“I still want the left nut of the person who made me wear these vestments... ah, there he is!”
(found on The Recovering Dissident Catholic blog - my emphasis)
Un luogo felice
7 years ago
Words not appearing on the Osservatore Romano
“I still want the left nut of the person who made me wear these vestments... ah, there he is!”
(found on The Recovering Dissident Catholic blog - my emphasis)
Modesty. That is: Without Sacrificing Self-Respect
Every woman is unique and possesses her own set of physical attributes that set her apart and make her shine. This is just as true today as it was then. The difference, I believe, is that the women of my grandmother’s generation knew how to play to their strengths and do so without sacrificing their self-respect.
(found on The Pious Sodality Of Church Ladies. I wonder why I did not yet find at least one Italian website/blog showing a serious talk about modesty!)
Comparing it to a Marriage...
I wish I could explain to you exactly how I feel, but the only way I know how to even begin to explain to you how and why I feel the way I do is to compare it to marriage, specifically to yours. When you first met Susan, you had to be introduced to her just like I had to be introduced to the Passionist Nuns. After being introduced, you and Susan each had to make the decision whether or not you wanted to foster some type of a relationship with the other. The Nuns and I, too, had to make this same decision. Just as your relationship with Susan would not have grown had the two of you not agreed to work at it, neither would my relationship with Jesus through the Nuns have grown. Your decision to work at building your relationship was, I’m sure, greatly affected by your attraction to the way Susan looked, dressed, and acted. My relationship with the Passionist Nuns also was greatly affected by my attraction to the way they live, dress, and act. During your years of dating, your relationship with Susan took stronger and deeper roots and blossomed more and more each day you spend time with Susan or just thought about her. The same has been, and continues to be, the case with my relationship with Christ as I, along with the Passionist Nuns, discern His will for my life.
(Read entire story on A Crazy Idea: Trying to explain her call to Contemplative, Passionist Life)
Nun Run and people afraid of vocations...
Other true Nun Run shots:
(source: A Fun Nun's Life)
(source: Chicago Area Vocations)
Here in Italy I never saw anything resembling the Nun Run (either in its original good meaning or in its Charity race meaning). Are they afraid of vocations?
(source: A Fun Nun's Life)
(source: Chicago Area Vocations)
Here in Italy I never saw anything resembling the Nun Run (either in its original good meaning or in its Charity race meaning). Are they afraid of vocations?
Nun Run (4)
The nun run is a weekend event, sponsored by six communities, Sister Vandborg explained. Women who are interested in religious life start at one convent on Friday evening, meet the community, then move on to another convent, where they spend the night. In the morning they breakfast with the community before traveling to another convent and meeting the sisters there. This good-humored version of “speed-dating” continues until Sunday evening, when all of the communities gather for a meal with the inquiring women.
The sisters are young — the average age in the community is 26 — and when they arrange “come and see” weekends, they have had to cap attendance at 100. (...) The inquirers range in age from juniors in high school at 16 or 17 to women in their mid-30s, but the average age is 24. The inquirers’ first contacts are usually through the Internet, and eventually they are invited to spend a retreat over a Saturday night with the community.
Of the more than 600 inquirers each year, about 10 enter the order, Sister Garretson said. The order isn’t old enough to answer the question, “Why do people stay?” she observed, but she hoped to answer the question herself in a few decades.
(source: The Catholic Herald, diocese of Sacramento. I think a “weekend event” is too short on time, but maybe longer times could wipe out most of the participants...)
The sisters are young — the average age in the community is 26 — and when they arrange “come and see” weekends, they have had to cap attendance at 100. (...) The inquirers range in age from juniors in high school at 16 or 17 to women in their mid-30s, but the average age is 24. The inquirers’ first contacts are usually through the Internet, and eventually they are invited to spend a retreat over a Saturday night with the community.
Of the more than 600 inquirers each year, about 10 enter the order, Sister Garretson said. The order isn’t old enough to answer the question, “Why do people stay?” she observed, but she hoped to answer the question herself in a few decades.
(source: The Catholic Herald, diocese of Sacramento. I think a “weekend event” is too short on time, but maybe longer times could wipe out most of the participants...)
