The John-Henry Westen Show - August 29, 2023


EXCLUSIVE： Wonder Why Mother Miriam Is Only Making Final Vows Now？ She Explains It All Here


Episode Stats

Length

38 minutes

Words per Minute

140.96037

Word Count

5,464

Sentence Count

573

Misogynist Sentences

17

Hate Speech Sentences

8


Summary

Join us as we visit the site of St. Joseph's Retreat Center and learn about the incredible work that went into making this place a reality. Thanks to all the people who reached out to Life Site and all the amazing things they did to make this happen.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hi. Hi, Ann. Hi.
00:00:04.000 It's so good to see you. Congratulations.
00:00:08.000 Oh, yes. Hi.
00:00:12.000 I know he's your husband, but he's my son.
00:00:16.000 I have chills. I can't. That I get
00:00:20.000 to wake up and wear this every day. I don't know.
00:00:24.000 God knows I'm not the type to be a religious. He knows I'm
00:00:28.000 a New York Jew and a businesswoman.
00:00:36.000 Without LifeSite, we wouldn't
00:00:40.000 be here. And without LifeSite, nobody would know what's happening
00:00:44.000 in the world anyway, the truth of it. So, because
00:00:48.000 of your video, John Henry, and all the people who responded to the LifeFunder,
00:00:52.000 whether it was directly through the LifeFunder or directly to us,
00:00:56.000 we are here because of LifeSite news.
00:01:00.000 So,
00:01:02.000 you made us love you.
00:01:04.000 We didn't want- No, I'm kidding. Don't, don't.
00:01:06.000 So,
00:01:08.000 this is gorgeous in here. So, this is all
00:01:10.000 wood and pine. And
00:01:12.000 this is going to be our reception area.
00:01:14.000 All that.
00:01:16.000 And, I don't look like I'm excited. Do I come this way?
00:01:20.000 You don't have to video the restrooms, but there's restrooms here.
00:01:26.000 This is a makeshift chapel. Our Lord is on the altar.
00:01:32.000 Here's on the altar.
00:01:46.000 Okay.
00:01:48.000 This will be my office.
00:02:12.000 You see, I normally keep a very clear, wonderful desk.
00:02:20.000 So, we're unpacking. We're not packed yet. We've got a million things going on.
00:02:24.000 So, this is- I have to take this with me, and I have to take this with me.
00:02:28.000 Oh. Oh, good. Okay. Thank you, Diane.
00:02:32.000 So, we're thrilled. We have everything. Someone volunteered. A gentleman came and set up internet for us.
00:02:38.000 Oh, beautiful.
00:02:40.000 It's just fantastic.
00:02:42.000 Oh, you know what? The people, friends of ours, they're living in the house on the property.
00:02:48.000 Because our mother married him the Lamb of God, and the Lamb is my life.
00:02:52.000 We came in, and there were these things, lambs, all over the place.
00:02:56.000 So sweet. With their children, they made them.
00:02:59.000 Oh, that's great.
00:03:00.000 And this will be a little parlor in back of you.
00:03:09.000 And all these sisters live here.
00:03:12.000 I have my friend, Nancy, visiting from North Carolina.
00:03:17.000 We were in Protestant Seminary together.
00:03:20.000 Oh, really?
00:03:21.000 And we graduated, and then we tried to save each other, but we both won, so.
00:03:29.000 Yeah.
00:03:30.000 Yeah.
00:03:31.000 When I first told her that Catholics could be Christians, too.
00:03:34.000 Ah.
00:03:35.000 Yeah, right.
00:03:36.000 Now she's one.
00:03:37.000 Now she's a Catholic, too.
00:03:38.000 Yeah.
00:03:39.000 Yeah.
00:03:40.000 And...
00:03:41.000 Quite a few in the room.
00:03:42.000 My wife, too.
00:03:43.000 You can jump home.
00:03:44.000 I know.
00:03:45.000 I know.
00:03:46.000 Eileen is visiting with us.
00:03:48.000 She's a treasure.
00:03:49.000 Okay.
00:03:50.000 Okay.
00:03:51.000 So, this is...
00:03:52.000 We closed the door because it's beautiful in here.
00:03:55.000 It's just gonna be...
00:03:56.000 There's no light.
00:03:57.000 There's gonna...
00:03:58.000 It's gonna be a huge...
