Well, greetings to everyone. In this final address, which we take from the characters of course and others as we consider the story of the systems of the metropolitan area. I'm going to share something of our unfolding story. I wrote an expression at the beginning of our speech about how 12 languages and sisters became Catholic names. 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 a corporate journey has affected these Christians' personal story. Finally, I shall seek to draw out from us all our experience of God's charitable grace of nothing from the charitable fellowship of others.

[01:05]

Shortly before we were received this Catholic, I warned the whole community that these Christians wanting to be received as a Catholic had to be prepared to walk down and dry with just what she was carried in a bag in her hand, leaving anything else behind, without any guarantee for the future. is going forward in divine faith in accordance with their conscience. Those responses set forward and were received into the Catholic Church on the 1st of January 17. The morning after our reception, we made our convenient at the cabinet for the first and last time in a convent which until then had been our spiritual home. After that, the 12 of us, with our essential personal possessions, for which to coach and set off. We had no money, no home. We led to no financial settlement from our previous community, no endowment, to confirm the connection that would come in Chaplin with our responsible considering call to Colin Lee. We arrived at the 16th Abbey ride on the Isle of Wight. The Isle of Wight is a beautiful island, jumped off the mainland of England, it's part of England, but you have to go to the ferry or go to the public car, and you're familiar with public car, to get there. So, we mentioned the ferry, and we arrived at the 16th.

[02:08]

We were totally there in six weeks, but it continued to eight months. Well, basically, after we left, we were told to come back, so we would stop there until we decided to go home. There was time coming on because we were being called to relate with those sisters. We loved journeys and felt they were only enough for us, and it's our comfort to train the tour that goes to calling us to continue our journeys elsewhere, but where and how will it be possible? Despite the fact that we have no money, with which to acquire a typical property, in-state, I am the number of sisters, tell our six-day ages of particulars, and visitors from safe possibilities. We and others pay services for our homes. It also all affairs came in the following way. An American, a military sister from the national civilians down in Tennessee, was offered to a friend of ex-duty to Birmingham, the first parliament in John Kenny Newman. She was studying there doing a PhD to do my distance learning, and would come to know her and her community. So she came to this picture from the Isle of Wight, the public side, saying that Friday closure, because on the Isle of Wight they had paper enclosure. So even for other religious, they couldn't come into the enclosure. So she came to say no justice out for a couple of months. As I raised her off, My last words for her were, as soon as you get to know her well, go to the chapel, get her on your knees, and then let her join her men in to find us at home.

[03:15]

She did this request. That same night, she came out to me to say that as she left the chapel, she went into one of the supervisors, and she said, why did you hear you? And she said, God, I didn't want you to come in this house on the Isle of Wight. And this, our supervisor said, don't you know, there's comments about people who fail up the road. So she came out to me with the details. I tapped down with Mr. Cecilia, it's a post-day evening. And by Friday evening, I phoned Mr Superior on the phone. She told me that they had already moved into the predatory of the road, which is a community-growth corner, so if you were just near them, that would be fair to respect one fact that there were many congregants in Ireland, they were Irishmen, or they were talking about these countries that are just three days there in a congregant, and they moved into the predatory of the road, and that's why they were ready to spell these to the congregants. But she probably said that when we moved into the predatory, and so I was about to remove all structure and secret actions that they could not take with them. How students do we need to do, I asked. and she said, as soon as possible. So, next morning, I was in the first of the class that left the Isle of Wight, accompanied by another sister, and we raced to Birmingham to view the convent. Sister Cecilia showed us around, and explained that the convent had been cut to filter them 50 years before, but they now needed to sell it, because their sisters were too old to carry on there, and the elderly just to bring care homes, to put them into anyway.

[04:27]

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. Becoming a kind of a pie in the Isle of Wight, If we were to get back that night, we had just over an hour to view the convent and to set off on our own journey. But in the nature of the living, we knew it was the right place. It's perfect, we said to a clearly delighted sister Cisteria. Very good, she said. She's been here. But we have no money to take it, was the next thing I said. See, I said, I've got to convince her, so if the Lord wants to hear, he will provide what we need. Her expression didn't change. This mighty woman of faith agreed, and we're beginning with a call. As sister Cisteria opened the key and covered with more, bags and cleaning equipment. She said, oh, I'll get travel now, she's going to come. I'm like, stop. Leave everything. You don't have anything. Anything you don't need, just leave. I'm in everything. Then we'll tell her that. And that's exactly how it happens. So next up, a free time of content, because I didn't see anything. And so we didn't have to worry about bed, she's anything. It's all there. This was a video explained. This was on the Friday.

