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Faithful Journeys: Grace in Transition

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The talk discusses the spiritual and physical journey of a group of Anglican sisters who transitioned to Catholicism, describing their challenges and the acts of faith and charitable fellowship they experienced. Their story includes leaving their old convent without financial security, searching for a new home, and eventually being offered a convent supported by an anonymous benefactor. The narrative highlights their reliance on faith and community support, embodying Benedictine principles and exemplifying God's provision and grace during uncertain times.

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- The Rule of St. Benedict: This foundational text is used as a framework for understanding faith principles during the sisters' transition to Catholicism.
- Writings of John Henry Newman: Discussed for his insights into sainthood and humility, offering a relatable understanding of spiritual life challenges.

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Speaker: Mother Angela Winsome
Possible Title: 2020 Retreat
Additional text: Talk #1, Talk #2, Talk #3

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Well, greetings to everyone. In this final address, we shall take the promise of God and others. as the consistent story of the systems of the Mexican family. I'm going to share something of our unfolding story. I've already spoken at the beginning of our history about how soiled and existence became Catholic now. Today, I'm going to describe something of how our journey has continued, 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 each system's personal story. Finally, I shall seek to draw out from it all our experience of the challengeable grace of destiny from the challengeable fellowship of others.

[01:03]

Shortly before we were seen as Catholics, I warned of the whole community that teachers who wanted to be received as a Catholic had to be prepared to walk down and cry with just what you could carry in a vast inner hand, leaving anything else behind, without any guarantee for the future, to go towards the blind faith in accordance with their conscience. So, first of all, sit, step forward, and we will receive him to the Catholic Church on the 1st of January 2013. The morning after our reception, we laid out the meeting as Catholics for the first and last time in a combination that can be our spiritual home. After that, the 12 of us, with our essential personal possessions, all to be coached and set off. We have no money, no home. We left from no financial settlement from our previous community and own garments to discern the connection that becoming Catholics was our response to our Lord's continuing call to follow me. We invite you to see seniors' average rise on the Isle of Wight. The Irish White City of South Island, just off the mainland of England, it's part of England, but you have to go to Australia, or go to the public card, and you can leave the public card to get there. So, we met with Terry, and we arrived back to the studio.

[02:05]

We were potentially there for six weeks, it turned to eight months. Basically, after we left, we were told we can't come back. So, we were stuck there, and you would just find a new home. So, it was quite funny because we were being called to relate with those sisters. We loved them, and felt they were only nice for us. and it's our corporate retirement force that it was just 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 place, I and the one sister, tell the state agents of particulars, and visitors from three possibilities. We and others play third that people are home. The answer to all our players came in a boring way. An American division sister from the National Division, down in Tennessee, was ordered to the Clones of Institute of Birmingham, the first television from Kenny Newman, She was studying there doing a TXD to do my distance learning, and would come to know about our community. So if you can, you could jump on the Isle of Wight for a couple of nights, stay outside the enclosure. If you're on the Isle of Wight, they have technical enclosure. So you could put other resources that couldn't come into the enclosure. But if you can, you stay there, get out of the couple of nights. As I raised her off, my last words took over, as soon as you get to know them, tell us at the chapel, hear from your meetings, and then let us show every human to find us at home.

[03:14]

She didn't request it. That same night, she emailed me to say that as she left the chapel, she went into one of the supervisors and she said, and she said, and she said, and this supervisor said, so we know there's a comment about people to fail up the road. So she emailed me with the details. I packed down with Mr. Superior, this was Thursday evening, and by Friday evening, I phoned Mr. Superior on the phone. She told me that they had already been in the picture of the road, which is a music road caller, so it was just that would be fair to respect on perhaps the main convent in Ireland, as they were Irishmen, or they were talking about these companies that are just three days there in a convent, and they're moving to the Presbyterian proper road, and that's why I'm ready to sell these to the convent. So the convent said that we'd be moving to the Presbyterian, and followed about the rumours of all culture and sacred actions that they could not pay to them. How soon could we need to view, I asked, and she said, as soon as possible. So, next morning, I will return to the class that left the island white, I come to find another sister, and we race to Birmingham to view the convent. Mr. Pupilio turned us around and explained that the comedy thing had been built for them 15 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 for 15 years anyway.

