What is it about God that begets the movements of what St. Francis calls complacence and benevolence? How do we become conformed to God’s will? How does God draw us to him, and yet respect our free will? If we become like that which we are drawn to, what kind of objects of our affection are lawful to us, or in other words, prudent to follow? How about famous people, songs, heroes of our day, etc.? What does it mean that God desires a relationship of love with us? What is it about God tha
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VisitationSiste: What does it mean that God desires a relationship of love with us?
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Ruth (Guest): Hello everyone. I just wanted to inform everyone about this series CATHOLICISM available on line for FREE only from August 7 – 16th, 2018 https://CatholicismSeries.com Its’ beautiful, excellent! Well worth spending an hour or two per day watching it — great for adults but even young children may be able to attend to it because of the beautiful photography, music, etc.
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Ruth (Guest): The series is from Word On Fire — Bishop Robert Barron
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Sister Susan Marie (Moderator): Thank you!
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Sister Susan Marie (Moderator): Glad to be back!
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Sister Susan Marie (Moderator): Hi Judy!
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Judy (Guest): Hi Mother and Ruth! Anyone besides me thinking of moving to Antarctica? I am not a great fan of cold, but after three or more weeks of heat and humidity, it is starting to look better all the time.
Aug 5, 7:27 PM
Sister Susan Marie (Moderator): That’s funny but a good idea First Visitation Monastery in Anartica!
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Sister Susan Marie (Moderator): Ruth disappeared on my screen
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Judy (Guest): Either that or maybe they could send us some ice from down there.
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Judy (Guest): No Ruth here either.
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Sister Susan Marie (Moderator): Ruth is back!
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Ruth (Guest): I’m back. It has taken me so long in the past to sign in, that I left my sign in in place while I fixed myself a quick supper.
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Ruth (Guest): Need to get some water though.
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Ruth (Guest): BRB
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Sister Susan Marie (Moderator): OK
Aug 5, 7:31 PM
Judy (Guest): When I think that when I was in my forties, I used to pick the hottest most humid day in the summer to scrib my kitchen from ceiling to floor and never felt any the worse for it. Now, I was preparing my lunch and I was dripping, with the persp. running into my eyes. You have my permission to call me “Drip”.
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Sister Susan Marie (Moderator): You are funny tonight Great sense of humor!!
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Judy (Guest): I need a sense of humor to keep going.
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Guest8377 (Guest): Hi Sister Susan and Judy !!! God Bless You !!! Brian
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Sister Susan Marie (Moderator): And you do keep going!
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Sister Susan Marie (Moderator): Hi Brian!
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Sister Susan Marie (Moderator): Thanks for the picture
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Ruth (Guest): Here I am. Scrolling back.
Aug 5, 7:34 PM
Sister Susan Marie (Moderator): Hi Dawn!
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Judy (Guest): Well, I am ready to hit question 1. Hi Brian! What is about God that begets the movements of what St. Francis calls complacence and benevolence. It is the goodness, love and mercy of God that begets or brings forth movements of complacence and benevolence. In other words, this goodness, love and mercy induces us to desire to give the same to God. Hi Dawn!
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Dawn (Guest): Hi Mother , Judy, Ruth and Brian! God bless us all!
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Sister Susan Marie (Moderator): I prayed for you all during retreat
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Guest8377 (Guest): Hi Dawn !
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Guest8377 (Guest): Hi Ruth !
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Dawn (Guest): Thank you for your prayers Mother
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Judy (Guest): Mother, can you remind us what St. Francis means by complacence, please?
Aug 5, 7:35 PM
Ruth (Guest): Hi Drip. I wish I could share these Dips with you. Cherries coated in choc olate. I don’t even know where they came from — maybe something I was going to send to my brother. I wonder if I can eat just two?
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Guest8377 (Guest): Thank You Sister Susan !!!!
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Judy (Guest): Thank you for your prayers, Mother. We all surely need them.
