Jesus offered himself for the Church, for each of us individually. What compelled Jesus to give his life for you?2. Saint Francis says that God “determined” the hour of his life events. Does this mean that everything is pre-configured by God and that we have no free will?3. Saint Francis mentions how in the Old Testament the High Priest would symbolically wear/bear the names of the children of Israel, and he mentions that Jesus does this for all of us. How might Isaiah 43:1 tie into this? “I have called
Mar 15, 5:32 PM
VisitationSiste: “I have called you by name, and you are mine.” 4. The reflection concludes by mentioning all the benefits merited for us by Jesus through His life, death, and resurrection. Why did God go through the trouble of making a sacrifice of himself? Why didn’t God just wipe away all sin and effect of sin? Why is sacrifice such a pivotal part of our redemption?5. When we think of Our Savior’s desire to die for us, so that each one of us “may not perish but live,” how does that cast light on the world’s worries today
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VisitationSiste: over the threat of the coronavirus?
Mar 15, 5:33 PM
VisitationSiste: Sun Mar 15 730pm est – chat time!
Mar 15, 7:27 PM
Sr Jennifer (Guest): Hi Carroll
Mar 15, 7:27 PM
Carroll V (Guest): Hi Mother Susan Marie and Sr Jennifer
Mar 15, 7:27 PM
Sr Jennifer (Guest): How are you, Carroll
Mar 15, 7:27 PM
VisitationSiste: HI Carroll- can you stay tonight
Mar 15, 7:28 PM
Carroll V (Guest): I am good, thanks, and yes I can stay tonight.
Mar 15, 7:28 PM
Sr Jennifer (Guest): That’s good
Mar 15, 7:29 PM
VisitationSiste: The first question might seem a bit personal I know at one time chatters felt we should keep to the more objective
Mar 15, 7:31 PM
VisitationSiste: WE know our dear Lord gave His life for all of us so we could be redeemed and saved from sin
Mar 15, 7:32 PM
Sr Jennifer (Guest): Hi Debra
Mar 15, 7:32 PM
Debra Walland: hi Everyone
Mar 15, 7:33 PM
VisitationSiste: Welcome back Debra
Mar 15, 7:34 PM
Sr Jennifer (Guest): Hello Viewers
Mar 15, 7:34 PM
VisitationSiste: 1st q 1. Jesus offered himself for the Church, for each of us individually. What compelled Jesus to give his life for you?
Mar 15, 7:36 PM
Sr Jennifer (Guest): Because Jesus loves us
Mar 15, 7:36 PM
VisitationSiste: so deeply, yes
Mar 15, 7:37 PM
VisitationSiste: It will be so powerful to know Him ever more intimately, esp in heaven, but even here, in prayer, in Eucharist, in adoration
Mar 15, 7:38 PM
VisitationSiste: So hard to think Churches are not open in many places and Tabernacles with Jesus unvisited
Mar 15, 7:39 PM
Sr Jennifer (Guest): In every moments of our lives, Jesus is with us.
Mar 15, 7:39 PM
Debra Walland: Ihave a hard time with this question. I have a harder time because of question 4. God is so great and perfect and powerful, why did there have to be such a horrible sacrifice.
Mar 15, 7:42 PM
Dawn (Guest): Hello Sr Susan, Sr Jennifer,and Carroll. I will read
Mar 15, 7:42 PM
Carroll V (Guest): Hi Dawn!
Mar 15, 7:42 PM
Sr Jennifer (Guest): Hi Dawn
Mar 15, 7:42 PM
VisitationSiste: Saints often desire suffering to truly prove their love for Jesus. So Jesus being so far beyond any saint in holiness must have a way to convince us He loves us.
Mar 15, 7:44 PM
VisitationSiste: Hi Dawn
Mar 15, 7:44 PM
VisitationSiste: There are things about God’s plan we just don’t understand now
Mar 15, 7:45 PM
VisitationSiste: q 2 2. Saint Francis says that God “determined” the hour of his life events. Does this mean that everything is pre-configured by God and that we have no free will?
