So today we celebrate that “great cloud of witnesses” spoken of by St. Paul. What a glorious heritage we have. Think of Peter and Paul, Andrew and John and the other apostles, of our dear Mother Mary and Joseph, St. Augustine, St. Dominic and St. Francis, St. Francis de Sales and St. Jane Frances, Teresa of Avila and Therese of Lisieux, and her dear parents, Sts. Zelie and Louis Martin, to mention a few. The certainly provide with great example and challenge us to live as true Catholics in the world.
Nov 1 2015, 7:12 PM
Judy K: “They” certainly…
Nov 1 2015, 7:14 PM
Judy K: I see that this is National Vocation Awareness Week. What can we do to promote new vocations and to support those in formation, already professed and priests and seminarians?
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Lisa C: We can pray for them. We can teach children about God.
Nov 1 2015, 7:20 PM
Judy K: Number one is certainly to pray for vocations. It just occurred to me that I might give books on lives of religious saints to my young cousins to perhaps plant a seed in them.
Nov 1 2015, 7:20 PM
Carol Ann: We can invite them, at least the non-cloistered into our homes and our circle of friends
Ann: As to Judy’s question, ever since I began discerning, I have not only been praying for clarity for my own direction, but also for new vocations and those in formation, along with already professed priests and seminarians. I have also been praying for their families, that they would come to understand the beautiful gift that a call to religious life can be/is. :22 PM
Judy K: I am corresponding with a number of Salesians in formation, one of whom is studying in Jerusalem for his last two years. He will be ordained to the transitional diaconate next year and to the priesthood the following year.
Nov 1 2015, 7:22 PM
VisitationSiste: Tonight our community was just featured on Wake Up the World on our diocesan tv station. Of course we were at night prayer and missed it- but we shouldf get to post it when they put it on the website
Nov 1 2015, 7:23 PM
Carol Ann: That’s neat!
Nov 1 2015, 7:23 PM
VisitationSiste: For this week I posted that anyone can come to our chatroom during the week and write a question and we will answer it
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VisitationSiste: For this week I posted that anyone can come to our chatroom during the week and write a question and we will answer it
Nov 1 2015, 7:23 PM
Ann: That’s great!
Nov 1 2015, 7:24 PM
Judy K: So you’re celebrities now!
Nov 1 2015, 7:24 PM
VisitationSiste: So if you want during the week see if anyone posts a question you can answer
Nov 1 2015, 7:24 PM
Ann: Hello Guest 6603
Nov 1 2015, 7:24 PM
VisitationSiste: 10 min of a show- not celebrities yet- I hope it turned out ok
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VisitationSiste: Also in addition it’s All Saints so I’ll repeat those questions here too: Who is your favorite saint or saints? What do you admire in them? How have they answered your prayers?
Oct 28 2015, 11:51 AM
SrSusanMarie (guest): In what way and manner do you want to share your love of this saint with the other chatters?
Nov 1 2015, 7:27 PM
Guest6603 (guest): HI Judy , Ann , Carol Ann , Lisa , and Sister ! God Bless You! Brian
Nov 1 2015, 7:27 PM
VisitationSiste: Here’s another- how did saints promote vocations I wonder
Nov 1 2015, 7:27 PM
Lisa C: I find it very hard to pick a favorite Saint, because they are all so great.
Nov 1 2015, 7:27 PM
Ann: Hello Brian!
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Carol Ann: There are so many. Pope JP II, Padre Pio, Sr. FaustinaPM
Lisa C: If someone forced me to pick I would pick St. John of the Cross, but that would mean that Blessed Mother is in a class by herself and cannot be compared to regular Saints.
Nov 1 2015, 7:28 PM
VisitationSiste: Pope John Paul 11 certainly promoted vocations and gathered the young in World Youth Days!
Nov 1 2015, 7:28 PM
Ann: I too, found it very hard to pick one favorite. I narrowed it down to 6, but there are many others who are also favorites.