Aug 5, 7:36 PM
Sister Susan Marie (Moderator): Complacence is the Salesian world is not what we think of in its definition today. It is taking pleasure in the one we love, esp God and beginning to resem ble Him
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Judy (Guest): Thank you very much. I thought it was something like that.
Aug 5, 7:37 PM
Sister Susan Marie (Moderator): Like complacence in those chocolate cherries!
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Sister Susan Marie (Moderator): Delighting in them
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Ruth (Guest): Thank you, Sister. That word made me uncomfortable again.
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Judy (Guest): M-m-m, I can almost taste them.
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Sister Susan Marie (Moderator): But of course the complacence in God cannot be compared to that!
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Guest8377 (Guest): Maria had such an amazing experience on her mission trip to her home country Guatemala !!! Thank you all for the prayers !!!!
Aug 5, 7:37 PM
Sister Susan Marie (Moderator): Yes we have come across that word before
Aug 5, 7:38 PM
Sister Susan Marie (Moderator): Is she back with you now?
Aug 5, 7:39 PM
Sister Susan Marie (Moderator): Hi Jennifer!
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Jennifer Koo: Hi MOTHER
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Judy (Guest): Hi Jennifer!
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Guest8377 (Guest): Yes they arrived back late Friday Night Sister she talked for three hours about her trip to us when she got off the plane !!! She wants to go back again someday !!!
Aug 5, 7:40 PM
Guest8377 (Guest): Hi Jennifer !!!
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Ruth (Guest): You’re on a roll tonight, Judy.
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Jennifer Koo: Hi Judy,
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Sister Susan Marie (Moderator): To me it is God’s awesomeness and His Love that begets the complacence for Him or in Him
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Ruth (Guest): Hi Jennifer.
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Jennifer Koo: Hi Brain and Ruth
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Sister Susan Marie (Moderator): Who would not want to grow more loving as we allow God to live in us
Aug 5, 7:42 PM
Dawn (Guest): Hi Jennifer!
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Jennifer Koo: Hi Dawn
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Judy (Guest): How can we become conformed to God’s will? by studying it first in the Scirptures, in the lives of Jesus, Mary and the Saints, and then striving to imitate it in our lives.
Aug 5, 7:43 PM
Ruth (Guest): Awesome! The word used exactly according to its real meaning here. Kids these days often say “Awesome!” for almost anything.
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Judy (Guest): And indeed God is awesome!!!
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Dawn (Guest): And by receiving the Eucharist for Jesus tells us we will then have life in us. His life
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Guest8377 (Guest): When we truly live in childlike Love of God we know what He wants us to do . We feel conviction if we do something that He does not want us to do ! Kindergarten Love !
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Judy (Guest): How wonderful that Jesus loves us so much that He gives Himself to us in the Eucharist at least every week. What a tremendous act of love!!!
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Sister Susan Marie (Moderator): His Will is placed before us in circumstances that come our way
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Ruth (Guest): I agree, Judy. Scripture, saints, etc. But I think good parenting helps a lot, too, and good, loving teachers. From them you learn that even the things you may not like them expecting you to do are GOOD for you, are willed for you out of love.
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Sister Susan Marie (Moderator): We accept them with Love and thereby do His Will
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Guest8377 (Guest): Manna from Heaven !
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Ruth (Guest): About that the Israelites grumbled.
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Judy (Guest): Sometimes I overlook the obvious, like our parents and teachers.
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Dawn (Guest): by circumstances that come our way! thank you
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Judy (Guest): And circumstances that come our way.
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Ruth (Guest): Opportunities/
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Ruth (Guest): ?
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Guest8377 (Guest): We can get like them too ! We get spoiled and can lose our connection to God quickly!
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Jennifer Koo: Discerning of God’s will is not an easy task
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Judy (Guest): Sometimes it is and sometimes it isn’t. Like when you are given a direct order to do or not to do something, as long as it is not sinful, then that is God’s will.
