With Jesus as our Lord and God, why do you think it is still important to have a relationship with the Saints? Is Jesus not enough?
Who is your confirmation Saint and how do you foster a relationship with him or her?
How would you explain the Catholic devotion to Mary and the Saints to your non-Catholic friends and/or relatives? :56 PM
Valerie Kolarik: Hello! This is Valerie Kolarik trying again to participate in the Visitation Chat! I love the Saints, especially St Jane France’s Chantal, St Francis de Sales, St Therese of Lizeaux, St Benedict, St Francis of Assisi, Holy Mary, and so many more! ❤️❤️❤️������������������������������������
Aug 21 2016, 6:57 PM
Valerie Kolarik: I’ll be back again soon. Hope we can connect then. L + J
Aug 21 2016, 6:58 PM
Carol Ann: Hi Valerie! The official start time is 7:30 Eastern, but we all come a bit early if we can.
Welcome to our Living Jesus Chat Room. Just sign in, using any of the methods below.
Aug 21 2016, 7:08 PM
VisitationSiste: I saw your list of favorite saints
Aug 21 2016, 7:29 PM
Valerie Kolarik: Hello! It is wonderful to connect with you!
Aug 21 2016, 7:29 PM
Guest1983 (guest): (Judy) Happy to welcome you to the chat. Hope you enjoy your visit. I think that you will find us to be a congenial group truly concerned about growth in our faith.
Aug 21 2016, 7:30 PM
VisitationSiste: It has been ages– I am glad you were able to sign on
2016, 7:32 PM
Guest1983 (guest): (Judy) Re: question 1. Jesus is all we need. But He has given us the saints, the great cloud of witnesses, to be our friends and intercessors. They are models for us, showing us how to live for Jesus alone, or how to advance fromgreat sinner to great saint (e.g. St. Augustine). PM
VisitationSiste: I think saints are friends for us- who went thru what we go thru, with their own weaknesses and strengths
Aug 21 2016, 7:37 PM
Carol Ann: I sign on with Facebook because I can never remember the password
Aug 21 2016, 7:37 PM
Guest1983 (guest): (Judy) I have some strange screen which does not show each person as he or she signs on. I responded to a request for a chat and this screen came up. Now I can’t get rid of it.
Aug 21 2016, 7:37 PM
VisitationSiste: I don’t have one favorite saint per se but they come to me as I need them, via a book or a conversation…
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Aug 21 2016, 7:38 PM
Lisa C: That happens with me too, Mother.
Aug 21 2016, 7:39 PM
Lisa C: Lately Edith Stein
Carol Ann: Me too, Though sometimes one will be recommended to me
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Lisa C: No, Mother Edith for about a year
VisitationSiste: Carmelites have a deep spirituality and have been around many centuries
Aug 21 2016, 7:43 PM
Lisa C: I find the Carmelites wonderful
Aug 21 2016, 7:43 PM
Carol Ann: They are all in such deep union with God
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Guest1983 (guest): (Judy) Teresa of Avila is a remarkable woman. I love her spunk and her ability to “tell it like it is” even to the Lord. Like when she fell in the water and said to the Lord, “If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few.”
Aug 21 2016, 7:44 PM
Lisa C: The Visitation and Salesians are also wonderful, but in a different way. They are comforting
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Lisa C: The V and S Saints make me feel safe and the Carmelites make me understand discomfort
Aug 21 2016, 7:45 PM
VisitationSiste: I like to find connections- like betwwen St Therese and St Francis de Sales- or her sister Leonie
Aug 21 2016, 7:45 PM
Guest1983 (guest): (Judy) And Therese of Lisieux and her little way, her way of simplicity and childlike trust in the Lord. She is so appealing. But my all time remains Benedictine St. Gertrude the Great. She is another giant of the spiritual life and I really want to imitate her.
Guest1983 (guest): (Judy) And Therese of Lisieux and her little way, her way of simplicity and childlike trust in the Lord. She is so appealing. But my all time remains Benedictine St. Gertrude the Great. She is another giant of the spiritual life and I really want to imitate her. 16, 7:46 PM
Ruth (guest): Has anyone read the book: My Life with the Saints — I think that’s the title. Just went looking for it to try to be sure to get it right. Didn’t find it. (I’ve been moving a lot of things around.) Ralph MARTIN, is the autor, I think.
Aug 21 2016, 7:46 PM
Carol Ann: Or St Julian of Norwich
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Lisa C: I think St T of L is really more of a Vis in her attitude as she was raised by her sisters who went to a Visitation school
Aug 21 2016, 7:47 PM
VisitationSiste: Ruth- the Jesuit James Martin?
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Carol Ann: Who is your Confirmation saint? Why did you pick her/him and do you ask for heloa.
