Aineiora Posted May 14, 2012 Posted May 14, 2012 + Praise be Jesus Christ+ Please pray for my daughter (and all who are traveling to witness the event) as she prepares to make her Solemn Profession on Ascension Thursday. Also, could you add in some additional prayers for her grandmother who can no longer attend as she suffered a heart attack and open heart surgery last week. Thank you and God Bless!
EmilyAnn Posted May 14, 2012 Posted May 14, 2012 Prayers! What a beautiful feast day to have her Solemn Profession!
Mary's Margaret Posted May 14, 2012 Posted May 14, 2012 Your daughter's Solemn Profession is also your offering of your love for your daughter to our Lord. What a beautiful feast for both celebrations. Prayers for your daughter, her community, your family and her grandmother. Lord be praised!
Alabanza Posted May 14, 2012 Posted May 14, 2012 [color=#0000ff][size=5]Aineiora, of course we are going to pray for all of you. For you, your beautiful daughter (by the way CONGRATULATIONS!!! it is an amesome sacrifice of you both to God.) I am proud of your girl for giving herself to the One that is worth it all!!!. God bless you all that are travelig to be a part of this amesome celebration and to the Grandmother, may Jesus strenghten her and keep her, as well as she acompanies in the spirit. God bless you all.[/size][/color]
Chiquitunga Posted May 15, 2012 Posted May 15, 2012 Very wonderful to hear! Congratulations! I remember the thread from way back on your daughter's entrance! May 17th, which is Ascension Thursday this year, is also the day St. Therese was canonized in 1925, [url="http://saints.sqpn.com/stt02003.htm"]http://saints.sqpn.com/stt02003.htm[/url] Prayers for your daughter and her grandmother!
Aineiora Posted May 16, 2012 Author Posted May 16, 2012 Thank you for all your prayers! We have arrived safely and are in the final prep stages before the ceremony tomorrow. We are so blessed to be here! God bless, Aineiora
Jennifer Posted May 17, 2012 Posted May 17, 2012 My prayers are for you all today as your daughter makes her Solemn Profession and paricularly for her grandmother at this time.
maximillion Posted May 17, 2012 Posted May 17, 2012 Prayers for all of you, I do hope the day was blessing filled. Prayers.
AnneLine Posted May 17, 2012 Posted May 17, 2012 Prayers! If it is permitted, we would love pictures, but we understand if you cannot post....
Aineiora Posted May 21, 2012 Author Posted May 21, 2012 [quote name='AnneLine' timestamp='1337286659' post='2431823'] Prayers! If it is permitted, we would love pictures, but we understand if you cannot post.... [/quote] Thank you for all your prayers! The Mass and Veiling were so beautiful and she was just beaming. Sorry, no pictures, poeting photos of the nuns is never permitted, but the images of the day are burned in my heart. God Bless, Aineiora
AnneLine Posted May 21, 2012 Posted May 21, 2012 Then the photos of your daughter, impressed on your heart, will enable us to recognize her when we all meet in the Eucharist and in Heaven. Blessings on her, you and all your family and friends, and on her sisters, of course!
emmaberry Posted May 27, 2012 Posted May 27, 2012 [quote name='Aineiora' timestamp='1337005140' post='2430470'] + Praise be Jesus Christ+ Please pray for my daughter (and all who are traveling to witness the event) as she prepares to make her Solemn Profession on Ascension Thursday. Also, could you add in some additional prayers for her grandmother who can no longer attend as she suffered a heart attack and open heart surgery last week. Thank you and God Bless! [/quote] How beautiful! What a saint you are--I am wanting to enter the cloister, and my parents are not as supportive as you seem to be! I wish you could speak with my mom. We need more parents like you in the Church who are supportive of God's Will in the form of vocations to religious life.
Aineiora Posted May 27, 2012 Author Posted May 27, 2012 [quote name='emmaberry' timestamp='1338101250' post='2435681'] How beautiful! What a saint you are--I am wanting to enter the cloister, and my parents are not as supportive as you seem to be! I wish you could speak with my mom. We need more parents like you in the Church who are supportive of God's Will in the form of vocations to religious life. [/quote] Thank you for your kind words, but I am no saint! (But I hope to be counted among the saints in Heaven one day.). Don't be too discouraged about your mom. It took a long time for my husband and I to make peace about our only daughter entering a cloistered community. She was very wise during her discernment and took us on baby steps so that we could accept and appreciate her vocation. Ultimately, it took a phone call from Reverend Mother, who gently insisted that we make the journey to visit the community. We did that and the visit was very fruitful. What we found was a joy-filled, loving and laughing group of religious women who, although they shared the same spiritual vocation, all of their own personalities shown through. Even though we did not fully articulate it to ourselves, as parents we probably thought that cloistered contemplative Sisters were something like the "Stepford Wives" - clearly not the case! And the Sisters do consider themselves part of your family, so we have lots of daughters now! Also, this community has had an explosion of vocations in the past 5 years and they don't even have a website, so you know that something very good is happening there. All that being said, having your daughter in a cloister is hard, very hard. Depending on the community, this may mean that occasionally the family is able to touch or hug or speak without a grille between them. Unfortunately, this is not the case for us. The last time on this earth that I was able to hug my daughter was 5 years ago, moments before she entered the cloister. So, every visit is bittersweet for us. That is our little cross to bear in this life. But the trade-off is seeing how happy she is and how much she has grown in her faith. And that she and her Sisters are praying for us all the time - that is a huge blessing! Tell your mom that the graces God pours out on the parents are the salve that heals the wounds in our hearts. God bless you and I'll be glad to be of any help that I can. Aineiora
Queen'sDaughter Posted May 28, 2012 Posted May 28, 2012 Many prayers for you, Aineiora. From my experience with my own mother, I know that it is terribly hard for parents to see there children become cloistered. By the way, what order is your daughter a member of? It sounds so beautiful.
Aineiora Posted May 28, 2012 Author Posted May 28, 2012 [quote name='Queen'sDaughter' timestamp='1338163876' post='2435965'] Many prayers for you, Aineiora. From my experience with my own mother, I know that it is terribly hard for parents to see there children become cloistered. By the way, what order is your daughter a member of? It sounds so beautiful. [/quote] It is a beautiful order. But can't you tell from my picture? ;-) That is my daughter in her habit with that gloriously beautiful handmade Rosary adorning her habit. I'm a bit confused by your statement above though, was it you or your mother that was cloistered?
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