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[quote name='TeresaBenedicta' date='05 August 2010 - 05:54 PM' timestamp='1281041691' post='2152863']
Story time!

So, I went to our local Grotto today for noon Mass. As I was walking out I noticed a group of four or five Franciscan sisters eating lunch at a picnic table just outside the visitors center. I had seen one of the sisters there before, working in the gift shop, and had wanted to approach her ('cause that's what I do when I see nuns LOL), but didn't have the nerve. So I walked past the sisters, intending to go to my car, but decided at the last minute to slip in the doors near them into the visitor's center. Now, I had not intention of purchasing anything or even really looking around, as I'd been in there a million times. But I wandered around a bit, trying to get up my nerve to approach the sisters on the way out.

I managed to do it-- I approached the sisters, apologizing for interrupting their lunch, and asking what Order they were. Franciscans, of course. I had known that much, but I was really curious as to which "flavor" so to speak (you don't often see habited nuns in my area, to say the least). So I asked and they laughed at me (I guess "What flavor" is a funny way of asking what particular community they're a part of). I knew I had recognized their veil! Franciscan Sisters of the Eucharist!

Anywho, I got to chatting with them and come to find out, they have a local community, teaching at a school and running a small retreat center!! And further more, the sister who works at the Grotto apparently goes to daily Mass at the parish that I work for!!!!

So, they gave me their number and enthusiastically encouraged me to come and visit sometime. I'm so pumped!! I've been going through "nun withdrawal", LOL!! But, in all seriousness, I'm really excited that they're nearby. It's comforting, for some reason. And to know that I'd be able to come visit them, pray with them. I guess it's just always encouraging for me to be around women who have given their lives to Jesus. There's something comforting in it.

Yay! God is good!
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That is so great!!! I am entering pre-postulancy with them this fall!! They are super cool. :)

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[quote name='laetitia crucis' date='05 August 2010 - 09:26 PM' timestamp='1281057983' post='2152964']
I'd rather it be Therese [img]http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/public/style_emoticons/default/dry.gif[/img] over... Gemma... [img]http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/public/style_emoticons/default/dry.gif[/img] [img]http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/public/style_emoticons/default/dry.gif[/img]
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Um, pardon my curiosity, but what's with the face [img]http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/public/style_emoticons/default/dry.gif[/img] when it comes to Therese? Why does it seem like y'all don't like her very much? [img]http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/public/style_emoticons/default/mellow.gif[/img]

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[quote name='laetitia crucis' date='04 August 2010 - 04:32 AM' timestamp='1280885555' post='2151776']
I mailed off my Visa application today. The whole nine yards. Passports (past and present), various Visa forms and the Appendix, the Biometric details confirmation, etc.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!

I think I checked everything as one that has OCD would. :sweat:

Aaand now it's [i]completely[/i] out of my hands. Literally.

I'm somewhat relieved, but have a new infestation of butterflies in my tummy. :lol:

:bigpray:

In other news, I met with my pastor last Tuesday to ask for help in regards to my dowry. He suggested I write a little blurb or letter for the bulletin and get it to him before the next morning -- and I did. This past weekend he placed the letter in the bulletin asking for spiritual and financial help, especially towards my dowry. Today I went to my mailbox and received [i]two[/i] checks and promised prayers -- one for $20, the other for $200. My jaw dropped.

Furthermore, there was additional jaw-dropping on the Feast of St. Ignatius Loyola. :shield: :love: Well, this goes BEYOND jaw-dropping. It's more like... I don't even have the words for it. Shock. Joy. Tears. More shock. Heck, I'm STILL shocked! :shock: I received an anonymous promised pledge to cover the [b]entirety [/b]of my dowry!!! (!!!1!one11!!1eleventyone!!1!)

Yep.. I said ENTIRETY.

Did I say I was shocked?

[size="7"]S-H-O-C-K-E-D [b]SHOCKED[/b].[/size]

:bigshock:

Someone needs to do this to me: :bash:

God is [i]so [/i]crazy.

He's even giving me this "extra" fundage to go towards the "Postulant Supplies List". :sadder:

I'm just shocked, I tell you.

Shocked. :stretcher:

I ask your prayers for those that have so generously given to my vocational plight and to those that continue to give. May God bless them abundantly. I think only in heaven will it be possible for them to my the extent of my gratitude. And shock. :sweat:

Like I said earlier: when it rains, it POURS. :rain: I guess God got tired of my "cold feet" and fretting. Or maybe St. Joseph got tired of my yapping. :hehehe:
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[center][img]http://smileys.on-my-web.com/repository/Music/cheerleader-119.gif[/img] I'm so happy about all that awesomeness.[img]http://smileys.on-my-web.com/repository/Music/cheerleader-119.gif[/img]
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[quote name='teresitacarmel' date='06 August 2010 - 01:23 AM' timestamp='1281075783' post='2153180']
Um, pardon my curiosity, but what's with the face [img]http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/public/style_emoticons/default/dry.gif[/img] when it comes to Therese? Why does it seem like y'all don't like her very much? [img]http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/public/style_emoticons/default/mellow.gif[/img]
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The <_< is my doing. The short version of the reason why would be that in my life Therese has come across like this :evil: and this :ninja: because she did this :boink: so just being silly I respond to her like this <_<.

