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Faithful Journey: Trusting Divine Providence
This talk explores the spiritual journey and challenges faced by a community of Anglican sisters as they transitioned to Catholicism. The narrative highlights their physical and spiritual journey, marked by acts of faith and divine providence, including their initial struggles for financial support and housing, and the eventual establishment of their community in a new home. The sisters' experiences illustrate the role of trust in divine guidance, communal support, and the charitable grace of God, ultimately leading to a deeper understanding of charitable fellowship.
Referenced Works:
- The Lord’s Prayer: Serves as an anchoring spiritual text, emphasizing themes of faith and reliance on divine providence.
- St. John Henry Newman: His writings and spirituality are central, guiding the sisters' journey through themes of charity, obedience, and holiness.
- Reference to "fellowship of others" and how communal ties play a substantial role in spiritual resilience and survival.
These references and themes are critical to understanding the essence of their transformation and resilience as a community.
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Speaker: Mother Angela Winsome
Additional text: Retreat, Talk #4 T1, Talk #5 T2, Talk #6 T3
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Well, greetings to everyone. In a final address, So we take the public policy of course and others, and we consider the story of the system that would make the version very. I'm going to say something about unfolding story. I'm going to listen at the beginning of our history, about how 12 angry citizens became Catholic nuns. Today, I'm going to describe something about how our journey continues, how our physical journey of trying to find the building to live in. impacted upon our spiritual journey of making a spiritual home for a new community, and how the corporate journey has affected these sisters' personal story. Finally, I shall teach to draw out from us all our experience of those talented and creative lessons from the challengeable fellowship of others.
[01:05]
Shortly before we were to sing this Catholic, I warned you of a whole community that teach sisters to all things to be received as a Catholic, how to be prepared to walk down and dry with just what sisters carry the advice in their hands. leaving anything else behind, without any guarantee for the future, just going forward in divine faith in accordance with their conscience. So, first of all, just step forward and we will proceed into the chapter on the 1st of January, 2013. The morning after our reception, we may now begin in as Catholics for the first and last time in a conflict which will then have been our spiritual home. After a match, the 12 of us, with our essential personal possessions, all to be coached and put off. We have no money, no money. We left with their financial system through our previous community, knowing the island, to discern conditions that we come in Catholic with our response to our Lord's continuing call to Colin Lee. The advice that we see seniors are being advised on the Isle of Wight. The Isle of Wight, in Oswalt Island, turns off the mainland of Israel. It's part of Israel that we have to go to stay, or walk into the podcast, and use a million podcast to get there. So, we went to the ferry, are being advised that we see seniors.
[02:07]
We were supposed to be there for six weeks. It turned into eight months. are basically our first year actually told us we can't come back, so we'll stop there, we'll just decide to leave a home. They were trying to remind us that we were being called to remain with our sisters. We loved them and felt alone enough for us, and it's our corporate discernment for us that God is calling us to continue our journey elsewhere. But where and how would it be possible? Despite the fact that we have no money with which to acquire a digital property, in-state, I and your mother sister, sales estate agents particulars, and visitors come to these possibilities. We and others pay certainty for our home. The outcomes of all our plans came in the following way. An emergency minister from the Nashville to the museum, down to the sea, was all moved to the land of ecstasy to Birmingham, the first town of the town of Kenny Newman. She was studying there doing a PXC to do my distance learning, and would come to know the town of the community. So she came to the district on the Isle of Wight for a couple of nights, staying outside the enclosure, because on the Isle of Wight they had paper enclosure. So even for other villages they couldn't come into the enclosure. But Kenny stayed there just out for a couple of nights. As I raised her off, My last words to her were, as soon as you get to Maryville, go to the chapel, hear from your meetings, and then let the child Henry Newman to find us at home.
