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Why do you think Bl. John Paul II started the World Day for Consecrated Life? How can our prayers help the religious? The mystery of the incarnation is celebrated on the Feast of the Annunciation, and again on Christmas. Would the incarnation still have meaning, however, apart from Christ’s passion and resurrection? For Salvation, it was necessary that Christ be fully human and fully divine. However, Christ chose to follow the Jewish rules and customs out of humility and obedience. What can we learn from this?
Guest744 (guest): The topic for today is excellent as I think those in consecrated life need to be recognized for all their sacrifices and also for all that they contribute..
Feb 2 2014, 7:22 PM
SrSusan (guest): Do you know a lot of religious?
Guest744 (guest): I used to. They always inspired me with their humility and disipline.
Guest744 (guest): To give up the world for the love of GOD. M
Guest744 (guest): Their is a radience and smile that religious have.
SrSusan (guest): The glow of God
Guest744 (guest): I want that as well if God directs me . I still smile and feel God but I want more and to serve.
SrSusan (guest): He wants you more!
Guest744 (guest): To kiss the ground and say I am nothing without you Lord, use me to your will.. 8 PM
Guest744 (guest): With tears let me suffer for you and for those who no not you.. :28 PM
SrSusan (guest): You have a big heart
Guest744 (guest): No Sister
Guest744 (guest): I have just seen how people suffer and with the lords I want to ease a little of that.
Guest744 (guest): I just have so much love to give and its unconditional.
SrSusan (guest): What meaning do you all find in this day set aside for consecrated life
SrSusan (guest): We had a beautiful Mass and procession today and tried to remmeber both the Feast, consecrated life and safety for the superbowl attendees
KI (guest): I think this day draws attention to the great need and beauty of consecrated life.
Al: haha well its the presentation of the Lord of course and religious present themselves to the Lord
KI (guest): It is so contrary to today’s culture.
SrSusan (guest): Yes as Our Lady did
Al: we received blessed candles to be light to the world also
SrSusan (guest): Each Christian truly is a light with Christ within
Guest744 (guest): They give up the world to be in union with Christ.
KI(guest): Father said this morning that the candle is consumed by the flame, as we should abandon
Guest744 (guest): Yes Sister Susan but those in consecrated life leave family and friends to join an order or go into the cloister. We must thank the Lord for these sacrifices.
SrSusan (guest): Sometimes the family has a big sacrifice in letting the person go into the religious life
Al: i imagine they do.
Feb 2 2014, 7:43 PM
SrSusan (guest): Sacrifice is all around
M
KI(guest): But God works good for all involved.
SrSusan (guest): Friends too- feel the loss keenly sometimes. But grace is always there
Guest744 (guest): also the contributions in areas of science, litirature, poetry, theology and teaching.
Guest744 (guest): God takes care in ways that we sometimes don’t understand.
Al: that is true
KI (guest): So true Guest744.
Guest744, could you explain what you meant regarding science, literature…..? M
Guest744 (guest): I imagine in leaving the world they may be a sence of loss but then the Lord, the Blessed Mother and all the Saints soon fill it up
Guest744 (guest): When I am filled with the Spirit those things have no value for me. Only just being with God…
Al: wow! God’s grace
Guest744 (guest): I am older and realize what is impt.
KI (guest): Yes, a sense of peace. I experienced that walking up the stairs in the fine arts bldg. when I was in college. An overwhelming sense of God.
Guest744 (guest): That is what is exterior to our inner life. ,
SrSusan (guest): Did you all know that Oct 2014-Nov 2015 will be a Year of Consecrated Life?
Feb 2 2014, 8:01 PM
Mary Roberta Viano: For me it was the deep desire to grow closer to Our Lord in the contemplative, religious life.
Guest744 (guest): Wow, that is great. ,
KI (guest): No, I did not know that
Al and Sister did you receive a sign
Mary Roberta Viano: Today was a day to pray for consecrated life.
KI (guest): Did Pope Francis officially designate this?
Am: Explain the different types of consecrated life, can one be secular and still be consecrated?
Mary Roberta Viano: It was never ONE sign, but just a growing desire to move toward that life.
KI (guest): I mean the coming year of Consecrated life.
Al: yes i understand that feeling
SrSusan (guest): Yes he did
KI (guest): Sometime our sign can be a feeling of restlessness.
