Excerpt: [I love you, dear ones.]
After we had settled in the side room the nuns have for visitors on special occasions, we were summoned into the parlor.
It was AWESOME! All the nuns were there! Mother Juanita Marie introduced all the nuns – I tried to get all their names but forgot some of them. Then we spent an hour and a half or more talking with the nuns! You know me, I have an immense respect for cloistered nuns, especially Carmelites. It was such a treat, such an honor to spend that time talking with them. They are so holy!
And those poor women had been up ALL NIGHT Friday night praying, yet they stayed up late to talk with us.
Poor Sister Veronica of the Holy Face, whose clothing ceremony we attended several weeks ago, looked so tired! That was so kind of them to let us into their parlor and spend so much time with us. But I was so engrossed in the conversation I forgot to take pictures.
But that’s not all. All my children were there, and the nuns gave each of them a statue of the Infant Jesus of Prague. Mother Juanita Marie and Mother Mary Regina came out into the turn room (no grille!) and gave each of the girls their statue. And we got to talk some more with them there. All of the kids gave Mother Juanita Marie a big hug. She looks so good! She was so gravely ill some months ago, but now she seems completely healed! Not only that, she looks decades younger than her age woudl indicate! There is some incredible Grace working in that cloister. And they are growing!
About that Grace, and growing...
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