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Guest6603 (guest): Saint Barnabas , St Patrick , St Francis , st Perpetua ! 9 PM
VisitationSiste: In addition to Salesian Sts and St Therese and Thersa I like ST Peter Eymard very much- he loved the Eucharist so deeply
Nov 1 2015, 7:30 PM
Lisa C: If I get a string of Saints, then Blessed Mother, St. John of the Cross, St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Agustine, St. Margaret Mary, St. T of A, St. T of L,
Nov 1 2015, 7:30 PM
VisitationSiste: When I read his works I get a burning feeling of great desire for the Eucharist
Nov 1 2015, 7:30 PM
Carol Ann: and then there are the non-canonized saints we all know
Nov 1 2015, 7:30 PM
Ann: St Michael, St Therese of Liseux (because I have a lot in common with her), St. Francis de Sales, St. Benedict are 4
Nov 1 2015, 7:30 PM
Guest6603 (guest): Soo Many we have such a great family in heaven !!!
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Guest6603 (guest): Soo Many we have such a great family in heaven !!!
Nov 1 2015, 7:31 PM
Lisa C: Every Saint I read about I come to love
Nov 1 2015, 7:31 PM
VisitationSiste: Some of these saints began new congregations and drew vocations too
Nov 1 2015, 7:31 PM
Judy K: First on my list is St. John Bosco, my spiritual father. I am attracted by his joy and his absolute trust in Divine Providence. I am also drawn by the fact that many who knew him called him “union with God.” What an awesome title. Second is St. Gemma Galgani. Gemma deeply loved Jesus in the Eucharist and begged to receive her First Holy Communion before the approved age. She was allowed to receive it at age 9, was given the stigmata, suffered greatly at the hand of Satan.
Judy K: I see her as a great role model for a single woman who truly desires holiness. I think
Nov 1 2015, 7:32 PM
VisitationSiste: He appeared to her from heaven
Nov 1 2015, 7:32 PM
Ann: I admire St. Therese’s courage throughout her life. She was bullied as a child, as was I. She overcame so much! Even with all her challenges, her vocation was to love.
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Lisa C: St. John of the Cross and St. Theresa of Avila are great to me, because they show how to have divine unionM
Guest6603 (guest): My friend Ralph passed away this year a great Saint he reminds me a lot of St Francis I cherish the times we would both wake up early in the morning and pray quietly together in chapel at Harvest House for our Kairos Men !!!
Nov 1 2015, 7:34 PM
VisitationSiste: In terms of a deeper relationship with a saint, when I was discerning a vocation St Therese really helped me alot and answered my novenas with roses, sometimes in funny places
Guest6603 (guest): Wow that’s awesome Sister !!!!
Nov 1 2015, 7:35 PM
Ann: I have been smelling roses quite a bit lately, too. Thank you for sharing that, Mothe
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Ann: I have been smelling roses quite a bit lately, too. Thank you for sharing that, Mother
Nov 1 2015, 7:35 PM
Alice Lewis-Eckardt: I like St. Therese too
Nov 1 2015, 7:36 PM
Lisa C: I also love my Guardian Angel
Nov 1 2015, 7:36 PM
VisitationSiste: Yes I was working at NBC and went on a business trip in the middle of my novena about vocation. It was in Charlotte’ car racing track viewing room that I got roses
Nov 1 2015, 7:36 PM
VisitationSiste: Pink ones- all arounfd the table
Nov 1 2015, 7:36 PM
Guest6603 (guest): My youngest daughter Maria reminds me of St Therese !
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Alice Lewis-Eckardt: were they there when you entered the room Sister?
Nov 1 2015, 7:37 PM
VisitationSiste: That must really touch your heart Brian, what a wonderful saint to resemble
Nov 1 2015, 7:37 PM
VisitationSiste: Yes they were there placed at each plate- but ti was the timing and the stage of prayer i was in that was so providential- I knew she had all to do with it
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Alice Lewis-Eckardt: I prayed to her before also an received a card with a rose on it
Nov 1 2015, 7:38 PM
VisitationSiste: The saints are waiting for us to ask them for their intercession and when they answer what a beautiful relationship can begin
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Alice Lewis-Eckardt: St. Anthony has answered many of my prayers
Nov 1 2015, 7:39 PM
Judy K: But my all time favorite is St. Gertrude the Great. She was taken to a Benedictine Monastery and it was there that she grew up and received her education. Her great love in her youth was literature. At the age of 26, she underwent a great conversion and from that time she gave herself tirelessly to the study of Scripture. Gertrude was born in 1256 and died around 1301 or 02. She was so holy and beloved by the Lord. Testimonies of those who knew her are revealing of her relationship with the Lord.