Mar 15, 7:46 PM
Carroll V (Guest): It seems to me that one of the ways Jesus saves us is by teaching us to love… He is the ultimate example of Love. A crucial part of demonstrating love is sacrifice. The depth of His sacrifice shows us the depth of His Love for each and every one of us… even those most affected by the consequences of sin.
Mar 15, 7:48 PM
Sr Jennifer (Guest): Catechism of the Catholic Church, No. 615: Jesus atoned for our faults and made satisfaction for our sins to the Father.
Mar 15, 7:49 PM
Dawn (Guest): thank you Sr
Mar 15, 7:49 PM
Carroll V (Guest): We DO have free will, but perhaps God in His omnipotence knows how we will use it and where we will stumble.
Mar 15, 7:51 PM
Sr Jennifer (Guest): The U.S. Catholic Catechism for Adults says this about freedom, “Human freedom is more than the capacity to choose between this and that. It is the God-given power to become who He created us to be and so to share eternal union with Him. This happens when we consistently choose ways that are in harmony with God’s plan… Ultimately, human freedom lies in our free decision to say ‘yes’ to God.”
Mar 15, 7:51 PM
Debra Walland: Thank you, Sr. Jennifer, I know he opened heaven to us. And now we have the choice to follow his plan or use the free will He generously gave us .
Mar 15, 7:52 PM
VisitationSiste: There is no time in God so a “determined hour refers to our time
Mar 15, 7:54 PM
VisitationSiste: Jesus would never say no to His Father tho we might
Mar 15, 7:55 PM
Sr Jennifer (Guest): Freedom comes to us as a gift; Christ makes us free by offering Himself in the sacrifice on the Cross and by sending us the gift of the Holy Spirit. St. Paul writes (Gal 5:13), “Remember that you have been called to live in freedom — but not a freedom that gives free rein to the flesh. Out of love, place yourselves at one another’s service.”
Mar 15, 7:55 PM
Sr Jennifer (Guest): The gift of freedom requires a response on our part, an ongoing response sustained by both faith and reason, and supported by God’s grace.
Mar 15, 7:56 PM
Carroll V (Guest): Galatians- That’s a beautiful point for meditation. Thank you Sr Jennifer!
Mar 15, 7:57 PM
Sr Jennifer (Guest): You are most welcome, Debra and Carroll
Mar 15, 8:00 PM
VisitationSiste: q-3. Saint Francis mentions how in the Old Testament the High Priest would symbolically wear/bear the names of the children of Israel, and he mentions that Jesus does this for all of us. How might Isaiah 43:1 tie into this? “I have called you by name, and you are mine.”
Mar 15, 8:03 PM
VisitationSiste: hi Ruth
Mar 15, 8:04 PM
Sr Jennifer (Guest): Hi Ruth
Mar 15, 8:04 PM
Dawn (Guest): not specific but I think the OT is a foreshadow of the NT, the Gospels
Mar 15, 8:05 PM
Ruth (Guest): Hi Sister Susan Marie, and Debra, Dawn, Caroll V. and Sr. Jennifer. Sorry I missed half of chat.
Mar 15, 8:05 PM
Dawn (Guest): Hi Ruth
Mar 15, 8:05 PM
Carroll V (Guest): We are happy you are here Ruth!
Mar 15, 8:05 PM
Debra Walland: He is our High Priest and he knows each of us, cares for each of us, in a very intimate way
Mar 15, 8:06 PM
Sr Jennifer (Guest): It’s good that you are here, Ruth
Mar 15, 8:06 PM
Ruth (Guest): Names . . . . they are so important. I have called you by name; you are mine.”
Mar 15, 8:08 PM
Ruth (Guest): And, in Revelation, there is a passage that says, “To each I have given a new name known only to that person and to God.”
Mar 15, 8:09 PM
Sr Jennifer (Guest): I have called you by name, and you are mine. This is being very personal, and we need not worry that there are so many billions of people who have lived or are still living on this earth that how could God possibly know who I am.
