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Offer It Up!

January 21st, 2013

It all started the moment I opened the door of my cell. My olfactory perception kicked in…something was burning…

At the same time I noticed a nice post-it-note on the outside of my door – “Soup on stove was boiling & smelled burning so I turned the burner OFF!” [sic].  God bless that dear Sister who turned off the flame!

Ah…but the soup for supper was ruined. That is an unfortunate way to use up left-overs.  So, I had the humbling little challenge of offering up my mistake to the Lord.  I love my Mother – the Catholic Church – and especially her teaching of “offering it up”. We’ve heard this all our lives. But what does it mean? Is it just some pie-in-the-sky way of dealing with difficulties big and small?

As a daughter of God redeemed by the death of Jesus I can offer all my prayers, works, joys and sufferings with Jesus in his eternal self-gift to the Father through his Passion, Death and Resurrection. As a Passionist I am blessed to be steeped in this spirituality… a life of offertory…a life united with my spouse Jesus for my children.

So, even though I ruined the pot of soup I still was able to “feed” my children spiritually through making my little trial into a prayer.

You know what I offered it for? For an end to abortion…to end the taking of life of unborn children. This past weekend we were very blessed to have a Rachel Vineyard retreat take place in our retreat house. Many graces of healing and mercy flowed from the pierced Heart of Jesus upon all who attended.

Tomorrow we, as a nation, will remember the 40th anniversary of the legalization of abortion. Our community is having a Holy Hour of Reparation and Intercession for Life. Details below if you are interested.  Let’s offer up our trials…big and small…to end this terrible modern-day holocaust. May God have mercy on us.

Please join the Passionist Nuns for a Holy Hour of Reparation and Intercession for Life

Tuesday, January 22nd 6:30 – 7:30 p.m.

The Holy Hour will consist of Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, Prayers to end abortion and build a Culture of Life, a Homily and solemn Benediction.

The homilist will be Fr. Gerald Baker, pastor of St. Mary of the Woods in Whitesville, KY.

Please forward this to your family and friends and help spread the word.

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All For the Beloved

March 3rd, 2011

    The last few weeks here have been very full. So much to post and so little time to do so! The following are some random things going on around here.

    There was a Rachel’s Vineyard Retreat held in our Guest House. This retreat is for Post-Abortive men and women. Please do keep them in your prayers. Fr. Ben Cameron is the site leader for the Rachel’s Vineyard retreats in our area and recently founded a Confraternity of Our Lady of Mercy for post-abortive persons seeking healing and holiness. The confraternity also includes persons who have not undergone abortions but wish to join themselves spiritually to a beautiful work of healing such as this.

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    Sr. Cecilia Maria’s family was here for the traditional visit after a vestition.

Sr. Cecilia Maria with her beloved family.

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“Strike up the instruments!”

Whitney on violin treats us to Mozart’s Concerto No. 4

Sr. Cecilia Maria experimenting with the dulcimer and her family sings along – of course, it is a folk song of “The Brothers Four” entitled “Michael Row the Boat to Shore”.
This one’s for you Tim!

Sr. Rose Marie on the banjolin!

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    Our nine days of prayer to St. Gabriel of our Lady of Sorrows, patron of our novitiate brought many graces and some visitors discerning Passionist life.

    Fours special gals and their devoted chaperones from Smyrna, Georgia made us a part of their Spring Break Nun Run - Do come again! Plus another young woman and her mother were able to join us for several days of Passionist living. Please keep these young women in your prayers as they seek to find and follow God’s plan for their beautiful lives.

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Lastly, I thought I would bring you some highlights from this year’s feast day party for the Novice Directress
Sr. Mary Veronica.

Real china for this year’s tea party!

Tea leaves without a tea ball???

The novitiate (Liz – “Much-Afraid”, Sr. Cecilia Maria – “The Shepherd”, Sr. Rose Marie – Narrator) acts out a scene from Hinds’ Feet on High Places. For you Hannah Hurnard fans this is from page 127 of her book. The theme? “Doing the impossible is the funnest thing ever!”
(Sr. Rose Marie’s paraphrase)  :)

Sr. Cecilia Maria introduced us to “Here is My Light”
by Ed Conlin of Ann Arbor

Sr. John Mary had to get in a favorite from her NET days
- “Song of the Beloved” by Laure Krupp

 

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Jesus Became a Pre-Born Child for Us

November 27th, 2010

     Pope Benedict has initiate an historic call for prayer for all Nascent Human Life – basically a world-wide prayer movement to bring an end to abortion. We will be participating in this prayer event this evening with Eucharistic adoration, blessing of the Advent wreathe, First Vespers of Advent, Rosary and Benediction. How I love being Catholic! There are so many ways to express our solidarity with our brothers and sisters throughout the world – even our little brothers and sisters in the womb!

    We join our voices with Monsignor Ignacio Barreiro-Carámbula, interim president of Human Life International. “We recognize with the Holy Father that as the assaults on human life that are accelerating around the world have evil as their root cause, the most powerful response we in the Church can make is to pray in unity for an end to the assault.  Prayer grounds us in the only Power that can ultimately defeat the one behind the culture of death, so we are grateful to be united with the Holy Father in this historic event.”

 

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