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[quote name='vee8' date='06 August 2010 - 06:39 PM' timestamp='1281134347' post='2153434']
The [img]http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/public/style_emoticons/default/dry.gif[/img] is my doing. The short version of the reason why would be that in my life Therese has come across like this [img]http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/public/style_emoticons/default/evil.gif[/img] and this [img]http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/public/style_emoticons/default/ninja.gif[/img] because she did this [img]http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/public/style_emoticons/default/boink.gif[/img] so just being silly I respond to her like this [img]http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/public/style_emoticons/default/dry.gif[/img].
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[img]http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/public/style_emoticons/default/think_head.gif[/img] O...k...now you've made me real curious....what did she do to you, if you don't mind sharing???

Well, I know how she has a way of getting to people [img]http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/public/style_emoticons/default/wink.gif[/img] She's kinda like a big sister who wouldn't let go...at least for me anyway...[img]http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/public/style_emoticons/default/blowkiss.gif[/img]



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Well, to put it mildly, she's been "stalking" vee8. Where ever she goes, a statue, or a picture, or a book of Sain Therese is there. Hence the playful. <_< "it's you again."

but it's done in total jest. She is my confirmation saint, so she's already won me over. I just think that it's funny that I went to a Spanish-Franciscan mission in So. CA and she was there. She was actually the first saint I saw there, go figure.

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[quote name='JTheresa' date='07 August 2010 - 11:19 AM' timestamp='1281197970' post='2153647']
Well, to put it mildly, she's been "stalking" vee8. Where ever she goes, a statue, or a picture, or a book of Sain Therese is there. Hence the playful. <_< "it's you again."[/quote]

Yes exactly! Oh and hiding or dropping novenas too. I also sent Teresita a pm with the longer more boring version of the story :sweat:

[quote]but it's done in total jest. She is my confirmation saint, so she's already won me over. I just think that it's funny that I went to a Spanish-Franciscan mission in So. CA and she was there. She was actually the first saint I saw there, go figure.
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Hahaha so she's infiltrated the Franciscans too! :ninja:

[quote name='Hilde' date='07 August 2010 - 11:25 AM' timestamp='1281198357' post='2153648']
She's also known for sneaking books into your shelf.
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Yup but she isnt the only one. TofA snuck a book onto my shelf... with my name inside the cover no less.

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[quote name='Hilde' date='07 August 2010 - 11:50 AM' timestamp='1281199850' post='2153657']
Oh she did that to me too!
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That only adds to my hypothesis that Carmelites are ninjas! :ninja:

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[quote name='lookingforfaith' date='07 August 2010 - 09:08 PM' timestamp='1281229682' post='2153802']
I can just see it now...ninja nuns!
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YYYYEEEESSSSSS!!!!!!
:sign: :ninja:

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[quote name='JTheresa' date='05 August 2010 - 08:57 PM' timestamp='1281056275' post='2152947']
Not vocation related but....

I SAW AN ELDERBERRY TREE TODAY!!!!!


And guess who was there <_< ....


more on that later :)
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okay, to get back to this.

I went to the San Juan Capistrano Mission and it was absolutely AMAZING!!!

Here's a link to some (okay a lot) of pictures that my sister and I took.
[url="http://s1039.photobucket.com/albums/a473/Jessica12392/San%20Juan%20Capistrano%20Mission/"]San Juan Capistrano Mission[/url]

I saw a couple beloved friends there...

[img]http://i1039.photobucket.com/albums/a473/Jessica12392/San%20Juan%20Capistrano%20Mission/DSCF7892.jpg[/img] <_< :P

[img]http://i1039.photobucket.com/albums/a473/Jessica12392/San%20Juan%20Capistrano%20Mission/DSCF7997.jpg[/img] :love:

Can you guess these two? :))
[img]http://i1039.photobucket.com/albums/a473/Jessica12392/San%20Juan%20Capistrano%20Mission/DSCF7989.jpg[/img]

[img]http://i1039.photobucket.com/albums/a473/Jessica12392/San%20Juan%20Capistrano%20Mission/DSCF7990.jpg[/img]
Sorry, those ones were really zoomed in, so they're kinda blurry, and the pics are a lot bigger on the screen than I expected.

And the Elderberry tree...

[img]http://i1039.photobucket.com/albums/a473/Jessica12392/San%20Juan%20Capistrano%20Mission/DSCF7933.jpg[/img]

Sorry, I was having a random moment. But really, check out the pics online. They got kinda jumbled in the uploading process, though, I'm not sure how... :idontknow:

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