What do you think it would be like to get such a letter from your bishop?How do we achieve this abandonment to God? It seems so unattainable; is it something reserved only for the saints?What exactly does it mean to “belong to God”?What does it mean to “bless God”? Isn’t God supposed to bless us?How do we remain peaceful in tribulation and prosperity?St. Francis says that such a person “does not mind if everyone knows that he intends to serve him.” Are we overly concerned with what others think of our devot
Sep 13, 11:12 AM
Sister (Guest): our devotion? Why do we fret about this?
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SrSusan (Guest): Hi Dawn! Glad I/m back this week and you too
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Dawn (Guest): nice you are here Sr Jennifer!
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Dawn (Guest): Hi Mother! nice you are here also!
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Dawn (Guest): we are here. glory to God
Sep 13, 7:27 PM
SrSusan (Guest): I missed last week. I guess the few did not chat much.
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SrSusan (Guest): We had a woman here from Australia a few minutes ago but seems like she left.
Sep 13, 7:27 PM
SrSusan (Guest): How are the fires? Are you in a safe zone?
Sep 13, 7:29 PM
Dawn (Guest): I am, we up here are in safe zone but much smoke
Sep 13, 7:30 PM
SrSusan (Guest): That’s a blessing- even with the smoke Mayyou remain safe!
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Dawn (Guest): Ive no remembrance of other fire seasons such as this one
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Dawn (Guest): thank you
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SrSusan (Guest): It;s all over the upper west coast it seems
Sep 13, 7:31 PM
SrSusan (Guest): I guess we can start- maybe just talk about if we ever did receive a letter from a Bishop!
Sep 13, 7:31 PM
Sr Jennifer (Guest): Both Covid and wild fire, it must be a hard time
Sep 13, 7:34 PM
SrSusan (Guest): Of course being in a Monastery and arranging Masses and such we have received letters from Bishops, but as for personal ones, hmmn, not sure
Sep 13, 7:34 PM
Dawn (Guest): yes, trials and tribulations! and I like the idea of a Bishop writing to us
Sep 13, 7:34 PM
Dawn (Guest): Ive written to our Bishop but he is much to busy Im sure to write me back
Sep 13, 7:35 PM
Guest336 (Guest): HI mother susan marie this is betty. How are you and How is you health? I promise I will chat with you.
Sep 13, 7:35 PM
SrSusan (Guest): Welcome Debra and guests
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SrSusan (Guest): Hi betty I am fine!
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SrSusan (Guest): Betty
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Debra Walland: Thank you
Sep 13, 7:36 PM
Sr Jennifer (Guest): Hi Betty and Debra
Sep 13, 7:36 PM
Dawn (Guest): These are personal letters to St Jane. that they are preserved so we may read them is a blessing
Sep 13, 7:36 PM
SrSusan (Guest): I was blessed, all professed Sisters are to have a Bishop at our Vow Mass
Sep 13, 7:36 PM
SrSusan (Guest): Yes Dawn a great treasure for us
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SrSusan (Guest): We can take his advice to her into our hearts too
Sep 13, 7:37 PM
Dawn (Guest): ok, I will begin to do this
Sep 13, 7:37 PM
SrSusan (Guest): How do we achieve this abandonment to God? It seems so unattainable; is it something reserved only for the saints?
Sep 13, 7:39 PM
Guest336 (Guest): Dear sr susan I was join the brooklyn monastery novena of the sacred heart of jesus daily mass online yesterday and I learn everything from the mass that talk about the sacred heart of jesus Sr susan when I was little alter girl I love the most the sacred heart of jesus and I pray is the lord is my shephered the psalm of david to the sacred of heart of jesus and when I sleep I put the rosary and bibles and picture of the sacred heart of jesus on my bed.
Sep 13, 7:40 PM
SrSusan (Guest): You have deep faith Betty
Sep 13, 7:40 PM
Debra Walland: Perhaps this was at a time when her children had left her, and she was widowed, and chose to remain by herself, able to give everything.