[03:15]
She didn't request it. That same night, she did ask me to say that as she went to the chapel, she wrote in one of the physicalizers, and she said, where do you mean? And she said, God, I didn't think you were coming in town on the Isle of Rights. And this physicalizer said, but you know, there's comments about people to sail up the road. So she did ask me to tell, I tapped down with Mr. Superior, this appropriate evening, And by Friday evening, I phoned Mr Superior on the phone. She told me that they had already moved into the Presbyterian off the road, which was a community first caller who was just near them that were based there in respect on back to their main convent in Ireland, they were Irishmen, or they were talking about these countries, and there were just three lefts there in a convent, and they moved into the Presbyterian off the road, and that probably went to Selby to the convent. So she told me that they would be moved into the Presbyterian, and further about the rumours of all the furniture had taken by them that they could not take with them. How soon do we need to do, I asked, and she said, as soon as possible. So, next morning, I'm going to return to the other class that led Three Isles White, I can't find my other sister, and we race to Birmingham to do the convent.
[04:16]
This particular service around explained that the convent has been kind of built for them 50 years before, but they now needed to sell it because their sisters were too old to carry on there, and the elders used to bring care homes to visit things anyway. They had desperately not lost it before the developers, but could not imagine that any other religious community would come forward to buy it. Because of the kind of pride in the eyes of white, if we were going to get back at night, we had just no certain power to view the confidence and set off on our own journey. But in the minutes of arriving, we knew it was the right place. It's perfect, we said to a clearly delighted to be superior. But fair and good, she said. She's aiming. But we have no money to pay for it, was the next thing I said. See, I said, but we've invented social and global conflict here. He wants to buy what we need. How expression did it change? This mighty woman of little faith agreed, and we didn't do it at all. She said, oh, okay, where's all that? We're going to come. I'm like, stop. Leave everything. You don't have anything. Anything you don't need, just leave. I mean everything. Then we'll deal with it. And that's because they left us a free college content because they didn't need anything.
[05:21]
And so we didn't have to worry about anything. It's all there. Sister Julia explained this was on the Friday as yesterday, so she explained that the party was to dissolve the open market in two days' time on the Monday, Thursday morning morning. But I asked her to contact the state agent and to tell them not to put it on the open market. I said, just give us time to raise the sacrifice. This wonderful tasteful sister agreed to do just that. She called me subsequently, the night we spoke on the sun that Friday, and called the other sisters who were coming to use tomorrow morning, had accepted them in only prayer that they should bring this out. I'm going to seek an all-night prayer to do, who are welcome to join me, but the other sisters are too cautious, so people who are cheering up most of the night, praying that we would agree to abide at their convent. Eventually, after most of the night's heart without fear, and she felt too tight to carry on, she told the Lord, you trust, I don't know, it's up to you, and she went off the bed. And she now describes the whole day as a miracle of faith. The next day when we arrived, we were uncritical in our desire to purchase any will and apparently money. But I told her the Lord would survive, it was the Lord's will, and she agreed.
[06:22]
So she cancelled the health care company, stopped in state cases, and was wasted. Within a couple of days, she had confirmed that the semiconductor, who wants to remain anonymous, had heard about fight and decided to find a convent, allowing us to live there paying rent, and it's been used in Liverpool. And that's the first example of charitable fellowship. We had come to appreciate the meaning of charitable fellowship, for both race and ethnicity, as we experienced it through those blind sisters, allowing us to come and live with them for eight months, but now it was time for us to depart. So I'll never understand to take up the story of our departure from Wight. I quote. The reality of our departure, Bradley Blue, has seen the pilot's luggage that we've ever seen at the bottom of the main stairs. When the dead cell falls, it is perhaps a good thing that the coach arrived earlier than expected, as the practicalities of loading, the long-term technique, and rounding up sisters to charge at those 30 final minutes. The coach driver was our old friend who was reported to the Iron of Wight, who wanted all those ones to know. Did you remember us? He certainly did. And he also had three dreadlocks of getting the coach stuck when attempting to bring us up the Iron Drive. Thanks for this time all was well, as the church has been brought to the back entrance and loaded there.