Nov 1 2015, 7:39 PM
VisitationSiste: Padre Pio and St Francis de Sales have answered through their writings- it is always amazing
Nov 1 2015, 7:39 PM
Ann: Yes Mother, very beautiful.
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VisitationSiste: Judy did she not also love the Sacred heart? And how that love has touched your life too:40 PM
Lisa C: I also feel like St. Francis de Sales answers through Treatise on the Love of God
Nov 1 2015, 7:40 PM
Guest6603 (guest): Yes Sister ! She really is special ! She has great love for others and many times I find her praying in her room for others , She is very artistic lovesto draw and is beginning to learn guitar . She has always struggled with school work but she works hard at it not easy for her !
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Lisa C: St Gertrude is special to me because she was very academic and learned and woke up one day and realized it all meant nothing compared to God7:41 PM
Lisa C: St Gertrude is special to me because she was very academic and learned and woke up one day and realized it all meant nothing compared to God
Nov 1 2015, 7:42 PM
Judy K: One person of whom she had requested prayers, reported having been told by the Lord, “I am entirely hers and I give Myself with delight to her loving embraces. The love of My Divinity unites her inseparably with me, as the heat of the fire unites gold and silver to make an alloy.”
Nov 1 2015, 7:42 PM
Carol Ann: Padre Pio always amazes me-I know it is all God’s grace, but the things that happened to him!
Nov 1 2015, 7:42 PM
VisitationSiste: That reminds me Lisa of St Thomas Aquinas- he said something like all he wrote was straw compared to an experience of the Lord he had
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Lisa C: Mother, St. Thomas Aquinas reminds me of how I was brought up to think and study, and St. John of the Cross reminds me of where I need to go
Nov 1 2015, 7:43 PM
VisitationSiste: Padre Pio shows up alot in peoples’s lives, so many testimonies about him. There is a man named Henry who has his glove and comes to our Chapel once amonth with it
Nov 1 2015, 7:43 PM
Dawn L: Hi everyone, Mother, Ann…Brian too
Nov 1 2015, 7:44 PM
Judy K: Yes Mother, she did have great devotion to the Sacred Heart. She has been referred to “as His beloved, as a dwelling place chosen for Himself alone” and that He had “filled her with heavenly gifts.”
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Carol Ann: Wow, Sister, how did he come by the glove?
Nov 1 2015, 7:45 PM
VisitationSiste: I think mystics like St Gertrude, Padre Pio and others experience but what they say is true for all of us- we are all God’s beloved but some of us need to live by faith in that
Nov 1 2015, 7:45 PM
Guest6603 (guest): Saint Faustinas Diary shows her great intimacy with Jesus !
Nov 1 2015, 7:45 PM
VisitationSiste: Carol I never asked him that! But I will on Dec 14 when he comes again. He just gave us 15 copies of a bio of Padre Pio too, last month
Nov 1 2015, 7:46 PM
Lisa C: I do not mean that St. Thomas Aquinas did not love God, because he had lots of mystical experiences, but he was very immersed in Logic, Philosophy, and Theology in an academic way. He also realized that infused knowledge could be had by anyone independent of learning and intelligence
Nov 1 2015, 7:46 PM
VisitationSiste: True, Brian- great intimacy
Nov 1 2015, 7:46 PM
Carol Ann: I would be so interested to hear his stories!
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VisitationSiste: True, Brian- great intimacy
Nov 1 2015, 7:46 PM
Carol Ann: I would be so interested to hear his stories!
Nov 1 2015, 7:46 PM
Ann: I would be interested to hear his stories too.
