What does it mean to abandon oneself to God? Does this mean that we lose our autonomy and become like robots following God?
In light of this reflection, what are your thoughts on Our Lord’s words: “Ask, and it will be given you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you” (Luke 11:9)?
What does St. Jane mean when she instructs us to “despise yourselves.” Is she encouraging self-hate?
Why do you think it is often so difficult to abandon all to God?
Aug 12, 7:20 PM
VisitationSiste: Sun Aug 12 730pm est
Aug 12, 7:28 PM
VisitationSiste: Blessed Feast of our Holy Foundress ST Jane de Chantal
Aug 12, 7:29 PM
VisitationSiste: Hello viewer
Aug 12, 7:30 PM
Dawn (Guest): Hello Sr Susan
Aug 12, 7:31 PM
VisitationSiste: Hi Dawn!
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Carol Ann: Hi Sister Susan Marie, happy feast day!
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VisitationSiste: and Carol Anne
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Carol Ann: Hi Dawn!
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Dawn (Guest): How are you today? Hi Carol Anne!
Aug 12, 7:31 PM
VisitationSiste: Thank you! It was a special day and Mass for us
Aug 12, 7:32 PM
Dawn (Guest): Happy Feast Day. I look forward to hearing more about her
Aug 12, 7:32 PM
VisitationSiste: We had different readings so the people who came to Mass here had a surprise
Aug 12, 7:33 PM
Jane (Guest): Hi everyone
Aug 12, 7:33 PM
VisitationSiste: St Jane had so many different states in life
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Dawn (Guest): Hi Jane
Aug 12, 7:33 PM
VisitationSiste: Hi Jane! Glad to see you here this week
Aug 12, 7:33 PM
Jane (Guest): What was the surprise reading?
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Carol Ann: Hi Jane!
Aug 12, 7:33 PM
Jane (Guest): Could not miss today!
Aug 12, 7:33 PM
VisitationSiste: It was the reading for St Jane’s Feast but was not in the Missaletter; Proverbs 31, Mark 3-31-35 and Colossians as well
Aug 12, 7:34 PM
Jane (Guest): Thank you for sharing this.
Aug 12, 7:34 PM
Jane (Guest): I will look them up later
Aug 12, 7:34 PM
Dawn (Guest): Thank you
Aug 12, 7:35 PM
VisitationSiste: Hello Guest 5814
Aug 12, 7:35 PM
Jane (Guest): The more I learn the more I treasure St. Francis de Sales
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Guest5814 (Guest): Hi SisterSusan , Dawn , Jane , and Carol Ann ! God Bless You ! Brian
Aug 12, 7:35 PM
Dawn (Guest): Hi Brian! glad you are here
Aug 12, 7:36 PM
VisitationSiste: Hi Brian!
Aug 12, 7:36 PM
Carol Ann: Brian, it’s good to see you
Aug 12, 7:36 PM
Guest5814 (Guest): How is everything out there Dawn !
Aug 12, 7:37 PM
Dawn (Guest): today is the glimpse of blue sky! all around us seem to be controlled.thank you for checking…Carol Anne how is it your way?
Aug 12, 7:38 PM
Jane (Guest): Shall we start?
Aug 12, 7:38 PM
VisitationSiste: reposting the questions- they roll away so quickly
Aug 12, 7:38 PM
VisitationSiste: What does it mean to abandon oneself to God? Does this mean that we lose our autonomy and become like robots following God?
In light of this reflection, what are your thoughts on Our Lord’s words: “Ask, and it will be given you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you” (Luke 11:9)?
What does St. Jane mean when she instructs us to “despise yourselves.” Is she encouraging self-hate?
Why do you think it is often so difficult to abandon all to God?
Aug 12, 7:38 PM
Carol Ann: We are getting smoke from the northern fires and now from the big fire down near Corona. Several of my coworkers and other Order members are evacuated, or too close for comfort
Aug 12, 7:38 PM
Guest5814 (Guest): Soo Good Fawn ! Hope all is well Carol Ann !
