Most of us are not called in radical and profound ways, but instead most of us are called by God in a gradual way. How can we focus our spiritual life on living by this slow and steady growth?
What is something that you can start doing to help yourself achieve this “ordinary purification”?
If Jesus died for us and saves us from our sins, then why is it so important to still focus on growth and purification?

 

 

Carol Ann: I believe we must participate in our own purification. God can purify us without our help, of course, and often does when we ask for it. But life is a combat between good and evil that we each fight for ourselves

 

Michelle P Olivier: I think our prayer life and meditations on scripture, especially the teachings of Jesus help us to grow

 

Lisa C: I think saying the Rosary helps

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VisitationSiste: I find “incidents” help. Why did I respond in such a way, for ex. 7:26 PM

Lisa C: Another thing that helps is when someone seems annoying to look at them again as Jesus and suddenly I do not seen an annoying person I see someone with a huge challenge

Feb 28 2016, 7:27 PM

Carol Ann: This is why a daily examen is so necessary

2016, 7:27 PM

Lisa C: punctuation would have helped

Feb 28 2016, 7:27 PM

VisitationSiste: and sometimes the danger there is the routine of it

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Michelle P Olivier: I was just going to say that Carol Ann. Looking at how we responded to situations during the day and what we could have done better to imitate Christ , 7:28 PM

Carol Ann: Michelle, have you studied St Ignatius of Loyola too?

Feb 28 2016, 7:28 PM

Lisa C: Not just imitating Him but also seeing Him in people

Feb 28 2016, 7:28 PM

VisitationSiste: or how we let Him live in us

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Michelle P Olivier: I have some knowledge of St. Ignatius and his teachings PM

Michelle P Olivier: Another help is to start the day with meditation. It helps me stay on track during the day. I notice a difference when I don’t meditate in the morning in the way I respond to things. :35 PM

Judy K: My first remark re: question 1 is borrowing an old cliche “Rome wasn’t built in a day.” And so we cannot expect our growth in devotion, in spir

Feb 28 2016, 7:36 PM

Dawn L: repenting is a process leading to growing closer to God

Feb 28 2016, 7:36 PM

Carol Ann: I have had times when I am in slow growth, and then called to a radical step, then slow growth again

Feb 28 2016, 7:36 PM

Lisa C: Speaking of Gabriel, we can also ask for help from our Guardian Angel and other Angels

Feb 28 2016, 7:36 PM

Jennifer (guest): Awareness of God present helps.

Feb 28 2016, 7:36 PM

Judy K: in spirituality to occur overnight. Rather it comes about with a steady practice of virtue and deep love for the Lord, along with service to others.

Feb 28 2016, 7:37 PM

Carol Ann: Just remember to specify Holy Angels!

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Lisa C: Oh yes, only holy ones

Feb 28 2016, 7:38 PM

Natacha (guest): repenting is a grace, it like being Lazarus in the tomb and hearing Jesus calling your name.

2016, 7:38 PM

Judy K: Orlike the woman at the well when Jesus tells her that she does not have a husband but that she has had 5.

Feb 28 2016, 7:39 PM

VisitationSiste: In our rapid paced culture, slow growth and waiting for it almost becomes in itself an extraordinary virtue

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Dawn L: the process of repentance , yes Natacha, a grace

 

Natacha (guest): Physically growth happens painlessly but spiritual growth comes through the cross.

Feb 28 2016, 7:39 PM

Carol Ann: Yes, Sr., we have been conditioned to expect things to happen right away, or at least quickly, on our demand

Feb 28 2016, 7:40 PM

Lisa C: Separating from our culture helps too, we need to be silent to hear God

7:41 PM

Lisa C: Getting away from distractions of the world

Feb 28 2016, 7:41 PM

Michelle P Olivier: Yes, it is easy to get caught up in “busy” work – we all need time to go to our “inner room”

Feb 28 2016, 7:41 PM

Dawn L: I agree Lisa,

Feb 28 2016, 7:41 PM

Judy K: I also think that we might need to relax a bit regarding our growth. Some of us might get anxious if we feel that we are not progressing in the spiritual life. Realizing that it is God Who does the work, we need to relax, get out of the way and let the Lord work in us.