[04:25]

They had desperately not wanted to be sold to 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 to get back that night, we had just over an hour to view the convent and set off on our own journey. Within minutes of arriving, we knew it was the right place. It's perfect, we said to a clearly delighted Christian Cicillia. Very good, she said. She's been here. But we have no money to pay for it, was the next thing I said. See, I said, I've got an inventor, so it's a normal concert here. He will provide what we need. How it's frightening to change. This multiple minute of faith agrees, and continues with it at all. As Christian Cicillia, I was in Cicillia, he had a good walk, bags, and cleaning equipment. He said, oh, I'll get back on after he's going to come. I'm like, stop. Leave anything. You don't have anything. Anything you don't need, just leave. I'm in everything. [...]

[05:28]

I'm in everything. I'm in everything. I'm in everything. She told me subsequently, the night we spoke on the phone that Friday, I told the other sisters who were coming to use in one morning, that I said to them, it's only prayer that's going to bring this out. But I'm going to keep an all-night prayer to draw, you're welcome to join me. But the other sisters were too exhausted, so two of the sisters stayed up most of the night, praying that we would agree to provide their content. Eventually, after most of the night up without sleep, and she felt two time to carry on, she told the Lord, Jesus, I'm going now, it's up to you, and she went off the bed. And she now described the whole thing as a miracle of faith. The next day when we arrived, we were uncritical in our desire to purchase this, whether we didn't have any money. But I told her the Lord would provide it for the Lord's will, and she agreed. So she cancelled the house for her company, stopped in vacations, and was wasted. Within a couple of days, she had confirmed that her benefactor, who wants to remain anonymous, had heard from her wife, and he tried to divide her convent, allowing us to live there, paying rent.

[06:34]

And it's been used in local. That's the first example of charitable fellowship. We had come to appreciate the meaning of charitable fellowship, to both grace and blessing, and then experience it to those blind sisters, allowing them to come and live with them for eight months, but now it was kind of asked to depart. So I'll never have the sisters take up the story of our department's approach. The reality of our departure, Bradley Blue, has this a pile of luggage that we don't see at the bottom of the main fairs. When we get to our polls, it is perhaps a good thing that the cultural arts earlier expected, as the practicalities of voting, the norms and techniques, and rounding up sisters to charge of those very timely minutes, The coach driver was our old friend who was brought us to the Iron of Wight, who wanted for all those ones below. If you remember us, he certainly did. And he also had still his methods of getting the coach stuck when attempting to bring us up the Abbey Drive. Thanks for this time, all was well, as the coach had been brought to the back entrance and loaded there. The two communities fell together for the last time to stay so well, aware that in God, we will now be noted forever by the bonds of supper prayer, which had been forced to clean up. Once again, the people off of the German state across the water to what was to become our new home."

[07:37]

End of quote. Every month, so far, after our boarding of church, we arrived at our people's home, and the first thing they did was to go to chapel, from three times of prayer and thanksgiving, to God, to his provision and visiting us at this place. This coin has been changing for 50 years, and it used a cavernack of the university entity. In this year, it has been adapted for elderly religion, so there were tiny girls and walking showers suitable for the needs of our more elderly sisters already in place. The sisters are kept of bed, sheets and furniture, so we had a fully functioning conference. and our clients listed on the Isle of Wight, had arranged for a delivery of food so that we would not need to worry about the first few meals. We truly dobs our goodness and the charitable credit which was then increased once again. Over the next few months, we started to push for 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 Lord provided. And there's a... I would stop there. When I said it was provided, it was a more competent power provided. What actually happened was, um... In India, if you pay your national insurance contribution, you'll come to your old age and have to pay pension. So, as I mentioned, we've always found that the agencies who were of that age are eligible for that pension.

[08:41]

And the idea was that we would pull our pension until we start our ministry of profitability, taking debt, doing retreats, et cetera, to earn our vision. But the problem was that we would get hold up between our pension from our hand against unity. So, initially, we were literally left without any money. So, we'd get back and forward. of our Anglicans in Hong Kong, that citizens were in there, they were actually going to leave us to leave without a penny. And I said, if one of the people decide, I don't actually have any money to pay for coffee. Can we have an advance of what is our entitlement, our conscience? Anyway, so it's crazy that we lost 3,000 pounds since 12 of us. So that was coffee, et cetera. So we had 3,000 pounds in Italy. That was eight months ago. But after that, for some reason, it couldn't take a penny off our money. It went on and on. So what happened was...