Aug 12, 7:39 PM
Guest5814 (Guest): Dawn
Aug 12, 7:39 PM
Jane (Guest): God bless you and protect you all
Aug 12, 7:39 PM
Dawn (Guest): Amen.
Aug 12, 7:40 PM
Guest5814 (Guest): You have all been going through Soo much Carol Ann ! Many prayers for you all !
Aug 12, 7:40 PM
Jane (Guest): Abandoning one’s detachment of one’s self so as to leave the earthly connections of the exterior behind and eliminate that noise so as to quiet one’s heart to connect to the indwelling of the Holy Spirit and hear the voice of Christ
Aug 12, 7:40 PM
Carol Ann: To me abandoning myself to Jesus means to give Him my problems and sins to solve. I don’t try to “help. My job is to pray and discern and to keep walking
Aug 12, 7:41 PM
Dawn (Guest): Question 1, I think abandoned our self to Gods perfect loving will
Aug 12, 7:41 PM
Jane (Guest): typo – meant attachment to one’s self via detachment
Aug 12, 7:42 PM
VisitationSiste: Great insights. To me it is giving over all to His Will for me.
Aug 12, 7:43 PM
VisitationSiste: The problem in abandonment for me is when I feel inadequate to implement His Will and do not rely enough upon Him
Aug 12, 7:44 PM
Jane (Guest): Yes. You put aside the exterior desires of the material world and realize that the real life is eternal with God and thus living His will for our life
Aug 12, 7:44 PM
Jane (Guest): Sometime I question how to discern. Any insight
Aug 12, 7:44 PM
Jane (Guest): To be certain it is God
Aug 12, 7:45 PM
Jane (Guest): ‘s voice and not of an intruder
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Guest5814 (Guest): To be available to God to serve God Through service to others . Not our will but God’s Will . We can easily get caught up in trying to fix ourselves and others and remove ourselves from God ! We forget to Serve and be available to God !
Aug 12, 7:45 PM
Dawn (Guest): I saw a T shirt someone had on, it said The Struggle Is Real. I said yes it certainly is, altho I think maybe something else was meant. who knows?
Aug 12, 7:46 PM
Carol Ann: Me too Jane, though there are times when I am just sure it’s Him, an indefinable quality to the voice
Aug 12, 7:46 PM
VisitationSiste: It is not always easy to discern His Will; usually circumstances can help us in this area
Aug 12, 7:46 PM
VisitationSiste: and direction
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Jane (Guest): I know. Discerning is not easy but it is no necessary. Something we need to acquire the skill, comfort and familiarity of with ease and comfort.
Aug 12, 7:47 PM
VisitationSiste: Hi Ruth
Aug 12, 7:47 PM
Jane (Guest): typ- “so” necessary
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Jane (Guest): I apologize for not catching the spell checks before hitting send.
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VisitationSiste: A young man who I spoke with the other day said he knew it was God’s Will or voice when things worked out well rather than not; like a hindsight recognition
Aug 12, 7:47 PM
Dawn (Guest): You said last week Mother his will is found in everyday circumstances before us, helpful insight
Aug 12, 7:48 PM
Dawn (Guest): Hi Ruth!
Aug 12, 7:48 PM
Guest5814 (Guest): Knowing God Through His Word which is expressed Soo beautifully through Mass and through God’s people ‘s words and actions !
Aug 12, 7:48 PM
Carol Ann: Hi Ruth!
Aug 12, 7:48 PM
Guest5814 (Guest): Hi Ruth ! God Bless You ! Brian
Aug 12, 7:49 PM
VisitationSiste: We don’t lose our autonomy in following God because love needs to be free
Aug 12, 7:51 PM
VisitationSiste: But our autonomy if misdirected could also separate us from doing what God wants
Aug 12, 7:52 PM
Guest5814 (Guest): Sometimes God allows us to go through great tribulation like many of you have gone through throughout your life ! Your Faithfulness to God Through Great tribulation has shattered our enemies strongholds and allowed Jesus to save many souls ! Keep Shining Sisters !!!
