Alone with the Lord

I am glad to be back at my blog once again. I recently had the grace to participate in an intense

week of study about Media Literacy especially from a Catholic lens. Our Founder, Blessed James Alberione, want us to use the "most rapid and fruitful means" to let people know about Jesus and his message. We saw how powerful films can be, both religious films and secular media. We "prayed the news" using NPR's 5 minute capsule of daily news as our starting point. 

Now that I am in the closing days of an 8 day silent retreat, I am praying for writers, producers, directors, actors and all the men and women whose many tasks go into a film production. Even the gaffers, the persons who tape down the many wires coming from cameras and lights, all are involved and necessary to secure an appealing outcome, to tell a story in the relatively short time that it takes to see a movie!

I am writing this in the last days of my annual retreat where I am alone with the Lord alone,

even though there about 25 other Sisters here at our beautiful St. Thecla Retreat House in Billerica, Massachusetts. Having the opportunity t pray in our lovely chapel and even in our rooms, is a gift from the Lord. I promise to pray for you my patient readers who haven't seen a post from me for a long time! God bless you and pray with me for the spiritual well being of all who work in the film industry!

 October is zooming by fast. In the Pauline Family we celebrated today the Feast of Jesus Christ, the Divine Master, Way, Truth and Life. In the gospel of John, Chapter 14, Philip said to Jesus, "We do not know the way (to the Father)." Jesus responded right away, "I am the Way, the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the Father but through me." (John 14:6 ff)

Briefly, we receive supernatural light for our minds from Jesus who offers us himself, who is the Truth. For our will, to help us make right choices, to follow the path God wants us to journey on, Jesus is the Way to follow. For the strength we need to know God's will more clearly, and to follow it more carefully, Jesus offers us himself as our Life. Especially in the Eucharist, the true Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, we receive in ourselves Jesus, Way, Truth and Life.

This, in a nutshell, is a condensed version of the spirituality of the Pauline Family. 

Through the mission of media evangelization which is the work of the Sisters, Daughters of St. Paul, and of the Fathers and Brothers of the Society of St. Paul, we Paulines strive to make Jesus, the Divine Master, known and loved more.

Today about 46 young women from North America, Brasil, the Philippnes, Malasia and a few other countries joined together in a vocational discernment retreat.  ask your prayers for all these young adies who sincerely are looking to seek what God's will is for their lives. 

O Jesus, the Eternal Shepherd of our souls, send good laborers into your vineyard!