Mar 15, 8:09 PM
VisitationSiste: I know a priest who emphasizes this all the time- God knows us by name
Mar 15, 8:10 PM
Ruth (Guest): Rev 2:17
Mar 15, 8:10 PM
VisitationSiste: “you are mine” Just think of that! Each of us are His!
Mar 15, 8:10 PM
Sr Jennifer (Guest): There are billions of people but there is also an intimacy where each person is known personally and by name
Mar 15, 8:10 PM
VisitationSiste: So intimate and personal
Mar 15, 8:11 PM
Sr Jennifer (Guest): “The sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.” (John 10:3).
Mar 15, 8:11 PM
Debra Walland: He knows every hair on our head. He stands by us all day and all night. And His sheep know his voice…
Mar 15, 8:12 PM
Carroll V (Guest): He not only cares for us more than the most devoted human parents; He also KNOWS us infinitely better than the most attentive parents… AND, even knowing us as He does, He Loves us exceedingly- … perfectly.
Mar 15, 8:13 PM
Ruth (Guest): We each long to be known by at least one other, and accepted. Jesus in telling the woman at the well “everything I ever did” was not so much condemning her but just matter of factly saying he KNEW her.
Mar 15, 8:14 PM
Sr Jennifer (Guest): “you have found favour in my sight, and I know you by name.” (Exodus 33:17)
Mar 15, 8:14 PM
Ruth (Guest): And then he offers LIVING WATER.
Mar 15, 8:15 PM
Dawn (Guest): I have been meditating some on Hosea 3;14 Therefore I will allure her and bring her into the wilderness and speak tenderly to her And there I will give her vineyards……and on
Mar 15, 8:16 PM
Dawn (Guest): but…the woman at the well. The living water….this is intimate
Mar 15, 8:16 PM
Ruth (Guest): And in that place the wilderness was ordinarily a barren place.
Mar 15, 8:18 PM
Carroll V (Guest): The living water is prayer, which is most often what drws us into intimacy with Him
Mar 15, 8:19 PM
Sr Jennifer (Guest): Lets pray that we all will find ourselves in that wilderness lost deeply in God
Mar 15, 8:19 PM
Carroll V (Guest): Amen!
Mar 15, 8:19 PM
Dawn (Guest): Yes, Amen.
Mar 15, 8:19 PM
Ruth (Guest): I live in a place, that, by New York State law is “forever wilderness” — but it is a beautiful, lush wilderness, at least from around May to September. I feel that God led me here. And my former spiritual director and friend — God rest her soul — used to say, “Grow where you are planted.”
Mar 15, 8:20 PM
VisitationSiste: Last q-I missed one I think – 5. When we think of Our Savior’s desire to die for us, so that each one of us “may not perish but live,” how does that cast light on the world’s worries today over the threat of the coronavirus?
Mar 15, 8:21 PM
Dawn (Guest): Yes Ruth! well, the sisters here I learned to see where God had put me. It greatly helped me to settle in
Mar 15, 8:21 PM
Dawn (Guest): Memento Mori!
Mar 15, 8:24 PM
Ruth (Guest): The threat of Corvi19 is a powerful reminder that we all must die — some of us a bit sooner.
Mar 15, 8:24 PM
Carroll V (Guest): A favorite quote from Sr Francoise Therese: “Come soon Heaven, for in this exile we can only stammer.”
Mar 15, 8:24 PM
VisitationSiste: Yes not perish but live also refers to our soul- its eternal life
Mar 15, 8:26 PM
VisitationSiste: You have shared many interesting points tonight. Thank you!
Mar 15, 8:27 PM
VisitationSiste: May each of you stay well and let’s continue praying for each other
Mar 15, 8:27 PM
Sr Jennifer (Guest): Nice meeting all of you. Stay well and God bless. Good night
Mar 15, 8:28 PM
Debra Walland: Thank you, Sisters and new friends. Stay well.
Mar 15, 8:28 PM
Carroll V (Guest): Quick thank you for your prayers for Ellie last week- She was glowing and very much at peace… a beautiful role model of a lay woman so devoted to Our Blessed Mother and devoted to serving others… soon to have her rebirthday into eternity!
