Our Blog Is Now OPEN! Welcome to All! -- Sister Commentaria
Dear everyone who has had the patience to return to this Blog after some time of inactivity. The Carmelite Sisters of the Most Sacred Heart are back online!
First of all, just because our blogging presence has been diminished for a while, our prayers for all of you our friends and bloggers have continued full force.
So why has it been so long for the blog to get back up? We want to let everyone know that we have been participating in the slow process of learning how to manage a website. And we have grown. That means we have several websites to learn to update.
Our first website that is pretty near done (for now) is our www.carmelitesistersocd.com which you have already found because you are reading this blog.
However, please note if you were re-directed to this website from our old one (no longer in use) www.carmel-msh.org. Now you know our new one -- just say our name CARMELITE SISTERS and add OCD to it (which are our initials -- which stand for Order of Discalced Carmelites.
Our new RETREAT WEBSITES will be up soon, followed by our HEALTHCARE WEBSITES, and our new and improved CHILD CARE CENTER WEBSITES. Praise God.
Father Adrian, thank you for your faithfulnes in checking out our website progress even when there has been little progress! We look forward to your comment regarding our concluding question. We look forward to seeing you again!
I hope everyone has a chance to look at and take some time to meditate upon our new Carmelite Shield. It has been adapted by us to show our charism. It is right here on our www.carmelitesistersocd.com newwebsite. Go to WHO WE ARE and click on SHIELD. A lot of prayer has accompanied the design.
For everyone who is accustomed to watching our PHOTO JAM SLIDE SHOWS , we want you all to know that PHOTOJAM doesn't seem to be at its best--technical problems, etc-- so we are going to be showing you PHOTOS and use a different, new slide show format. Although it won't have PHOTOJAM "creativity" it will give everyone good photos and a professional presentation.
I would like to end this first blog with a question and we'll be waiting for your responses. Here it is: DO YOU THINK HARD ECOMONIC TIMES BRING PEOPLE CLOSER TO GOD OR DRIVE THEM FURTHER AWAY OR DO THEY NOT MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE AT ALL?
You may ask -- Who is the Carmelite Sister now starting up the Carmeltite Sisters BLOG? Stay with us long enough and you may be able to figure that out! For now you can just call me Sister Commentaria. Good bye for now and Praised be Jesus Christ!
posted by Carmelite Sisters | 4:31 PM
10 Comments:
Hello, Sr.Commentaria!
To answer that question, I think that hard economic times for some people get them closer to God. The people who are struggling realize they need help and naturally turn to God in prayer. Some other people might ask God, "Why did this happen?" and get angry at Him, but in the end, they turn to Him and ask Him for help, drawing to Him.
I'm so glad the blog is back and updated, Sister. I've been checking back at the blog for some and was so excited to see a new post!
That's great sisters! It's about time your blogging is back! I like the photo -- nice touch.
As for the question I merely quote from the book "Song of Bernadette"
"to those who love God no explanation is necessary, to those who don't, no explanation is possible."
Good evening Sister Commentaria,
#1. To answer your question, I think only God knows the heart of each person and none of us can dare to judge.
#2. Keep up the blogging. I enjoy and profit from hearing the point so view of a nun.
God bless all of you Carmelites.
Lori K.
Dear Sisters,
Happy to see you back on the web. we Missed you. My response? "All things work together unto good for those who love God."
Maria
Happy Pentecost, Carmelite Sisters! May the gifts of the Holy Spirit descend upon you all!
Marie
Hello Sisters,
In response to your question, I couldn't help but think of so many who seem always have hard economic times...and of our Pope, Benedict XVI, who noted that struggles are as likely to lead away from God as towards Him. We look harder, perhaps, and it matters more when things are difficult, whether we can feel His love or not.
If not, the ante is "upped," so to speak. Somewhere inside, we keep hoping that He hasn't forgotten us; though there seems no sane ground for that hope. Benedict, again, notes that we mustn't "blame" God during times like that, but that we must pray that He rouse himself on behalf of His children. I still find that a strange parental model, a Father that has to be begged, who demands supplication.
That's when I more-deeply appreciate that we are to be God's hands, Christ's hands and co-workers in the Truth. That is the empowerment I need; that I'm not alone, that I work with Him, that He loves me enough to trust in me as his agent on behalf of others.
I think for most people of good will it will bring them closer to God, if only for the simple reason that they cry out for help!!
but for those who have let bitterness, resentment, and selfishness creep into their lives it may, in fact, drive them further away. Instead of turning to God in faith and trust they blame him or even ignore him altogether in their quest for more money.
trials always reveal a man for what he really is!
we simply must pray that all men will realize, through this economic hardship, the opportunity in front of them to grow in faith. And also pray that the grace for them to do so will be abundantly supplied.
God Bless and keep up the good work sisters!
I believe because of hard economic times some people are drawn closer to God. They are those who turned to God for help. Others choose the easy way out of this hard economic times and resort to sinful ways to address or escape their economic woes.
Bottomline: it all evens out in the end.
This is the first time I've been to this site. Am really glad that there is something like this online. I particularly like the Novena and Promises of the Sacred Heart.
Thank you for having this blog.
Dear Sister Commentaria,
What a lovely blog and what a lovely 'surprise find' I have found by Divine Providence! I have a love for all things Carmel, being enrolled in the Brows Scapular last August, going on a year now! And all things Catholic and Marian! I love OUR LADY and being her very little handmaid, who goofs up, messes up, but won't ever give up...I pray! Bless you all. My friend and i were just up to Alexandria S.D. to visit the most precious, little Carmelite chapel and Fatima Shrine there. Do you know those sisters? I do so wish we could visit with them, but I understand the cloistered life doesn't allow any visiting. I wish there was a day when they could have an "open house" for just a few hours. I'd like to see the faces of those who've been so kind to write and pray for me and my family and friend, Fr. Gerard. Please pray for him, too. I want him to get to heaven and he needs much help right now. Thank you and GOD abudantly bless every one of you for your love and prayers for the world.
In difficult trials, whether economic or of another strait, men often turn to God as means of immediate assistance. However, often this spiritual fervor lasts only for a time, as when the memory is gone or the pain has been relinquished, the people glory in the triumph of God as if it were their own. Yet for the many faithful, in God is every delight and every sorrow, and no matter what twist "God alone suffices" -St. Teresa of Avila
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