00:03:59.000 It's filled with cartons.
00:04:00.000 It's gonna be a work room.
00:04:01.000 We're gonna sew our habits.
00:04:02.000 Oh, wow.
00:04:03.000 All of that, so.
00:04:08.000 And all the furniture was left here.
00:04:11.000 Everything on the walls.
00:04:12.000 Really?
00:04:13.000 We'll take it off and make it Catholic, but everything was left here for us except the statues.
00:04:18.000 This is gonna be our community room.
00:04:20.000 Oh, wow.
00:04:21.000 And we could raise the ceiling at seven feet if we want, which we do.
00:04:26.000 Wow.
00:04:27.000 And just everything is here for us.
00:04:30.000 Okay.
00:04:31.000 I promised you ten minutes, St. Therese.
00:04:34.000 All of this was here.
00:04:35.000 See, there's another one.
00:04:36.000 They're all over the place.
00:04:37.000 And this is gonna be our refectory.
00:04:40.000 We'll break through the wall with a couple more windows.
00:04:43.000 Oh, beautiful.
00:04:45.000 Look at this place, and St. Joseph is ours.
00:04:52.000 Now, a priest came to visit us, and he said, this is your chapel.
00:05:01.000 And I think we're gonna do it.
00:05:03.000 Wow.
00:05:04.000 Because the ceiling's already high.
00:05:06.000 Would anyone like chandeliers?
00:05:07.000 You could have them.
00:05:08.000 Yeah.
00:05:09.000 But we'll make this into a beautiful, beautiful chapel, and people could come in from the
00:05:14.000 outside.
00:05:15.000 And this is a temporary refectory.
00:05:17.000 Beautiful.
00:05:18.000 So.
00:05:19.000 Now, I'll show you-
00:05:21.000 All the furniture was left in here?
00:05:24.000 Like the bookshelves?
00:05:25.000 The bookshelves were handmade, and they're ours.
00:05:27.000 They were handmade for us in Oklahoma.
00:05:29.000 There's a few pieces of furniture that are ours, but it's all left here.
00:05:33.000 None of this.
00:05:34.000 This table is ours, but it was given to us.
00:05:39.000 Furniture, and the next building is a lodge.
00:05:42.000 Yeah.
00:05:43.000 With eight rooms.
00:05:44.000 It was two double beds in each room, and a bathroom.
00:05:48.000 So, the owners who sold us this, I said, we don't need the double beds.
00:05:53.000 Can you use them?
00:05:54.000 She said, well, we can.
00:05:55.000 And she replaced them, instead of two, four, six, eight, sixteen double beds, she replaced
00:06:02.000 them with sixteen single beds for us.
00:06:04.000 Put them all together.
00:06:06.000 It's fantastic.
00:06:07.000 Wow.
00:06:08.000 It's so great.
00:06:09.000 And this is the only statue we got for us.
00:06:12.000 Saint Benedictine.
00:06:13.000 Because we're Benedictines.
00:06:15.000 And you know his story.
00:06:17.000 Here's the rule.
00:06:18.000 Here's the cup that broke when he blessed it, because his monks wanted to poison him.
00:06:21.000 Yeah.
00:06:22.000 And the raven that fed him.
00:06:25.000 Hey, my friends.
00:06:26.000 Now is the time to stand up and fight.
00:06:28.000 We are just about to have the Synod on Synodality.
00:06:32.000 And everything that you've seen indicates that it's going to be an absolute disaster.
00:06:37.000 We have Father James Martin as a personal appointee of the Pope speaking at it.
00:06:43.000 We've got Cardinal Cupich, Cardinal Tobin.
00:06:46.000 These picks of the Pope to engage in this Synod are indicative of where we're going.
00:06:53.000 We're going into heresy.
00:06:55.000 And at these times of great crisis, the church, especially those called in the laity to work
00:07:03.000 for the glory of Christ in his church, are called to gather and strategize.
00:07:09.000 Back in 2014, LifeSite launched something called Rome Life Forum.
00:07:13.000 It was a gathering at that point of some 75 life and family leaders from all around the world
00:07:19.000 to strategize as to what we could do.
00:07:22.000 And when we gathered, the majority of people were most concerned about what?