Aug 21 2016, 7:47 PM
Ruth (guest): You thought right, Sr.Susan. Shouldn’t have tried that hard!
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Carol Ann: I picked Genevieve, because she saved her city through prayer and was a shepherdess. After I chose I found out she’s my Mom’s saint too
Aug 21 2016, 7:49 PM
VisitationSiste: That’s a much better reason!
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Guest1983 (guest): (Judy) I chose the Blessed Mother under the name Marie for my confirmation name. My parents had me dedicated to her at the time of my Baptism and I grew up having a deep devotion to her. As I grew older, she took a back seat to her Son and my devotion to her waned. I am trying to foster a renewed devotion to her by praying the Rosary daily with greater attention and reverence, and asking her to keep me safe from all evil.
Aug 21 2016, 7:50 PM
Ruth (guest): Judy, that’s one of my favorite lines from St. Theresa of Avila. She was on a really personal basis with God.
Aug 21 2016, 7:50 PM
Carol Ann: I like animals too! Probably why I ended up in a Franciscan order!
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Ruth (guest): I think you are right, Sr. Susan. Wasn’t sure I could trust my memory. I like the autobiographical approach he uses — how the saints became important to him, and then sharing more and more about some of them. 7:54 PM
VisitationSiste: Right now I am reading about a priest, not canonized who was on a mission with the Ottawas in mid America; saintly but not canonized
VisitationSiste: Right now I am reading about a priest, not canonized who was on a mission with the Ottawas in mid America; saintly but not canonized
Aug 21 2016, 7:55 PM
Guest1983 (guest): (Judy) I think that I might have mentioned last week that I find it more profitable to read a biography of a saint, than to read a theological treatise. Right now, I am about to start Pope Francis’ Apostolic letter on the family. We will be having a Family Formation Day in October and it was recommended that we read it. I always trouble reading Papal documents. I hope that I have a better time with this one.
Aug 21 2016, 7:55 PM
Carol Ann: Those written by Pope Francis tend to be easier to read, but just as deep
Lisa C: I like Pope Benedict and Pope St. J-P better to read:57 PM
Guest1983 (guest): (Judy) It’s funny, I have a pretty decent intelligence, but I am basically a very simple person and the simpler a writing is, the better it is for me. 58 PM
VisitationSiste: I enjoy reading saints letters- you really get a sense of the person WE have lots of letetrs of St jane and St Francis
Aug 21 2016, 7:58 PM
Lisa C: Pope Francis is confusing
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Guest1983 (guest): (Judy) I find that I cannot read Pope Benedict at all, and JP II with difficulty. The only one of St. JP’s that i read with ease, was Christifideles Laici.
Aug 21 2016, 7:59 PM
Guest1983 (guest): (Judy) Welcome viewers. Happy to have you aboard.
Aug 21 2016, 7:59 PM
Carol Ann: Maybe because they write out of all those years of theological train I ng?
Aug 21 2016, 7:59 PM
Ruth (guest): I borrowed one of the collections of those letters some time back, only the letters were addressed to The Countess of . . . or something like that.
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Ruth (guest): Later I realized that that was St. Jane Francis de Chantel, after whom the parish I grew up in was named.
Ruth (guest): Hello Dawn. And welcome Jennifer. Been praying that your visit would be profitable — in just the right ways.
Aug 21 2016, 8:03 PM
Lisa C: I really like St. Padre Pio too
Aug 21 2016, 8:03 PM
VisitationSiste: Me too Hi Jennifer
Aug 21 2016, 8:03 PM
Dawn L: Hi Mother Susan, Ruth, Carol Ann, Lisa, Jennifer Judy and viewer
Aug 21 2016, 8:03 PM
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Jennifer Koo: Hi, Mother Susan
Aug 21 2016, 8:04 PM
VisitationSiste: We had a retreatant this weekend who had been to the shrine of Padre Pio in Pa and I have some blessed article from her-
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Guest1983 (guest): (Judy) Another favorite of mine is St.Gemma Galgani and another is St. Alphonsus Liguori. I love his book on the Passion and the Death of Jesus Christ, and the one on the Eucharist.
Aug 21 2016, 8:04 PM
Ruth (guest): Are you at home again Jennifer. If so you must be exhausted — such a long plane ride.
Aug 21 2016, 8:05 PM
Jennifer Koo: Yes, just back return morning mass
Aug 21 2016, 8:06 PM
Guest1983 (guest): (Judy) Oh my goodness, Jennifer! Where do you live that you are just back from mnorning mass?
Aug 21 2016, 8:06 PM
Lisa C: St. Margaret Mary and Claude de la Colombiere
Aug 21 2016, 8:07 PM
Jennifer Koo: Singapore. We are 12 hours different. Now, Monday morning.
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Guest1983 (guest): (Judy) Wow!!! :08 PM
Ruth (guest): And you were in Brooklyn this week, weren’t you?