Guest744 (guest): Consacrated Virgin, Widow, to be celibate.
Mary Roberta Viano: Yes, there are secular institutes of consecrated life, and there are consecrated virgins and widows.
Al: i have felt that too
what are the differences? location?
Mary Roberta Viano: True – restless until our hearts rest in Him, as St. Augustine says.
Mary Roberta Viano: Talk to your spiritual director. Get what’s called the blue book of consecrated life – a catalog of possibilities.
Sister Susan Marie: Differences can be in the promises vs vows, the form of poverty and other canonical type issues
Al: i see. what makes someone choose cloistered vs active
Guest744 (guest): And the difference between a Sister and a Nun…
Sister Susan Marie: Even in an institute like ours, on the books so to speak, you can still be an intern or extern Sister,
Mary Roberta Viano: The Internet is now a great way to explore the variety of consecrated life.
Mary Roberta Viano: There are lay associates, too, of religious institutes – and lay groups, like our Daughters of SFdS.
Sister Susan Marie: I think Officially a nun is usually the papal Orders and sister the apostolic but I am not sure
Guest744 (guest): That is what I read.. PM
Sister Susan Marie: Each institute has its own charism and God does the calling so one has to see where He is leading you in your heart
Al: i thought one lived in a convent? do sisters or nuns live there anymore?
Sister Susan Marie: Nuns are in monasteries, sisters in convents
Sister Susan Marie: http://www.zenit.org/en/articles/vatican-unveils-year-for-consecrated-life-plans
Vatican Unveils Year for Consecrated Life Plans | ZENIT – The World Seen From Rome
KI (guest): Thank you Sister Susan Marie
Sister Susan Marie: we want this Year to be an occasion for ‘gratefully remembering’ this recent past. This is the first objective of the Year for Consecrated Life.”
Al: this seems new. has the vatican done it before
Feb 2 2014, 8:19 PM
Sister Susan Marie: we want to take this crisis not as an antechamber of death but as [an] opportunity to grow in depth, and thus in hope, motivated by the certainty that the consecrated life will never disappear from the Church because ‘it was desired by Jesus himself as an irremovable part of his Church’.”
“This hope,” he concluded, “doesn’t spare us—and the consecrated are well aware of this—from ‘living the present passionately’, and this is the third objective for the Year.”
Mary Roberta Viano: Hopefully during the Year for Consecrated Life, more people will feel themselves drawn by God!
He said the year-long celebration that begins in the fall of 2014 “will be an important moment for ‘evangelizing’ our vocation and for bearing witness to the beauty of the ‘sequela Christi’ in the many ways in which our lives are expressed.”
“The consecrated take up the witness that has been left them by their respective founders and foundresses,” he said. “They want to ‘awaken the world’ with their prophetic witness, particularly with their presence at the existential margins of poverty and thought, as Pope Francis asked their superior generals.”
Sister Susan Marie: I don’t remember a year like this since I entered but maybe in the more distant past
KI(guest): Divinely inspired!
Feb 2 2014, 8:20 PM
Al: well its great either way
Mary Roberta Viano: Dear Pope Francis is inspiring us all with his initiatives!
Guest744 (guest): Inspiring…
Al: so many religious doing works for God…
Mary Roberta Viano: Let’s hope the HHS mandate doesn’t get in the way!
Al: I love our Pope!
Guest744 (guest): Pope Francis is truely a Pope for all people.
Alice Lewis-Eckardt: that HHS mandate….
Sister Susan Marie: This aspect next important for Sr M Roberta and I: Also, always on the mandate of the Pope, the instruction “Verbi Sponsa”, which deals with the autonomy and cloistering of entirely contemplative religious, is being revised. Another document in preparation will deal with the life and the mission of religious while a fourth one will touch on the question of how consecrated manage goods in order to offer some guidelines and direction in the complex situations that arise in that area.Finally, during the Year o
Al: He is G744
Sister Susan Marie: Finally, during the Year of Consecrated Life, it is hoped that the Holy Father will promulgate a new apostolic constitution on contemplative life in place of “Sponsa Christi”, which was promulgated by Pope Pius XII in 1950. PM
Al: wow!
KI (guest): It sounds like it will be of great and lasting importance.
Mary Roberta Viano: Goodness, 1950! That was a long time ago.