Saint Francis talks about how God gives our souls desires and inspirations, yet sometimes God directly calls us to an act. How can we distinguish between God wanting us to follow our soul’s desires and following His direct call? Why does God allow some to be “taught by tribulation?” St. Francis tells the story of a heretic scholar who was converted by seeing the Carthusians pray Matins, “which they performed with a truly angelic attention and devotion.” What does that teach us about how we should
Jan 3, 10:38 AM
VisitationSiste: pray?
Saint Francis says divine inspirations “are necessary for living well and
devoutly, according to each one’s condition of life, or for fulfilling holily
the duties of his profession.” What do these inspirations look like in
religious life? Married life?
Jan 3, 10:38 AM
VisitationSiste: single life
Jan 3, 10:51 AM
VisitationSiste: chat Sun Jan 6 730pm est
Jan 6, 7:22 PM
VisitationSiste: Hi Jennifer! Welcome to USA. How is everything? My niece arrived in beijing this afternoon or yesterday 3PM anyway!
Jan 6, 7:23 PM
Jennifer Koo: Hi MOTHER, everything is fine.
Jan 6, 7:23 PM
VisitationSiste: International University of Business and Economics
Jan 6, 7:23 PM
VisitationSiste: Great!
Jan 6, 7:23 PM
Jennifer Koo: Next Sunday will be the official start
Jan 6, 7:23 PM
VisitationSiste: Your flight was good I assume and are you a postulant now?
Jan 6, 7:23 PM
VisitationSiste: OH!
Jan 6, 7:24 PM
Jennifer Koo: Two Jennifer Joining at the same time
Jan 6, 7:24 PM
VisitationSiste: Some time to get settled in
Jan 6, 7:24 PM
VisitationSiste: Different last names though?
Jan 6, 7:24 PM
Jennifer Koo: All settled. Yes, she is from Boston
Jan 6, 7:26 PM
VisitationSiste: Hi Dawn
Jan 6, 7:26 PM
Dawn (Guest): Hi Sister Susan, and Jennifer
Jan 6, 7:26 PM
Jennifer Koo: Hi, Dawn
Jan 6, 7:27 PM
Dawn (Guest): Jennifer I am happy for your new start!
Jan 6, 7:28 PM
VisitationSiste: First question repeated: Saint Francis talks about how God gives our souls desires and inspirations, yet sometimes God directly calls us to an act. How can we distinguish between God wanting us to follow our soul’s desires and following His direct call?
Jan 6, 7:28 PM
VisitationSiste: Applies in vocational situations and others as well
Jan 6, 7:29 PM
Jennifer Koo: Yes, at times our soul desired one thing, but GOD calls us to something else. But a wrong step might leads us to the right path.
Jan 6, 7:31 PM
Dawn (Guest): Q1….when God calls us to an act it is the power of the Holy Spirit at work within us. I may distinguish the difference as the Holy Spirit can do more than I following my souls desire.
Jan 6, 7:31 PM
VisitationSiste: Good insight. It is hard to know sometimes where it is our own will vs God’s will
Jan 6, 7:31 PM
VisitationSiste: Also a good way of finding the truth Dawn!
Jan 6, 7:32 PM
VisitationSiste: The way of God is smoother too
Jan 6, 7:34 PM
Jennifer Koo: Take delight in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart.
Jan 6, 7:34 PM
Jennifer Koo: Psalm 37:4
Jan 6, 7:35 PM
Jennifer Koo: The deepest desire of of heart could be GOD’s will
Jan 6, 7:36 PM
VisitationSiste: Why does God allow some to be “taught by tribulation?”
Jan 6, 7:37 PM
Dawn (Guest): my first thought was…because he loves us. and it may be the only way one could hear him, or see him
Jan 6, 7:38 PM
VisitationSiste: and life is a spiritual battle so every element of life, positive and negative can teach us something
Jan 6, 7:39 PM
VisitationSiste: Hi Ruth!
Jan 6, 7:40 PM
Jennifer Koo: Hi, Ruth
Jan 6, 7:40 PM
Dawn (Guest): Hi Ruth!