00:07:26.000 About Pope Francis, about what was going on in Rome.
00:07:30.000 But this was 2014.
00:07:32.000 But the life and family leaders saw it first.
00:07:36.000 Now, a decade on, we are confronted with some of the most severe challenges the church has ever faced.
00:07:43.000 And so our tradition at LifeSite is to continue with Rome Life Forum,
00:07:47.000 which has continued every year until we had to take a break over COVID because we weren't permitted.
00:07:53.000 But we're starting it up again.
00:07:55.000 Please come, if you feel so called, to Rome, October 31st and November 1st,
00:08:02.000 the very end of the Synod on Synodality.
00:08:05.000 And we'll be there to strategize with His Eminence, with His Excellency,
00:08:10.000 and with many life and family leaders from around the world.
00:08:14.000 For LifeSite News, this is John Henry Weston.
00:08:16.000 And may God bless you.
00:08:18.000 And this is a fairly small kitchen.
00:08:24.000 Can you believe this?
00:08:27.000 No, you're not.
00:08:28.000 Where would we ever have something like this?
00:08:30.000 It used to be an event center.
00:08:31.000 Oh, Mother, you're getting ready for a lot of sisters.
00:08:34.000 Well, 30 to begin.
00:08:37.000 But I think we need...
00:08:38.000 Just 30 already?
00:08:39.000 Oh, no way.
00:08:40.000 Oh, no way.
00:08:41.000 We were, you know, put out of a couple of dioceses.
00:08:44.000 Yeah.
00:08:45.000 So we could not...
00:08:46.000 We were forbidden in Oklahoma to go forward or take anybody.
00:08:49.000 The sisters left.
00:08:50.000 Sister Gertrude Marie...
00:08:51.000 How many sisters left at that time?
00:08:53.000 Well, six.
00:08:55.000 Okay.
00:08:56.000 And we only had seven because we were in a house.
00:08:58.000 Yeah.
00:08:59.000 And now we have six.
00:09:00.000 Yeah.
00:09:01.000 But over 50 waiting.
00:09:03.000 We couldn't even have anybody discern.
00:09:05.000 How many waiting?
00:09:06.000 Well, they're not waiting.
00:09:07.000 They're waiting to come and discern.
00:09:08.000 Right.
00:09:09.000 Over 50, yeah.
00:09:10.000 Over 100 have written.
00:09:11.000 Over 100 have written.
00:09:12.000 50 are waiting to discern.
00:09:13.000 Yeah.
00:09:14.000 Okay.
00:09:15.000 I know.
00:09:16.000 So...
00:09:17.000 Well, all of this was here.
00:09:19.000 Look at this.
00:09:20.000 Isn't it amazing?
00:09:22.000 And this was a freezer, a walk-in room.
00:09:26.000 Oh, my.
00:09:27.000 Oh, my.
00:09:28.000 Oh, my.
00:09:29.000 Oh, my.
00:09:30.000 John Henry, they left.
00:09:31.000 See?
00:09:32.000 All that.
00:09:33.000 All the dishes.
00:09:34.000 Everything they left for us.
00:09:35.000 Oh, my.
00:09:36.000 All this.
00:09:37.000 They left it all.
00:09:39.000 It's amazing.
00:09:41.000 It's amazing.
00:09:42.000 I would say, Mother, you're being...
00:09:43.000 You're being ready for an...
00:09:44.000 Look, an ice maker.
00:09:45.000 They left everything.
00:09:46.000 It's just amazing.
00:09:48.000 And over here...
00:09:52.000 Is a...
00:09:53.000 We're using it for storage, but it's a cooler.
00:10:05.000 Oh, it's really cool.
00:10:06.000 Wow.
00:10:07.000 Amazing.
00:10:08.000 A priest came and blessed all this water.
00:10:11.000 Oh.
00:10:12.000 You're welcome to take some.
00:10:13.000 You know what?
00:10:14.000 I will get one.
00:10:15.000 Would you please?
00:10:16.000 Oh, no.
00:10:17.000 Cold water, John Henry.
00:10:18.000 You know what?
00:10:19.000 I'm good with water.
00:10:20.000 You what?
00:10:21.000 I'm obsessed.
00:10:22.000 I went to...
00:10:23.000 You guys good or...
00:10:24.000 Yeah.
00:10:25.000 Room temperature?
00:10:26.000 Yeah.
00:10:27.000 It's blessed.
00:10:28.000 It's blessed water.
00:10:29.000 That's good.
00:10:30.000 But we have cold water, too.
00:10:32.000 Okay.
00:10:33.000 I think...
00:10:34.000 Let me see what else to show you.
00:10:36.000 Um...
00:10:37.000 That's...
00:10:38.000 That's basically it.