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Natacha (guest): That is what I love about the Visitation Monastery, what was essential and worthy 400 years ago, continue to be essential and worthy. The culture of our time and the the culture of St Jane de Chantal have one thing in common, we need to get away from it in order to think and be with Jesus. 7:43 PM

Carol Ann: If we remember that, it is easier not to get caught up in details, and to see things in the light of eternity 43 PM

Jennifer (guest): By God’s grace, we can be “cured” Naaman.

Feb 28 2016, 7:43 PM

VisitationSiste: Sometimes moments of purification hurt

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Carol Ann: yes, like surgery!

Feb 28 2016, 7:44 PM

Michelle P Olivier: And sometime we don’t realize we are being purified

Feb 28 2016, 7:44 PM

Lisa C: Doesn’t God send us painful things for our own good?

Feb 28 2016, 7:44 PM

Natacha (guest): Sr. isn’t better to hurt here while on earth than in Purgatory where a minute can be a thousand years?

Feb 28 2016, 7:44 PM

Dawn L: StFdS explained so clearly in this chapter…arise not until the light cometh

Feb 28 2016, 7:45 PM

Natacha (guest): Dawn that sounds like Pentecost also. We need the Holy Spirit.

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Judy K: If we are sincere about getting rid of the faults and failings that keep us from the Lord, He will surely work in us to plant seeds, water them and bring them to harvest. There may bee pain-it must hurt the seeds to break through the clods of earth, and then to develop into a beautiful plant. Well it hurts when we try to eliminate faults, when we try to break up the clods of our lives. But the Lord may not work within us unless we make room for Him.

Feb 28 2016, 7:46 PM

Lisa C: Dawn, I think that the painful things are God’s will, God’s good pleasure according to StFdS

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Natacha (guest): I think the beauty of Jesus is that He suffered and in His suffering I find meaning in mine. I don’t think anything painful happens to me without God permitting it. Yet when I discover the peace of Christ in my pain it changes the way I look back on the experience. So that what started out as painful became a grace and a source of peace. :49 PM

Lisa C: Good way of saying it Natacha 0 PM

Judy K: That’s where beginning the “ordinary purification” sets in. One way to begin is to practice small acts of self-denial( giving up a special food or treat, refraining from complaining or criticizing; foregoing an act of entertainment for an hour; not putting seasoning on our food; not seeking praise or affirmation). This should be accompanied by reflection on the sufferings and prayer for purification.

 

Natacha (guest): I need to practice that Judy.

Feb 28 2016, 7:50 PM

 

Judy K: Oh, so do I, Natacha!

Feb 28 2016, 7:50 PM

Dawn L: Hi Amy

Feb 28 2016, 7:51 PM

Natacha (guest): Sometimes I find it easier to make a big sacrifice than to do small ones

 

VisitationSiste: Yes Natacha I think of it as big sweeping vs the dust in the corners

Feb 28 2016, 7:52 PM

Amy Cochran: I think half way through Lent is a tough time’

 

Judy K: Yes, as in my life I have found that I can tolerate a big problem, but a lot of little ones can really bring me down.

Feb 28 2016, 7:53 PM

Amy Cochran: I think the worst is tolerating illness. It’s probably one of the most difficult problems to offer up

Feb 28 2016, 7:53 PM

Natacha (guest): Thank God for Divine Mercy.

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Natacha (guest): I rarely if ever hear anyone thank God for their sickness…. but what if that was their sanctification? 7:55 PM

Jennifer (guest): “Forsaking sin and to shave away every impediment”, is the challenge. Sister

 

Carol Ann: Natacha, I think people have been taught to think of illness as a punishment

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Natacha (guest): hmmm.That is true

Feb 28 2016, 7:55 PM

Jennifer (guest): Is there a way, what will you suggest?

 

VisitationSiste: The Lord does most of it for us but we need confidence and humility

Feb 28 2016, 7:56 PM

Amy Cochran: but sickness offered up in unification with the suffering of Christ can be very uplifting

Feb 28 2016, 7:56 PM

Natacha (guest): Thank God for the pain, for the hurt, bless His Holy Name for everything

Feb 28 2016, 7:56 PM

Lisa C: St. T of L and St MM thought of pain and illness as work for God

 

Amy Cochran: it takes a lot of prayer

 

Ruth (guest): Hello Lisa, and everyone. Sorry I’m late. Just got home from a parish covered dish supper.