Jan 6, 7:42 PM
Ruth (Guest): Hello Sister Susan, Dawn, Jennifer. Hope all of you are well. And thinking a lot about Judy these days. Praying for all. I’m on my OLD computer. Big screen easier to see but sooooo slow! Way more than 10 minutes to sign in.
Jan 6, 7:43 PM
Dawn (Guest): but you made it here! glad to see you
Jan 6, 7:43 PM
VisitationSiste: Judy said she would return but her health has not been so well
Jan 6, 7:43 PM
VisitationSiste: St.
Francis tells the story of a heretic scholar who was converted by seeing the
Carthusians pray Matins, “which they performed with a truly angelic
attention and devotion.” What does that teach us about how we should
Jan 3, 10:38 AM
VisitationSiste: pray?
Jan 6, 7:45 PM
Dawn (Guest): that we should imitate those who pray this way
Jan 6, 7:45 PM
Ruth (Guest): If only! Total attention has become so difficult.
Jan 6, 7:47 PM
VisitationSiste: WE were blessed to have a very holy priest these past 2 months who was so reverent- we are very uplifted even as he leaves for another diocese today
Jan 6, 7:47 PM
Dawn (Guest): yet, there are many ways to pray. and the Holy Spirit intercedes for us at times..this consoles my heart!
Jan 6, 7:47 PM
VisitationSiste: Reverence in prayer converts even the converted!
Jan 6, 7:48 PM
Ruth (Guest): True, Dawn, as in the “Imitation of Christ” and the “Imitation of Mary” — by the same author. Not as in “imitation” flowers — artificial.
Jan 6, 7:49 PM
Ruth (Guest): So glad you — the whole monastery — had a holy priest . . .
Jan 6, 7:50 PM
Ruth (Guest): I still miss Fr. Mark, a lot. He was like that. Is. But I have to make a day trip to get to Mass at his church. I do that once in a while.
Jan 6, 7:50 PM
Dawn (Guest): I came across Benedictine Monks praying in chant …. this was a part of my conversion. and still does lift me. Wonderful you had a Holy priest visiting! does he go to other monastarys as well?
Jan 6, 7:50 PM
VisitationSiste: He had direct messages for us- all on Sacred heart of Jesus and Salesian virtues- he was an altar boy at a Visitation Monastery in Poland
Jan 6, 7:51 PM
Ruth (Guest): Interesting. Does he live in the US now?
Jan 6, 7:51 PM
VisitationSiste: Oh yes he is in Brooklyn but is being transferred to Virginia for the time being
Jan 6, 7:52 PM
VisitationSiste: So his holiness spread to many in our Chapel
Jan 6, 7:52 PM
Dawn (Guest): I have not heard of Imitation of Mary, thank you
Jan 6, 7:53 PM
VisitationSiste: Saint Francis says divine inspirations “are necessary for living well and devoutly, according to each one’s condition of life, or for fulfilling holily the duties of his profession.” What do these inspirations look like in religious life? Married life? Single life
Jan 6, 7:54 PM
Dawn (Guest): A blessing for you and the sisters to have him visit!
Jan 6, 7:54 PM
Dawn (Guest): and to many..
Jan 6, 7:54 PM
Jennifer Koo: Our blessed mother is the first disciple, a role model of love, devotion, and faith.
Jan 6, 7:55 PM
VisitationSiste: To let Blessed Mother lead us is very imporatnt
Jan 6, 7:57 PM
VisitationSiste: Right now for us divine inspirations or at least divine Providence is bringing people to help us Today a young alum offered to be our cantor and her friend our Sunday organist
Jan 6, 7:57 PM
Dawn (Guest): Ruth, are you still here with us?
Jan 6, 8:00 PM
Dawn (Guest): Blessed be to God
Jan 6, 8:00 PM
Ruth (Guest): This is not another Ruth. I had to move to the office because the old computer was not responding.
Jan 6, 8:02 PM
VisitationSiste: Sometimes an inspiration is for a very simple thing-
Jan 6, 8:02 PM
Ruth (Guest): So glad you are getting help at the monastery.
Jan 6, 8:02 PM
Dawn (Guest): to do or say something?
