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Suscipe Me Domine

9/27/2023

Suscipe me Domine, secundum eloquim Tuum, et vivam;
et non confundas me ab expectatione mea.
“Receive me, Lord, according to Thy word, and I shall live;
and let me not be confounded in my hope”

Summer is always a time of adventures, apostolic and otherwise. In the Convent, this summer has been characterized by the absence of a normal kitchen owing to significant and much needed updates, particularly of the plumbing. As the renovation continues, the

Mother of Sorrows, Pray for Us!

9/15/2023

Our Mother's Birthday

9/7/2023

Perpetual Profession of Sr. Mary Emmanuel

6/29/2023

To Jesus my heart, my all, forever ...
Mary my Mother, keep me faithful until death!

With profound gratitude to the Most Holy Trinity, the Marian Sisters of Santa Rosa joyfully announce the Perpetual Profession of Vows of Sister Mary Emmanuel of Mary, Cause of Our Joy this Saturday, July 1, 2023, Feast of the Precious Blood.

The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass will be celebrated by The Most Reverend Robert F. Vasa, Bishop of the Diocese of Santa Rosa, at the Cathedral of St. Eugene at 10:30 a.m.

Sister Mary Emmanuel is a native of the Diocese of Santa Rosa and attended St. Eugene's Cathedral growing up. She blessed to serve in the parish where she grew up.

For You Are Lovely

6/21/2023

In a conference given to her novices, Mother Mary Francis,—of happy memory—in her own masterful way, informed them that their virginal love of Christ must yet be a fruitful union by noting that in the Canticle of Canticles the Bridegroom (a type of Christ) calls His beloved a “garden enclosed”, but does not say: “…a chunk of desert is my sister, my bride…” However, in the profound paradox that Our Divine Spouse prefers, one must enter into what seems to be the Barren Beyond of the dessert in order not to become spiritually barren oneself. This is why Our Lord draws His loved ones into Dark Nights of the Soul and permits valleys of desolation; it is why fruitful apostolic ventures are often preceded by laborious toil, physically and spiritually, and why the birth of spiritual life comes at high interior cost to faithful souls—in a special way to His brides. It is why annually, in accordance with the mind of the Church, our community takes a retreat.

Hail Mary, Immaculate Mother

6/17/2023

Blessed is the Virgin Mary who kept the word of God
and pondered it in her heart.

"In order that favors in greater abundance may flow on all Christians, nay, on the whole human race, from the devotion to the most Sacred Heart of Jesus, let the faithful see to it that to this devotion the Immaculate Heart of the Mother of God is closely joined. For, by God's Will, in carrying out the work of human Redemption the Blessed Virgin Mary was inseparably linked with Christ in such a manner that our salvation sprang from the love and the sufferings of Jesus Christ to which the love and sorrows of His Mother were intimately united. It is, then, entirely fitting that the Christian people - who received the divine life from Christ through Mary - after they have paid their debt of honor to the Sacred Heart of Jesus should also offer to the most loving Heart of their heavenly Mother the corresponding acts of piety affection, gratitude and expiation." - Haurietis Aquas: Encyclical of Pope Pius XII on Devotion to the Sacred Heart

You Shall Draw Waters with Joy out of the Savior's Fountain

6/16/2023

Most Sacred Heart of Jesus,
I place my trust in Thee!

"It is altogether impossible to enumerate the heavenly gifts which devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus has poured out on the souls of the faithful, purifying them, offering them heavenly strength, rousing them to the attainment of all virtues. Therefore, recalling those wise words of the Apostle St. James, "Every best gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of Lights,"(2) We are perfectly justified in seeing in this same devotion, which flourishes with increasing fervor throughout the world, a gift without price which our divine Savior the Incarnate Word, as the one Mediator of grace and truth between the heavenly Father and the human race imparted to the Church, His mystical Spouse, in recent centuries when she had to endure such trials and surmount so many difficulties.

With Us As We Go

6/14/2023

Photo Credit: Fr. Lawrence Lew, O.P.

Perhaps many of us grew up listening to a variation of the hymn whose lyrics run along these lines, “Come with us Mary along the way…Ven con nosotros a caminar, Santa Maria ven…” The sentiment is one of filial devotion: what child does not turn back suddenly if it finds its Mother too far away shouting, “Mama!” We want our Mother with us on the whole long journey of life: on the way to the park for ice cream, or on the way to the graveyard to lay flowers on a loved one’s grave.

The Greatest Gifts

5/28/2023

"The Spirit of the Lord hath filled the whole world, alleluia;
and that which containeth all things hath knowledge
of the voice, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!"
- Introit for Pentecost

Gift of God Most High - This title of the Holy Spirit is a title of the Spirit's nature, True Gift. He is the gift sent from God the Father to be a Consoler to the Apostles at the loss of our Lord. He is the gift of a Teacher and Advocate Who was sent to teach the young Church "all things" and remind the Apostles of everything Christ said to them. But most importantly, the Holy Spirit is a gift of God's presence, where we can know that God moves, acts, and speaks within our very selves.

Suscipe Me Domine

Camp Kitchen

Mother of Sorrows, Pray for Us!

Our Mother's Birthday

Perpetual Profession of Sr. Mary Emmanuel

To Jesus my heart, my all, forever ...
Mary my Mother, keep me faithful until death!

For You Are Lovely

Hail Mary, Immaculate Mother

You Shall Draw Waters with Joy out of the Savior's Fountain

With Us As We Go

The Greatest Gifts

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