Mar 15, 8:28 PM
Dawn (Guest): Thank you Sr. God bless you, Sr Jennifer and our chat sisters.
Mar 15, 8:28 PM
Carroll V (Guest): Thank you everyone. Have a blessed week!
Mar 15, 8:29 PM
Ruth (Guest): Yes. The other day when I saw the shelves of Aldi bare — like I’d never seen them in this country before (and then discovered that it was like that in other stores, too), it became clear that people were preparing for a possible long quarantine or self-isolation. And while I tried on a pair of hiking boots, I chatted with a store clerk who was consolidating what little was left for the anticipated new delivery.
Mar 15, 8:30 PM
Ruth (Guest): We chatted. And she was surprised and a bit amused that I
Mar 15, 8:31 PM
Dawn (Guest): ….a good plan to buy new hiking boots!
Mar 15, 8:31 PM
Ruth (Guest): had — although I am at higher risk than many — just signed up to help e.g. to deliver food and beverages and medicine, if need be, to the homebound.
Mar 15, 8:33 PM
Ruth (Guest): “I’ve had a good life,” I said, as if it did not matter whether I lived or died.
Mar 15, 8:33 PM
Ruth (Guest): I didn’t buy the boots; I still want to let my toes have their space!
Mar 15, 8:33 PM
Dawn (Guest): were they to small?
Mar 15, 8:35 PM
Dawn (Guest): The gov said today all those over 65 are to self isolate. and he closed many more places
Mar 15, 8:35 PM
Ruth (Guest): I had a size 8 and a size 8, although most of my life I’ve worn a 7 or 7 1/2. They were too narrow.
Mar 15, 8:36 PM
Dawn (Guest): oh yes. I have noticed this also in sizes, so I try to buy wide
Mar 15, 8:36 PM
Ruth (Guest): size 9
Mar 15, 8:37 PM
Ruth (Guest): It’s the feet getting broader along with our understanding!
Mar 15, 8:37 PM
Dawn (Guest):
Mar 15, 8:39 PM
Dawn (Guest): there is an order of nuns in Fort Wayne, sorry I do not recall more. but they are barefoot, weather permitting. they go about the neighbor to visit those who need. full habits and barefoot. I enjoyed reading about them
Mar 15, 8:40 PM
Ruth (Guest): Yes, the Bishop gave a blankent discretionary dispensation for the emergency conditions.
Mar 15, 8:41 PM
Dawn (Guest): here as well. plus our priest issued his own, no weekday Mass. I suspect this will change even more
Mar 15, 8:41 PM
Ruth (Guest): So far no one in the Adirondacks, except one on the edge, in Lowville, have been diagnosed with Covid19. But just about all meetings are cancelled.
Mar 15, 8:42 PM
Ruth (Guest): Even our retreat last Saturday — last minute.
Mar 15, 8:43 PM
Ruth (Guest): Oops, looks like we are here alone again, Dawn.
Mar 15, 8:43 PM
Dawn (Guest): down the mountain from here were 15 new cases just today. none here in town, but this will change. the schools will be closing this week. resturants. bars. we have medical and grocery open now
Mar 15, 8:44 PM
Dawn (Guest): we are. enjoy chatting with you. Be well, God Bless you. and thank you
Mar 15, 8:44 PM
Ruth (Guest): Discalced Carmelites?
Mar 15, 8:45 PM
Ruth (Guest): Discalced means shoeless.
Mar 15, 8:46 PM
Ruth (Guest): Catholic Register has published a novena for protection against Covid19. Stay well. God bless you. Good night.
Mar 15, 8:46 PM
Dawn (Guest): perhaps. I will look them up again and let you know. they made their own habits, I recall dark blue. also, they went to full cloister for one year they said, I will look them up and see
Mar 15, 8:47 PM
Dawn (Guest): good to know. goodnight~
Mar 15, 8:48 PM
Ruth (Guest): Carmelites usually wear brown and white. And even the Discalced order generally will wear sandles.
Mar 15, 8:48 PM
Ruth (Guest): Good night. God bless you.