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Ad Multos Annos

1/4/2023

 
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​​How delightful it is when little children reveal their age by holding up (somewhat haphazardly) as many little fingers as they have years to their lives. If we were to have done so this year, we would need all fingers on both hands: Our Lady’s Little community turned ten years old in the 2022. We would love to recount with you, our dear friends, relatives and benefactors, the many blessings bestowed on us by God throughout the past year.

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First Profession

6/9/2022

 
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First Professioin of Vows
Sister Mary Regina of Our Lady, Queen of the Holy Rosary
Sister Maria Consolata of Our Lady, Spouse of the Holy Ghost

 Sister Josefa of Our Lady of the Annunciation

"Receive this veil which proclaims that you belong entirely to Christ the Lord in the service of the Church. In imitation of your Immaculate Mother Mary, may you be an image of the Church: wholly given in humility of heart to Christ who is loved above all others."
​ - presentation of the blue veil - 
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"Temporary profession of vows ... prepares the sister for perpetual profession. These vows by which she pledges herself to the practice of the evangelical counsels of poverty, chastity and obedience show forth the unbreakable bond of union that exists between Christ and His bride, the Church.  Desiring to strengthen these bonds and to “derive still more abundant fruit from the grace of her baptism”, a sister makes public profession of the vows of poverty, chastity and obedience, is consecrated to God through the ministry of the Church, and is incorporated into the community with the spiritual benefits, rights and duties defined by law.
 
"Temporary profession is a time to experience and train in the apostolic works of the community and to attain professional education while integrating the religious and spiritual training of the novitiate (cf. Can. 659) ... While growing in closer union with Christ, the vowed religious learns to “combine contemplation with apostolic love.  By the former, she clings to God in mind and heart; by the latter she strives to associate herself with the work of redemption and to spread the kingdom of God” through evangelization.  uring this time of formation, as the sister begins to take part in the apostolate she will grow in her appreciation for the Marian spirit of the community.  As the sister strives to be Mary’s visible hands at work in the world, Mary communicates to her something of her own spirit, her strength of mind, and her courageous will. "​- Constitutions of the Marian Sisters of Santa Rosa
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"Lord, look upon these Religious who wish to imitate Your Son more closely
by professing the evangelical counsels in the presence of Your Church today. 
Mercifully grant that their manner of life may bring glory to Your name
​and further Your loving plan of redemption.  We ask this through Christ our Lord."
- prayer concluding the examination of those professing vows -
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First Profession Slideshow

Clothing Day

5/28/2022

 
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"​I ask to be permitted to live the life of a Marian Sister of Santa Rosa.
Drawn by God’s mercy, I have come here to learn your way of life.
I ask you to teach me to follow Jesus Christ Crucified
and to live generously in poverty, chastity and obedience ..."
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- Request of the Postulant to be admitted as a Novice

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Parce Domine, Parce Populo Tuo

3/2/2022

 
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"Beloved searcher of hearts, Thou knowest the infirmities of men;
show pardoning grace to those who return to thee."

 - Verse from Parce Domine
During important liturgical feasts and seasons, such as Lent, often times one may find it hard to express in words the sentiments the soul feels. How - during a time so sacred - can one even begin to describe what wells up in the heart? This poverty which strikes us is, in itself, a reminder of a necessary disposition during Lent: that even the penances and mortifications we desire to perform require complete reliance on the Lord for strength and perseverance. We can do nothing on our own. 

The Lord often works together with His Bride the Church to takes care of His children. Holy Mother Church sees the poverty of Her little ones and provides for them in their need through the prayers of the Liturgy. For where Her child does not know what to say, She gives words; where there is yearning of the heart, She provides the supplication it wishes to express; where the child says, "I do not know how to pray as I ought," She says, "I shall provide prayers for you." 

The prayers of Ash Wednesday give a prime example of Her maternal care:

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Postulancy & Assumption of Our Lady

8/18/2021

 
"The Virgin Mary was taken up to the heavenly bridal chamber
where the King of kings is seated on a heavenly throne."

- Antiphon from Vespers of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
On the feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary we celebrate Our Lady being assumed, body and soul, into Heaven where she is fully united to her Creator and Lover of her soul. So too on Sunday did we celebrate the reception of Postulants into the chamber of our community, where each Sister lives with her Divine Spouse. ​

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In These Three Hearts

7/30/2021

 
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Heart of Jesus, I adore Thee
Heart of Mary, I implore Thee
Heart of Joseph, good and just…
​In these three Hearts I place my trust.

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Pictures from Final Profession

6/29/2021

 
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"Suscipe me, Domine, secundum eloquium tuum et viviam,
et non confundas me ab expectation mea."


After the profession of Holy Vows, wherein, the Religious is now perpetually professed, she implores Our Lord to receive her in His great mercy chanting: “Receive me, O Lord, according to Thy word, and I shall live: 
and let me not be confounded in my hope” (from Psalm 119)
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Roses for Our Mother

5/11/2021

 
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​"Through her, Jesus came to us; through her we should go to Him.
If we are afraid of going directly to Jesus, who is God, because of his infinite greatness, or our lowliness, or our sins, let us implore without fear
the help and intercession of Mary, our Mother."
True Devotion: 84

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Mother of All

5/9/2021

 
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"God the Father wishes Mary to be the mother
​of His children until the end of time ..."

True Devotion #29
Mother's Day in the convent brings about a thrice-fold thanksgiving in the heart of every Sister. ​

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Que Soy Era Immaculada Councepciou

2/11/2021

 
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The apparitions of Our Blessed Mother retain a special place of honor within our Marian community, as we strive to practice all  she requested. 

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