Just News/updates About Intention Re Mass, Patron, And Request

[Comingback]

Hello,

 

First, THANK YOU to all who prayed/are praying for me.  I posted in the Prayers Section that I started attending 7am daily Mass and asked for prayers to continue.  If I make it tomorrow, it will be 2 weeks.  Now, I can't imagine NOT doing it.  About 15 of us seem to be regulars, and I think of us as a kind of "Company."  Everybody pretty much sits in the same place, so I am beginning to know some people.  I am also beginning to know some saints.  In the back of the small chapel where the morning Mass is held, there are stained glass windows of 5 of the Church Doctors.  The east is behind them.  When the sun comes up, it shines through them, which is very beautiful, but then there's another effect.  The front of our small chapel overlooks the main church and is separated from it by windows which are in front of us. Somehow, when the light shines through the stained glass, it reflects the Saints' images off the windows and they look as if they are standing right there in front of us.  Kind of like stained glass 3-D.  So I pray every day in the company of saints that I can see as well as the people who are praying with me.   The three that "stand" right in front of me are St. Catherine of Siena, St. Augustine, and St.. Therese (Little Flower).  So.  I am becoming very attached to them. St. Anthony of Padua is a little to my left.  I

 

I discovered my newly-assigned Patron--the Infant of Prague--has a chaplet.  I ordered one and it came today.  Not that I NEEDED it, but it just seemed so amazing.  There are 3 our Fathers for each member of the Holy Family and 12 Hail Marys for the 12 years of Jesus' life before the temple.  Before you say each of the prayers, you say, "And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us."  This is important for me because I live so much in my head.

 

The last thing is another prayer request or maybe for suggestions.  I was an Associate of a Benedictine Order in the Episcopal Church and I miss it, miss it, miss it.  I was Benedictine not because I discerned regarding the charism, but it was all that there is here.  They are wonderful sisters and I still visit, but I can no longer be an Associate.  So, prayers for discerning.  I know that with my age and having this wonderful autoimmune disorder, I may not ever be accepted in a Monastery, but more and more I seem to be thinking "Third Order, Third Order."  I don't know if God is telling me this or if it is just wishful thinking or what.  I have read some about charisms of the different orders, but still need major help since I am just at the very beginning.   Not at the beginning of the feeling, because that has been present a long time and seems to be getting stronger.  ??  But at the beginning of thinking about it.  In my past God has given me pretty concrete signs of things (probably because I kinda slow with this) and so that may happen.  I don't know.  I'm just looking for a general direction right now.  I will shut up because this is way too long already.  Hope everybody is having a good night.