[05:28]

It was up to date. So this was going to explain that the posting was supposed to go to the ocean market in two days' time, or Monday. 13 on the morning. But I asked her to contact the state agent and to tell them not to book it on the end of the market. I said, just give us time to raise the sacrifice. This wonderful faithful sister agreed to do just that. She told me subsequently, the noise was closed on the phone that Friday, and I told the other sisters, you were coming to use it all morning, and I said to them, it's only prayer that says you bring us it out. But I'm going to keep an all-night prayer to you, you are welcome to join me. But the other sisters were two courses, the prison materials straight up goes to the night, praying that we will be greeted by the state agent. Eventually, after most of her might have been up to date, and she's got two types of carolers. She told the Lord, Jesus, I'm going now, is up to you, as she will today. And she now describes the whole day as a miracle of faith. The next day on real life, we were uncritical in our desire to purchase a will with a family mummy. But I told her the Lord would survive, it was the Lord's will, and she agreed. So she cancelled the house for her company, stopped in sexation, and was wasted. But in a couple of days, she had confirmed that the benefactor was to remain anonymous,

[06:31]

I chose my wife, and he tried to divide the convent, allowing us to live there, paying rent. And it's indeed a miracle. And that's the first problem of charitable fellowship. When it comes to appreciate the meaning of charitable fellowship, the broad grace of nothing, and the experience with those five sisters, allowing us to come and live with them for eight months, but now it's time for us to depart. But I'll never understand to pick up the story of our departure worldwide. I'll close. The reality of my departure, where as he grew, I've seen the pile of knuckles that we don't see at the bottom of the name there. From the day first time, it was perhaps a good thing that the church arrived earlier than expected, as the practicalities of loading through normal and picnic, and rounding up Christmas, the charge of those very final minutes. The church driver got out ultimately similar waters to the Isle of Wight, so wanted for all those ones below. Did you remember us? He certainly did. And he also had finished memories of getting the church stuck, when attempting to bring us up in Anne's drive. Thanks for this time all as well, as the church has been brought to the back entrance and no despair. The two communities held together for the last time to stand so well, aware that in God, we will now be united forever by the bond of Southern Prayer, and have been forged between us.

[07:33]

Once again, we will offer the journey of faith across the water to what works to become our new home." Seven or twelve hours after our boarding approach, we arrived at our new home, and the first thing we did was go to Chapel, for a brief time of prayer and thanksgiving, to God, for its provision and bringing us to this place. Its calling has been changing for fifty years, and it seems to cover that will never be empty. In this year, it has been adapted for elderly ages, so there were time thrills 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 pretty constant in common, and our time existed on the Isle of Wight and arranged for a delivery of food so that we would not need to worry about the first few meals. The truly dog-sourced business and the charitable fellowship is to demonstrate the point of the game. Over the next few months, we started the process of 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 law provided. And I would stop there. When I said they were provided, it was more complicated than I did. What actually happened was, in English, if you pay your national insurance pension, would come to an old lady and have to do a state pension.

[08:38]

So, as I mentioned, we've always found that the experts who were of that age were eligible for their pension. And the idea was that we would pull out pensions, and so we could start our ministry of hospitality, taking guests, doing retreats, et cetera, to earn our living. But the problem was that it would be a contact between our education from our Anglican community. So initially, we were literally left without any money. So we see different action photos from our Anglican in Melbourne that said to them, they were actually going to leave us to leave without a penny. And I said, if we want to pick the size, I don't actually have any money to take a copy. Can we have an account of what is our entitlement, our question? Anyway, so the trade was, you know, £3,000 in 12 of us. The duck cost, the cup of coffee, etc. But we have £3,000 in each thing. That was eight months ago. But after that, to some reason, there's two things to put up in the other family. It went on, and it went on. So, the other living rooms are smaller and smaller. I also heard two of the other systems on the way to tell me how it's great they were using, because basically they're made food for the elderly system.

[09:39]

So that's when you've got a question from me. I'm visiting now to our agency and say, dear brother, I'm interested in the company. Because there is why. I've got to decide three weeks later. I was trying to get into the summary, but by then I was taking action. I went to the parish priest, and it's the place for me. I think I said something. Our money hasn't come through yet, and I'm having a problem looking after the sisters. So what happened was, various people brought us food, and that company managed the first few weeks. So when I say that all provided, that parish provided, members of the parish called the kids for food, and it's called a regular practice. There's also a lunch truck on Tuesday. They have a first truck on the elderly, the parish on Tuesday. They left their family needs to come to us. for our two-day supper, and they always put it up for more than one night supper, etc. And then the parish kindly decided to provide us with our tea, coffee and sugar every week, and another one genuinely forced us to be included every week for our main Sunday dinner. And that's what happened, so we got our money coming through, the parish that we took care of us. In other words, the rule took part for us to the local parish. My spiritual party had been concerned how we might have a day in that.