 

Judy K: Just as an example–today is the 20th anniversary of my mom’s entry into eternal life. At that I had gone through a cancer diagnosis, surgery, chemo and was about half way through the radiation when she passed. I weathered her death and the funeral. Two weeks to the day after her death, my car was stolen from under my window. Well, that was the straw that broke this camel’s back. I literally screamed when I discovered it.

Feb 28 2016, 7:57 PM

Natacha (guest): I believe deep in my heart that St Therese of the Child Jesus, suffered for me personally. That her suffering gained my conversion. What if my suffering for Jesus gains someone else’s salvation?

 

Natacha (guest): I am sorry to hear about your mom Judy

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Judy K: I had been through surgery, diagnosis of cancer, chemo, radiation. I was half way through the radiation at the time of her death. With the grace of God, I came through all the big stuff, but it was the little thing, a stolen car, that really brought me to my knees.

Feb 28 2016, 7:59 PM

Carol Ann: Anniversaries of this sort are so hard, Judy. Every year seems an invitation to be healed again

Feb 28 2016, 8:00 PM

Natacha (guest): What if the scream was in you all this time and God in HIs wisdom allowed it to come out by the car being stolen?

 

Ruth (guest): Yes, sometimes the stressors come in bundles and one wonders, What does he want me to learn from all this. I think it ok to scream once in a while. We try not to let others hear it, just scream to God, who hears us.

Feb 28 2016, 8:00 PM

Jennifer (guest): May our Lord heal and console you

 

Natacha (guest): The silent scream

Feb 28 2016, 8:01 PM

Judy K: Well, I was standing in the middle of my block when I was screaming.

Feb 28 2016, 8:01 PM

Dawn L: Ch 5 the first step- purifying the soul. So much does StF say in 2 little pages!

Feb 28 2016, 8:01 PM

Natacha (guest): God heard and understood your pain Judy

 

Ruth (guest): Did anyone come to offer you help, comfort?

 

Ruth (guest): That’s addressed to Judy.

 

Natacha (guest): Grieving is not a linear process

 

Judy K: And I also that there was a good reason for the theft. I asked God about it one day in prayer–Why did You allow this? And the response came “To save your life.” I realized that my concentration was not acute at that time and I could have had an accident causing much suffering to someone. And yes, Ruth, my neighbor came running out to see what happened.

Feb 28 2016, 8:04 PM

Natacha (guest): You see God loves you so much

 

VisitationSiste: Your souls have such depth to be able to see this

Feb 28 2016, 8:04 PM

Judy K: And another neighbor drove me to work. I was really late because I was waiting for the police who never showed up.

Feb 28 2016, 8:04 PM

Ruth (guest): One time I arrived by a long bicycle trip at the door of my goddaughter’s mother. When she asked me how I was, I said, “I feel like screaming.” She said, can you hold off for an hour or two, I know just the place.

 

Amy Cochran: that’s funny, Ruth

 

Natacha (guest): That is cute Ruth

 

Natacha (guest): I think God loves us best when we are ourselves with Him

 

Judy K: That must have brought you up short, Ruth. At that point you must have been ready to burst.

Feb 28 2016, 8:06 PM

Ruth (guest): Later she took me to a big sheep meadow and walked some distance away. Because she understood how I felt, I no longer felt like screaming.

Feb 28 2016, 8:06 PM

Natacha (guest): You just needed to be heard and she heard you

Feb 28 2016, 8:06 PM

Jennifer (guest): Yes be ourselves and with our weaknesses.

 

Lisa C: A sheep meadow would calm me down too, Ruth

Feb 28 2016, 8:07 PM

 

VisitationSiste: Brian by the way asked for prayers for his Kairos men tonight

Feb 28 2016, 8:08 PM

Judy K: And all of these things are part of our spiritual growth. There are hurdles to jump and lessons to be learned, but if we keep on keeping on, growth will occur. Hi Sister Mary Roberta.

Feb 28 2016, 8:08 PM

Dawn L: Thank you Mother!

 

Ruth (guest): Yes, her kindness helped me. The sheep were far away, otherwise, had I let out that great big scream in me, I think I might’ve scared the sheep.

Feb 28 2016, 8:08 PM

Lisa C: Baaa

 

Natacha (guest): Growth happens sometimes when we least expect it

Feb 28 2016, 8:09 PM

Ruth (guest): I’m glad that your neighbors were kind to you, Judy.

