SMME is going to be on the Today show on Thursday morning. It airs from 7-10am and they should be on around 7:50am. How cool is that!

Eastern time?

(Silly aside... you get the Today show in Canada?)

Mine ^ our beloved Sisters are going to be on the TODAY SHOW??????????????????

Answered my own question. From their news update emails:



For those of you who live in the Central Time Zone, you'll have to check if they delay the show by an hour or if they actually air it live. (For me it will still be on at 7:50am Central.)

Wow, I'm surprised I found out about when it would air here first!

Hahaha, anyone other then me planning on to record it? well I have to anyway, I go to school, bus picks me up at 7! lol

Hahaha! We sure do get the today show and just about all other programs that air on the main networks like NBC. When we had an American satelite we got everything but we dont have that anymore which is a good thing I suppose. Too much TV is never a good thing but I cannot wait to see my sisters on the Today show!!

Is it called Good Morning America, or the Early Show....?

I'm looking for the specific time and I don't see anything called the *Today Show*

Anyone help me out?

Good Morning America is on ABC and The Early Show is on CBS. The third morning show is the Today Show on NBC....they are all on at the same time in the morning but the today show happens to be my favorite

Well the excitment will have to be delayed. It appears it has been bumped to next week

can you PLEASE post a reminder next week?

As soon as I hear from Sr. JA I will let ya'll know

Wait, when you said it was on Thursday, was that Thursday *today* or next week?

It was supposed to be on yesterday but was bumped for some spoiled kid thing soooo they are hoping for next week sometime!

aww they shouldn't have post poned it. But I did see the former pro tennis player lady (can't remember her lame) who became a nun.

That was really bratty of them, don't you think?

It was on this morning.

You can go to their news page and click the link to watch it online.

it was very well done!

It was pretty cool, although the boom of vocations isn't really happening as widely as they made it seem. We can always pray for that, of course!

I disagree. It IS happening although not in the numbers that the SMME experience. Other congregations and orders are so well known or high profiled. But I would say that as a whole, most religious communities are experience a new interest that is not like it was before.

When I was discerning as a teenager (way back in the '80's) I knew NO ONE who was also considering a vocation. And I went to a very traditional small catholic school. Now, when I talk to young women, almost everyone of them knows at least 2 others who are discerning a vocation.

Since I became novice mistress/vocation directress 2 1/2 years ago we've experienced a very noticeable increase in vocation interest. God willing we hope to have 2 enter early this year and 4 for aspirancy. That's a lot for us!

I think it's a wonderful done story!

I agree with Sr Mary Catherine. I think that more women today are considering religious life than there were over the past twenty years. I think that the Internet has made it possible for more people to communicate about these things, and for young women to get the information they need to make a discernment about the right order for them.

I have been in communication with orders that I would never have known about before the Internet. I can visit their websites and then contact them and find out more.

I do think that communities that need vocations need to seriously look at their websites, but the initial contact for many of us, is through those sites. The ones that have "good" sites, with a lot of information are more likely to get contact from aspirants (IMO). I know that if a community website has a "good feel" to me, I am more likely to be attracted to that particular community, than if I just see a contact name and address on the Vocations or IRL websites.

The video of the SMME sisters was a fantastic vocational tool - and I wouldn't be at all surprised if there was a sudden increase in interest just from young women watching that video, either on the Today show or online at the NBSC website. It was great!

I recently did a search online for videos of sisters, and there are a few out there that are relaly good - shome showing entrances and professions (Passionists have two online).

So, praise God for the Internet, and for the increase in vocations to the sisterhood!

i take it the dsmme were on today - on the today show? ugh...it sucks being a hospital lol



sorry a double post here,

hehe, shes been novice mistress/vocation director for more lke 15 years!!!! You do it soooooooooo "professionally" Sister, if you recall i was amazed when you told me how long you have been the "superior of the novitiate"

I watched it online and thought it was very well done. I e-mailed the today show to let them now how much I appreciate the piece and would like to see more things like that on as well. I think it might be a good idea of others e-mailed the show and let them know as well.

Just got an email that they're supposed to be on the NBC nightly news. TURN YOUR TV ON NOW!!!

Ooops, same one that they showed earlier on the Today Show, and what is linked on the "news" section of their website.

Pretty cool video! I liked how they cut back and forth between the soccer game and prayers in the chapel. It's great that the secular media is starting to take notice.

Does anyone have a VHS or a tape of the actual episode of the sisters?