Aug 12, 7:52 PM
VisitationSiste: St Jane followed to a T the directions of her first spiritual father but he was not in tune with the Holy Spirit for her; it took St Francis de Sales direction to set St Jane interiorly free
Aug 12, 7:53 PM
VisitationSiste: So interior freedom is important even as we are obedient
Aug 12, 7:53 PM
Carol Ann: He has done so much for me, j must always remember to pray that it be for His glory
Aug 12, 7:54 PM
Jane (Guest): Soooo agree with you Brian. Thank you for sharing
Aug 12, 7:54 PM
Ruth (Guest): Hello everyone, sorry I did not respond right away. I was reviewing what you’ve posted thus far.
Aug 12, 7:54 PM
Jane (Guest): Interior freedom is part of being obedient to Christ
Aug 12, 7:55 PM
Guest5814 (Guest): Soo True Jane !
Aug 12, 7:58 PM
Ruth (Guest): I had considerable trouble with “Ask for nothing; refuse nothing” — just when I needed God’s help so much more, it seems, than ever.
Aug 12, 7:59 PM
VisitationSiste: This is always a tough one because Jesus does tell us to ask- it is a concept of St Francis de Sales that always trips us up
Aug 12, 7:59 PM
Guest5814 (Guest): Jesus reminds us that we will go through many trials and sorrows but we can take heart that He has overcome the World ! He will guide us through everything ! I can do all things through Christ who Strengthens Me !!!
Aug 12, 8:00 PM
Carol Ann: Yes Brian. The old way of thinking that you are only blessed if things are perfect is wrong. Tribulation is not punishment, but a chance to prove virtue
Aug 12, 8:01 PM
Jane (Guest): So poignant Carol Ann. Thank you
Aug 12, 8:02 PM
Ruth (Guest): Certainly it does not make us like a “robot” to choose His will above all else — more like freeing us to be really in touch with ourselves. Jesus tries to teach us to ask for everything we need — or think we need, both in the words you quote, Sister, and in the Our Father. Expectant prayer.
Aug 12, 8:02 PM
VisitationSiste: and help us grow in selflessness
Aug 12, 8:02 PM
Guest5814 (Guest): People see Jesus sometimes for the very first time when they see us walk through tribulation with Jesus !!!
Aug 12, 8:02 PM
Ruth (Guest): And grow in virtue, Carol Ann.
Aug 12, 8:03 PM
Carol Ann: So true, always growing. What else did I hear–Jesus does in fact love us to death just the way we are, but He also loves us too much to leave us like that
Aug 12, 8:03 PM
Ruth (Guest): “Give us this day our daily bread” includes EVERYTHING we need for this life and to prepare us better for the next.
Aug 12, 8:04 PM
Jane (Guest): It is interesting that in times of tribulation some turn to God when they hadnt in the past and others get even further away. I find that a devout soul in Christ remains in prayer to Christ even more during time of tribulation
Aug 12, 8:04 PM
Guest5814 (Guest): Soo True Ruth . We have not because we ask not ! Lack of Faith in God is demonstrated in us when we do not ask for His Help !
Aug 12, 8:05 PM
VisitationSiste: Had to sign back in- sorry
Aug 12, 8:05 PM
Ruth (Guest): This morning, thinking some more about this “lesson” I found myself praying a prayer that has been a constant through many, many, decades of my life, and realized it says, in a way, maybe what St. Jane Frances was saying.
Aug 12, 8:06 PM
VisitationSiste: What prayer wasa that?
Aug 12, 8:06 PM
Jane (Guest): what is the prayer Ruth?
Aug 12, 8:06 PM
Ruth (Guest): Brian, and EXPECT that he will give it.
Aug 12, 8:06 PM
Jane (Guest): ?
Aug 12, 8:06 PM
Guest5814 (Guest): Amen Ruth !!!
Aug 12, 8:07 PM
Ruth (Guest): Like Calib when he saw the giants to be reckoned with in the Promised Land.