Nov 1 2015, 7:47 PM
Judy K: Jesus is reported as having said of her, “From her childhood I carried her and brought her up in My arms, keeping her for Myself unspotted from the world until the day when she spontaneously united herself to Me with her whole will; then I gave Myself to her with all the strength of My Divine Power, giving Myself up in My turn to her embraces.
Nov 1 2015, 7:47 PM
VisitationSiste: He does give talks but only locally here- but I will ask him to speak at the next meeting and retell them. Actually I passed up an opportunity to have him come here this month
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VisitationSiste: He does give talks but only locally here- but I will ask him to speak at the next meeting and retell them. Actually I passed up an opportunity to have him come here this month
Nov 1 2015, 7:48 PM
Lisa C: The Saints are amazing examples for us of how real God is.
Nov 1 2015, 7:48 PM
VisitationSiste: Did you ever read Padre Pio’s letters? They are very profound yet simple too
Nov 1 2015, 7:48 PM
Judy K: The ardor of the love in her heat causes Me inwardly to melt and as fat melts at the fire, so the sweetness of My Divine Heart, melted by the warmth of her love, falls drop by drop continually into her soul.”
Nov 1 2015, 7:48 PM
VisitationSiste: Yes Lisa- great point- the reality of God- and so many don’t know HIm
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Lisa C: People who do not believe act like we are crazy for believing. The examples of Saints prove we are not7:48 PM
Carol Ann: I have not read more than excerpts, but I often feel like he is keeping an eye on me (since he did that for so many in life)
Nov 1 2015, 7:49 PM
Ann: Yes Lisa, you are so right!
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Judy K: have read Padre Pio’s letters to his spiritual director. He truly underwent a deep darknight of the soul. I cannot help but wonder if he also suffered from depression.
Nov 1 2015, 7:49 PM
Ann: People around me do that alot
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VisitationSiste: Thin line, is there, between a dark nite and depression?
Nov 1 2015, 7:50 PM
Judy K: I think so, but I am not sure.
Nov 1 2015, 7:50 PM
VisitationSiste: Our priest at Mass today talked about Julian of Norwich, an anchoress, and a Jewish woman, Etty Hillesum who died in the holocaust
Nov 1 2015, 7:50 PM
Alice Lewis-Eckardt: were there not people who doubted Padre Pios stigmata?
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Carol Ann: Sister, there may be a psychological tie that we don’t understand yet
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Judy K: But I noticed a great similarity between Padre Pio’s letters and those of Mother Teresa when she was going her dark night.
Nov 1 2015, 7:51 PM
Lisa C: I think Dark Night is being misconstrued. A Dark Night is nothing like depression. It is a way that God inflicts things on a soul to separate it from attachments to things other than Himself.
Nov 1 2015, 7:51 PM
Guest6603 (guest): Please pray this week for group of future Saints from St Bonaventure traveling to Washington DC TO National Press Club for awardas ceremony they are at mass at St Bonaventure now ! They are journalism majors who will have opportunity to meet top press in nation . My oldest daughter Lian will be going they will have great impact for our Lord Jesus in years to come !
Nov 1 2015, 7:51 PM
VisitationSiste: Yes padre Pio was tested and told not to say Mass- or something like that for awhile
Nov 1 2015, 7:51 PM
Ann: I will keep them in my prayers, Brian.
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Alice Lewis-Eckardt: i thought a dark night was when it seemed God had disappeared from the saints life
Nov 1 2015, 7:52 PM
Carol Ann: Yes, Lisa, a dark night is not a biological depression, but people in the dark night can and do experience the symptoms of depression
Nov 1 2015, 7:53 PM
Guest6603 (guest): Thanks Judy !
Nov 1 2015, 7:53 PM
Judy K: How did your Kairos retreat go last week?
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Lisa C: The darkness is about walking in faith without knowing or willing and just allowing God’s will to take over. Walking in faithPM
Guest6603 (guest): Great Sunday Night Grouping for Kairos topic was Humility ! Thank you all for your prayes Men have been sharing soo much and the community is getting stronger in Wende !!!
Nov 1 2015, 7:56 PM
Carol Ann: Yes, of course it is. the spiritual walk is not separate from the rest of life. I’m not trying to dispute with you, because you are right, but to place the experience in the way I have leqrned it.