[07:25]
The two communities held together for the last time, to stay so well, awareness in God, who will now be noted forever by the bonds of heaven's prayer, which has been forced between us. What began to struggle us on the journey of faith across the water, to what was to become our new holy. Seven or 12 hours after our boarding of church, we arrived at our people's holy, and the first thing we did was go to the chapel, for a brief time of prayer and thanksgiving, to God, for its provision and bringing us to this place. Over the next two months, which was supposed to be putting down physical and spiritual roots. There were then 12 of us, and our only regular income was eight basic old age pensions that the doors provided. Notice, I'm going to stop there.
[08:28]
When I say that it was provided, it was a more complicated salary provided. What actually happened was, in English, if you pay your national insurance pension, you would come to your old age and have to save pensions. So, as I mentioned, we've always found that the agencies who were of our age were able to make pensions, and the idea was that we would pull out pensions, I'm sure we can start our ministry of hospitality, teaching this, doing retreats, et cetera, towards our vision. But the problem was to do a hold up between our education from our Anglican community. So initially, we were literally there without any money. So if we take action for us from our Anglican in Melbourne, going there, they were actually going to leave us to leave without a penny. And I said, if one of these decides, I don't actually have any much to pay for property. Can we have an account of what is our entitlement, our pension? Um, anyway, so the train system gave us £3,000 between 12 of us. So that would cost a couple of coffee, etc. So we had £3,000 initially. That was eight months ago. Um, but after that, for some reason, it could have changed to talk about any of our money. Um, it was on and on and on.
[09:29]
So, we did that on the living room, it was smaller and smaller. Um, I also heard two of the elderly sisters when they were telling us what they were losing, because they were saving our main food for the elderly system. So that's when we thought I could do something. So I couldn't see now, so I asked them to say, say, father, um, because she's been hungry. So what happened was, various people brought us food, and that's how we not manage the first few weeks. So when I say that we'll provide exact power services, members of the parish brought us different food, And it's always been a regular practice. There's also a lunch club on Tuesday. They had a special club for the elderly in the parish on Tuesday. The next day the family would come to us for our Tuesday supper, and they're always pushing up for more than one night supper, et cetera. And then the parish kindly decided to provide us with our three coffee and sugar every week, and another one, same as we've also seen Christmas every week for our main Sunday dinner. And that's what happened, so we got our money coming through.
[10:32]
The parish basically took care of us. So in other words, the rules took charge for us through the local parish. My spiritual party had been concerned about how we might have a daily Mass. Before we came, I discovered that the local parish church was only two doors long. The trust of the Dean, at the moment of Saturday in Clinton, the daily parish Mass was held in our convent chapel. But I think it led this, that we would be very glad to continue that custom. The parish then used to keep myself authorised in the parish church building during the week, and we would actually have a daily Mass. So this worked out beautifully. And that's just been a great blessing, but there were other challenges. But in the two months of our arrival, Two of the younger physically sick systems separately displayed the call to our communities. One of the Christians thought God was calling a vastness community on the Isle of Rights, which will lead us to eight months. The other was the one who recently came to a different island of these communities. The other was a Catholic ethnic community to cover the government behind us, which she felt towards the more active Catholic community. So we determined its right to let both sisters take their sense of calling, but inevitably there were serious implications. It meant that we were commuting 10 Christians with only myself and another sister at the most vacation age.
[11:35]
We just had to trust that God would come to us to take care of the future. And confirmation for us that only were needed came that, almost immediately, they were ready to erect us properly as a fully or converse of our three authentic spiritualities within the person ordinary act. In its usual process, it takes years, but they've actually done it all in exactly one year. One year on, from the day we were received into the church's company, we were physically erected and we were released to the next year in the church. Brilliant. So, on the first of January, exactly one year after we were received, we were... and we reaffirmed our bowels. Our bowels have been recognised by those, but we can now pronounce them cognitively as chathamics in Benedictine's formularies, so that everybody will be able to see us and hear us doing that, and that will be the next stage of our lives. Now, those sisters, at that point, she was aged four, and she's been in the department for 16 years, wrote an orthopedist at the time to explain how it's been for her, and this is what she said, I quote, When I was in my mid-60s, I didn't use a wide-gold sister in our infernary, And I asked her, what is right to do this someone of my age about preparing for death?