Nun Run (3)
Another true Nun Run:
...Instead of heading for the sunny beaches of Florida or visiting an amusement park, six girls from St. Patrick and St. Joan of Arc parishes here spent their spring break on a “Nun Run.”
From April 5 to April 11, the girls and two chaperones visited five religious orders in three states.
“On the trip, there was a general excitement radiating from all the girls, but especially from Alexa,” she said. “She just couldn’t stop smiling because she was so happy to be visiting all those places.”
After the trip, her daughter, Arika, said she also felt the calling to religious life.
“It made me feel closer to God visiting the different orders,” Arika said. “I felt the calling while I was there and I still feel that way. I would really love to go on another ‘Nun Run’ next year.”
(source: an article on “The Catholic Moment” newspaper, in the section “Diocese of Lafayette”; text and photo found on the web)
...Instead of heading for the sunny beaches of Florida or visiting an amusement park, six girls from St. Patrick and St. Joan of Arc parishes here spent their spring break on a “Nun Run.”
From April 5 to April 11, the girls and two chaperones visited five religious orders in three states.
“On the trip, there was a general excitement radiating from all the girls, but especially from Alexa,” she said. “She just couldn’t stop smiling because she was so happy to be visiting all those places.”
After the trip, her daughter, Arika, said she also felt the calling to religious life.
“It made me feel closer to God visiting the different orders,” Arika said. “I felt the calling while I was there and I still feel that way. I would really love to go on another ‘Nun Run’ next year.”
(source: an article on “The Catholic Moment” newspaper, in the section “Diocese of Lafayette”; text and photo found on the web)
Nun Run (2)
Another true Nun Run: “a group of vocation-discerning gals travel to different convents and monasteries, and, yes, check them out!” And sometimes a miracle may actually happen:
Kirstine (circled) and others on that “Nun Run” of 2007
March of 2007 brought us a lovely group of women on a “Nun Run” from the diocese of St. Paul, Minnesota led by our dear friend Claire Rouf. One young gal in particular felt very drawn to our Passionist charism and desired to learn more about it.
(found on In the Shadow of His Wings, blog of the Passionist Nuns of Saint Joseph Monastery in Whitesville, Kentucky)
Kirstine (circled) and others on that “Nun Run” of 2007
March of 2007 brought us a lovely group of women on a “Nun Run” from the diocese of St. Paul, Minnesota led by our dear friend Claire Rouf. One young gal in particular felt very drawn to our Passionist charism and desired to learn more about it.
(found on In the Shadow of His Wings, blog of the Passionist Nuns of Saint Joseph Monastery in Whitesville, Kentucky)
Nun Run (1)
Ever heard of a “Nun Run”? It's a type of ultimate Catholic road trip in which a group of vocation-discerning gals travel to different convents and monasteries, and, yes, check them out! We were the last stop on the “Indiana Nun Run 2005” and had the extreme pleasure of hosting “Nun Runners” Missy, Nicci, Gala, and Carrie, for an overnight stay this past Friday. Our novice mistress, Sr. Mary Catharine, shared our life with them as the girls shared their stories. The visit ended with a slide presentation of our monastery. Our aspirants, Greta and Lisa also had the joy of meeting these wonderful young women. Please keep them in your prayers as they seek to follow the Lord's Will in their lives.
(found on Moniales OP, the blog of the Dominican Nuns of Summit, New Jersey)
The rosary and the swiss-army-knife
So my friend came up to me, fall of our freshman year of college, and said, “QM, do you think you could fix something for me?” I guess he thought he'd try me because I'd glued back together the corpus of his wall crucifix earlier in the year, after it had fallen and broken into pieces. I told him that I'd try, and so he produced a sort of necklace -- wooden beads connected with wire chain-links, with a crucifix at the end. He called it a “rosary,” and pointed out that one of the links had come apart, so what was supposed to be a loop was more like a string. Now, I didn't know what a “rosary” was -- I was a good Lutheran girl, after all! -- and I didn't have any more clues than what he told me, but it looked pretty easy to fix. I pulled out my trusty Swiss Army Knife (which conveniently includes pliars) and twiddled with the wire a bit, and re-connected the links.