[10:41]

Before we came, I discovered that the government of the parish church was only two doors alone, The problem is that at the moment of Saturday in Christmas, the daily parish mass was held in our conference chapel. So I think it is that we would be very hard to think that we would have helped them. The parish then didn't think we'd keep myself organised at the opening of the parish church building during the week, and we would actually have a daily mass, so this worked out easily. And that's just been a great thing, that there were other challenges. During two months of our arrival, children younger physically fixed distance had put in display a call to our communities. One of the Christians thought God was calling her back to the community on the Isle of Wight. which only did for eight months. The other was the one who had originally come to a different side of the community. The other was the one who had recently come to a different side of the community. The other was the one who had recently come to a different side of the community. The other was the one who joined us, which he felt towards the more active Catholic community. Though we determined that it was right to let both citizens have their sense of calling, but inevitably there were serious implications. It meant that we were community-temp Christians, but only myself, as a mother-in-law sister, in those state-patient age. We just had to trust that both of us will take care of the future. A confirmation for us that only religious came that, almost immediately, the first problem that they were ready to erect us,

[11:44]

properly as the story of communist history of religious spirituality within the personal origin area. In its usual process takes years, but they've actually done it all in exactly one year. One year on, from the day we were received into the church as Catholic, we were officially elected and we were elected to the next community in the church. Brilliant. So, on 1st January, exactly one year after we were received, we were set up and we reaffirmed our vows. Our vows had been recognized by those, so we were re-pronounced them cognitively as Catholic, in Benedictine's formulary, so that everybody will be able to see us and hear us doing that, and that will be the next stage of our life. Now, one of the sisters, at that point, has been 84, and she's been in the middle of five for 60 years, wrote an alternative at the time to explain how it's been for her, and this is what she said, I quote. When I was in my mid-60s, I did visit the wife, older sister in our infirmary, and I asked her, what is right to do with someone of my age about preparing for death? She thought for a moment and then said, practice letting go. In dealing with this, we've all had to let go of so much that belongs to our personal, as well as our shared past.

[12:45]

I certainly had to let go of any similar and many pastoral contacts. For all of us, the comments had been in our homes. For some of us, including myself, for more than 50 years, it was only through letting go of the old life, such as new life became possible for us. I knew that having to let go was an unforgettable aspect of getting old. I knew to think that with the concept of old age, there would be a gradual progression from chewing to peeing. In fact, it was not gradual for me. There was suffering and loss of nobility, living with it the loss of independence. It's been a case of one challenge after another, and of learning in ways not to meet especially, God is working in my life and asking me to trust him. So I find myself thinking that if this is indeed a bit of thought through this stage of my life, and for what is to come, then if it's not enough to accept it, I must learn to embrace it, and that in itself is the next challenge. End of quotation. Jesus is not the only system who has to embrace the challenges that faced us in those months. What was Christmas that year, that first year, a sister in their 80s with wide nose with breast cancer and had to have a mastectomy for a five-quarter daily radiotherapy for weeks.

[13:47]

Another sister sent 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 80s, but it still all felt we were living in graceful days, as one of them explained, I quote, I read recently about the founders of a religious community in the 19th century who offered a wonderful, tenuous, and interesting life. found herself in old age, and no body, satisfied and forgotten. She decided to a priest who visited her, I think though 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 that all is the unknown, there is no guarantee for the future. Do we regret it? No. No sister has regretted the collection of children. We gave up a beautiful historic comment with a 24-hour staffed discovery. and we are given a perfect bill, comrades, who look up to each other with additional support for the National Health. We have to leave behind our African sisters, who have been given Catholic 50-year brothers, who have, by their last intersection, showed us what it means for the power of the Catholic Worldwide Family.

[14:50]

We have truly come home in the church. We are all through our friends. We have discovered through our true friends who really are. We have been sharing the most extraordinary charity, by God in calling us into his church, and by providing us with all our spiritual and central needs. by the bridegums, providing us 12 strangers for the home to 8 months, by the anonymous furniture who purchased our modesty and allowed us to rent it, by the local parish providing us with peace and relations to keep our ferry. We are living in challenging times. Tell me before Christmas, last Christmas, we were told by our landlords that the scribes want to sell the land to join our convents, that our landlord is not moving about, but warned us that as the adjacent land is being sold to the developers for smaller expensive states, it will come right up to the boundaries of our property. But like we've been for a couple of years, more easily than we were. Further, the great potential cost of budget data to present the acquirement we've had so far will be no longer. So we would find that that now isn't trying to lose. But far, we have found without property to lose too, and it's a big issue about the funds, and what we're just getting on with trying to find where we're supposed to be.