Feb 28 2016, 8:09 PM

Dawn L: hahaha Lisa

Feb 28 2016, 8:09 PM

Ruth (guest): LOL< Lisa.

 

Judy K: Perhaps growth happen when least expected

Feb 28 2016, 8:09 PM

Mary Roberta Viano: That’s it, Ruth: thinking of others (as you did of the sheep) calms and focuses us.

Feb 28 2016, 8:09 PM

Natacha (guest): Your story makes me smile Ruth though is speaks of real pain. But in it I hear angels coming to your help, the voice of God speaking in you and sheep and rolling meadows!

Feb 28 2016, 8:10 PM

Ruth (guest): It was surely her kindness that helped to heal me.

Feb 28 2016, 8:11 PM

Natacha (guest): Kindness is the kiss of GOd

 

Ruth (guest): I experienced a similar kindness from Sr. Anna, of the Missionarinnen Christi. PM

Lisa C: In Washington, DC during rush hour they divert traffic in Rock Creek Park and change traffic patterns. A girl in a car had to change lanes suddenly and the car behind her hit her car in the back. She let out a visceral scream and got out of the car in the middle of several lanes of traffic and did not put on her brake. The car kept going without her in it. Then she screamed more. It was horrible.

 

Mary Roberta Viano: and for me, that’s how I grow closer to God, day by day – by wrenching (sometimes it’s that hard!) my focus away from myself, noticing the needs of the people around me, and responding to those needs as best I can.

Feb 28 2016, 8:12 PM

Carol Ann: Yes, God often comes disguised in the actions of His followers

 

Judy K: That brings me to question 3. Why must continue to focus on growth and purification? Because we are weak human beings. Without that constant focus on growth, we can fall and even give up the process. Or we can regress and lose ground in the growth we have attained, losing sight of the marvelous graces that the Lord has bestowed on us. We could also lapse into complacency and fail to advance. PM

Dawn L: a question. StF refers to “the discipline of purification” …Sr Mary, you must be speaking of this, wrenching your focus away from yourslef

 

Natacha (guest): Blessed Mother of Medjugorje recently said to not focus on wars and negativity ( I am paraphrasing) but to focus on God and His peace

 

VisitationSiste: I am trying to find the theological terms but can’t; is it redemption, salvation and then another step

 

Jennifer (guest): But how to wrench one’s focus away from herself?

 

Lisa C: I think her scream was a kind of last straw scream too…it was so huge

 

Dawn L: yourself. So, is this the discipline St F speaks of?

 

Mary Roberta Viano: yes, it should be a lot easier after decades of Christian living, but it isn’t

 

Natacha (guest): That is why works of Mercy heals the giver , 8:15 PM

Mary Roberta Viano: esp. as the body begins to deteriorate and pains accumulate!

 

Dawn L: then this is why St F says to be patient and courageous!

 

Ruth (guest): Yes, when I called my friend Sr. Anna, in great distress and she responded quickly, If you want me to come to you, you’ll have to wait ’til this afternoon; want to come here, you can come right away. The hard work of pedaling my bicycle helped calm me. When I got there I was not yet ready to talk, I just asked her to put me to work. PM

Mary Roberta Viano: Then, more than ever, I have to think about stretching out to help my sister in her everyday struggle.

Feb 28 2016, 8:16 PM

Lisa C: We need God all the time. No matter how far we progress we still need Him every minute. That is why we have to keep trying

Feb 28 2016, 8:16 PM

Amy Cochran: when the priest says, May the peace of Christ be with you”, at mass, it does have a real meaning…….the peace only Christ can give

 

Lisa C: Speaking of the peace of Christ, the harder something is to go through the more peace comes of it

Feb 28 2016, 8:17 PM

Carol Ann: I think the struggle for holiness continues all our life long, in the myriads of decisions that we make every day

Feb 28 2016, 8:17 PM

Natacha (guest): Eucharistic miracles have shown that Christ heart in the Eucharist is a suffering heart, so we share that with him

 

Mary Roberta Viano: yes, Amy, so we keep leaning on Him

Feb 28 2016, 8:17 PM

Judy K: I sometimes wonder if I am becoming too centered on myself. I spend most of my time alone so I do not have opportunities to reach out to others. But I do spend a lot of time in intercessory prayer, lifting up the needs of many people whom I know so I am not totally self centered.

