The reality of life is that it concludes with death.
vis (Guest): What do you suppose this means?
Judy (Guest): Oh well,
Judy (Guest): In 1 Cor.
VisitationSiste: Yes,
Judy (Guest): We have been given so many reasons to believe in eternal life and to look forward to it.
Carol Ann: this knowledge and belief is part of what makes us human.
Ruth (Guest): Interesting Carol Ann.
Carol Ann: We have more reason to believe than not.
VisitationSiste: or reject God due to pain and loss in their lives
Judy (Guest): Perhaps Koko might be able to learn about the existence of God,
Carol Ann: I don’
Judy (Guest): Hi Ruth!
Carol Ann: I don’
VisitationSiste: Welcome Ruth!
Ruth (Guest): I met a man today who thought that it was a cruel joke that dogs live only about 10 years but humans can reach 100 years.
VisitationSiste: Dignity of our death depends on our unity with the Lord
Carol Ann: If we are united to Him,
Judy (Guest): Question 2:
Ruth (Guest): I suggested that it might be so that we will look forward to heaven.
VisitationSiste: The saints died beautiful deaths spiritually and it is interesting to read about their last days,
Carol Ann: yes,
Judy (Guest): How could it be otherwise for those who have acquired holiness and lived fully in the love of God.
Ruth (Guest): Yes.
VisitationSiste: Yes and they are our models of hope
Carol Ann: Ruth,
Judy (Guest): The saints are also models of living in the act of love,
Ruth (Guest): Maybe not enjoying the Beatific Vision,
VisitationSiste: Faith gives us the perspective that our whole lives were leading up to Eternal Life
Judy (Guest): I need to ask myself if I am living in the act of love,
Carol Ann: yes,
Judy (Guest): As Paul says,
Ruth (Guest): Yes,
Carol Ann: that’
Carol Ann: http://www.koko.org/
VisitationSiste: God looks at our hearts.
Ruth (Guest): Great photo,
Judy (Guest): It is an awesome thing to consider that we will spend eternity in the company of the Holy Trinity,
Ruth (Guest): But shouldn’
VisitationSiste: Beyond imagining!
Carol Ann: I’
Ruth (Guest): LOL.
Judy (Guest): White martyrdom is a bloodless martyrdom which my come from illness,
VisitationSiste: I think it is the total gift of ourselves to God and the possible separation interiorly of all else that was dear to us,
Ruth (Guest): I hope I planted a little seed to the very wealthy (
Ruth (Guest): Driving up to it I spontaneously began singing the old song “
Judy (Guest): may come from,
Carol Ann: so every time we are falsely accused,
Judy (Guest): Yes,
Carol Ann: or if we have chronic depression,
Judy (Guest): Indeed!
VisitationSiste: as long as we offer all or endure all for Christ
Carol Ann: then a lot of us here tonight are particularly blessed with white martyrdom,
Ruth (Guest): “
VisitationSiste: I think so Carol Anne
Ruth (Guest): Yes,
Judy (Guest): Here we have that problem of the spirit being willing and the flesh being weak.
VisitationSiste: We can live this out day by day just as St jane de Chantal did
Judy (Guest): How did she do it?
VisitationSiste: By recognizing her weakness and depending on God,
Ruth (Guest): And he HEARS you Judy;
Carol Ann: in uniting ourselves to Him,
VisitationSiste: I will watch the video later I wonder what the gorilla iq is
Judy (Guest): Carol Ann,
Carol Ann: oh,
Carol Ann: all animals really.
VisitationSiste: a different kind of chat!
Carol Ann: at least now it’
VisitationSiste: St Francis de Sales like his patron from Assisi really loved creation We could spin off from that!
Carol Ann: Franciscan
Judy (Guest): I would be more inclined to ask you these things in a personal e-
Carol Ann: yes,
Carol Ann: so maybe I’
VisitationSiste: I guess we exhausted tonight’
Judy (Guest): Certainly your life as a follower of John Michael would lead to you to be more Franciscan.
Carol Ann: yes,
Judy (Guest): Yes,
VisitationSiste: All spiritualities are Gospel based so these different Orders are emphasizing different points of the faith
Ruth (Guest): Martha –
Carol Ann: funny how talking about heaven and preparing ourselves for it led me into talking about animals
Carol Ann: i don’
Ruth (Guest): Can this topic ever be exhausted?
VisitationSiste: Good point!
Ruth (Guest): Yes Carol Ann,
VisitationSiste: Hi Vis Editor all worked out well
Judy (Guest): Let us all try to immerse ourselves more deeply into the Lord so that we will live more surely in His will.
Ruth (Guest): Martha’
Carol Ann: Amen,