Sep 13, 7:40 PM
SrSusan (Guest): I think we need to abandon ourselves to God minute by minute
Sep 13, 7:40 PM
SrSusan (Guest): Do you mean St Jane, Debra?
Sep 13, 7:41 PM
Debra Walland: Yes. And yes, minute by minute, I keep trying to take things back
Sep 13, 7:41 PM
Guest336 (Guest): my life my love I give to thee o jesus thou the lamb of God who die on the cross for me O may I ever be the faithful one of you loving friend My savier lord jesus have mercy on me. Bettychao
Sep 13, 7:42 PM
SrSusan (Guest): St Jane raised her children after she was widowed and then when she founded the Visitation, took one of her daughters, Francoise, with her to the convent
Sep 13, 7:42 PM
Sr Jennifer (Guest): Hi Hong
Sep 13, 7:42 PM
Hong-Diep Le: Hi Sr. and everyone
Sep 13, 7:42 PM
SrSusan (Guest): Welcome Hong-Diep
Sep 13, 7:42 PM
Hong-Diep Le: Thanks
Sep 13, 7:43 PM
SrSusan (Guest): We are all on our way to sanctity so each of us can begin to abandon ourselves to God in the many situations we find ourselves in
Sep 13, 7:44 PM
Guest336 (Guest): when all my labors and trails are over and I am safe on that beautiful shore just to be near the dear lord I bow down to you mercy will through the ages be glory for me
Sep 13, 7:44 PM
SrSusan (Guest): beautiful!
Sep 13, 7:44 PM
Dawn (Guest): yes beautiful, Betty
Sep 13, 7:45 PM
Guest336 (Guest): thanks to you all
Sep 13, 7:45 PM
SrSusan (Guest): today the word abandon does not always have a good connotation but in the religious sense it shows great trust
Sep 13, 7:45 PM
SrSusan (Guest): What exactly does it mean to “belong to God”?
Sep 13, 7:46 PM
Guest336 (Guest): though I know not what awaits me and what the future has to store yet I know the lord is faithful whom I’ve often prove before
Sep 13, 7:46 PM
Dawn (Guest): this would be complete abandonment , where we belong solely to God
Sep 13, 7:47 PM
SrSusan (Guest): complete, yes good concept
Sep 13, 7:48 PM
SrSusan (Guest): Sometimes we think there is a competition between belonging to God and belonging to another, such as in marriage, but that does not have to be.
Sep 13, 7:48 PM
Guest336 (Guest): at the sunset falls upon one life and its golden rays reveal those qualities faith and love the years made the so real
Sep 13, 7:49 PM
SrSusan (Guest): There have been married saints- and if they did not belong completely to God, they would not be saints yet I would imagine
Sep 13, 7:49 PM
SrSusan (Guest): It’s a mystery for sure
Sep 13, 7:50 PM
SrSusan (Guest): Perhaps it is our soul that belongs completely to God?
Sep 13, 7:50 PM
Guest336 (Guest): our children are a gift from the lord to the nature and love they need our help in guide them to turn their thoughts above. our daily bread
Sep 13, 7:51 PM
SrSusan (Guest): Yet a person consecrated to God and unmarried also has a special way of belonging
Sep 13, 7:51 PM
Dawn (Guest): we are his even if we are not aware
Sep 13, 7:52 PM
Guest336 (Guest): my life my love I given to the lord the good shephered who give his life on the cross for me and my sins O my loving lord I pray only to seek you love and mercy.
Sep 13, 7:52 PM
SrSusan (Guest): Ah yes, that is an intersting comment- can you enlarge on it a bit?
Sep 13, 7:53 PM
Debra Walland: We are also supposed to love our neighbor, so loving our family and friends doesn’t take away from our love or abandonment to God. We are still His, like Dawn said. We just have to get out the way for Him to take over.
Sep 13, 7:54 PM
SrSusan (Guest): so there is conscious belonging, a choice, and unaware belonging, because He created us?
