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AS044 Ask Sister – recycled nun rings, spiritual detachment, rosaries, growing in prayer, and more!
AS044 Ask Sister podcast recorded live on October 15, 2010. Sponsored by aNunsLife.org ministry. Guest: Sister Joyce Durosko, IHM. Topics include: recycled nun rings, spiritual detachment, how prayer changes and stays the same, rosaries, nuns, and more!
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Here are some of the questions we addressed in this Ask Sister podcast:
- Can you say more about the tradition of newly professed sisters receiving a “recycled” ring from a sister who has since pass away?
- Other thoughts on nun jewelry?
- What does detachment mean in a spiritual sense? Does it mean being detached from people or from things?
- How has your prayer life stayed the same and changed over time?
- Did you wear a wedding dress when you became a sister?
- Plus Sister Joyce offers insight into her life as an IHM Sister and on discernment
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Wrote a history of our unusual profession ring (clasped hands) which can be read at:
http://monasticmusingsossr.blogspot.com/2007/02/bit-of-history_27.html
I told a class of 5th graders that our rings are “recycled” and passed mine around so they could see it. One girl refused to touch it. I thought it was pretty amusing.
I have a question … it feels quite bizarre asking, but I was wondering if:
Having a Family member in Hell can prevent someone from taking vows, be it a man or woman? Now knowing someone is in hell or not is submissive, but also knowing someone has done horrid things, and knowing that they would probably not repent is another right? But clearly would that stop us? Taking in consideration that we inherit consequences, per se, from family members?
Thank you for the question, Elizabeth. My immediate is response is no, having a family member in hell cannot prevent someone from taking vows. It is an interesting question and I’m going to do more thinking on it. Will bring it to Ask Sister for this Friday. Blessings, Elizabeth.
Elizabeth -
Having witnessed a murder/suicide, I spent a good deal of time trying to understand evil. I learned is that it is contagious. It took me a while to realized that I was fixated on the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil and not the Tree of Life.
I am able now to pray for the woman who fired the gun, and I am happy to pray for your relative.
Thank You Sister Julie and Anne,
Anne:
The relative is my grandfather, they haven’t said hes brain dead just yet, however, before this accident of my grandfather, being in a comma now, i told him i wanted to be a nun, and after that he came to me one day, with god only as my witness and repented and confessed all these things to me, things that i already knew, and other things that just were unfortunate to hear. He told me he was afraid of God, and told me of all the other kids he has besides my mothers bros and sisters. I thought it was brave of him to say these things knowing that hes never told anyone before. However, after he left i got on my knees and prayed the chaplet of mercy for him.
in the next week we hear that he is in an accident, he fell off a roof, and cracked his head open from the right side. I keep praying for him. But oddly, between the time that he said those things to me and the accident, the sisters i was to join kind of left me unaided and said that i needed to stay. ofcoarse i felt rejected, they gave me no reason, and as obedience goes i just listened.
Now 3 weeks later they confirmed me that I was to join them, however, I dont think that would’ve of happened if i hadnt prayed for my grandfather. And the most beautiful thing was that my aunt said that when they called the priest to confess him while in comma she saw jesus with the two rays, she had never seen the image of God’s Mercy and not until I explained it to her, everything sounded more real that there was this miracle, and now Im sure his soul is going to heaven perhaps purgatory.
However, discerning the human event that happened with the sisters; leaving me unaided within those weeks, led me to think that if i wasnt around and he wouldve of passed, and i hadnt prayed for him, that couldve of stopped me (because sometimes we are the ones that are on our own way) of becoming a nun because he wouldve of not repented after the many things he had said to me.
All is passed now. And I feel comforted when I imagine myself and my prayers in Our Lord Most Sacred Heart. Thank You So much for replying back Anne. I would appreciate some prayers, my grandfathers name is Jose Neri. Ill keep you in my prayers as well.
And thank you Sister Julie I would love to hear more about that topic that came to mind.
All the best with prayers,
elizabeth
Thank you for posting this