Please let me know if/when this materializes. I will do everything in my power to come. In the meantime we could organize an east coast USA get together.
Thank you for sharing this Caroline. I am humbled and grateful to know how you order your days. I am hoping that this Advent will help me to become more purposeful in my prayer life. I tend to be very scattered. I have a "baseline" that I try to always maintain--the morning offering and Rosary and the DM chapel. The Sacred Heart novena for all those for whom I have promised to pray. Prayers for the Holy Souls and night prayers. I am trying g to add the 7 Sorrows Rosary but so far I have been a bit hit and miss. I do try to stay recollected during the day--uniting everything to Jesus through Mary. What i really really need to take on is penance. What a wuss I am. I just avoid fasting and anything hard. I have been praying for the grace to do this Advent differently. Your courage in refusing the jab and thus being deprived of your livelihood is such an inspiration to me. I am grateful God is supplying your needs. He promises He will and He delivers! I expect soon many more of us will join your ranks as more and more things are demanded of us.
So sorry to hear of this loss you carry; I will try to pray for your family on a regular basis, that the healing of hearts may continue.
Thanks jackzokay, summer of 2025 would be great, God willing of course. If we could get enough numbers to make it viable. If there was not enough people maybe we could team up with some of the Cursillo people in Derry. And I know some of the people down South around Waterford, Wexford, Cork. And then there are the Men of St. Joseph guys in Mayo. Just thinking out loud. The other thing is - what kind of retreat? Ards is Franciscan and Thermobacca is Carmelite. I guess a silent retreat would be pushing it! It costs to get good spiritual retreat givers I suppose. But it would be great to meet people.
Thanks Brian, I will pray daily for your intentions. I am praying for another man in a similar situation. Actually, this just came to me, I must remember to pray at this time. Jesus said to St Faustina: “At three o’clock, implore My mercy, especially for sinners; and, if only for a brief moment, immerse yourself in My Passion, particularly in My abandonment at the moment of agony. This is the hour of great mercy for the whole world. I will allow you to enter into My mortal sorrow. In this hour, I will refuse nothing to the soul that makes a request of Me in virtue of My Passion”. (Diary 1320)
I'll speak with I can speak to the brothers up in termonbacca... They have accommodation too which is very, very reasonably priced. Leave that with me.... I'll come back to the group.
I am in Cincinnati and can travel. I do so a lot for my work. Hmmmm a winter MOG symposium in Florida sounds lovely lol.
Prayers for you, your wife, and your son. Dear Lady, provide the salve of your maternal love to reunite all separated from loved ones.
Wish I could go but because of health reasons we seem to just travel locally.love drives in the back country- viewing the scenery etc.
I was a baby Catholic when I found this forum in 2017. Mother Mary led me here and it's meant so much to me over the years. I'm so grateful for this forum.