Aug 21 2016, 8:08 PM
Ruth (guest): Jennifer?
Aug 21 2016, 8:08 PM
Jennifer Koo: I was passing by for a couple of hours.
Aug 21 2016, 8:08 PM
Carol Ann: Singapore is so beautiful
Aug 21 2016, 8:09 PM
Jennifer Koo: Thank you
Aug 21 2016, 8:09 PM
Guest1983 (guest): (Judy) Oh my, that is a really long trip!!!
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VisitationSiste: Who is the sainty of long flights?
Aug 21 2016, 8:11 PM
Dawn L: Saints…thinking of Mother Teresa , soon to be canonized. How will she be named?
Aug 21 2016, 8:12 PM
Ruth (guest): A friend who works as an elementary school teacher tells me they have strict rules to keep mosquitoes under control in Singapore — like you cannot have standing water under a plant on the windowsill. If it works, it’s probably worth it these days . . .
Aug 21 2016, 8:13 PM
Jennifer Koo: Yes, there is no mosquito where I stay
Aug 21 2016, 8:13 PM
Ruth (guest): Is the question rhetorical, Sr. Susan. Smart “steering.”
Aug 21 2016, 8:13 PM
Dawn L: St Christopher is patron saint of traveling
Guest1983 (guest): (Judy) My answer to the last question is kind of long, so I am going to get started. On explaining our devotion to saints to those not of our faith: Saints are those whom the Church recognizes as having lived lives of heroic virtue and holiness. This is seen as confirmed by the Lord by two miracles (inexplicable healings, e.g.) obtained through their intercession. We do not worship saints as some may think, but just as we ask our friends or family to pray for a particular intention for us,
Aug 21 2016, 8:14 PM
VisitationSiste: Id also suggest St Joseph Cupertino
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Guest1983 (guest): (Judy) so we ask the saints to pray for these intentions for us. They are powerful intercessors.
Aug 21 2016, 8:15 PM
Lisa C: I think we can also pray for and to souls in purgatory, because they pray for us
Aug 21 2016, 8:15 PM
Ruth (guest): I was thinking of St. Antoin d’Exupery — The Little Prince. Was he actually a saint.
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Jennifer Koo: I read about St RitaPM
Ruth (guest): I was thinking of St. Antoin d’Exupery — The Little Prince. Was he actually a saint.
I think that his name is actually Antoine de St. Exupery.
Aug 21 2016, 8:16 PM
Carol Ann: St Martha was recommended to me
2016, 8:17 PM
VisitationSiste: A good way is to ask a non Catholic to pray with you and then explain that is what the saints do with and for us8 PM
Guest1983 (guest): (Judy) I really should cultivate a greater devotion to St. Jude for whom I was named. As a preacher of the Gospel, he would be a doubly good patron for me since I am involved in spreading the Gospel too.
Aug 21 2016, 8:18 PM
Dawn L: Mother, you mentioned a retreatant who had visited Padre Pio shrine and blessed papers. what are they, the papers
Aug 21 2016, 8:18 PM
Guest1983 (guest): (Judy) What a good idea Sister Susan!!!
Aug 21 2016, 8:19 PM
Ruth (guest): I think you are right, Judy. But was he a Saint by the definition you cited. I know a few people whose names include “Saint.” Or I did. They are probably saints now — good, generous parishioners of my local Church.
Aug 21 2016, 8:19 PM
Dawn L: very good idea!
Aug 21 2016, 8:19 PM
Lisa C: Technically we are all Saints if we believe in Jesus
Aug 21 2016, 8:19 PM
Jennifer Koo: Most protestants will not want to pray or to know about the saints.
Aug 21 2016, 8:20 PM
Guest1983 (guest): (Judy) But not everyone who has “Saint” as part of their surname is a canonized saint. For example, the actress, Susan St. James.
Aug 21 2016, 8:21 PM
Ruth (guest): I often imagine that some of my now deceased former spiritual directors and friends pray with and for me. And I tried to think what they would say about a particular situation or concern.
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Lisa C: I do pray to dead relatives to intercede
Aug 21 2016, 8:22 PM
VisitationSiste: I have Padre holy cards and relic touched to other relics
Aug 21 2016, 8:22 PM
Carol Ann: Padre is such a powerful ally
Aug 21 2016, 8:22 PM
Lisa C: My scapula was touched to the bones of St T of L when she came to NY on tour of the US
Aug 21 2016, 8:22 PM
Lisa C: My rosary too
Aug 21 2016, 8:23 PM
Guest1983 (guest): (Judy) A non-essential bit of information, it was just 8:21 PM on 8/21.
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Guest1983 (guest): (Judy) I think that there is going to be a great deal of joy on the earth and in Heaven on the occasion of Mother Teresa’s canonization. Like St. John Paul II, she just exuded holiness. I think that everyone knew that she was a saint even before her death.