00:10:39.000 The outside.
00:10:40.000 The what?
00:10:41.000 The cells as well on the other side.
00:10:42.000 You do?
00:10:43.000 Yeah.
00:10:44.000 Aren't they gorgeous?
00:10:46.000 Say they're gorgeous.
00:10:47.000 They are gorgeous.
00:10:48.000 Oh.
00:10:49.000 Yeah.
00:10:50.000 These are...
00:10:51.000 Sister Gertrude Marie has been with me seven and a half, eight years.
00:10:56.000 And she's been denied her vows also.
00:10:59.000 Not even temporary vows yet.
00:11:01.000 Oh, my goodness.
00:11:02.000 We've all been.
00:11:03.000 Yeah.
00:11:04.000 So how many years has it been for you from when you were ready to now?
00:11:09.000 Um...
00:11:10.000 11...
00:11:11.000 Yeah.
00:11:12.000 12, 13, 14.
00:11:13.000 Um...
00:11:14.000 It's...
00:11:15.000 Nine years.
00:11:16.000 Yeah.
00:11:17.000 So, I mean, it's very much, to me, I was trying to think of it in layman's terms,
00:11:29.000 you're all ready for marriage, and then there's just delay, because...
00:11:34.000 And canceled, when I first met Bishop Candela, who was told to put me out.
00:11:40.000 He didn't even know who I was, told by a cardinal.
00:11:43.000 It was going out of public.
00:11:45.000 But he, he, um...
00:11:47.000 We met, and at the end, first time we ever met.
00:11:52.000 And at the end of the meeting, uh, he said, oh, oh, oh, by the way, cancel your vows.
00:11:59.000 He said, we didn't even talk about my vows.
00:12:01.000 He knew they were set with a cathedral.
00:12:03.000 Oh, by the way, like he was telling me to cancel a dental appointment.
00:12:06.000 No clue.
00:12:07.000 So I did.
00:12:08.000 And we had to stop, and not go forward, and not take women in, and...
00:12:12.000 Sister's the only one that came with me.
00:12:15.000 Because she won't quit, no matter what you do to her.
00:12:18.000 Yeah.
00:12:19.000 Yeah.
00:12:20.000 At one point, the prayer would be, may God have mercy on our souls.
00:12:23.000 But for now, Mother, you were asked to sacrifice something, and you did.
00:12:28.000 You praised God.
00:12:30.000 That's coming in.
00:12:31.000 John Henry.
00:12:32.000 I deserve hell.
00:12:34.000 And if I never had my final vows, I said I do with my temporary vows, with Bishop Slattery
00:12:40.000 and Tulsa.
00:12:41.000 I don't have to say it again.
00:12:43.000 I meant it.
00:12:44.000 I'm thrilled now what's happening.
00:12:47.000 But I have chills.
00:12:51.000 I can't.
00:12:52.000 That I get to wake up and wear this every day.
00:12:57.000 I don't know.
00:12:58.000 God knows I'm not the type to be a religious.
00:13:01.000 He knows I'm a New York Jew and a businesswoman.
00:13:05.000 I'm very much like a fisherman.
00:13:08.000 Yeah.
00:13:09.000 I'm a grace beyond anything anyone could have.
00:13:13.000 I'm the richest person in the whole world, no matter what is denied or what is given me.
00:13:18.000 It doesn't matter.
00:13:19.000 I'm his.
00:13:20.000 Forever.
00:13:21.000 Where is Eileen?
00:13:24.000 I think she's got herself.
00:13:25.000 She's probably ready for us.
00:13:27.000 Yeah, she has a key.
00:13:28.000 Eileen is where?
00:13:30.000 She's ready.
00:13:31.000 We're coming this way.
00:13:33.000 Eileen?
00:13:34.000 Yeah, I think.
00:13:35.000 I saw her outside.
00:13:36.000 She, go ahead.
00:13:37.000 Oh, okay.
00:13:38.000 Come.
00:13:39.000 Did anyone get my glasses?
00:13:41.000 No?
00:13:42.000 Oh, I think it's Santa.
00:13:43.000 Okay, come.
00:13:44.000 Nancy has them.
00:13:51.000 You know that here on LifeSite we love to tell amazing stories.
00:13:56.000 There are few so heroic and amazing as the story we're about to tell you that's coming soon.
00:14:03.000 You gotta watch this.
00:14:04.000 When I was in seminary, I was reading a book by Henry Nouwen.
00:14:10.000 He talked about a nuclear man, you know, and people who grew up in the 1980s were kind of formed by that immediate and constant threat of nuclear annihilation.
