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This is the Day the Lord Has Made

Let Us Rejoice and Be Glad

The Solemnity of Our Lady of Guadalupe was truly a remarkable day. Both the Sisters and the Monks of the Monastery rejoice for what was truly a new beginning. The Lord blessed our incorrigible optimism with the gift of two postulants to the Olivetan Benedictine Sister’s Monastery. Our twin monasteries are growing because God has seen that for us Jesus Christ is everything!!

The monastic mystique is similar to the Child’s game of Hide and Seek. And nothing is more thrilling to the soul than having been found by God. Yes, we are the ones who hide, and He is the one who goes out and seeks us. And once he finds us, he allows us to believe that we are the ones who have found Him; it’s a beautiful game that He is playing with us. This encounter is a falling in love in a quite absolute and final way.

In the meeting, He seizes you, and allows you to love Him. He embraces your very heart and it affects everything. It gets one out of bed early in the morning to praise Him and to renew, once again, the joy of having been found. It is truly an all embracing moment that will transform your whole life: how you spend your evenings, how you spend your free time, what you read, who you know, what breaks your heart, and what amazes you with joy and gratitude.

Hide and seek will pretty much characterize the game that God and we will play. It is a love story that only the pure of heart can truly understand. The secret of course and this I would like to share with the two postulant sisters is: falling in love is one thing, staying in love will decide everything.