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Dawn (Guest): “His Will is placed before us in circumstances that come our way” Mother Susan. Happy you are back with us Mother
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Sister Susan Marie (Moderator): Very true- but at least we have our dispositions in right order when we want to do His Will
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Guest8377 (Guest): We must remember we are in a War for Souls ! Jesus won the Victory ! The enemy can only take what we give him .
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Sister Susan Marie (Moderator): And what a war at present!!
Aug 5, 7:50 PM
Ruth (Guest): Bertrand Russel said something like that Jennifer: he was an atheist and when asked what he’d say if he suddenly stood before God, replied, something like: You should have made the evidence clearer.
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Jennifer Koo: His low whispering can only be heard if we stay connected
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Ruth (Guest): Silence may be what we need more of so that we can hear the whispering.
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Guest8377 (Guest): Where else would we rather be than on the front lines for Jesus ! We must remain Faithful and trust God no matter what happens !!’
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Judy (Guest): And if we are quiet enough to listen to Him.
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Ruth (Guest): We — society — fills the world with noise.
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Jennifer Koo: Life is full of noise, inner and outer
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Dawn (Guest): yes, learning to be silent. everyday for at least awhile
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Ruth (Guest): I think, Jennifer, it may be very difficult to discern this good vs. that good. But he has planted deep in us a pretty clear ability to discern the difference between good and evil.
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Judy (Guest): Silence is as necessary as food and water for the human person.
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Dawn (Guest): so true Judy!
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Sister Susan Marie (Moderator): How does God draw us to him, and yet respect our free will? I think again by the power of His Love and tender moments when we realize God is with us
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Jennifer Koo: And then the willingness to do God’s will even if we cannot understand
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Guest8377 (Guest): We were made to Live completely connected to God ! We don’t work right if we are disconnected from our power source ! Like a toaster doesn’t work if it’s not plugged in !
Aug 5, 7:54 PM
Jennifer Koo: Like Abraham was asked to sacrifice his son
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Ruth (Guest): And the Father offered His Son.
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Judy (Guest): God draws us to Himself by showing how loving He is and by meeting our spiritual, temporal, physical and emotional needs. But He never forces Himself lupon us bu leaves us free to accept of reject Him.
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Sister Susan Marie (Moderator): The most precious son that he longed for and received- huge sacrifice- but God allowed him to keep the son
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Jennifer Koo: And sacrifice HIS son instead
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Jennifer Koo: The love that we cannot understand fully through our whole life
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Ruth (Guest): And because that Son was human as well as divine, He struggled to unite his human will with that of the Father. “If this chalice cannot be taken from me, not my will be done, but yours be done.”
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Judy (Guest): And we receive and embrace it all the time.
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Guest8377 (Guest): God’s ultimate will is to save everybody ! We know that we are in His will when we are participating in this enormous rescue Mission with all our Heart and Soul !
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Judy (Guest): God sacrificed His only Son so that we might dwell with Him forever in Paradise.
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Dawn (Guest): and it is enormous be it one soul or many. But it is always Jesus who is the evangelizer. he is the Primacy.
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Sister Susan Marie (Moderator): and we are more ready for Paradise the more we have conformed to Him I imagine
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Judy (Guest): Just think of it– the possibility of dwelling with God the Father, and our Lord Jesus and the Holy Spirit for all eternity! What joy! What delight!
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Jennifer Koo: We are redeemed because HE is both human and GOD. The death of the human part of our LORD connect us to HIS eternity through HIS resurrection
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Guest8377 (Guest): Jesus made it possible for us to stay connected to God Forever and to allow the Holy Spirit to be our Super Charger Soo we can do God’s Will to thee Max !
Aug 5, 8:00 PM
Ruth (Guest): He’s made this “God-shaped-hole” in each of us. It can only be filled by God.
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Judy (Guest): I like that Ruth!
