FFI Griswold Posted April 11, 2013 Share Posted April 11, 2013 Ave Maria! Just wanted say hello to everyone after leaving PM back in 2009 to enter the Franciscans of the Immaculate. I've since made my first profession of vows on September 8, 2012, and words can't express how wonderful is the gift of religious life. I hope to help you all in any way I can by posting but especially with prayer. The friars do an extended adoration for vocations every Thursday evening, but feel free to chime in if you want me to put your intention up on our prayer board for extra graces from Our Lady! Ave Maria! In the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, fra John Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PadrePioOfPietrelcino Posted April 12, 2013 Share Posted April 12, 2013 Thank-you for stoping by and updating us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kateri89 Posted April 12, 2013 Share Posted April 12, 2013 I don't know you but that is wonderful and such a beautiful order!!! God bless you :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OnlySunshine Posted April 12, 2013 Share Posted April 12, 2013 I remember you when you were 'johnnydigit.' I'm so glad you are doing well! If you wouldn't mind, please pray for me as I am no longer discerning religious life. I began seriously discerning Consecrated Virginity last month after spiritual direction. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FutureSister2009 Posted April 12, 2013 Share Posted April 12, 2013 I don't know you either but thanks for sharing! Please keep us all in your prayers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheresaThoma Posted April 12, 2013 Share Posted April 12, 2013 If you could please put a request to pray for my mother? She is not Catholic and has a very difficult time with me being Catholic and my discernment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nikita92 Posted April 12, 2013 Share Posted April 12, 2013 How thoughtful of you to drop in and let everyone know how you are doing!!;) Please say a prayer for my friend who would like to move to Ecuador! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lil'Nun Posted April 12, 2013 Share Posted April 12, 2013 Dear Frater, Thank you so much for posting. Please could you put me on the prayer board? That I might find my learn God's will and fulfil it well - particularly with regard to my Vocation and my work. Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasmi Posted April 12, 2013 Share Posted April 12, 2013 Friar John-Paul...please send healing prayers my way. I in turn pray for you and your brothers and sisters in the order of The Immaculate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inperpetuity Posted April 12, 2013 Share Posted April 12, 2013 I remember you and have wondered whether you were with the FI still. Thanks be to God for your vows! So nice of you to stop back here. I made a private retreat in Maine this past January and it and the friars were wonderful esp. Fr. Johannes. Please ask Our Lady to remove all obstacles to my vocation if you would pleeeeaaaase? I will pray for you as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
littlesister Posted April 13, 2013 Share Posted April 13, 2013 I remember johnnydigit too. Thanks so much for checking in. We knew the FFI in Fall River. What a wonderful group. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chiquitunga Posted April 14, 2013 Share Posted April 14, 2013 Praised be Jesus Christ! Ave Maria! I wrote this in the other thread, but to say it again, this is wonderful to hear!! totally remember you as johnnydigit. Here's a fun blast from the past for you :smile3: http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/topic/79684-franciscans-of-the-immaculate/ God bless you for responding to the call and preserving! Congratulations on your First Profession! :clap: PMing you some prayer requests :pray: Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChristinaTherese Posted April 14, 2013 Share Posted April 14, 2013 If you could please put a request to pray for my mother? She is not Catholic and has a very difficult time with me being Catholic and my discernment. I second TT's request, although for my own mother. Thanks for saying hello again and offering to pray for us, Brother! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeDeum Posted April 14, 2013 Share Posted April 14, 2013 You guys have a sweet vocations video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7V3iYeZU0E Too bad I have so much student debt, religious communities don't seem to like that very much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FFI Griswold Posted April 17, 2013 Author Share Posted April 17, 2013 Ave Maria! I have put all your requests on our prayer board so you will be in the prayers and penances offered by the friars. I remember you when you were 'johnnydigit.' I'm so glad you are doing well! If you wouldn't mind, please pray for me as I am no longer discerning religious life. I began seriously discerning Consecrated Virginity last month after spiritual direction. :) Who? He's dead! But he still manages to rear his head now and then.. Will do, and thanks be to God that you were open to the possible call. :) If you could please put a request to pray for my mother? She is not Catholic and has a very difficult time with me being Catholic and my discernment. There have been a number of discerners who have come and friars here who are in the same boat as you, and I'm sure there are plenty more in our institute and all over the world. To see the joy and peace of their child can be a great consolation for the parents and family, and the graces merited are substantial, especially the miracles and conversions Our Lady permits us to see. Hang in there and offer up those precious sufferings for her! I remember you and have wondered whether you were with the FI still. Thanks be to God for your vows! So nice of you to stop back here. I made a private retreat in Maine this past January and it and the friars were wonderful esp. Fr. Johannes. Please ask Our Lady to remove all obstacles to my vocation if you would pleeeeaaaase? I will pray for you as well. Wonderful! I was the cabin master when I was a postulant there at the Mount, and it was very edifying to meet all the guests and hear how much fruit they bore. Will do, and maybe I'll see you in the near future! Mary Mother of Vocations, pray for us! In Corda Iesu et Mariae Sacratissima, fra John Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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