00:14:23.000 My generation has grown up, you know, under the specter of priestly sexual abuse.
00:14:29.000 What say you, Mr. Foreperson, is the defendant guilty or not guilty?
00:14:33.000 I think that for many of us that has also been all-encompassing.
00:14:38.000 You know, I mean, I entered the seminary in January of 2004.
00:14:42.000 And it's basically been there for me from the beginning.
00:14:45.000 One priest's sacrifice for many priestly sins.
00:14:53.000 The story of Father John Halliwell.
00:14:58.000 Coming soon from LifeSite News.
00:15:03.000 Thank you very, very much.
00:15:08.000 Look at what?
00:15:10.000 Isn't he cute?
00:15:11.000 There's so many around here.
00:15:13.000 I've been terribly afraid of bugs.
00:15:16.000 And when I, first day I got here, I probably, forgive me Lord, killed three crickets.
00:15:21.000 But now they're all over the place.
00:15:23.000 And I just say, excuse me, please.
00:15:25.000 I'm getting used to bugs.
00:15:27.000 Eileen, come please.
00:15:33.000 Come, we don't have much time.
00:15:40.000 So how many cells do you have all together?
00:15:42.000 So there's eight, which will make 16 for us.
00:15:45.000 16, okay.
00:15:46.000 Because we'll cut them in half.
00:15:48.000 Ah, okay.
00:15:49.000 And there's another side to it as well?
00:15:51.000 There's another side that's not completed, but that's in place for eight cells already.
00:15:55.000 On the other side as well?
00:15:57.000 On the other side.
00:15:58.000 Ah, okay.
00:15:59.000 Exactly duplicated on the other side.
00:16:00.000 All right.
00:16:02.000 And what, go ahead, open your room if you would.
00:16:05.000 It's open?
00:16:08.000 How would I know?
00:16:10.000 Go ahead, sweetie.
00:16:17.000 Eileen visited us in Tulsa and she's in Kansas.
00:16:21.000 May we go in?
00:16:23.000 Okay.
00:16:24.000 Okay.
00:16:25.000 Oh, this is great.
00:16:26.000 Could you put me in my mouth?
00:16:27.000 Go ahead.
00:16:28.000 Come.
00:16:29.000 So these are the rooms.
00:16:36.000 Wow.
00:16:37.000 Thanks, Eileen.
00:16:39.000 These are the rooms.
00:16:40.000 So they came with two beds they gave us.
00:16:43.000 Yeah.
00:16:44.000 Desk and chair are ours.
00:16:45.000 But it has a toilet, private, and a shower, which is difficult for two women forever.
00:16:52.000 So we're going to find a way to divide it.
00:16:54.000 Yeah.
00:16:55.000 The rooms are 20 by 12, 20 by 12.
00:17:02.000 And so it'll be six by 15 each cell.
00:17:07.000 Okay.
00:17:08.000 And it's fine.
00:17:09.000 We can live that way.
00:17:12.000 Isn't this amazing?
00:17:13.000 And we're going to take the barn doors down and build our refectory tables from them.
00:17:18.000 Oh, wow.
00:17:19.000 That's amazing.
00:17:20.000 It is.
00:17:21.000 That was Sister Gertrude's.
00:17:22.000 What do you think, Diane?
00:17:24.000 We're going to take the barn doors down, Sister Gertrude's idea, and make our refectory tables
00:17:29.000 out of them.
00:17:30.000 Amazing.
00:17:31.000 Wouldn't that be great?
00:17:33.000 Yeah.
00:17:34.000 Lovely.
00:17:35.000 Good.
00:17:36.000 Incredible.
00:17:37.000 I know.
00:17:38.000 It's just all okay.
00:17:41.000 It's everything.
00:17:43.000 Furnished.
00:17:44.000 Everything.
00:17:45.000 All the linens.
00:17:47.000 They bought us these beds.
00:17:49.000 They bought us 18 beds.
00:17:51.000 No, they bought us 30 beds, and mattresses, and linens.
00:17:56.000 Beautiful.
00:17:57.000 Beautiful.
00:17:58.000 It's just so great.
00:18:03.000 It's funny.
00:18:04.000 You guys, here, you have the same thing we do, except the opposite.
00:18:09.000 We wouldn't survive if we didn't have heating.
00:18:12.000 Oh, there we go.
00:18:14.000 If you didn't have cooling.
00:18:15.000 That's right.
00:18:16.000 It's over 100 every day here now.
00:18:19.000 Look at this, too, here.
00:18:24.000 Careful of the holes.
00:18:27.000 This is a huge storage room with laundry in it.