Sep 13, 7:54 PM
Guest336 (Guest): Jesus teach us a parable to us that a man ought to the pray and not loose his heart St Luke 18:1.Betty chao
Sep 13, 7:54 PM
Dawn (Guest): He created us formed us. and this is not dependent on my awareness of it. so my journey has been becoming aware of him and his always being there. He is our Father and loves us more than we can imagine.
Sep 13, 7:54 PM
SrSusan (Guest): Thanks Debra!
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SrSusan (Guest): and Dawn!
Sep 13, 7:55 PM
SrSusan (Guest): What does it mean to “bless God”? Isn’t God supposed to bless us?
Sep 13, 7:55 PM
Guest336 (Guest): Isaiah 12:2 Behold ,God is my salvation.I will trust and not be a fraid of anything.Bettychao
Sep 13, 7:55 PM
Dawn (Guest): at some point tho it came into my awareness, a conscious thought. and responding to him
Sep 13, 7:56 PM
SrSusan (Guest): Thanks Betty!
Sep 13, 7:56 PM
SrSusan (Guest): ah growth in the spirit, Dawn- like an awakening
Sep 13, 7:56 PM
SrSusan (Guest): I remember “waking up” to God
Sep 13, 7:57 PM
SrSusan (Guest): I think blessing God is like praising God somehow
Sep 13, 7:57 PM
Guest336 (Guest): St luke 15:1-10 there is the joy in the presence of the angels of the Lord over one sinner who repent.bettychao
Sep 13, 7:57 PM
SrSusan (Guest): God does bless us, but to me that is like grace coming to us
Sep 13, 7:58 PM
Dawn (Guest): for me this began about 9 yrs ago. God calls us, and in many different ways!
Sep 13, 7:59 PM
SrSusan (Guest): That’s a great grace Dawn and yes we are all so unique
Sep 13, 7:59 PM
Guest336 (Guest): I bear witness that according to their ability,yes and beyong their ability they were freely willing 2 corinthians 8:1:7
Sep 13, 8:00 PM
Dawn (Guest): then, it has been me moving closer to him, by his grace
Sep 13, 8:00 PM
SrSusan (Guest): I guess blessing God could also be thanking Him? for these awakenings?
Sep 13, 8:00 PM
SrSusan (Guest): so it is a mutual relationship, in a way
Sep 13, 8:01 PM
SrSusan (Guest): We need to pray for many awakenings of others in our world
Sep 13, 8:02 PM
Dawn (Guest): Yes, there is a place where we agree. Like Mother Mary, she agreed and said let it be done to me according to your will. this is such surrender!
Sep 13, 8:02 PM
SrSusan (Guest): Thanks for this clear example!
Sep 13, 8:03 PM
Debra Walland: But you need to know God first, before you can be awed by Him. So many don’t have any idea who God is….even in our country.
Sep 13, 8:03 PM
Guest336 (Guest): I was listen to a bible sermon name call from the faithful heart and you deeds is teaching by daniel guo our church preacher from our church. I learn the alot the bible scripture from him and I thanks to the lord jesus give me a such good preacher to tell me all the things from the bible and his words.we must read the bible and say rosaries to getting closed to the sacred heart of jesus becuase he very love us.bettychao
Sep 13, 8:04 PM
SrSusan (Guest): So true, Debra and even in our families
Sep 13, 8:04 PM
Guest336 (Guest): he talk about bible james 2:21 and james 2:22
Sep 13, 8:04 PM
SrSusan (Guest): You have a good preacher there, Betty
Sep 13, 8:04 PM
Dawn (Guest): Im reading a book titled Conversions by Fr Donald Haggerty. I just turned the book open to a quote of St Jane. She must be with us right now!
Sep 13, 8:05 PM
SrSusan (Guest): It hurts to have a treasure and not be able to share it with open receptivity on the part of another, esp when the treasure is God. But we keep trying
Sep 13, 8:05 PM
SrSusan (Guest): Wow Dawn! Whats the quote?
Sep 13, 8:06 PM
Guest336 (Guest): he also talk about do not worry about anything in friday prayer meetting. I listen to all his teaching and mom listen to his teaching online too.
