guest8258 (guest): A cyber monastery?
Dec 7 2014, 8:43 PM
Carol Ann C.: if you look at abbeyofthearts.com you’ll get an idea what I mean
Dec 7 2014, 8:43 PM
Sr. Mary Roberta: How would that work, I wonder? Possible topic for another chat…?
Dec 7 2014, 8:44 PM
Sr. Mary Roberta: Thanks, Carol Ann. I’ll check it out.
Dec 7 2014, 8:44 PM
Carol Ann C.: yes, sign me up for that chat@
Dec 7 2014, 8:44 PM
Guest8258 (guest): I’ll check it out.
Dec 7 2014, 8:44 PM
Gail F: So will I.
Dec 7 2014, 8:44 PM
Sr. Mary Roberta: G’night! Sogni d’oro!
Dec 7 2014, 8:44 PM
Carol Ann C.: it might be something the monastery starts, like a separate page, sort of like the one for your postulants
Dec 7 2014, 8:45 PM
Gail F: Good night Sister Mary Roberta…
Dec 7 2014, 8:45 PM
Guest8258 (guest): Benedictine Sr. — has a book Monastery of the Heart.
Dec 7 2014, 8:46 PM
Rosemary NY: Good night
Dec 7 2014, 8:46 PM
Guest8258 (guest): Joan Chittister.
Dec 7 2014, 8:46 PM
Sr. Mary Roberta: Now the tech problems are such that I can’t figure out how to log off. I guess I’ll just turn everything off!
Dec 7 2014, 8:46 PM
Gail F: Good night all.
Dec 7 2014, 8:47 PM
Carol Ann C.: Good night all!
Dec 7 2014, 8:47 PM
Guest8258 (guest): Good night. God bless you all with a very special Advent.