Posted on 08/24/2014 6:55:45 AM PDT by Morgana
When I entered I saw what I had written. I wanted to say a word to you and the word is “joy”. Wherever there are consecrated people, seminarians, men and women religious, young people, there is joy, there is always joy! It is the joy of freshness, the joy of following Jesus; the joy that the Holy Spirit gives us, not the joy of the world. There is joy! but — where is joy born?
Joy is born from the gratuitousness of an encounter! It is hearing someone say, but not necessarily with words: “You are important to me”. This is beautiful…. And it is these very words that God makes us understand. In calling you God says to you: “You are important to me, I love you, I am counting on you”. Jesus says this to each one of us! Joy is born from that! The joy of the moment in which Jesus looked at me. Understanding and hearing this is the secret of our joy.
Pope Francis
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Cute pictures. My favorite is the little Asian sisters arm-wrestling.
Spending time with God is never boring, and if the other pics do not show people the joy in a life dedicated to serving God, then that is sad.
Mother Theresa said what was wrong with America was a lack of love.
Too many people think it is boring if you’re not out getting drunk every night.
It seems like it's been forever since I last saw a nun wearing a habit. Actually it was back in the mid '70s when my boys were attending Catholic grammar school.
I visited family in New Orleans a few years ago. They took me to a Saints game, where I was surprised to see a gaggle of nuns in the Super Dome. They did a great pre-game prayer for the teams, and the folks in their section joined in.
It was odd to see at first, but there’s always an odd comfort and charm that comes from seeing nuns out and about.
When I was a kid in Catholic school, the nuns were out on the playground with us at recess, joining in at kickball and jump rope and Red Rover. Sister Cecily was a dead-eye at dodge ball.
The lay teachers were smoking in the teachers’ lounge during recess period.
As a teacher, I also joined into games with the children. Good way to keep an eye on things.
Of course, I had to leave occasionally to take care of another problem I observed on the playground.
When I was a 12 year kid my buddies would skateboard through the halls of a catholic school in my neighborhood on Saturdays waiting for the monseigneur to chase us away.
One of the 2nd story hall balconies overlooked a Convent’s walls and on the weekends it was full of nuns laid out in bathing suits sunbathing.
Never a dull moment.
That picture reminds me of a very brief video clip showing Mother Angelica and the beginings of EWTN TV.
Well, for the Islamofacists, those WILL BE the just the start of those “72 virgins” they will see! SARC!
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