Aug 12, 8:07 PM
Jane (Guest): ?
Aug 12, 8:07 PM
Ruth (Guest): The other scouts were terrified. He was happily excited, knowing that God was going to make His people even greater.
Aug 12, 8:08 PM
Carol Ann: If you had faith the size of a mustard seed, the tiniest of all seeds, you could move mountains. And the tiniest seed grows into the largest shrub. Two connections
Aug 12, 8:08 PM
Guest5814 (Guest): Total Faith and Trust in God !!!
Aug 12, 8:09 PM
Ruth (Guest): The prayer: I love you Jesus, my Love, I repent of ever having offended you; grant that I may love you always; then do with me what you will.
Aug 12, 8:09 PM
Jane (Guest): Yes. Like the Divine Mercy Chaplet- Jesus I trust in YOU
Aug 12, 8:09 PM
Ruth (Guest): This puts everything in proportion.
Aug 12, 8:09 PM
Dawn (Guest): A good prayer Ruth
Aug 12, 8:09 PM
Guest5814 (Guest): Beautiful Ruth !!!
Aug 12, 8:10 PM
VisitationSiste: Clear, simple, beautiful and effective
Aug 12, 8:10 PM
Jane (Guest): beautiful prayer!
Aug 12, 8:10 PM
Carol Ann: Amen!
Aug 12, 8:10 PM
Ruth (Guest): The last part is the total surrender — not asking for anything but to love Him.
Aug 12, 8:11 PM
VisitationSiste: Here is St Jane’s prayer of abandonment: more words to it but worth reading over I think: O sovereign goodness of the sovereign providence of my God, I abandon myself forever to your arms. Whether gentle or severe, lead me henceforth whither you will. I will not regard the way through which you will have me pass, but keep my eyes fixed upon you, my God, who guides me. My soul finds no rest without the arms and the bosom of this heavenly providence, my true mother, my strength, and my rampart.Therefore I
Aug 12, 8:11 PM
VisitationSiste: Therefore I resolve with your divine assistance, O my savior, to follow your desires and your ordinances, without regarding or examining why you do this rather than that; but I will blindly follow you according to your divine will, without seeking my own inclinations.Hence, I am determined to leave all to you, taking no part therein save by keeping myself in peace in your arms, desiring nothing except as you incite me to desire, to will, to wish. I offer you this desire, O my God, beseeching you to bless i
Aug 12, 8:12 PM
VisitationSiste: beseeching you to bless it. I undertake all it includes, relying on your goodness, liberality, and mercy, with entire confidence in you, distrust of myself, and knowledge of my infinite misery and infirmity. Amen!
Aug 12, 8:13 PM
Guest5814 (Guest): Wow ! What a beautiful
Aug 12, 8:14 PM
Guest5814 (Guest): Prayer! From deep
Aug 12, 8:14 PM
Jane (Guest): Super WOW!
Aug 12, 8:14 PM
Guest5814 (Guest): Within her Soul
Aug 12, 8:14 PM
Guest5814 (Guest): Sister Susan
Aug 12, 8:15 PM
Jane (Guest): Mother- can you send those of on this session the full prayer via email?
Aug 12, 8:15 PM
Carol Ann: Oh, yes please!
Aug 12, 8:15 PM
VisitationSiste: Yes
Aug 12, 8:15 PM
Jane (Guest): Such a gift especially on the feast say of St Jane.
Aug 12, 8:16 PM
Jane (Guest): Thank you!
Aug 12, 8:16 PM
Guest5814 (Guest): Thank You for sharing this prayer Sister Susan !!!
Aug 12, 8:16 PM
VisitationSiste: St Jane must have wanted to share!
Aug 12, 8:16 PM
Guest5814 (Guest): Amen !!!
Aug 12, 8:16 PM
VisitationSiste: I think I have everyone’s e mail
Aug 12, 8:16 PM
Jane (Guest): Intercessory prayers in action
Aug 12, 8:16 PM
VisitationSiste: Yes!