00:18:31.000 And this is a screened-in porch.
00:18:38.000 Look at this.
00:18:42.000 Oh, wow.
00:18:43.000 Isn't this amazing?
00:18:45.000 All this equipment.
00:18:48.000 Everything here.
00:18:49.000 Amazing.
00:18:50.000 It used to, it was an event.
00:18:52.000 The last, what did you say, was a tree farm and everything, and the last was an event center.
00:18:59.000 They had wedding showers here and bridal events and everything.
00:19:03.000 Some of the equipment hasn't even been used yet.
00:19:06.000 Wow.
00:19:07.000 So what is your thought for here?
00:19:10.000 Oh, my.
00:19:12.000 We don't know yet, do we?
00:19:18.000 But we've already visited a nearby church that wants us to teach CCD, which for me would
00:19:27.000 be heaven to get to the parents.
00:19:29.000 Yeah, yeah.
00:19:30.000 And we've thought, just as a beginning, once a month, walk the streets of Winsboro, bother
00:19:37.000 the world, and invite everybody, it doesn't matter who they are, to a film night once
00:19:44.000 a month.
00:19:45.000 We'll choose the film.
00:19:46.000 We'll have a Q&A after.
00:19:47.000 And then a second night a month, everything you want them to know about being Catholic
00:19:50.000 and afraid to ask.
00:19:51.000 Anybody can come with anything, questions.
00:19:54.000 So if it's cool enough, it has some fans, but we could be in here.
00:19:58.000 But other than that, we could be inside.
00:20:01.000 Yeah.
00:20:02.000 Beautiful.
00:20:03.000 So there's the second half out this way.
00:20:06.000 Mm-hmm.
00:20:07.000 That's great.
00:20:08.000 So that, and you feel you can divide them?
00:20:11.000 Yeah, it's already divided.
00:20:12.000 The wood's in place.
00:20:13.000 Electric's in place.
00:20:14.000 Yeah, yeah.
00:20:15.000 Amazing.
00:20:16.000 So it's just tremendous.
00:20:18.000 That's amazing.
00:20:19.000 And then you have, beyond this, what are the other buildings?
00:20:23.000 There's a pump house.
00:20:24.000 What else, sister?
00:20:25.000 A well.
00:20:26.000 A well.
00:20:27.000 We have a 500-foot well that supplies the whole land.
00:20:30.000 Wow.
00:20:31.000 Do you hear that?
00:20:33.000 All you donors?
00:20:34.000 Can I look in the camera?
00:20:36.000 Mwah!
00:20:37.000 Because it's because of you that we're here.
00:20:40.000 And without LifeSite, we wouldn't be here.
00:20:42.000 Without you, we wouldn't be here.
00:20:43.000 And we are thrilled, and we love you.
00:20:45.000 And if you come to Texas, come and visit.
00:20:48.000 And if you're not coming to Texas, come anyway.
00:20:52.000 We're so ecstatic.
00:20:53.000 It's everything we need.
00:20:55.000 Who would have thought?
00:20:56.000 And as I said on the initial interview, we don't need to have...
00:21:00.000 1.4 million, this was.
00:21:02.000 And it was 1.2 for 50 acres, but we were able to go 1.4 and get 86.
00:21:11.000 Wow.
00:21:12.000 86 acres.
00:21:13.000 That's what we have.
00:21:14.000 Show us where.
00:21:15.000 Yeah, come on.
00:21:17.000 Okay.
00:21:18.000 Do you know the...
00:21:19.000 Do you know the...
00:21:20.000 To point out the boundary that's marked?
00:21:22.000 Yes.
00:21:23.000 Okay.
00:21:24.000 So, sister...
00:21:27.000 And there's a huge pond.
00:21:32.000 We have a house on the property that we have a family in, husband and wife and three children, most beautiful.
00:21:53.000 They do everything for us.
00:21:55.000 Oh.
00:21:56.000 The husband is our handyman, our groundskeeper.
00:21:59.000 There's nothing he doesn't do.
00:22:02.000 There's nothing he can't do.
00:22:04.000 So, you found these guys?
00:22:05.000 I mean, you've only been here a month.
00:22:06.000 How'd you find them already?
00:22:08.000 Well, actually, they found us.
00:22:11.000 It's a little bit of a story.
00:22:13.000 I don't think they would mind.
00:22:15.000 They were married and handling a B&B and not really living the faith.