[12:36]
She thought for a moment and then said, Hacks is letting go. In dealing with office, we've all had to let go of so much that belongs to our personal and what is our shared path. I've certainly had to let go of any similar and many parts of contact. For all of us, the comments have been in our tone. For some of us, it's really myself, for more than 50 years, it was only to let go of this old life that a new life became possible for us. I knew that they had to let go, but there was an impossible aspect of getting old. I'm used to think that with the onset of old age, there will be a gradual progression from doing to being. In fact, it was not gradual for me. There was a stubborn and roughness of mobility, bringing with it the loss of independence. It's been a stage of one challenge after another, and of learning and learning not to meet him personally. God is working in my life and asking me to trust him. So I find myself thinking that if this is indeed a bit of hope to restate my life, and for what it is to come, then it is not enough to accept it. I must learn to embrace it, and that in itself. is the next challenge." This is not the only sister who had to embrace the challenges that faced us in those months.
[13:39]
Shortly before Christmas that year, that first year, a sister in that 80s was diagnosed with breast cancer and had to have a mastectomy from a fourth of J.D. 's radiotherapy to weeks. Another sister sent Phoenix in hospital over Christmas that year for heart failure. Another sister was hospitalized with a broken hip, and these three sisters were all in their 80s, but they still all felt who were living in Grayfield days. As one of them explained, I quote, I read recently about the founders of a religious community in the 19th century who, after a wonderful, tenuous, and influential life, found themselves in old age, a nobly, certified, and forgotten. She complained to a priest who visited her, I think when you have lost everything you have in the world as I have, such a wonderful new life comes into you. I think about her words as admire, and hope, and participation. We said all is the unknown, with no guarantee for the future. Do we regret it? No. No sister has regretted the fact that it's taken. We came up at the beautiful historic convent with a 24-hour staff this term read, and we looked at the perfect group of convent, who looked after each other with legitimate support for the National Health.
[14:41]
We had to leave behind our African sisters, who have been given Catholic 50-year brothers, who have tried their last election, showed her what it means to be part of the Catholic Worldwide Family, where they have truly come home in the church. We are all lost friends. Thank you, brothers, for our truth, many who we are. We have been determined to make extraordinary charity, by God in calling us in his church, and by providing us with all our spiritual and central needs, by the bridegroom, providing us 12 strangers for the home to eight months, by the anonymous manufacturer, the church's family tree, and an office to bend it, by the local parish providing us with peace and relationships we are selling. We are living in challenging times. Temporal quickness, monstrousness, we were told by our landlord that this child is supposed to sell the land to join our convent, that our landlord is not moving about, but warned us that as adjacent land is being sold to developers, for a smaller sector estate, it will come right up to the boundaries of our property, where life will be seen for a couple of years and more easily building worth. Further, the great potential cost of working against us, the privacy acquired we've had so far will be no longer. So all the advice that debt knowledge is trying to lose.
[15:44]
But far, we have found without property to lose too, and there's a big issue about like a fund, but they're just getting almost passed by where we're supposed to be. But we feel that there is terrible grace available for any challenge, and that even our challenges have found for us at the time of acceptance. So one of the two sisters in there, if you remember the two of the other ones, the one who just comes to the right, she comes to the event, and she says, those of them are just getting started with the game, and she's very happy there. The second sisters come from another community, she then started a more active community, and started off with them, and then started to make a different way of their life, and asked to come back. So she has come back, and we've got to do a fact with them in arms, and she's poorly one of us, again, et cetera, and last carried on. We do feel that kind of panic upon us. We've talked about Henry, who's been looking after us, And let me just think of this presentation earlier, which, if you don't know the brand new, would be all right. Shortly after the arrived, at least we hadn't thought I was very much planning session, we would be very careful. I looked at the kitchen and said, Mother, we don't actually have any best bread for a morning breakfast. I didn't know quite well what we were going to do, so I thought we were going to have to go out on the road and buy some bread.