Sep 13, 8:07 PM
Dawn (Guest): Yield yourself fully to God, and you will find out!…I am speaking , of course, of great souled individuals who keep nothing back for themselves.St Jane Frances de Chantel
Sep 13, 8:07 PM
Guest336 (Guest): My mom is focus in the acts of apostles talk by Fr francis chen that lunguage is in catonese but mom listen to that gaspel everyday.
Sep 13, 8:07 PM
SrSusan (Guest): is this about the martyrdom of love? Sounds familiar
Sep 13, 8:08 PM
SrSusan (Guest): That’s good Betty
Sep 13, 8:08 PM
SrSusan (Guest): How do we remain peaceful in tribulation and prosperity?
Sep 13, 8:08 PM
Dawn (Guest): this is a quote from beginning of Ch 8 in Conversions, An Import of a “second conversion”
Sep 13, 8:09 PM
SrSusan (Guest): oh!
Sep 13, 8:09 PM
SrSusan (Guest): I don’t know that book
Sep 13, 8:09 PM
SrSusan (Guest): Sounds good though
Sep 13, 8:10 PM
Dawn (Guest): by practice we may become perfect. many trials and tribulations is a blessing if taken that way
Sep 13, 8:10 PM
Guest336 (Guest): when I sleep I listen to the spainish nun use english and she talk about faith in the body of christ from the night when I sleep entil the morning I wake up. I learn the alot of things from her and she contact me by phone and email sometime and now she saw me in the zoom and that time I thank God for the love of him let me meet this spainish nun teresa forcades and she is the writter of a book faith and freedom from the love of jesus
Sep 13, 8:11 PM
SrSusan (Guest): You have several nun friends! Betty
Sep 13, 8:11 PM
SrSusan (Guest): Yes good point Dawn, all can be taken as blessing if it helps our souls become more holy
Sep 13, 8:11 PM
Dawn (Guest): The title is Conversion, Spiritual Insights into an Essentail Encounter with God
Sep 13, 8:12 PM
Guest336 (Guest): that is the grace come from the love of the lord thankyou God alelluia we praise God for the great love he done for us.Bettychao
Sep 13, 8:12 PM
Dawn (Guest): Essential
Sep 13, 8:12 PM
SrSusan (Guest): Never heard of it but it sounds like a good book. I think I heard of the author; he is from NY? quoted in Magnificat magazine?
Sep 13, 8:14 PM
Dawn (Guest): Yes, He is a priest I believe at St Patricks NY.
Sep 13, 8:14 PM
SrSusan (Guest): Yes that would be the priest!
Sep 13, 8:15 PM
SrSusan (Guest): I think we can be peaceful even in pain and sadness if we ask for that grace
Sep 13, 8:15 PM
SrSusan (Guest): Emotions dont necessarily cancel out peacefulness
Sep 13, 8:15 PM
SrSusan (Guest): altho they can
Sep 13, 8:16 PM
Dawn (Guest): Has St Jane ever written about emotions?
Sep 13, 8:16 PM
Guest336 (Guest): this author is come from barcelona spain espana but she is a medical doctor and phd and she go to america to pratice medical sometime and she studied in the america university name call harvard university and she gradulated from the barcelona medical university and she is a faithful catholic nun and she is also a redical nun sometime she go to NYC for meetting cofferences and alot of sisters nuns come to see her that is happened in nyc when she come to america. that is the nun I talk about sister teresa for
Sep 13, 8:17 PM
SrSusan (Guest): That’s a good question Dawn. I dont know off hand but will check into it. As a mother of a community and a natural one too she probably did talk about, if not write about
Sep 13, 8:18 PM
SrSusan (Guest): emotions
Sep 13, 8:18 PM
SrSusan (Guest): St Jane was a very passionate woman
Sep 13, 8:19 PM
SrSusan (Guest): She advised her children esp her dueling son on vrs matters, even in letters
Sep 13, 8:19 PM
Dawn (Guest): Betty, a blessing to have holy friends!!