00:22:22.000 And I think they already had Gideon, their son, and Ruby started listening to Mother Miriam live.
00:22:29.000 Hmm.
00:22:30.000 And from there, their lives changed.
00:22:33.000 And one day, we came, when Bishop Slattery invited us, Sister Gertrude and I came here to visit, January, a year ago, before we moved.
00:22:42.000 And they're sitting in church, and Ruby, with her husband, it was a Sunday, and she said,
00:22:49.000 What's wrong with Mother Miriam?
00:22:50.000 She's not on the radio this morning.
00:22:52.000 What happened?
00:22:53.000 Is she sick?
00:22:54.000 And we were two rows before her.
00:22:56.000 So, we met them, because we came to visit.
00:22:58.000 And they've been glued to us ever since.
00:23:01.000 Wow.
00:23:02.000 And he gave up his work.
00:23:03.000 He said, All we want to do is serve you the rest of our lives.
00:23:06.000 It's amazing.
00:23:08.000 It is amazing, these people.
00:23:10.000 And our heart, John Henry, I know I've said this to you more than once.
00:23:17.000 The families God's designed to build his kingdom, and the enemies target to destroy.
00:23:23.000 You look at the news every day, you look at what's happening at World Youth Day, you could die, you could die.
00:23:32.000 The world is destroying the youth, the church is destroying the youth, in the name of Christ, if he's ever mentioned.
00:23:40.000 And so, here's one family that is, it's everything we live for.
00:23:50.000 It's everything we live for.
00:23:52.000 So, we want lots of families to come, and we'll have, let the children play, and we'll have, I don't know what we'll have.
00:23:59.000 We haven't figured it all out yet.
00:24:01.000 But whatever they want, they'll come.
00:24:03.000 They don't have to be Catholic.
00:24:04.000 We don't care.
00:24:05.000 They will be when they leave.
00:24:07.000 Amen to that.
00:24:10.000 Okay.
00:24:11.000 I have to ask this question.
00:24:14.000 Yes, anything.
00:24:15.000 Melting.
00:24:16.000 Melting?
00:24:17.000 This is…
00:24:18.000 Extremely hot.
00:24:19.000 As a Canadian, it's very hot.
00:24:21.000 No, it's very hot for us, too.
00:24:24.000 And the sisters have sometimes said to me, can't we wear white during the summer?
00:24:29.000 And I said, no.
00:24:30.000 And I think I may have mentioned, they know the little story, when I was in the airport once, and I'm melting, too.
00:24:36.000 I don't like the heat.
00:24:38.000 It's like…
00:24:39.000 And humidity is, to me, like Captain Knight the Superman.
00:24:42.000 I'm not Superman, but it puts me out.
00:24:45.000 So, I was in an airport restroom, and I was at the sink in this habit, and there's a woman three sinks away, a large black woman, maybe in her 30s, tank top, short shorts, pouring water from the heat.
00:25:05.000 And she looked over at me, and she said, ma'am, ain't you hot in that plane?
00:25:11.000 And I said to her, but it's for Jesus.
00:25:14.000 And she's, I guess it's for Jesus.
00:25:18.000 That's for me.
00:25:19.000 It's for Jesus.
00:25:20.000 I don't think it was cool on the cross.
00:25:22.000 See, three hours and more, and we spend 15 minutes and go into the cool building.
00:25:31.000 No, it's not, the heat is not our cup of tea, but blessed be God forever, as long as he gives us breath.
00:25:38.000 That's what we want.
00:25:39.000 Tell the world about Jesus.
00:25:41.000 Amen.
00:25:42.000 Amen.
00:25:43.000 Amen.
00:25:44.000 Amen.
00:25:45.000 Ah.
00:25:46.000 No.
00:25:47.000 It's just between us.
00:25:50.000 I envy the position your holy man has.
00:25:55.000 Oh, your sweetheart.
00:25:58.000 He can't do enough.
00:26:00.000 He cannot do enough for us.
00:26:02.000 We don't even know what he's doing half the time.
00:26:04.000 He says, mother, there's people giving away free mulch.
00:26:07.000 I'll be back in 10 hours.
00:26:09.000 Or whatever it is.
00:26:11.000 He just does everything.
00:26:12.000 I don't even have to.
