In typical Joanna fashion, I had visited the Passionists Nuns in Whitesville, KY but there is a monastery 20 minutes from my house which I didn't even think to go and visit!
Well, I have finally overcome this barrier of visiting within driving distance and took the 20 minute (2 hour for people with a poor sense of direction) drive to the monastery yesterday. I was permitted to enter the Monastery and even to eat in the refectory with the nuns! How wonderful to chant the office with them and to be surrounded by such holy women who make many of the altar breads for our diocese. they have Adoration everyday and all-day Adoration on Fridays! How incredible!
The poor monastery was surrounded by farm fields when it was built in 1911, but now is surrounded by the city and the beautiful silence of the chapel is interrupted by the busy streets outside the chapel windows. Even as they have been engulfed by the town, they have learned that it is an aid in prayer as they are continually drawn out of themselves to pray for the streets below, and the teens they can hear outside during their 1AM prayer.
As I dive deeper into His Heart the mysteries also grow deeper! Glory be to God who is so wonderful that we can spend our entire lives searching His ways and continue to discover new things and deeper meanings until the day we die! For as one of the sisters said to me, we travel in an ever deepening circle, continuing the learn the same lessons at deeper and deeper levels. Let us drill into His heart as our circles dig deeper!!!
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