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Lisa C: The soul went out into the dark after the house was stilled. It had to detach from all the things that made it frenetic
Nov 1 2015, 7:57 PM
Judy K: St. John of the Cross speaks of the dark night of the senses and of the soul. It has been a while since I have read the book, but as St. John describes it, the dark night is really not dark, but a period of detaching ourselves from those things that interfere with our relationship with the Lord, if I remember correctly. I really must go back and revisit that book.
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Dawn L: Hi Brian!prayers for your dtr, for this new generation who is learning to be on fire. wonderful
Nov 1 2015, 7:58 PM
Lisa C: O guiding dark of night!
O dark of night more darling than the dawn!
O night that can unite
A lover and loved one,
Lover and loved one moved in unison.
Nov 1 2015, 7:58 PM
Judy K: Right now, I am reading John Michael Talbot’s “The World is My Cloister.” It is a help to create a cloister within.
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Carol Ann: that book is on my formation list–it’s great7:59 PM
Lisa C: The darkness of blind faith, the light of God blinds the soul
Nov 1 2015, 8:00 PM
Dawn L: or I will rephrase…new generation open to receiving the pouring out of grace in these times
Nov 1 2015, 8:00 PM
Judy K: Is “The Lover and the Beloved” on your list also? It is a dynamite book by John Michael.
Nov 1 2015, 8:00 PM
Carol Ann: Yes, it is on the list too, but not quite yet
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Judy K: When I read it, I said to myself “He thinks like I do.”
Nov 1 2015, 8:01 PM
Guest6603 (guest): Reading 11 Corinthians chapter 6 describes many of the experiences that we go through that keeps our hearts enlarged for our service for our Lord Jesus Christ !
Nov 1 2015, 8:02 PM
Dawn L: when I was Confirmed awhile ago, I chose St Teresa of Avila, but also felt drawn to St Therese. the lady who made my name tag, unknowingly, wrote my name as a combination of these two saints.
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Carol Ann: Yes, JMT has great wisdom for those who desire to be cloistered but cannot be monastic
Nov 1 2015, 8:03 PM
VisitationSiste: How do you spell it Dawn
Nov 1 2015, 8:03 PM
VisitationSiste: I need to look into the works you have mentioned- I don’t know them at all
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VisitationSiste: How do you spell it Dawn
Nov 1 2015, 8:03 PM
VisitationSiste: I need to look into the works you have mentioned- I don’t know them at all
Nov 1 2015, 8:04 PM
VisitationSiste: Is it like being a contemplative in your heart and home
Nov 1 2015, 8:04 PM
Dawn L: spell each correct, I think. my name tag was spelled therese
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Carol Ann: Yes Sister. Our grille is the will of God
Nov 1 2015, 8:05 PM
Alice Lewis-Eckardt: thats a good combo Dawn both great saints
Nov 1 2015, 8:05 PM
Lisa C: I remained, lost in oblivion;
My face I reclined on the Beloved.
All ceased and I abandoned myself,
Leaving my cares forgotten among the lilies.
Nov 1 2015, 8:05 PM
Judy K: Yes Mother. It is trying to make a cloister of one’s heart as Nancy talks about in her web site, The Cloistered Heart.
Nov 1 2015, 8:06 PM
Lisa C: That is where he winds up
Nov 1 2015, 8:06 PM
Guest6603 (guest): Awesome Dawn great encouragement from the Lord !
Nov 1 2015, 8:06 PM
Ann: That’s beautiful, Dawn!
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Lisa C: Ann, St. John of the Cross
Nov 1 2015, 8:07 PM
VisitationSiste: How is he different that Nancy in his general expression
Nov 1 2015, 8:07 PM
Ann: Very beautiful, Lisa
Nov 1 2015, 8:07 PM
VisitationSiste: I guess Nancy modeled after Visitation Monasteries- his would be differnet- answering my own question!
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Guest6603 (guest): We really have to share the stories of the Saints with others ! I like too share St Patricks real story in the Confessions of st Patrick around St patricks Day ! :08 PM
Alice Lewis-Eckardt: any suggestions for a really good multi saints book?
