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I might have posted this first video before - it is more than worth doing so if I have - in my book. This first video below is a favourite of mine especially at 16.15 minutes and the conversation with the elderly nun, which is both profound and very funny in places, when she addresses the people who are filming for the video off screen - don’t miss it.
There is something of a physicaL resemblance in the younger nun talking to the elderly nun to St Elizabeth of The Trinity.
The video captures for me the stark simplicity of Carmelite life reinforcing that it is a quite special gift to be able to live the life with commitment and Joy - as I would tend to think with any religious order. Also, the love with which in most all (if not all )communities of religious life, they hold with love and tender care their elderly and/or infirm sisters. There are things I really miss about monastic vocation, but it wasn’t my call in life, while the love of religious life remains. Living in God’s Will no matter content with commitment brings great Peace and Joy nothing can remove.
In fact one can live one’s own vocation, no matter what it is, with commitment and Peace and Joy despite any pitfalls, hills and puddles along the way. If I am not so living my own vocation in life, then something is amiss somewhere and asks wise and holy spiritual direction.
St Elizabeth of The Trinity
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This second video is by Fr Mike Schmitz (just short of 10 minutes) where he address a couple of subjects actually, including the Mystical Body and how, like it or not, we are all most intimately connected to each other. Father Mike also addresses why only Jesus will not let us down and why people will, even the highest and best of fellow human beings, let us down somewhere somehow and at some time if we are invested in them. He also quotes one of the most direct and powerful statements and warnings found in Scripture in this connection. It occurs in Psalm 146 depending on the translation one uses. Vatican Bible Psalm 146 http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/_PJU.HTM
Whatever I might post has first touched me in some way. Please do feel free to comment even challenge or disagree, anything. Please feel free to to post your own sources, texts etc.
Wisdom
"“You are the salt of the earth. But if salt loses its taste, with what can it be seasoned? It is no longer good for anything but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot.
You are the light of the world. A city set on a mountain cannot be hidden. Nor do they light a lamp and then put it under a bushel basket; it is set on a lampstand, where it gives light to all in the house.” Matthew Chapter 5, as follows:
http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PVE.HTM
There is something of a physicaL resemblance in the younger nun talking to the elderly nun to St Elizabeth of The Trinity.
The video captures for me the stark simplicity of Carmelite life reinforcing that it is a quite special gift to be able to live the life with commitment and Joy - as I would tend to think with any religious order. Also, the love with which in most all (if not all )communities of religious life, they hold with love and tender care their elderly and/or infirm sisters. There are things I really miss about monastic vocation, but it wasn’t my call in life, while the love of religious life remains. Living in God’s Will no matter content with commitment brings great Peace and Joy nothing can remove.
In fact one can live one’s own vocation, no matter what it is, with commitment and Peace and Joy despite any pitfalls, hills and puddles along the way. If I am not so living my own vocation in life, then something is amiss somewhere and asks wise and holy spiritual direction.
St Elizabeth of The Trinity
(Please Note: This uploaded content is no longer available.)
This second video is by Fr Mike Schmitz (just short of 10 minutes) where he address a couple of subjects actually, including the Mystical Body and how, like it or not, we are all most intimately connected to each other. Father Mike also addresses why only Jesus will not let us down and why people will, even the highest and best of fellow human beings, let us down somewhere somehow and at some time if we are invested in them. He also quotes one of the most direct and powerful statements and warnings found in Scripture in this connection. It occurs in Psalm 146 depending on the translation one uses. Vatican Bible Psalm 146 http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/_PJU.HTM
Whatever I might post has first touched me in some way. Please do feel free to comment even challenge or disagree, anything. Please feel free to to post your own sources, texts etc.
Wisdom
"“You are the salt of the earth. But if salt loses its taste, with what can it be seasoned? It is no longer good for anything but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot.
You are the light of the world. A city set on a mountain cannot be hidden. Nor do they light a lamp and then put it under a bushel basket; it is set on a lampstand, where it gives light to all in the house.” Matthew Chapter 5, as follows:
http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PVE.HTM
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