(source: Quantitative Metathesis blog; I strongly recommend to read the entire story. And then, the day after, also read the entire blog).
(And -yes!- as soon as possible, I'll translate it in Italian to make my friends read it!)
Blog of the day: the Hermeneutic of Continuity
Franciscan Sisters usus antiquior solemn profession. An image says more than 1000 words.
(found on The Hermeneutic of Continuity, nice blog. This also is in my “breakfast reads”)
Valid Option: Freak Out and Turn Over Tables
“When someone asks you 'think about what Jesus would do', remember that a valid option is to freak out and turn over tables” -- Unknown
Found on Catholic Pillow Fight.
Quantitative Metathesis -- that is, tears of joy
I come to the door of the house, carrying my jar of ointment, still wondering what possessed me to come. As I bribe the doorkeeper -- who knows me -- to let me in, I wonder what He will do when I touch His feet. If He should kick at me, it is only what I deserve, but if He does before I can anoint Him, what then? What then? No answer comes. And now I am already inside, burning under the hostile gaze of everyone in the room. Oh, God, it is a regular dinner party! They all know, they all accuse, they all wonder how I gained entrance. Even the maidservants stare.
(...)
- “So, just to be perfectly clear, Lord, are you asking me to serve you as a...?”
Please, read the entire amazing story on Quantitative Metathesys.
Amazing-- no, more: stunning. I've been stuck for a while, reading her pages, and mostly the one containing the above words.
Sure, I'll pray for you.
(Italian-speaking people may click here)
Say The Black - Do The Red
What Do The Prayers Really Say is one of my most favourite blogs.
I was even tempted to buy a few mugs “Say The Black, Do The Red” - nice idea!
Here in Italy, anti-traditionalist priests (that is, some 95% of the total) use the term “rubricist” as a contemptuous label for people who do not like liturgical “variations” (i.e. liturgical abuses).
Most of them know that Roman Missal allows “freedom to change” at a “certain” (er...) degree. When they feel “uncertain” about the degree, they will take the most liberal interpretation, limited by their perception of common sense.
I was even tempted to buy a few mugs “Say The Black, Do The Red” - nice idea!
Here in Italy, anti-traditionalist priests (that is, some 95% of the total) use the term “rubricist” as a contemptuous label for people who do not like liturgical “variations” (i.e. liturgical abuses).
Most of them know that Roman Missal allows “freedom to change” at a “certain” (er...) degree. When they feel “uncertain” about the degree, they will take the most liberal interpretation, limited by their perception of common sense.
50 per cent less Bugnini
Creative Minority Report, nice blog.
Click on the image to get the full-size version.
Contains none of the following: “clapping - guitars - extraordinary ministers - reception in the hand”. And even “50% less Bugnini”.
Awesome.
When neocons start finding ways to disregard what Benedict XVI says...
3. You know the Pope is a traditionalist when the ultra-montanist neo-cons start finding ways to disregard what he says...
OK, he isn't strictly a traditionalist. But all the same there is something truly bizarre about the sight of ultramontanist neo-cons like George Weigel who under Pope John Paul II insisted that every word that dropped from the Pope's mouth had to be believed and obeyed without question suddenly finding ways to disregard large chunks of an encyclical. Yep, apparently now we can go through the document with a red pen and work out what is truly the Pope's own words, and what are interpolations by the evil bureaucrats...
Found on Australia incognita, another good blog to add to my RSS list.
Don't be shy!
The Catholic Church doesn’t need progressives, nor does it need Reactionary Conservatives - It badly needs Catholic Traditionalists that practice faith, hope and charity. So don’t be shy! Come forward.
Found on Gabriella's blog.
Found on Gabriella's blog.
Priests For Life
(source: Priests for Life - Galleries of Images of Aborted Children)
Here in Italy there are some 130,000+ abortions every year.
And I wonder why here a very few priests preach - at least “sometimes preach” - against abortion. As if abortion, here, did not exist.
I wonder what effect could have here the existence of something like Priests for Life, even with a web-site publishing crude images of aborted children.
See also: Face the Truth America
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