[15:51]

But we feel that there is charitable grace available for every challenge, and that even our challenges have done for us at some of the testing. But one of the two kids we've seen there, if you remember the two of the other ones, one kid comes to the right, she comes to the right again, and she goes to the end of the street and starts the road again, and she's very happy there. The second kid comes to another community, she gets to a little more active community, and starts it off with them, and ends up making a difficult place of her life, and asks her back. So she has come back, and we've got to go back with her in arms, and she's fully one of us again, et cetera, and might carry on. We do feel that kind of panic upon us. We've got questions from Henry, as he's looking after us. and let me figure this legislation a little out, which, take a look at what I knew would be all right. Shortly after the arrived, originally, I hadn't thought I was very much nice, and we were being very careful. One of the sisters kissed me, the dead mother, who doesn't actually have any of their bread for a morning breakfast. I think they've got a lot of what we do, so we have to go out the road and buy some bread. So I said to her, I'll see proper, either you or I, or go out and get us some bread, because the shop is still open.

[16:52]

During the supper, the doorbell found it. It was a parishioner, whom we didn't know, who brought us to carry a bag for the shopping that she thought we might need, and in the bag had two loads of bread. And that was the moment I thought, do you know what? The Lord depends upon us, we are going to the right, but we need something, people send it. And we truly felt at that moment that we were experiencing once again charity fellowship for this high parishioner. We have confidence for the future, because we have confidence in our loving God, whose charity towards his children they found us. The purpose of this retreat to be the crank for the very different understanding of peace. To do this, we can look attentively at five specific areas, using the rules and techniques as a framework, the rights and writings of John Henry Lillard as our guide. And those areas were, mind serenity, obedience, spirit, tranquility, holiness, heart, simplicity, prayer, love forms, the love of God, as the love for they were, and charity fellowship, the charity of God and the others. With these rules, but you may not spoil yourself as a saint, but that's precisely why we can relate to him, because he was ordinary, he struggled with the right challenges as we grew.

[18:00]

There are two of these only faithful things that followed. I have nothing of a saint about me, as everyone knows, and it is a severe and threatening altercation to be caught next door to one. I may have a kind of view of many things, but it is a consequence of education and not a peculiar part of intellect that 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, then, they do not matter Catholic, they do not last tales. I may be well enough in my own way, but it is not the high line. It is enough me to practice eight shoes, if St. Philip has patiently used it back in heaven. It's aimless our spiritual journey, and this is all perfect to both. So let me invite you for the last time to see a million sticking to me, and in a way, these words sum up the whole retreat. Hook yourself, then, my dear child, into the hands of your loving father and his leader, who knows and loves you better than you know or love yourself. He has appointed every action of your life.

[19:02]

He creates you, saves you, and has marked down the very way and hour which he will take you to himself. He knows all your thoughts and feels to you in all your sadness more than a creature can feel, and accepts a next note of your prayers, even before you make them. He will never tell you and he will give you what is best for you. And though he tries you, and seems to withdraw himself from you, and afflicts you, still trust in him. For in length you 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. Thank you. Thank you.

[20:05]

Thank you. [...] that he started the whole thing with obedience, the first conference, and he'd end up with this one of a better word, not a problem, but anyway, having to move out of the way they were, like the Abraham story, all he'd think of was, it seemed to me that he'd let him go. When you think about school, then it's, listen, if you can't listen, I must go. I was thinking the whole time he'd tell him this whole story, if you let him go. But he'd describe me as a problem anyway. The other thing is a walking shower. Ah, right.

[21:06]

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, um, so it's freeing for, um, people to, um, to use or whatever. You don't have to talk about anything. You just, um, just walk in and then you pull the door. Okay. I need to describe something, okay, you know, where you describe it before. When we read the first documentation, like Abraham had told me about scripture, that happened to the beginning of the book, it was a cheetah, a head corn, because it was both languages. I'll tell you the same last thing, I haven't caught anything, I haven't caught anything. Another way of, kind of, going out, but not fishing. I'm fishing. I've been doing this for years. We're going out. It's the worst time to go, but they go out anyway, not out there. It's a great deep dream, but they have good enough.

[22:07]

And that's an abundance of what I did about it. But it's pretty amazing, that's helpful. You can see this available for people to read it, and that's really amazing. That is something that, yes.

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