[16:46]
So I said to her, I'll take supper, either you or I will go out and get us some bread, so the shop is still open. During supper, the doorbell found it. It was a parishioner, who we didn't know, who brought us to carry a bag full of shopping that she'd bought with light news, and in the bag had two loads of bread. And that was the moment I thought, you know what? The Lord has been handed upon us, we are going through the night, but we leave on day, didn't we send it? And we truly tell the back members that we were experiencing once again charity fellowship, to this high parishioner. We have confidence for the future, because we have confidence in our loving God, whose charity towards his children is founded. The first of this retreat, have been the price for the very chiefly understanding of peace. To do this, we've looked attentively at five specific areas, using the rules of intelligence as a framework, the rights and writings of John Henry Newman at our side. And those areas were, mind serenity , spirit tranquility , heart sensitivity , love bonds , and charity fellowship with charitable and others.
[17:48]
Reduced movement but you may never saw himself as a saint, but that's precisely why we can relate to him, because he was ordinary, he struggled with the right challenges that we do. His own view of his own faith book is as follows. I have nothing of a faith about me, as everyone knows, and it is a severe and scary multiplication to be taught to explore someone. I may have a kind of view of many things, but it is a consequence of education and of a peculiar part of intellect, but this is a very different thing from being what I admire. I have no tendency to be a saint, it is the saddest thing to say. Put yourselves, then, my dear child,
[18:52]
into the hands of your loving father and your hero, who knows and loves you better than you know or love yourself. He has acquainted every action of your life. He's created you, he saves you, and has marked down the very way and hour, and he will take you to yourself. He knows all your thoughts, and feels for you in all your sadness more than any creature can feel, and accepts and makes note of your prayers, even before you make them. He will never fail you, and he will give you what is best for you. And though he tries you, and seems to withdraw himself from you, and afflicts you, still trust in him. For at length he will see how good and gracious he is, and how well he will provide for you. Be courageous and generous, and give him your heart, and he will never repent of the sacrifice. Amen. Um, can you?
[19:58]
Oh, so. But it is real, I don't know why I can't tell you. We can't tell you. I don't know why I [...] can't tell you. It started the whole thing with obedience, the first competency, and you end up with this, what a better word. Not my problem, but anyway. I think they moved out the way they were, like the Abraham story. All they think of was, excuse me, the things let him go. But at school then it's, listen, you can't listen unless you've got to go. I was thinking, the whole time he's done this whole story, he'd be letting go. But he destroyed me, not let him go, anyway. The other thing I wanted to use is a walk-in shower.
[21:05]
Ah, right. No, no, basically, the shower is just such a way that, um, you pull the door open and just walk into it. There's no step or anything. Oh. Because it's, um, so it's brilliant for, um, people to stop the door. If you need a walk-in, you don't have to talk about anything. You just, um, just walk in, and then you pull the door. Something. I knew it was a Skype topic, but you know where it was a Skype topic. I'm wondering, when you first talk about anything like Igor Nando, now, when we move scripture, they had to be reading a book, it was a cheater, an unicorn, where he just goes into his boat, I mean, which is, I'll tell you what you say last year, you know, we don't have to go out into deep water. So, this is certainly another way, and it's a single kingdom, going out, but not, I'm fishing, I've been fishing, I've been doing this for years, but going out, you know, The board is probably going to go, but they go out anyway, not thinking of, but they get up with them up.
[22:16]
And London's third point is . Keep it available for people to read it, and that would be amazing.
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