 "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 ..." - Request of the Postulant to be admitted as a Novice  How shall it be when we see her there,
With heavenlight radiant on her face Making a glow of her shining hair, Marking each fold of her garment’s grace? Breathless in awe shall the angels listen While we, the fallen, declare her ours Though all the stars of the morning glisten Around her circlet of skyey flowers? For only God and ourselves may claim This loveliest, spotless, and sinless on And call her “Mother”—O matchless name! Whose God and Creator is her Son. Who shall have words for that breathless hour When death’s dark slumber is past awhile, And heaven unfolds like a glowing flower That blooms forever in Mary’s smile? Mater Amabilis! Mother-my-own, How shall I wait all the long years through, Unsated with beauty, in exile lone, Searching the skies for a sight of you! “Mater Amabilis” from p. 43 of Our Lady of Springtime, by Sr. Mary Jean Dorcy, O.P.  "He [St. Joseph] belongs to the working-class, and he bore the burdens of poverty for himself and the Holy Family, whose tender and vigilant head he was." - Pope Pius XI Excerpt taken from the Apostolic Exhrotation "Redemptoris Custos" on the Person and Mission of St. Joseph in the life of Christ and of the Church by St. John Paul II:
WORK AS AN EXPRESSION OF LOVE Work was the daily expression of love in the life of the Family of Nazareth. The Gospel specifies the kind of work Joseph did in order to support his family: he was a carpenter. This simple word sums up Joseph's entire life. For Jesus, these were hidden years, the years to which Luke refers after recounting the episode that occurred in the Temple: "And he went down with them and came to Nazareth, and was obedient to them" (Lk 2:51). This "submission" or obedience of Jesus in the house of Nazareth should be understood as a sharing in the work of Joseph. Having learned the work of his presumed father, he was known as "the carpenter's son."  The Inscape of the Mass
a reflection on the Paschal Triduum by a Marian Sister of Santa Rosa It must be that my soul’s eyes See the clearer for the fast, For in the Triduum I see The inscape of the Mass Do not Apostle’s gather ‘round The table where He dines? Does not He feed us from His hands The self-same bread and sacrifice? Does He not stoop to wash me clean With water from His Side; And does He not give me to drink His Precious blood for wine?  In the cycle of the liturgical year, the Sacred Triduum stands out in a class all its own: Holy Thursday as a day of unparalleled liturgical catharsis, Good Friday as one in which contrition cannot but pour out as tears; all of which reaches its pinnacle on Easter, the Solemnity of Solemnities. Holy Week catches us up into the drama of our redemption and God’s infinite love for Man—and it is this very theme which is the inescapable motif of the entire affair: love.
 "The works of art inspired by Scripture
remain a reflection of the unfathomable mystery which engulfs and inhabits the world." - Pope St. John Paul II: Letter to Artist (1999)  Vere, tu es Deus Absconditus
And like the deer for running streams How my eyes thirst to see You! At Christmas I beheld You By angel choirs adored, but now Their “Glorias” are gone and with them…my Lord? To the ‘tonus peregrinus’ does my soul sigh, forlorn; Has the Sanhedrin taken Him? Where has my Beloved gone? For even on the Cross, I see Him Shrouded from my gaze; His royal purples hide Him Unto the end of these forty days. I hunger for You, Adonai, And will you hide from me? Come back to me, Beloved, Whose Face I long to see… A Marian Sister of Santa Rosa  "The Church draws her life from the Eucharist.
This truth does not simply express a daily experience of faith, but recapitulates the heart of the mystery of the Church. In a variety of ways She joyfully experiences the constant fulfilment of the promise: 'Lo, I am with you always, to the close of the age' (Mt 28:20), but in the Holy Eucharist, through the changing of bread and wine into the body and blood of the Lord, she rejoices in this presence with unique intensity." - Pope St. John Paul II: Ecclesia de Eucharistia  “Loving slaves of Jesus in Mary should hold in high esteem devotion to Jesus, the Word of God, in the great mystery of the Incarnation, [on] March 25th, which is the mystery proper to this devotion…” excerpt from St. Louis Marie de Montrfort's True Devotion in the Preparation for Total Consecration In the marvelous lilt of the Church’s song of fasting and feasting, it is with the joy of hearts made pure by the austerities of Lent that we rejoice to celebrate our patronal feast: the Solemnity of the Annunciation. In the 10th anniversary of our founding, we delight—like a child who has discovered in itself its parents beloved features—to unite with Our Lord’s dependence upon the Blessed Virgin Mary and Our Lady’s great “Fiat”, that made possible the marriage of heaven and earth by the union of the Divine Nature and Sacred Humanity of the Eternal Son in her blessed womb.
 Build Him a home in my heart; Father Dear,
Build Jesus a home in my heart. Shave off all that keeps me from loving aright The Lord of the World, Whom your lips kissed goodnight. Cut out all the knots of self-love, and my thoughts Make polished for Him in His home in my heart. Build Jesus a home in my heart, Joseph Just, As a cradle to hold Him always. Set right the beams of my penance and make Of my heart a sweet refuge where Jesus may stay. With your hands to forge me, to finish from start, I’ll know He’ll rest, safe, in His home in my heart. - A Marian Sister of Santa Rosa |
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