 

Amy Cochran: you know, we hear , Peace be with you, but maybe don’t ponder its meaning

 

 

 

Lisa C: The suffering has to be united with Jesus for the peace to come

 

Natacha (guest): That is beautiful Judy.

 

Amy Cochran: you know, we hear , Peace be with you, but maybe don’t ponder its meaning

Feb 28 2016, 8:17 PM

Lisa C: The suffering has to be united with Jesus for the peace to come

 

Natacha (guest): That is beautiful Judy.

 

Carol Ann: Judy, I think that is the hardest thing for those called to monasticism

Feb 28 2016, 8:18 PM

Ruth (guest): Sactification, perhaps, sister.

 

VisitationSiste: Yes maybe!

 

Lisa C: Judy the things you wrote that you spoke about being approved by your Bishop seem to be a huge way of reaching out

Feb 28 2016, 8:19 PM

Amy Cochran: being alone is very difficult at times. Some hermits have had great battles with Satan during the solitude

Feb 28 2016, 8:19 PM

Natacha (guest): The kingdom of God is within, so when you are alone Judy you are never alone because there are lot of angels and saints in Heaven and they all accompany you.

 

Dawn L: Judy, I believe this is a temptation, I also have as I live alone. It is easy to become self focused!

 

Amy Cochran: I agree with you, Dawn, self focusing is a huge temptation

 

Lisa C: Being alone may be what you can offer to God

 

Natacha (guest): Saint Francis says to place ourselves in the presence of God, it believe he means be conscious that God is with you , within you and through you.

 

Judy K: I have to say that although I am alone most of the time, I am never lonely. I know that the Lord is all around me and within me and I speak to Him often during the day.

 

Mary Roberta Viano: I love SFdS words in TLG: “god gives us not solely a merely sufficient means to love Him, and in loving Him to save ourselves, but rather a rich, ample, magnificent sufficiency, such as should be expected from goodness as great as His.”

 

Natacha (guest): I have come to like my solitude because it is so filled with God

Feb 28 2016, 8:21 PM

Mary Roberta Viano: God

 

Natacha (guest): That is beautiful Sr. Mary

 

Mary Roberta Viano: even in solitude God’s rich sufficiency is there

 

Carol Ann: And to carry that inner solitude in our hearts even if we must be out and about

 

Dawn L: beautiful, thank you Sr Mary for sharing this

 

Judy K: Wow, Sister, that is a grand thought to latch on to. To know that God does not give the minimum but rather the maximum and even above that. Truly God is not to be outdone in generosity.

 

Dawn L: Carol Ann, this is what the Cloistered Heart blog speaks of. How to live in the world

 

Natacha (guest): Jesus is lonely in the tabernacle, why should we not share that feeling with Him?

 

Dawn L: amen Judy!

 

Mary Roberta Viano: and in one of his conferences he says: “We should preserve and recognize in ourselves an entire and firm resolution to belong wholly to God and to abandon ourselves in all things and without reserve to His Providence.”

 

Ruth (guest): Dawn, is that the blog of the Benedictine Sister(s) of Erie, PA?

Feb 28 2016, 8:24 PM

Natacha (guest): I like when St Therese talked about the little red ball

 

Mary Roberta Viano: He will guide us, whether we live alone or with others. :25 PM

Judy K: And does not that sum up the whole task of our life, and the joy that comes with it!

Feb 28 2016, 8:25 PM

Natacha (guest): she said Jesus picks up his little ball and sometimes he lets it lie in the corner. She is speaking of not feeling his presence.

Feb 28 2016, 8:25 PM

Dawn L: Nancy Shuman, The Cloistered Heart

8:25 PM

VisitationSiste: His Divine Will for us is everything for us

Ruth (guest): Thanks, Dawn.

 

Judy K: Nancy is a married woman with a family and her goal is to make a cloister of her heart into which sh can retreat to commune more deeply with the Lord.

Feb 28 2016, 8:26 PM

Carol Ann: ad while He may often give us the grace of our seeing Him playing ball with us, it is not always good for us to see it

Feb 28 2016, 8:26 PM

Jennifer (guest): May HIS Will be done on us.

Feb 28 2016, 8:26 PM

Dawn L: Salsian if I am saying that correct

Feb 28 2016, 8:26 PM

Mary Roberta Viano: and another help He gives is the lives of the saints: “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.”