Nov 1 2015, 8:09 PM
Lisa C: How do we go from understanding to doing
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Ann: Yes, I am looking for a multi-saints book too
Nov 1 2015, 8:09 PM
VisitationSiste: Butlers Lives of the Saints have many- but are they readable easily- I am not sure Alice
Nov 1 2015, 8:09 PM
Carol Ann: other than the classic Butler’s?
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Judy K: Last week, The Cloistered Heart posted a prayer of St. Gertrude which I think would be great for all of us to use: “Come O God of my heart, gather together my scattered mental powers and fix them upon Yourself.” This would be a good entre into meditation.
Nov 1 2015, 8:10 PM
Guest6603 (guest): With all the attacks on marriage we can share St Valentine story how he continued to marry couples underground when Romans band marriage for military purposes. He gave up his life to marry couples and do the will of God !!!
Nov 1 2015, 8:10 PM
VisitationSiste: I think Ann Ball wrote “Modern Saints”
Nov 1 2015, 8:11 PM
Judy K: If you are looking for a paticular saint, you might want to try the Catholic Encyclopedia which has entries about many saints.
Nov 1 2015, 8:11 PM
Alice Lewis-Eckardt: wish there was a Catholic Library not just public
Nov 1 2015, 8:11 PM
Carol Ann: I think I kept that in my email. at least I hope I did
Nov 1 2015, 8:11 PM
Ann: Thank you, Mother
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Ann: I do too, Alice.
Nov 1 2015, 8:12 PM
Alice Lewis-Eckardt: thanks Judy. want to find a saint that is special to me!
Nov 1 2015, 8:12 PM
Judy K: You also check St. Benedict Publications. They publish many books and different versions of lives of the saints.
Nov 1 2015, 8:12 PM
VisitationSiste: Faces of Holiness: Modern Saints in Photos and Words – Volume 2
https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0879734094
Ann Ball – 2001 – Preview – More editions
This remarkable compilation profiles the amazing depth and breadth of sanctity that characterized “Faces of Holiness.”
isbn:0879734094 – Google Search
Nov 1 2015, 8:12 PM
Dawn L: good ideas, Brian
Nov 1 2015, 8:12 PM
Alice Lewis-Eckardt: Ann we are thinking alike tonight!
Nov 1 2015, 8:12 PM
Lisa C: A double dose of a Saint: Edith Stein/ St. Benedicta of the Cross writing about St. John of the Cross
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VisitationSiste: Yes Edith Stein- another great one
Nov 1 2015, 8:12 PM
Dawn L: Lisa, is this a book?
Nov 1 2015, 8:13 PM
Lisa C: Dawn Science of the Cross
Nov 1 2015, 8:13 PM
VisitationSiste: Young Faces of Holiness: Modern Saints in Photos and Words
https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1931709556
Ann Ball – 2004 – Preview
Young Faces of Holiness includes: – America’s Charlene Marie Richard, “the little Cajun” – Portugal’s Blessed Jacinta and Francisco Marto, to whom Mary appeared in Fatima – Italy’s Chiara Luce Badana, known for her love of tennis, swimming, …
isbn:1931709556 – Google Search
Nov 1 2015, 8:13 PM
Dawn L: thank you!
Nov 1 2015, 8:13 PM
Ann: Thank you for all of these great suggestions!
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Lisa C: Dawn, I would read the works of St. John of the Cross first, because she refers to him and I think it would be less clear to read her book first8:14 PM
Dawn L: I see. I am forever reading the way of perfection
Nov 1 2015, 8:15 PM
VisitationSiste: Sometimes if I want to grow in something the Lord puts into my hand somehow a book or a saint book that touches upon my need.
