Working Hard or Hardly Working?

+JMJ

Nota Bene: So, the comments on my last post were filled to the brim with spam, so now all comments will be moderated.

So, I have been working hard cleaning and looking after my sister while I am at home. I also have been hardly working, simply because I do not have a job!

Things are looking up though. I was accepted to the Poor Clare Colettines just before Easter (Whoo hoo!). The only thing that is preventing entrance now is my student loan debt (boooo...). I have recently been in contact with the Laboure Society and looking over the procedures, I am very excited to get things rolling! I am in the process of working on application papers for Mater Eccelasiae as well. I have set a deadline for Corpus Christi 2011 (in honor of the namesake of the monastery). Please pray that God will provide what is needed long before that date arrives!

I've been without a job for over a year now, but I just finished my first paid freelance graphic project! I am hoping to see the fruit of my labor come soon! I have loan payments to make!

May God bless you all abundantly!

Lord, Thy Will Be Done!

Members of One Body

+JMJ

The second reading from this past Sunday has really got me thinking again about how a friend described the cloistered life. She had said that cloistered religious are like the heart of the Church and that the monastery walls and gates are like the rib cage that protects the delicate and hard-working organ safe from the pressures and violence of the world outside it.

The prayers of the cloistered religious are like the blood that brings refreshment and nourishment to all of the body. Even if parts of the body decide they want to be separated, the blood will always try to get there to bring the much needed life sustaining graces and nourishments. Their prayers reach the farthest corners and tiniest capillaries.

The cloistered religious is a hard working, although hidden heart within the body. Without it, there would be no life in the Church.

Blessings this day!

Thy Will Be Done.