Hi Phamily,

Just checkin' it, here!

As some of you may remember, I left the Pontifical College Josephinum seminary (studying for the Glenmary Home Missioners of America) in November 2007 and then transferred to Ave Maria University & lived with its Pre-Theologate program... Participated in a retreat with the CFR's here at Ave last weekend, nice!

This summer, I have been working/studying & writing my thesis on home missionary work here on campus and now am heading for a camping trip with my folks...

Gonna check out the southern Appalachians in northern Georgia, then hopefully off on pilgrimage to northern Alabama and the EWTN studios and the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament...( depending on my mom's health... she has non-hodgkin's lymphoma)

Been taking a vocation detour lately, but still am considering Franciscan life, so hopefully will get to talk with the MFVA's and the Knights of the Holy Eucharist...

Please keep me in your prayers, you are in mine!!!!!

Remember the Lord certainly works in mysterious ways; there are no such things as coincidences, only "God-incidences"!

"Only when we look up, do we see how small our daily crosses really are!"

May the Lord bless you and keep you in your discernment

I love my German shepherd-B16!

I will remember you in my prayers. How is your mom's health right now?

How exciting! You'll be in my prayers!

Awesome! Praise God that you continue to seek His Will. My sister is taking a look at the CFR sisters....although we both agree that the Friars are way cooler!

Be assured of my prayers!

Praised be Jesus Christ!

You are in my prayers, and the prayers of our family. May God reward you and bless you!

TradMom

Praise God! I'll be praying for you--when are you going? God willing, I'll be there in December as a postulant.

Thanks for the prayers! Our trip went well! The Shrine is such a beautiful oasis!!!!

Prayers for your Vocation Journey!

Thank you--I'll pray for you when I am "inside" (and now, too:)

+JMJ+

May God bless you! FOREVER AND EVER as HIS HOLY AND EVER VIRGIN BRIDE!

Pax et Bonum,

Beatus

DOM is a guy (Rare here, I know.)

+JMJ+
Excuse me, I was just CORRECTED! I saw Hanceville and thought you were going to the Monastery of the Angels! YIKES YIKES YIKES. My bad! May you be blessed as the ever Virgin Bride of the Holy Church!
Please forgive my mistake!
In embarrassment and humility,
Beatus

I think there may be some crossed wires here. DeOptimusMaximus (DOM), is a guy, and visited Hanceville to talk to the (male) Franciscan Missionaries of the Eternal Word. Chesteron is a girl, and will be entering the Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration* as a postulant.

No?

*yay!

Greetings DOM,

Have you considered the Fathers of Mercy, near Bowling Green KY? Very good group and very orthodox.

Peace,
Mr. Ray

THEY ROCK!!!!! Especially Fr. Bill Casey! I love those Priests! )

Yes I am inquiring with the Fathers of Mercy.

Are they friendly towards the Extraordinary Form and Latin?

Thanks!

The Fathers of Mercy follow and live by the teachings of the Catholic Church - all of the teachings as presented by the Church. The Extraordinary Form (EF) and the Latin Novus Ordo and the venacular Novus Ordo are all legitimate liturgies in the Roman Right and so I would say they could not and would not object to any of these valid liturgies.

However, they normally say the venacular Novus Ordo as a matter of practice. Till now, as far as I know, they have not been trained in the EF and that is probably because the wide spread approval to say the EF is realitively recent.

I would encourage you to inquire and test the call to that community. God will lead you in the direction He wills and He will operate through your desires and your nature.

Respectfully, Mr. Ray

Yes, you are absolutely right--about me anyway Sorry for the confusion. I probably also muddled things with my username! I'm just such a huge fan of his that I decided to adopt his name for my username. I'm new to PM, but I love it. There are so many kindred spirits here! We can pray for eachother's discernment:)

Thank you--it's pretty swell being engaged to Him. I'll probably explode from the joy of being married to Him

Know the feeling

I called Jesus my boyfriend once, as a half-joke. I hope that's not too blasphemic... It currently feels most like going steady

I don't think it's blasphemic at all. It's simply a metaphor for Christ's relationship to the Church, His bride. I know lots of nuns feel that way about Jesus. I used to think I was crazy until I met entire monasteries full of nuns who felt the same way. If we're crazy, then at least we are in good company I'll pray for you and your vocation journey!

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It's not blasphemic, it's blasphemous.
Only...not.
If you get me.
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Not blasphemous at all. We've been married for years. He's a wonderful Husband!

Got you.

I think all of Phatmass should learn Dutch so that I won't make stupid mistakes again.

Hell no, I like being able to jabber on here and throw in enough non-standard spellings to ensure that you're the only one who can understand me

Oh yikes--sorry I make stupid mistakes like that sometimes. Actually more often than sometimes

PP was referring to her and mine (and 17.000.000 other people's) secret language
Sorry for hijacking your thread!

No problem--you did no such thing. I am just new to PM and don't really know the ins and outs yet

That's AWESOME! I have a friend that's a novice there... it is so beautiful! Good Luck!

Thanks! Who is your friend? Maybe I met her. Pray for me--it will be the adventure of a lifetime!

Sr. Cecilia... I actually just met her before she entered but I'm really close with her sister and was lucky enough to be there for Sister's Investment... such an amazing experience!!

Definate prayers!!

She is great! So cheerful and funny! She helped me with the Liturgy of the Hours and was so patient. I played ultimate frisbee with her and some other sisters. Thank you so much for the prayers--I will definitely need as many as I can get Be assured of my prayers for you, too!