Aug 21 2016, 8:26 PM
Dawn L: I was wondering how we will address her, seems she will always be Mother Teresa.
Aug 21 2016, 8:26 PM
Guest1983 (guest): (Judy) Probably Saint Teresa of Calcutta.
Aug 21 2016, 8:26 PM
Lisa C: There are many Saints that we do not know, who spent their lives hidden in monasteries praying for souls. They do not get canonized, but they are just as holy.
Aug 21 2016, 8:26 PM
Dawn L: oh yes, that makes sense Judy
Aug 21 2016, 8:27 PM
Carol Ann: That makes sebse, but she will always be Mother
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VisitationSiste: Mother theresa was in our Monastery in 1986 We have the chair she sat in8:27 PM
Aug 21 2016, 8:28 PM
Guest1983 (guest): (Judy) That is truly awesome Sister!
Aug 21 2016, 8:28 PM
Dawn L: agree always Mother Teresa. Oh how wonderful!
Aug 21 2016, 8:28 PM
Lisa C: Mother I saw the picture on line, who was the Nun sitting with her
Aug 21 2016, 8:28 PM
Ruth (guest): I saw her in Freiburg, Germany.
Aug 21 2016, 8:28 PM
Jennifer Koo: Oh, really. That’s wonderful
Aug 21 2016, 8:28 PM
VisitationSiste: That was Sr Marie Anatrella
Lisa C: When did Sr Marie join
Aug 21 2016, 8:29 PM
VisitationSiste: 1976 from Riverdale
Aug 21 2016, 8:29 PM
VisitationSiste: That Monastery was also Visitation but it closed
Aug 21 2016, 8:29 PM
Lisa C: I didn’t know her
Aug 21 2016, 8:29 PM
VisitationSiste: I will do a post on this I think
Aug 21 2016, 8:29 PM
Carol Ann: Yes please!
Aug 21 2016, 8:29 PM
VisitationSiste: No it was after your time She was my novice directress
Aug 21 2016, 8:29 PM
Guest1983 (guest): (Judy) I have a friend who lives in Canada whose sister is a Missionary of Charity.
Aug 21 2016, 8:29 PM
Dawn L: look forward Mother!
Aug 21 2016, 8:30 PM
Ruth (guest): Thank you Sr. Susan.
Aug 21 2016, 8:30 PM
Jennifer Koo: I will like to read your post
Aug 21 2016, 8:30 PM
Lisa C: How many sisters came from Riverdale
Aug 21 2016, 8:30 PM
VisitationSiste: I can take a picture of the chair and share some tidbits of her day here as I am told it by the other 2 Sisters who were here then
Aug 21 2016, 8:30 PM
VisitationSiste: 5 I think
Aug 21 2016, 8:30 PM
Guest1983 (guest): (Judy) I will look foward to your post.
Aug 21 2016, 8:30 PM
Lisa C: Did they have a school
VisitationSiste: No no school in Riverdale But when we founded them in Parkville they did have one
Aug 21 2016, 8:31 PM
VisitationSiste: They moved to Staten Iskland and then Riverdale
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Lisa C: Where in SI?
Aug 21 2016, 8:31 PM
VisitationSiste: I think where later the SAugustinians had a retreat house
Aug 21 2016, 8:31 PM
Ruth (guest): Riverdale in upper, west-side Bronx? Mostly Jewish now, I think.
Aug 21 2016, 8:31 PM
Lisa C: So did they come from Brooklyn first?
Aug 21 2016, 8:32 PM
VisitationSiste: I think so- they were near the Psasionists in Riverdale but they are gone now too I think
Aug 21 2016, 8:32 PM
VisitationSiste: The retired priests live in our former Visitation Monastery in Riverdale
Aug 21 2016, 8:32 PM
Guest1983 (guest): (Judy) Do you mean Mount Manresa, Sister?
Aug 21 2016, 8:32 PM
VisitationSiste: Yes we founded them in 1864
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VisitationSiste: No Manressa was Jesuit
Aug 21 2016, 8:33 PM
Lisa C: So none of the Sisters who came to Brooklyn were in Brooklyn before that
Aug 21 2016, 8:33 PM
VisitationSiste: No
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VisitationSiste: I would have to look up their history There is a book on them in our library
Aug 21 2016, 8:34 PM
Ruth (guest): Good that the property in Riverdale still is in good use.
Aug 21 2016, 8:34 PM
Guest1983 (guest): (Judy) Well it’s sign off time. May we all continue to grow in our devotion to the great cloud of witnesses.
Aug 21 2016, 8:34 PM
VisitationSiste: Yes and they left some Salesian pictures and statues
Aug 21 2016, 8:34 PM
VisitationSiste: Yes have a blessed week!