Aug 12, 8:17 PM
Ruth (Guest): Reminds me. I must call my friend Jane M tonight. I wonder if she knows that it is her feast day. Or if she’s been named for a different St. Jane.
Aug 12, 8:18 PM
Guest5814 (Guest): St Janes Love for God just pierced your Heart !!!
Aug 12, 8:18 PM
VisitationSiste: Reading that- we can better understand what ST Jane might have meant about “despising”oneself. It is not about hate. Put it in the context of this prayer- it is more like stepping aside gently to let God in and do His work in us
Aug 12, 8:18 PM
Guest5814 (Guest): Amen !!!
Aug 12, 8:19 PM
Carol Ann: Then she uses such a strong word for emphasis?
Aug 12, 8:19 PM
Jane (Guest): Beautiful
Aug 12, 8:20 PM
VisitationSiste: Perhaps- it was more common then, plus it is a translated word from French- a 400 year old French
Aug 12, 8:20 PM
Ruth (Guest): And talking about intercessory prayers. May I ask your prayers for my friend Miriam and for the soul of her brother. He died this week. And HIPPA made it hard for her to use her expertise to help arrange better care for him. And her Orthodox Jewish beliefs made it impossible for her to even attend his funeral in a Catholic Church. So sad.
Aug 12, 8:20 PM
VisitationSiste: That is so difficult
Aug 12, 8:21 PM
Carol Ann: It is very sad
Aug 12, 8:21 PM
Dawn (Guest): Im sorry
Aug 12, 8:23 PM
Dawn (Guest): In the older version of our Confession prayer it says… and I detest all my sins
Aug 12, 8:23 PM
Ruth (Guest): God leads each in his/her own way. M. went all through Catholic schools and we met when both in the Master’s Degree program in philosophy at St. John’s University, Jamaica, Queens.
Aug 12, 8:23 PM
Jane (Guest): May I ask everyone to pray for the soul of my Mom and her Dad who both passed into the arms of the Lord on August 13 but 33 years apart from eachother? I would very much appreciate the prayers for their souls.
Aug 12, 8:23 PM
Guest5814 (Guest): Dear Jesus please help Miriam ! Comfort her heart with the loss of her brother and bring others into her life to bring your Comfort to her !
Aug 12, 8:24 PM
Carol Ann: While we are in intercessory prayer, Jason would like us to pray with him that the fire of the Holy Spirit descend up in him and transform him
Aug 12, 8:24 PM
Jane (Guest): God bless Miriam. Amen
Aug 12, 8:24 PM
VisitationSiste: Yes we will pray for them tomorrow Jane on the anniversary
Aug 12, 8:24 PM
VisitationSiste: and Jason too
Aug 12, 8:24 PM
Ruth (Guest): Dawn, I still use that version unless the priest hands me another version which I read toward the end of confession.
Aug 12, 8:25 PM
Jane (Guest): God bless you Mother and the Sister for their prayers tomorrow.
Aug 12, 8:25 PM
Dawn (Guest): I do also
Aug 12, 8:25 PM
Carol Ann: I will pray for your parents too, Jane
Aug 12, 8:25 PM
Jane (Guest): They both passed on Monday – August 13th and so is tomorrow
Aug 12, 8:25 PM
Jane (Guest): Thank you all
Aug 12, 8:26 PM
Jane (Guest): It is my Mom and her Dad (my grandfather)
Aug 12, 8:26 PM
Carol Ann: Oh, I’m sorry, I read that wrong
Aug 12, 8:26 PM
VisitationSiste: Last question about difficulty in abandoning oneself- many reasons people find it hard- but ultimately as death shows, we all do it- abandon ourselves
Aug 12, 8:27 PM
Jane (Guest): No apologized needed. I appreciate your kind and compassionate heart and thank you for the prayers
Aug 12, 8:27 PM
Guest5814 (Guest): Dear Jesus we pray for Janes Mom and her Dad and for Jason that he would be filled with the Holy Spirit !!!