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Ruth (Guest): We hunger and thirst until we welcome Him in.
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Dawn (Guest): yes, we can grasp and thirst for many things until we come to seeing it is Him we have always desired.
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Judy (Guest): And He welcomes us into His Divine Heart.
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Ruth (Guest): St. Augustine tried almost everything else first.
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Guest8377 (Guest): My Heart is Restless until I rest in You !!! St Augustine
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Guest8377 (Guest): Sounds like ou whole culture in America!!!
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Judy (Guest): How about objects of affection which are lawful to us, or prudent to follow ard those that bring us into closer knowledge or love for God, thus creating in us a desire to be like Him. Or objects that, at least, do not lead us away from Him.
Aug 5, 8:04 PM
Sister Susan Marie (Moderator): Yes and we have much we can share with our culture about true peace- if there are listeners
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Sister Susan Marie (Moderator): like books, music art Judy?
Aug 5, 8:04 PM
Guest8377 (Guest): We need to ask for the intercession. Of St Augustine for America !!!
Aug 5, 8:05 PM
Judy (Guest): Yes, we can find God in books, music and art. Think of majestic pieces like Handel’s Hallelujah Chorus. That surely lifts our minds to God.
Aug 5, 8:05 PM
Ruth (Guest): I’ve just started reading a book called: Dorothy Day: The World Will be Saved by Beauty. It’s by her youngest granddaughter.
Aug 5, 8:06 PM
Guest8377 (Guest): People are very very hypervigilant ! They recognize Christ in true believers !!!
Aug 5, 8:06 PM
Sister Susan Marie (Moderator): I heard of the book Ruth but did not read
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Jennifer Koo: I went to attend mass at St Mary’s of the angles feast day and heard in the homily that plenary indulgence are to be gain not only for ourselves but we could represent the church as a whole to receive graces from our LORD fulfilling HIS will! Isn’t that great
Aug 5, 8:07 PM
Sister Susan Marie (Moderator): Yes- help to bring oythers to salvation
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Dawn (Guest): sounds like a worthy read Ruth
Aug 5, 8:07 PM
Ruth (Guest): Bishop Robert Barron also points out how important it is to start with what everyone seems to assume is good: beauty.
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Judy (Guest): Beauty is also a great necessity. If there were no things of beauty in this world, we would be quite blue and distressed.
Aug 5, 8:07 PM
Jennifer Koo: Even for soul in purgatory
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Sister Susan Marie (Moderator): I am reading some works by Bob and Penny Lord that a candidate brought- on Eucharistic miracles That sure enhances faith
Aug 5, 8:08 PM
Sister Susan Marie (Moderator): Extraordinary places and shrines that I never heard of before
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Ruth (Guest): When I was a child and the happiest days seemed to be those on which we were camping out and Dad was in charge of everything, and Mom was more relaxed than usual, then we went back to the city,
Aug 5, 8:09 PM
Jennifer Koo: We were encouraged to attend extra masses for others
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Ruth (Guest): I thought. If ever I am rich enough to donate parks to cities, I will put beautiful parks in the midst of the worst neighborhoods.
Aug 5, 8:09 PM
Guest8377 (Guest): Just remembered quote from famous actress ! She said if you want to be truly beautiful forgive yourself and forgive everybody else . Sometimes forgiveness takes time but forgive !!!
Aug 5, 8:10 PM
Guest8377 (Guest): When we don’t forgive we separate ourselves from God and we get ugly !
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Dawn (Guest): such a wonderful idea, parks in the inner cities. so children can experience Gods creation
Aug 5, 8:12 PM
Judy (Guest): Lack of forgiveness is an ugly thing and brings us down. Remember that old saying, “To err is human; to forgive is Divine.”
Aug 5, 8:13 PM
Judy (Guest): To forgive frees us from negative feelings about another, and frees the other from our negativity.
