Posted on 10/18/2013 12:24:05 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
Thank you for posting in this digital Cul De Sac, otherwise I would have missed it. Just like most of us, Sister Antonia needed to be needed. Unlike most of us, she took a calculated risk, based on love and devotion, walking away from the physical comforts and the predictable security of her own family.
Actually, I did not realize this was allowed anywhere today; to purposely reside in a prison setting. I may have overlooked what happened to the husband. I presume she was a widow.
How divinely heroic she was! That, my friends is what real beauty is.
Oh my. 3 replies so far. And no one picked up on the obvious clues? (al baby; TJ)
Guess I’ll have to say I am STUNED.
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I'm remembering how Our Lord said, "I am the Vine; you are the branches. If you remain in Me, you will bear much fruit."
I've done some thinking about how "fruitfulness" differs from "efficiency". Fruitfulness has to do with the inner, organic nature of a thing: Jesus talks also about how only the good tree bears good fruit.
So it seems we have a guarantee that Sr. Antonia's life will have been fruitful, since she was acting within her relationship with Our Lord, who is the source of all that is is truly good and truly lasting.
Good, lasting results with these "lost souls"? I'd bet my right arm up to the shoulder on that. I'd bet my life.
Well, blarg. I should have caught that. If you’d written “Tiajunna,” that would have helped!
Hence my answer.
Some of my typos, I don't know how they happen. They are bigger and more complicated than the ordinary typos!
She gave a talk in my hometown about three years ago and my little boy asked her for a blessing. When this happened I told myself, my son is being blessed by a future saint!
A truly amazing lady.
RIP, Sister Antonia Brenner....
You were very lucky to get that assistance.
That’s what I told my kids the last time Father Ho Lung was at our parish! Father Ho looked embarrassed.
Dearest Mrs.Don-o, I’ve been absent from FR for weeks, just a few days ago popped in.
This story is so beautiful, it is medicine.
I will go cry now.
I hope you have been in good health and that you have been able to pray every day.
"Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of Thy faithful,
And enkindle in them the fire of Thy love.
Send forth Thy Spirit, and they shall be created,
And Thou shalt renew the face of the earth."
That is someone who ‘walked the walk’!
3 decades VOLUNTARILY living in a TJ prison?
Im uhh.. I, Im...
(darn it. whats the word Im looking for here?)
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I know what to say. There are those who talk of what to do and then there are those who just do it. God Bless you Sister Antonia Brenner.
Another picture of "La Mama"
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