Sep 13, 8:20 PM
Guest336 (Guest): sr susan I would like to know about st jane de chantel did they have a book about her life and her faith.Bettychao
Sep 13, 8:20 PM
SrSusan (Guest): Yes they do Betty A good one is by Fr Ravier
Sep 13, 8:20 PM
SrSusan (Guest): also one by Elizabeth Stopp
Sep 13, 8:21 PM
Dawn (Guest): thank you for asking this question Betty!!
Sep 13, 8:21 PM
SrSusan (Guest): St Francis says that such a person “does not mind if everyone knows that he intends to serve him.” Are we overly concerned with what others think of our devot
our devotion? Why do we fret about this
Sep 13, 8:21 PM
Guest336 (Guest): how to order her life book? I would like to order one.Sr susan becuase I want to studied anything about her faith in the lord.
Sep 13, 8:22 PM
SrSusan (Guest): the website “embraced by God” probably sells it.
Sep 13, 8:22 PM
Guest336 (Guest): please email me and let me check this website when you have time.
Sep 13, 8:23 PM
Dawn (Guest): this is a good question to ponder Sr.
Sep 13, 8:23 PM
SrSusan (Guest): https://embracedbygod.org/product-category/books-recordings/
Sep 13, 8:23 PM
SrSusan (Guest): or go to Amazon.com
Sep 13, 8:24 PM
SrSusan (Guest): The last question Dawn, you mean?
Sep 13, 8:24 PM
Dawn (Guest): I fret or at least aware as I live by no Catholics in small town and as it may concern personal relationships. if that makes sense, all I can say
Sep 13, 8:24 PM
SrSusan (Guest): No Catholics in your town?
Sep 13, 8:25 PM
SrSusan (Guest): That must be difficult
Sep 13, 8:26 PM
Dawn (Guest): well, there are some. but worldly I would say, and none who desire friendship.
Sep 13, 8:27 PM
Debra Walland: Even Catholics find it uncomfortable to be around someone who has talen our religion to heart. They go to Mass (or not) and go home. That is their religion.
Sep 13, 8:27 PM
SrSusan (Guest): That;s why its good to have this forum We all benefit
Sep 13, 8:28 PM
Dawn (Guest): yes!! so much am I greatful for this group, all of you.
Sep 13, 8:28 PM
SrSusan (Guest): I think the letters of St Francis have alot to offer for discussion and insight.
Sep 13, 8:29 PM
SrSusan (Guest): Thank you all for being here tonight. Keep praying ! and many blessings to each of you!
Sep 13, 8:29 PM
Guest336 (Guest): Sr susan I have question I know you retreat is privite but may I join the retreat from the online that is come from other catholic church or another catholic monastery ? I saw other monastery do have retreat online life a one monastery in michigan ann harbor that monastery name call the dominican sister of mary mother of the eucharist they have retreat online like pray to the each mysteiries of the rosary and each daily mass online with their monastery sisters they just give me the imformation
Sep 13, 8:29 PM
Debra Walland: I am just finishing his book on Finding God’s Will. Now I have a new book to buy. Good night. Thank you.
Sep 13, 8:29 PM
SrSusan (Guest): We don’t have an online retreat but yes some places do
Sep 13, 8:30 PM
SrSusan (Guest): Great! Good night!
Sep 13, 8:30 PM
Dawn (Guest): thank you Sr Susan, and all of you! Prayers for you and all the sisters. Good night
Sep 13, 8:30 PM
Guest336 (Guest): I love to join them online I decide too
Sep 13, 8:31 PM
Hong-Diep Le: Thank you everyone for your time, prayer, and have a good night!
Sep 13, 8:32 PM
Guest336 (Guest): sister susan please pray for me for my blood sugar and liver I going to join the sisters of mary the mother of the eucharist retreat online tomorrow for my bible studied
Sep 13, 8:33 PM
Dawn (Guest): may I add, I walk around outside in town or in woods and pray a Rosary. now, many people do not even notice. which makes me know to pray for conversions of others souls.