Aug 5, 8:14 PM
Sister Susan Marie (Moderator): As for famous people either those that are Catholic or converted to Catholicism- are good stories to read abd get inspired, or the saints
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Guest8377 (Guest): Took our clients to baseball game the other day and we were surrounded by inner city children who were attending summer camps all over the city. They were all having a wonderful time and were well supervised by some amazing leaders . Those camps and after school programs help the kids get support they need ! Praise God !!!
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Sister Susan Marie (Moderator): Catholic heroes like those in history
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Dawn (Guest): Going to Confession often allows us to receive forgiveness and then we know we have to go and give this to others
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Jennifer Koo: Forgiving others and we will be forgiven
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Judy (Guest): Last question: God desires a relationship with us in which He bestows upon us His deep love which then moves us to return our deepest love to Him. Relationships must be reciprocal-they cannot be one sided.
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Ruth (Guest): It is good to remember those dreams. Now I have six acres, but it is in a wilderness. Perhaps bringing some of those children to this beautiful place — like Fresh Air Children — would be a partial, doable alternative, even if done by someone who comes after me, to inherit this land — or the land could be sold and the money used to buy empty lots or places in need of demolition directly in the neighborhoods where they could be planted with flowers and or vegetables and enjoyed right there where the peop
Aug 5, 8:16 PM
Ruth (Guest): people most need a bit of green.
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Sister Susan Marie (Moderator): God wants our relationship with Him to resemble His with us- selfless love
Aug 5, 8:18 PM
Judy (Guest): During this coming week, let us try to share some special love, goodness, mercy with another so that they will get a glimpse of the love of God.
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Jennifer Koo: Loving GOD and people (who are made in the image of GOD)
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Guest8377 (Guest): Pastor friend of mine would make an effort to get the city people out to the country in summertime . He could not believe their reaction . It was as if they had gone to the Moon. Great experience ! Jesus encourages us to get away to lonely places ! Healing !
Aug 5, 8:20 PM
Judy (Guest): An old song: Let me be a little kinder, let me be a little blinder, to the faults of those around me, let me praise a little more. Let me be a little meeker to a brother who is weaker, let me think more of my neighbor and a little less of me.”
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Sister Susan Marie (Moderator): Loving God by loving one another- yes!
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Ruth (Guest): Yesterday I joined a group of people from various Christian churches, all praying each first Saturday of the month for all the people/neighborhoods of the small city. Each selected or was assigned to a certain section of the city, and walked the street praying — generally silently — for all the people who lived there.
Aug 5, 8:22 PM
Judy (Guest): Drip is bidding you all a good night because I am beginning to drip in a rather warm room. Have a blessed week. Let us pray for each other.
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Sister Susan Marie (Moderator): Yes have a blessed week and count on our prayers!
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Dawn (Guest): so setting our heart on loving God by loving others , sharing what we are given…mercy forgiveness love Yes!
Aug 5, 8:23 PM
Dawn (Guest): Good night Judy, God bless you! drip? haha
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Guest8377 (Guest): We attended Men’s conference in middle of inner city Park and prayer meeting at small inner city church on Saturday ! We all encouraged each other and you could see the Unity of the Church in all the Men !!! John Chapter 17 !!!
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Sister Susan Marie (Moderator): Judy has a great sense of hunor!
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Dawn (Guest): yes she does
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Jennifer Koo: Preaching, if possible not by words but by our love and our life.
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Ruth (Guest): Judy, tell me again where you live? Ok to personal message.
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Sister Susan Marie (Moderator): Yes! and one must never stop trying!
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Guest8377 (Guest): Amen Jennifer !!!
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Dawn (Guest): Ruth, thinking about your idea re your land….<3
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Sister Susan Marie (Moderator): what a gift to that would be
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Dawn (Guest): Brian happy to hear Jennifer had amazing journey. maybe she can write it to share with others!