Aug 12, 8:28 PM
Dawn (Guest): In Jesus name we pray, Amen
Aug 12, 8:28 PM
Jane (Guest): Well – death forces our soul to be disconnected from the external noise and distraction of the world and that is how purgatory is a place for cleansing unless one did their cleansing while on Earth and God’s grace brings their souls directly to Heaven
Aug 12, 8:29 PM
Jane (Guest): Thank you Brian for your prayers. I did loose my Dad also only a little more than a year ago.
Aug 12, 8:29 PM
Ruth (Guest): Jane, may God’s unveiled PRESENCE, fill them both with endless joy, and you with hope.
Aug 12, 8:29 PM
Carol Ann: Are tribulations a pre-Purgatory cleansing?
Aug 12, 8:29 PM
VisitationSiste: It is beautiful that we can end our session in payer for one another and others
Aug 12, 8:29 PM
Jane (Guest): Thank you so – Ruth
Aug 12, 8:30 PM
Guest5814 (Guest): We live in a culture that is saturated with an emphasis on self ! We must stay connected to God and His People or self centered ness will take over !
Aug 12, 8:30 PM
VisitationSiste: Tribulations I learned in retreat are actually God’s waysof helping us to grow in selfless love
Aug 12, 8:30 PM
Jane (Guest): Yes- tribulations – if you go to God with love and a pure heart is a redemptive suffering which can act as a cleansing
Aug 12, 8:30 PM
Carol Ann: I must need extra schooling
Aug 12, 8:30 PM
VisitationSiste: Even jesus and Mary suffered tribulations even tho their love was great- but they show us how to love thru them
Aug 12, 8:30 PM
VisitationSiste: Jesus
Aug 12, 8:30 PM
Ruth (Guest): So special that they both died on the same date. I have the distinct impression that people — sometimes, at least — have a little bit of control over WHEN they release their souls to life everlasting.
Aug 12, 8:31 PM
Dawn (Guest): My mother and oldest sister died, Aug 23 and Aug 24. many years apart. My sister was non practicing for many years, but our God has such loving mercy and saw she recieved Absolution and healing before her death. Praise be to Jesus!
Aug 12, 8:31 PM
Carol Ann: I think so too Ruth. I think some people do know when it is coming
Aug 12, 8:31 PM
VisitationSiste: Prayers for them too Dawn!
Aug 12, 8:31 PM
VisitationSiste: Have a grace filled week, each of you and thanks for being here!
Aug 12, 8:31 PM
Carol Ann: Such a blessing Dawn
Aug 12, 8:31 PM
Dawn (Guest): Thank you for prayers
Aug 12, 8:32 PM
Guest5814 (Guest): One of our enemies greatest weapons is isolation . If he can get us to isolate ourselves he will make every attempt to destroy us
Aug 12, 8:32 PM
Carol Ann: Thank you Sr. Susan Marie, and bless you
Aug 12, 8:32 PM
Dawn (Guest): It was such a blessing, Gods glory all around. for my nieces to be there and then to see her wake up, eat and talk for few days…
Aug 12, 8:32 PM
Jane (Guest): God bless the souls of your loved ones – Dawn
Aug 12, 8:33 PM
Jane (Guest): Brian – very wise insight.
Aug 12, 8:34 PM
Guest5814 (Guest): Dear Jesus we pray for Dawn’s Mom and her Sister !!!!
Aug 12, 8:34 PM
Dawn (Guest): My prayers for you and yours Jane. and Thank you Brian!
Aug 12, 8:34 PM
Carol Ann: I will pray for all too
Aug 12, 8:35 PM
Guest5814 (Guest): God Bless You All !!! Have a Wonderful Week !!!
Aug 12, 8:35 PM
Dawn (Guest): Brian I just read what you wrote! true.
Aug 12, 8:35 PM
Carol Ann: You too Brian!
Aug 12, 8:35 PM
Ruth (Guest): So good that the nieces, Dawn, could be there. God bless them all!