[09:58]

various people brought us food, and that's how we not managed the first food to eat. So, um, that's how we provided. Members of the parish brought us gifts of food, and it's always kind of ready to practice. There's also another club on Tuesday, they had a first club in the elderly, the parish, on Tuesday. So next day, the family needs to come to us for our two-day supper, and they always brought it up for more than one night supper, et cetera. Um, and members of the parish kindly decided to provide us with, um, tea, coffee, and sugar every week, and another one generally, we've also been cooking every week for our main Sunday dinner. And that's what happened, so we've got our, um, money coming through, the parish tent should be put care of us. In other words, the rules looked after us through the local parish. My spiritual policy had been determined by how we might have a daily map. Before we came, I discovered that the pervert of the parish church was only two doors along. The trouble was seen that at the moment of Saturday in Princeton, the daily parish map was held in our common shuffle. So I said you left this, that we would be very large in the cities of Tuggestone. The parish then didn't think we might have organised the opening of the parish church building during the week, and we would actually have a daily map. So this worked out basically. and that's because it is very interesting, but there were other challenges.

[11:01]

During two months of our arrival, two of them younger physically kept distance, but he displayed a call to our communities. One was calling a vast community on the Isle of Rights, which only lived for eight months. The other was wanting to recently come to a different kind of community. Lesnar of the Catholic identity community, she felt the government behind us, which she felt drawn to a more active Catholic community. There was certainly a right to let both citizens take their sense of calling, but in actually there were serious implications. It meant that we were committed to 10 Christians with only myself and another Christian in those state-patient age. We just had to trust that God will come out and take care of the future. A confirmation for us that only we needed came that, almost immediately, we were ready to erect us properly and deploy our commonest monstery authentic spirituality within the personal ordinary act. The usual process takes years, but they've actually done it all in the capacity of one year. One year on, from the day we were received into the Church of Catholic, we were simply erected and we were left the next student here in the Church. Brilliant. So, on the 1st of January, exactly one year after we were received, we were set up and we reaffirmed our vows.

[12:05]

Our vows have been recognized by those, but we can now speak publicly as cabinet, and then it's in the formulary, so that everyone can see us and hear us doing that, and that will be the next stage in our life. Now, one of the sisters, at that point, she was born, and she's been in this class for 16 years, both and I was pretty advertised to explain how it's been for her, and this is what she said, I quote. When I was in my mid-60s, I depicted a wide old sister in our infirmary, and I asked her what was right to do this someone of my age about preparing for death. She thought for a moment and then said, practice, letting go. In living hostage, we've all had to let go of so much that belongs to our personal and what is our shared path. I certainly had to let go of any similar and many parts of contact. For all of us, the comments had been our own, but some of us, excluding myself, for more than 50 years, it was only to let go of the old life, but to new life became possible for us. I knew that they had me to let go to this unimaginable aspect of getting old. I would need to think that with the onset of old age, there would be a gradual progression from doing to doing. In fact, it was not gradual for me.

[13:07]

There was suffering and loss of nudity, bringing with it the loss of independence. It's been a case of one talent after another, and of learning in ways not to meet intentionally. God is working in my life and asking me to trust him. So I find myself thinking that if this isn't really the will of God to restate my life, and for what it's become, then it's not enough to accept it, I must learn to embrace it, and that, in itself, is the next challenge. She is not the only sister who had to embrace the challenges that faced us in those months. Shortly before Christmas that year, that first year, a sister in that age with five nodes with breast cancer and had to have a mastectomy, probably by a quarter of daily radiotherapy to weeks. Another sister went to Phoenix in hospital over Christmas that year with heart failure. Another sister was hospitalized with a broken hip, and these three sisters were all in their ages, but it still all felt we were living in grey cell days. As one of them explained, I quote, I read recently about the founders of a religious community in the 90th century who offered a wonderful, tenuous and influential good life, found herself in old age, a nobly, certified and forgotten.

[14:10]

She complied to a priest who visited her, I think that you've lost everything you have in the world as I have. Such a wonderful new life comes into you. I think about her words and admire and hope and appreciation. It's an odd, easy unknown, but no guarantee for the future. Do we regret it? No. No system has regretted the fact that it's chosen. We take up a deducible historic convent with a 24-hour fast year turnary, and we look at the perfect field convent. We look on to each other with legitimate support from the National Health. We have to leave behind our ITG systems. We have a continuing Catholic history of others, who have tried to advance an infection, so has what it means to be part of the Catholic Worldwide Family. We have truly come home in search. We are all lost friends. We've discovered who our true friends really are. We have been showing the major storm of this charity, by God in calling us into his church, and by providing us with all our spiritual and central needs, by the wise ones providing us 12 messages from the old to eight months, by the anonymous semiconductor who purchased our monastery and allowed us to vendle it, by the local parish providing us with peace and relations to keep us going.