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Mary Roberta Viano: Salesian

Feb 28 2016, 8:27 PM

Ruth (guest): and in us and through us Jennifer,

Feb 28 2016, 8:27 PM

Dawn L: thank you

Feb 28 2016, 8:27 PM

Natacha (guest): Sometimes we think that what we are experiencing interiorly is unique to us, but you are right Sr. Mary, the saints help us to see that they also went to this

 

Carol Ann: We are unique though, in that no one experiences God in exactly the same way as another, although the experiences are shared by all]

Feb 28 2016, 8:28 PM

Judy K: Many of the Saints have endured sufferings far beyond anything we may have or will experience.

Feb 28 2016, 8:28 PM

Mary Roberta Viano: and, when I was a Protestant, I didn’t know about the saints at all

Feb 28 2016, 8:28 PM

Natacha (guest): True Carol

Feb 28 2016, 8:28 PM

Carol Ann: Padre Pio comes to mind

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Ruth (guest): I was thinking that, too, Carol.

Feb 28 2016, 8:29 PM

VisitationSiste: And if the saints did Jesus did even more

 

Lisa C: Sister Mary Roberta which denomination

Feb 28 2016, 8:29 PM

Jennifer (guest): Yes, sister. I am also a protestant convert.

Feb 28 2016, 8:29 PM

Natacha (guest): The people who have touched me the most are those who have gone through tremendous difficult yet through it all sing about the love of God

Feb 28 2016, 8:29 PM

Mary Roberta Viano: Presbyterian

8:30 PM

Jennifer (guest): Me too, Presbyterian 6, 8:30 PM

Lisa C: Do they not believe in the Saints? PM

Judy K: He and Mother Teresa seem to have gone through a similar time of feeling separated from the Lord. That has to be the worst thing anyone can experience–being apart from the Lord!

Feb 28 2016, 8:30 PM

Mary Roberta Viano: I love being able to count on the saints’ intercession, esp. our own St. FdS, St. JFdC, St. MM, and the 7 Spanish martyrs.

 

Ruth (guest): My father was Presbyterian, too. He challenged my Catholic faith all the time. Told me about all the bad popes and the crusades.

Feb 28 2016, 8:31 PM

Lisa C: Yes, I love the Visitation Saints too, they are wonderful

Feb 28 2016, 8:31 PM

Jennifer (guest): I love to have our mother up there.

Feb 28 2016, 8:32 PM

Mary Roberta Viano: not to mention my own husband, who is now in closer proximity to Our Lord, and I’ve already experienced many results of his intercession for me and for his 2 sons

Feb 28 2016, 8:32 PM

Ruth (guest): I grew up in the parish of St. Frances de Chantal

Feb 28 2016, 8:32 PM

Carol Ann: Have you seen or read St Teresa’s letters?

Feb 28 2016, 8:32 PM

Judy K: Thank God for what St. Paul calls the “great cloud of witnesses” who are such great exemplars for us.

Feb 28 2016, 8:32 PM

Lisa C: Let’s also not forget Saints who are not canonized, but are real Saints

Feb 28 2016, 8:32 PM

Natacha (guest): Yes, Judy, it helps me to think of all the people gone before who believed.

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Natacha (guest): Where are you Jennifer?

Feb 28 2016, 8:34 PM

VisitationSiste: Thanks for being here- and see you I hope soon!

 

Dawn L: Sr Mary Roberta…tears of joy!

 

Jennifer (guest): Singapore.

 

Mary Roberta Viano: time to depend on St. Cecilia to help me prepare tomorrow’s Office music. Prayers for all!

Feb 28 2016, 8:34 PM

Natacha (guest): Good night and good day Jennifer.

Feb 28 2016, 8:34 PM

Carol Ann: It has been another wonderful visit!

 

 

 

VisitationSiste: I’ll try to get this posted in the morning. Thank you for your deep insights

 

Jennifer (guest): I would say Good morning to all.

Feb 28 2016, 8:35 PM

Carol Ann: May God bless us,every one!

Feb 28 2016, 8:35 PM

Ruth (guest): A friend, Jeannine Nichols, was in a concentration camp. She believed, and always radiated joy. At the closing of her wake, we joined hands, prayed an Our Father, and then with one voice “Wheeee!” the way she did in her healing ministry.

Feb 28 2016, 8:35 PM

Lisa C: God be praised!

 

VisitationSiste: Blessed Lenten week!