sr.christinaosf Posted June 15, 2016 Author Share Posted June 15, 2016 If you'd like to pray for me on retreat, tht would be great. Here the latest post which I wrote before leaving. https://ourfranciscanfiat.wordpress.com/2016/06/15/weeping-wiping-anointing/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sr.christinaosf Posted June 19, 2016 Author Share Posted June 19, 2016 Here's the latest after retreat - https://ourfranciscanfiat.wordpress.com/2016/06/19/please-carry-me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sr.christinaosf Posted June 22, 2016 Author Share Posted June 22, 2016 (edited) https://ourfranciscanfiat.wordpress.com/2016/06/21/but-they-should-not-be-so-busy/ These posts are from our semi-weekly blog, Our Franciscan Fiat. Anyone having ideas or suggestions is most welcome to offer them. Thanks. Edited June 22, 2016 by sr.christinaosf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 22, 2016 Share Posted June 22, 2016 Still don't have any props. Quote We are also exhorted to: “keep the example of the Blessed Virgin Mary…ever before [our] eyes.” I wonder what kind of experiences she might have had baking! I smiled when I read the above. I wonder if Mary in Nazareth had the same experience as me - sometimes success, sometimes failure. I tend to think that she did since a flop in the baking endeavour is not sinful but rather quite human except of course for a Gordon Ramsay type of skill - but then perhaps Our Lady was thus skilled....... .......although I know that I am totally alone in my most Aussie of terminology when I do have a complete flop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vee Posted June 22, 2016 Share Posted June 22, 2016 mmmmm strawberry rhubarb..... I bet Our Lady had a few baking blunders in her time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sr.christinaosf Posted June 22, 2016 Author Share Posted June 22, 2016 I doubt rhubarb was native to ancient Palestine, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vee Posted June 22, 2016 Share Posted June 22, 2016 Not being the first one to wonder what would the Holy Family's diet have been like I googled it. For fruit they had pomegranates, grapes, figs, and dates. No rhubarb though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sr.christinaosf Posted June 25, 2016 Author Share Posted June 25, 2016 More baking oh no! https://ourfranciscanfiat.wordpress.com/2016/06/25/grateful-for-a-strange-sort-of-blessing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sr.christinaosf Posted June 28, 2016 Author Share Posted June 28, 2016 We're getting ready to celebrate the feast of our patroness, St. Anne. This evening, I was working on our July newsletter (which I try to publish at the end of the preceding month). We have a week of dress up theme days, which are lots of fun, including sports day, miss-match day, etc. We also usually have a little dance for our residents. We have the special memorial Mass as well. If anyone else has any fun ideas, please do share them. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vee Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 I dont really have any ideas to share, just the thought that your residents seem to be very well taken care of! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sr.christinaosf Posted June 28, 2016 Author Share Posted June 28, 2016 https://ourfranciscanfiat.wordpress.com/2016/06/28/just-some-random-questions/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sr.christinaosf Posted July 1, 2016 Author Share Posted July 1, 2016 I had a question about the next step to take when discerning religious life. Here's my little attempt at a response. https://ourfranciscanfiat.wordpress.com/2016/07/01/question-whats-the-next-step/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sr.christinaosf Posted July 5, 2016 Author Share Posted July 5, 2016 https://ourfranciscanfiat.wordpress.com/2016/07/04/somethings-brewing/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sr.christinaosf Posted July 5, 2016 Author Share Posted July 5, 2016 Something’s Brewing! Holidays can be a different sort of time here, around St. Anne’s. There is often a certain quietness, with less phone calls, less staff on duty, less activities, no mail and no financial transactions from residents’ accounts. (We try to still make things special for our residents; for example, I led a patriotic sing-along this afternoon and served homemade cookies.)The quietness and serenity all seemed to end, however, late this Fourth of July afternoon. It wasn’t without reason that our aide and I remarked to one another that there must be a full moon or ‘something in the atmosphere.’For starters, one of our ladies, a bit confused, thought she needed to get home to take care of her kids. We had to bring her back in TWO times within the hour.Next, one of our gentlemen was getting impatient. The dining room staff were not calling them in for supper as promptly as he had hoped. He even suggested tapping on the dining room window to hurry them along.To top it all off, there were issues with our Adoration Chapel. Working at our front desk, I was informed by a gentleman that no one had come for the next hour. (We often have trouble with this happening on holidays. Earlier today, in fact, I had needed to recruit one of our residents to fill an hour.)To make a long story short, with the possible trouble with absences on holidays and an impending storm, we simply decided to discontinue exposition/adoration for the remainder of the evening and night.After getting off the phone with a few people, having done my part in contacting adorers about cancellations, I breathed a prayer of supplication that we would not have too severe of weather here.It had been wild enough without having to get residents down to the dining area for safety. Visions of running around with a list of names, ensuring everyone was down stairs and accounted for did NOT appeal to me. Hail was predicted so I also feared for the lives of the little plants in our residents’ vegetable garden.I just got back in from sprinkling some Holy Water! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sr.christinaosf Posted July 8, 2016 Author Share Posted July 8, 2016 Another little q&a https://ourfranciscanfiat.wordpress.com/2016/07/08/so-what-happened-to-the-teacher-nuns Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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