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Ruth (Guest): Maria
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Dawn (Guest): sorry, yes Maria
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Jennifer Koo: United in prayers. Bye. Going to have midmorning prayer soon. In the Carmelite having last day of retreat.
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Jennifer Koo: Will be happy to share
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Ruth (Guest): I did that, too. Mixed up the country she was going to: Guatemala, not Columbia.
Aug 5, 8:26 PM
Dawn (Guest): God Bless you Jennifer, good day!
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Sister Susan Marie (Moderator): Blessings!!
Aug 5, 8:27 PM
Guest8377 (Guest): Yes that’s Great Idea ! The whole group will be sharing their experience in couple weeks !!!
Aug 5, 8:27 PM
Ruth (Guest): You sure do get around, Jennifer. Have a blessed retreat!
Aug 5, 8:28 PM
Dawn (Guest): hope to read about their journey!
Aug 5, 8:29 PM
Guest8377 (Guest): The people in Guetamala went out of their way to make her feel at home on her return to her country !!! Thank You Jesus !!!!
Aug 5, 8:29 PM
Ruth (Guest): Sr. Susan, are you still here? I want to share a video shared on the St. Peter's Parish website of an ecumenical children's Bible Study week.
Aug 5, 8:29 PM
Dawn (Guest): Hi Jim
Aug 5, 8:29 PM
Ruth (Guest): Any way I could send it to you?
Aug 5, 8:29 PM
Guest8377 (Guest): Hi Jim !
Aug 5, 8:30 PM
Jim I: Hello
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Guest8377 (Guest): God Bless You Jim , welcome to the Chat ! Brian
Aug 5, 8:30 PM
Jim I: Thanks Brian
Aug 5, 8:32 PM
Guest8377 (Guest): We meet here every Sunday from 730 to 830 pm very very supportive community !!
Aug 5, 8:32 PM
Dawn (Guest): a good idea....a bible study for children!
Aug 5, 8:32 PM
Ruth (Guest): Hello Jim, welcome! We are just finishing up now, can you come back next week? Good observation, Dawn.
Aug 5, 8:33 PM
Jim I: I may...thank you
Aug 5, 8:33 PM
Ruth (Guest): Jim I; do you already know Brian?
Aug 5, 8:33 PM
Jim I: No I don't
Aug 5, 8:34 PM
Ruth (Guest): Always curious how a person finds this chat. I can't even remember how I did.
Aug 5, 8:35 PM
Ruth (Guest): And I've been "coming" I think it's about three years now.
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Jim I: I used to come quite a ways back
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Guest8377 (Guest): This is a great group Jim ! You will really receive and give a lot of encouragement to the Community ! God Bless You ! Brian
Aug 5, 8:36 PM
Jim I: Thank you. Maybe I'll see you next week. Take care.
Aug 5, 8:37 PM
Guest8377 (Guest): Great having you with us Jim ! Have a great week !
Aug 5, 8:37 PM
Dawn (Guest): Thank you Jim.
Aug 5, 8:37 PM
Ruth (Guest): Well, welcome. The subject matter is not always easy, and we often go off topic a little or a lot, but I think we are, indeed, growing into a (long-distance) community.
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Guest8377 (Guest): God Bless You All ! Keep Shining for Jesus !!!
Aug 5, 8:38 PM
Ruth (Guest): Amen!
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Dawn (Guest): Good night Brian! God bless you and your work
Aug 5, 8:39 PM
Dawn (Guest): Good night to all. my prayers all around
Aug 5, 8:39 PM
Ruth (Guest): Brian, some of the people I met yesterday volunteer in Kairos. Downstate. Your chatting about what you do
Aug 5, 8:40 PM
Ruth (Guest): in the prison ministry helped me feel connected with them immediately.
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Aug 5, 8:41 PM
Ruth (Guest): Good night, everyone. A friend will be calling me shortly. Her brother is very sick, so let's pray for him/his family, too.
Aug 5, 8:41 PM
Dawn (Guest): Prayers !