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Judy K: Mother, I was very impressed by the life of Blessed Chiara Badano when she first appeared on the scene. She is among those I mention in my personal Litany of Saints after my daily Rosary. 8:15 PM
Dawn L: and I believe St Teresa’s SD was ST JOhn. perhaps it would be good to start at beginning and read his writings! thanks
Nov 1 2015, 8:16 PM
VisitationSiste: Yes there are “new” saints we are just learning about
Nov 1 2015, 8:16 PM
Carol Ann: That’s happened to me to, Sister
Nov 1 2015, 8:16 PM
Lisa C: I think that happens a lot Mother
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Lisa C: Even the Mass readings
Nov 1 2015, 8:17 PM
Lisa C: I ask again how do we take a leap from understanding to doing……detaching
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VisitationSiste: We were taught this French word “couper court” spelling unsure- to cut short, 8:18 PM
Dawn L: Lisa, I believe it is a grace, first. but with any grace, we need to reconize it and just say yes- interiorly. this has been my experience
Nov 1 2015, 8:18 PM
Mary Roberta Viano: Hello!
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Ann: Dawn, that has also been my experience
Nov 1 2015, 8:18 PM
Guest6603 (guest): As we study the Saints and the Word of God we can see the qualities of the Saints in our friends and people we know and we can even see the potential qualities of those who do not yet know Jesus and how they will be when they know Jesus !
Nov 1 2015, 8:18 PM
Lisa C: I think the grace gives you the understanding or recognition of what God may want, but then the will struggles
Nov 1 2015, 8:18 PM
Carol Ann: Hi Sr Mary Roberta
Nov 1 2015, 8:18 PM
Dawn L: hi Sr Mary Roberta!
Nov 1 2015, 8:19 PM
Mary Roberta Viano: I’m late since recreation went longer than usual and we were preparing for our All Souls Mass tomorrow.
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Mary Roberta Viano: So, you’ve talked about the saints you’ve known? :19 PM
Dawn L: yes, sometimes our will can struggle!. M
VisitationSiste: Saints we have known- hmm Fr Benedict Groeschel
Nov 1 2015, 8:22 PM
Dawn L: how much joy to be with the students!
Nov 1 2015, 8:22 PM
VisitationSiste: I think he will have his cause introduced some day
Nov 1 2015, 8:23 PM
Guest6603 (guest): When I am really struggling I like to remember St Lawrence who even when he was being cooked for his faith kept his sense of humor by the power of the Holy Spirit and he asked his persecutors to turn him over on the other side !!!
Nov 1 2015, 8:23 PM
VisitationSiste: I met him a few times and in fact know a healing story that happened right here with him
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Mary Roberta Viano: As SFdS said in a sermon, we all “can be helped by the saints and share in the prayers of the blessed, who are in Paradise.” , 8:23 PM
Judy K: Mother, are you familiar with Venerable Maria Teresa Quevedo, a young Spanish woman who had great devotion to our Lady, such that her biography was entitled “Mary Was Her Life.” She was a young religious who contracted tubercular meningitis and died at the age of 24. A lovely life. You can get an abbreviated version from St. Benedict Center, Still River, Massachusetts 01467. They publish a magazine called “From the Housetops” and each issue devotes about half of its pages to the life of a saint.
Nov 1 2015, 8:24 PM
VisitationSiste: Yes we have that book in our library
Nov 1 2015, 8:24 PM
Carol Ann: Is there time to tell the story, Sr?
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Carol Ann: Is there time to tell the story, Sr?
Nov 1 2015, 8:24 PM
Mary Roberta Viano: Yes, Judy, we love their “From the Housetops” publication.
Nov 1 2015, 8:25 PM
Judy K: I think that it is a great way to get a collection of lives of saints.
Nov 1 2015, 8:25 PM
VisitationSiste: Yes it was Sr Antonia’s golden jubilee in 2007 and she passed out at it. Fr Groeschel wsas visiting another Sr in the parlor and was called over to pray over Sr. As he came dowen the stairs his cane touched another person;s canee. She was healed. She was a friend of Sr Antonia’s niece
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Lisa C: What was she cured of?
Nov 1 2015, 8:26 PM
Mary Roberta Viano: In another sermon he said, ” We must always have before our eyes the mirrors of the virtues and examples of the saints in order to pattern and form all our actions on them.”
Nov 1 2015, 8:26 PM
Judy K: I sure do want to pattern my life after St. Gertrude.
Nov 1 2015, 8:27 PM
Judy K: How I long to come to such holiness as she had!