[15:14]

We are living in challenging times. Some before Christmas, last Christmas, we were told by our landlord that the scribes wanted to cover the lands rejoining our convent, that our landlord is not mooting about, that warned us that as the adjacent land is being sold to developers for smaller sector states, it will come right up to the boundaries of our property, but like this being for a couple of years, it might be building work. Further, with great change of property projects against us, the privacy required impact so far will be no longer. So we will find that debt now is the time to move. Thus far, we have found many out of property to move to, and the difference is about the funds, but we're just getting on with how to find where we're supposed to be. But we feel that there is terrible grace available for every challenge, and that even our challenges to down upon us at the time of the testing. But one of the two sisters with Ness, if you remember the two of the other ones, one did transfer to Rice, she transferred to them again, and she was very happy there. The second sister, a couple of other communities, she then started a more active community, and started off with them, and then started making a difference in her life, and asked to come back.

[16:16]

So she has come back, and we've got to go back with them in arms, and she's fully one of us again, et cetera, and life carries on. Um, we do feel that kind of panic upon us. We've talked about Henry, as he's looking after us, and let me figure this message a little bit about, which, they told them a brand new, it would be alright. Shortly after the arrives, originally, I hadn't thought I was very much nice, so we would be very careful. One sister kicked me and said, Mother, we don't actually have enough bread for the morning breakfast. Um, I didn't know quite well what we were doing, so we'd have to go out the road and buy some bread. Um, so I said to her, I'll keep up there, either you or I, we'll go out and get up some bread, um, with a shop that's been open. During the 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 thought we might need, and in a bag passed through loads of bread. And that was the moment I thought, do you know what? The Lord depends upon us, we are very single right, but we need something, give or send it. And we truly felt at that moment that we were experiencing once again charity fellowship, through this kind parishioner. We have confidence for the future, because we have confidence in our loving God, whose charity towards his children is founded.

[17:18]

The focus of this retreat, that means the price for the very kitchen of the standing of peace. To do this, we've looked attentively at five specific areas, using the rules and techniques as a framework, the rights and writings of Fr. John Henry Newman as our guide, and those areas were mind-sherenity , spirit transparency , heart simplicity , love forms , and charity fellowship , and others. that you let yourself as a saint. That's precisely why we can relate to him, because he was ordinary, he struggled with the right challenges that we proved. This issue of his own faithful thing as follows. I have nothing of a saint about me, as everyone knows, and it is a severe and solitary mortification to be thought to it for someone. I may have a kind of view of many things, but it is the consequence of education and of a peculiar part of intellect that this is a very different thing from being what I admire. I have no tendency to be a saint. It is a sad thing to say. They do not literally, literally, literally, then.

[18:24]

They do not smell the Catholic. They do not like tales. I may be well enough in my own way, but it is not the high line. It is enough me to grab the same shoes if they fill it with patience, then. You live back in heaven. It came without spiritual journey, and this is all perfect to God. So let me invite you for the last time to see a million speaking to you. And in a way, these words sum up the whole retreat. What's your first day, my dear child, into the hands of your loving father and his lover, who loves and loves you better than you love or love yourself. He has acquired every action of your life. He created you, sustains you, and has marked down the very way and hour which he would 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 later. He will never tell you, and he will give you what is best for you. And that he tries you, and seems to withdraw himself from you, as afflicts you, still comes in him.

[19:30]

For at length we 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. And finally, also. Oh, excellent. Excellent. Did you know? Yeah. [...] that we started the whole thing with the obedience, the first confidence here, and we end up with this, one of a better word, not my problem, but anyway, I think you move out of the way you were, like the Abraham story.

[20:39]

All we think of was, it seems to me that the theme is let him go. We think about the scope that is, listen, if you can't listen, I must go. I was thinking the whole time you tell this whole story, let him go. But you're disturbing me, I'm not going to go, by the way. The other thing I wanted to do is a walk-in shower. Ah, right. No, no, basically, the shower is just in such a way that, um, you pull the door open and just walk into it. There's no step or anything. Oh. So it's brilliant for, um, people to talk about these or whatever. You don't have to talk about anything. You just, um, just walk in and then you pull through the subject. I knew it was described as a painting where you described it before. Another way of going out, but not efficient.

[21:48]

I've been doing it for years. We're going out. It's the worst time to go, but they go out anyway. It's quite deep deep, but they transfer them up. And London's the point of . It's a pretty amazing test. Keep it available for people to read it. And that would be amazing. That would be something to guess.

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