Jan 6, 8:04 PM
Ruth (Guest): Oops. I left my print out of the questions, etc. downstairs in the house. Oh well. We still manage.
Jan 6, 8:04 PM
Ruth (Guest): Jennifer left?
Jan 6, 8:07 PM
Dawn (Guest): for example, I felt a sudden inspiration to call a certain person. what this person had to say to me I felt was from God, it was important in the situation at the time. But it was a quick inspiration I responded to, no thought about it
Jan 6, 8:07 PM
Dawn (Guest): is this an example of an inspiration
Jan 6, 8:08 PM
VisitationSiste: Yes! I do think so!
Jan 6, 8:08 PM
Ruth (Guest): Earlier we were talking a little about vocations. Every day, many times a day, I find myself listing a lot of good reasons why I probably do NOT have a religious vocation. Well, a couple of weeks ago, the words from Shakespeare came to mind: “She doth protest too much, methinks!” So, I made the “decision” that I must at least “check it out.
Jan 6, 8:08 PM
Jennifer Koo: I am back.
Jan 6, 8:08 PM
Ruth (Guest): — Welcome back Jennifer.
Jan 6, 8:09 PM
VisitationSiste: You would need to go to a specialorder now who take all age groups
Jan 6, 8:09 PM
Ruth (Guest): That is, make a retreat at the only monastery you thought would consider someone my age, Sister.
Jan 6, 8:09 PM
Dawn (Guest): And these inspirations I think are from the Holy Spirit?
Jan 6, 8:09 PM
VisitationSiste: There are a few and if you try them you will have a better sense of it
Jan 6, 8:10 PM
Ruth (Guest): A few. Besides Mobile Alabama?
Jan 6, 8:11 PM
VisitationSiste: Beyond Visitation I was thinking
Jan 6, 8:11 PM
Ruth (Guest): Any ideas which?
Jan 6, 8:11 PM
VisitationSiste: I think Mobile is the best possibility for Visitation
Jan 6, 8:12 PM
VisitationSiste: Sr Miriam of the Lamb of God’s group-
Jan 6, 8:12 PM
VisitationSiste: I have to look up the name
Jan 6, 8:12 PM
Ruth (Guest): Is that part of the Community of the Beatitudes?
Jan 6, 8:12 PM
VisitationSiste: No
Jan 6, 8:12 PM
Jennifer Koo: Sr Miriam of the Lamb of God’s group, I think this is a new order
Jan 6, 8:12 PM
VisitationSiste: Yes new
Jan 6, 8:13 PM
Jennifer Koo: I thought they didn’t survive
Jan 6, 8:13 PM
VisitationSiste: https://motherofisraelshope.org/
Jan 6, 8:14 PM
VisitationSiste: https://motherofisraelshope.org/vocations/
Jan 6, 8:14 PM
Ruth (Guest): Oh. I did visit — and like — the Community of the Beatitudes in Denver, CO around 2005. I was still VERY active professionally at that time. And would’ve needed to get a position in Denver. Which didn’t come about.
Jan 6, 8:14 PM
VisitationSiste: to 118 years old! , we indeed welcome women of all ages (18 to 118!) who meet the description for entry in the Introduction to Our Charism and who desire to give up all for the One wh
Jan 6, 8:14 PM
VisitationSiste: it is in Tulsa
Jan 6, 8:15 PM
VisitationSiste: Vocation
Inquiry
Daughters of Mary, Mother of Israel’s Hope
466 South 79th East Avenue
Tulsa, OK 74112
vocationinquiry@motherofisraelshope.org
Jan 6, 8:15 PM
VisitationSiste: welcome viewers
Jan 6, 8:16 PM
Dawn (Guest): I believe this Sr Miriam also hosts a radio talk show, or did Im not sure if she still is.
Jan 6, 8:16 PM
VisitationSiste: Like last week Carol Anne and you Ruth seemed to have an inspiration about the retreat house
Jan 6, 8:16 PM
VisitationSiste: Yes she does Dawn’
Jan 6, 8:16 PM
Ruth (Guest): THANK YOU, SISTER! I just opened and bookmarked that.