Nov 1 2015, 8:27 PM
VisitationSiste: She had an accident and needed the cane to walk- but afterwards from that day did not
Nov 1 2015, 8:27 PM
Carol Ann: that is amazing. I have tried to read some of his work, but I was not yet ready for it
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Mary Roberta Viano: Yes, the mirrors of the saints’ lives definitely help us to see ourselves for who we are and how we need to change.
Nov 1 2015, 8:28 PM
Judy K: FR. Benedict’s works are not easy to read. It is easier to comprehend him when he is speaking. You might want to try tapes which you can get throught EWTN.
5, 8:29 PM
Carol Ann: Judy, that’s a great idea, thank you! 8:29 PM
Dawn L: Yes, Sr Mary….todays homily was on “we are all called to be saints”
Nov 1 2015, 8:29 PM
Mary Roberta Viano: One of our alums entered his newly-formed order in the Bronx and is very happy serving the poor there.
8:29 PM
Ann: That’s wonderful, Sister Mary Roberta!
Nov 1 2015, 8:29 PM
Lisa C: Franciscan Sisters of the Renewal?
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Mary Roberta Viano: The Bible calls all the followers of Jesus, saints – may saints-in-training.
Nov 1 2015, 8:30 PM
Guest6603 (guest): Wonderful Sister !
5, 8:30 PM
Judy K: Having seen Fr. Benedict and his friars at religious gatherings, I was deeply touched by the tenderness with which his brothers cared for him. PM
Mary Roberta Viano: and this alum of ours, now Sr. Kateri Tekakwitha, is esp. gentle. She grew up as the oldest of 12 siblings, all of whom served others from childhood on.
Nov 1 2015, 8:31 PM
VisitationSiste: Let’s ask the saints to intercede this week for holy vocations- in all states of life
, 8:32 PM
Ann: Yes Mother
Nov 1 2015, 8:32 PM
Mary Roberta Viano: Good idea, Mother! True and sincere followers of Our Lord!
Nov 1 2015, 8:32 PM
Carol Ann: Yes, that would be an excellent thing to do
Nov 1 2015, 8:32 PM
VisitationSiste: Married life- St Zelie and Louis- great examples
Nov 1 2015, 8:32 PM
Alice Lewis-Eckardt: i agree!
Nov 1 2015, 8:32 PM
Guest6603 (guest): I enjoyed Fr Benedicts encouragement and love on Sunday Nights on Ewtn !
Nov 1 2015, 8:32 PM
Judy K: All you holy men and women pray for us.
015, 8:32 PM
Dawn L: yes, Mother. The world, our country need sisters and priests!
Nov 1 2015, 8:32 PM
Mary Roberta Viano: and holy lay people, too!
3 PM
VisitationSiste: We represent most of the states of life right here!
Nov 1 2015, 8:33 PM
Alice Lewis-Eckardt: I am widowed and not consecrated. what can i become?
Nov 1 2015, 8:33 PM
Guest6603 (guest): Keep Shining and Praying Everyone ! Love Brian
Nov 1 2015, 8:33 PM
VisitationSiste: A holy widow like St Jane de Chantal was
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Alice Lewis-Eckardt: I am widowed and not consecrated. what can i become?
Nov 1 2015, 8:33 PM
Guest6603 (guest): Keep Shining and Praying Everyone ! Love Brian
Nov 1 2015, 8:33 PM
VisitationSiste: A holy widow like St Jane de Chantal was
Nov 1 2015, 8:34 PM
Mary Roberta Viano: Blessings and prayers for all of you this week! Good night!
Nov 1 2015, 8:34 PM
Alice Lewis-Eckardt: good idea!
Nov 1 2015, 8:34 PM
Judy K: I was truly elated by the canonization of Zelie an Louis Martin. What wonderful parents they were. They fostered 5 religious vocations. Perhaps we should ask their intercession for vocations.
Nov 1 2015, 8:34 PM
VisitationSiste: Yes great idea Judy!
Nov 1 2015, 8:34 PM
Carol Ann: Alice, you could be part of Brothers and Sisters of Charity or a consecrated virgin, or even seek a monastery