Aug 12, 8:36 PM
Jane (Guest): God bless you all. So grateful God has brought us together. Amen
Aug 12, 8:36 PM
Dawn (Guest): God bless all of you here, in my night prayers always. Thank you Mother and everyone. Goodnight
Aug 12, 8:37 PM
Ruth (Guest): Does anyone know who Jason is, who Sister asked us to pray for?
Aug 12, 8:37 PM
Carol Ann: Yes, it’s amazing to be in a family that has never met physically, but still is so loyal
Aug 12, 8:37 PM
Dawn (Guest): I wondered too, Jason was?
Aug 12, 8:37 PM
Carol Ann: Jason is an acquaintance of mine
Aug 12, 8:37 PM
Dawn (Guest): Yes, it is Carol Ann. A beautiful thing!
Aug 12, 8:38 PM
Carol Ann: Who goes to a non denominational church called Reality. He is seeking Jesus and has been praying for the fire of the Spirit to descend and transform him
Aug 12, 8:40 PM
Ruth (Guest): Years ago we talked a little about possibly some day getting together for a retreat, possibly at the Monastery. Sr. Susan even thought there might be funding to help those who needed it to get there. I wonder if we will ever actually meet face-to-face before we cross the “Great Divide.”
Aug 12, 8:40 PM
Carol Ann: I would love too!
Aug 12, 8:42 PM
Dawn (Guest): I am recalling a talk about this, meeting retreat at Monastary. thank you for speaking on it Ruth
Aug 12, 8:43 PM
Dawn (Guest): I would love to also
Aug 12, 8:44 PM
Ruth (Guest): Carol Ann, that is such a good prayers, it is surely to be answered. “Seek and ye shall find, knock and the door will be opened.” God ALWAYS comes to those who honestly seek him. We can never FULLY embrace Him in this life; if we think we “understand” or “comprehend” God, that is a sure sign that we’ve missed something. But He does reveal enough about Himself for us to come to know and love Him and desire to serve him.
Aug 12, 8:45 PM
Carol Ann: It is so amazing. It is a grace filled prayer, initiated by Christ
Aug 12, 8:46 PM
Carol Ann: He wants to meet for lunch this week to talk about it, and I am hoping for Friday
Aug 12, 8:46 PM
Dawn (Guest): what prayer are you speaking of? Ruths prayer?
Aug 12, 8:46 PM
Carol Ann: Jason’s prayer. Though all the prayers tonight are too
Aug 12, 8:48 PM
Dawn (Guest): his is a beautiful prayer
Aug 12, 8:48 PM
Ruth (Guest): Wonderful, Carol Ann. I will offer my Mass on Friday — and Way of the Cross — for your meeting, that Jason may, through you and through his own good prayers, be “zapped” by the Holy Spirit so thoroughly that it will be unmistakable.
Aug 12, 8:48 PM
Carol Ann: And one that is always answered yes.
Aug 12, 8:49 PM
Dawn (Guest): yes Seek is command or direction , find is his promise and so on
Aug 12, 8:49 PM
Carol Ann: Thank you Ruth, it will be a great blessing for us both
Aug 12, 8:50 PM
Ruth (Guest): Peace, my dear friends in the Living Jesus. Gotta make that call before it is too late to be polite.
Aug 12, 8:51 PM
Carol Ann: Have a blessed week Ruth!
Aug 12, 8:51 PM
Carol Ann: And is everything still okay where you are Dawn
Aug 12, 8:53 PM
Dawn (Guest): God bless you both , prayers all around. yes no fire close so far, ah but our blue sky is giving way to haze again I see right now. it varies sometimes. our smoke is little inconvienence, I hold my prayers for all those affected and esp for little James and little Emily and their Grandpa.
Aug 12, 8:54 PM
Carol Ann: Amen, so glad you are okay still. Have a blessed week!
Aug 12, 8:54 PM
Dawn (Guest): You too. goodnight!
Aug 12, 8:54 PM
Carol Ann: Good night!