00:26:13.000 We tell him what has to be done, but he wants to protect us.
00:26:18.000 He wants to be, he's fabulous.
00:26:20.000 Just fabulous.
00:26:21.000 Come, we'll go this way.
00:26:23.000 And so is his wife, Ruby.
00:26:27.000 And they had two little boys, Gideon and Rabi.
00:26:31.000 And they had a little girl whom they named Rosalyn.
00:26:35.000 And she's my goddaughter.
00:26:36.000 No.
00:26:37.000 Really?
00:26:38.000 That's great.
00:26:42.000 That is great.
00:26:45.000 So we love them and they come over every Sunday at the church and the little boys bring us flowers.
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00:27:37.000 Oh, they're beautiful.
00:27:38.000 They're beautiful.
00:27:39.000 How would you have, or what do you have for mass here?
00:27:45.000 We drive 40 minutes into St Joseph the Worker in the morning.
00:27:49.000 Okay.
00:27:50.000 but recently we we didn't have the time and we needed to go more locally and
00:27:56.880 there's a church in Gilmore it's 17 minutes away it's Novus Ordo but the
00:28:02.500 priest also prays Latin mass twice a week and at least the Novus Ordo was
00:28:12.100 ad orientum with Latin and reverence so we can we can do that I haven't been
00:28:17.260 there yet the sisters has but have one it's right he says beautiful they say
00:28:23.200 the priest is just beautiful they say holy and beautiful and he's the one
00:28:29.740 that's talking about our teaching CCD it's mostly Hispanic there and he's
00:28:34.540 Hispanic okay but in my heart is always to get to the parents so yeah so when and
00:28:41.920 at what point and how would that look like might you get a priest to come
00:28:47.140 here we've spoken to a few and who want to come but they have to work it out or
00:28:52.960 have the schedule we'd have priests here every day if it worked and but so far no
00:28:58.540 one's come when we were how far Winona 40 minutes away and Winona also 35 minutes
00:29:05.440 away we lived until a month ago in the two trailers and Bishop came and celebrated
00:29:11.800 mass and Bishop Athanasius Snyder came blessed our trailers celebrated mass so
00:29:18.220 we'll invite the bishop here and there are other priests who will come but at the
00:29:24.820 moment everybody's in their place it's not easy for them to come yeah it's a
00:29:29.080 distance and so you'd have this this priest would be probably your closest to one
00:29:33.280 in Gilmer Gilmer there's one in Sulphur Springs but he's not able to come and he
00:29:41.560 celebrates the Latin mass but he's not able to come so this is probably so far
00:29:46.280 that we found it there's a holy there's a Catholic Church five minutes away but we
00:29:55.780 haven't got in there yet and we don't know so let's if we can let's just walk
00:30:03.880 around to the back to that chapel again it's actually this way no I'm I'm the
00:30:11.840 same I'm a little mouse in a maze I'm just getting to know it we walked through
00:30:16.900 here and we can't even believe that it's ours how would you do that well we went
00:30:22.360 upstairs this staircase leads to it only an attic with a tremendous amount of
00:30:27.940 storage and we had some men go up there and to see what ceilings could be raised
00:30:33.220 and the ceilings that were lowered can be raised they said about seven feet which
00:30:38.680 we would love okay so that for the for what area particularly well what was going
00:30:46.720 to be is going to be a community was originally a chapel and we wanted high so
00:30:50.200 the chapel and the refectory even the hallway well these are good oh that
00:30:59.260 other hallway has lowered ceilings yeah and we would raise anything we can to
00:31:04.900 point to heaven yeah we would raise anything we can and all of this was left
00:31:11.860 here but we're gonna sell it all doesn't remind you of a CC a little bit
00:31:16.540 would you like to take it home but no no we're gonna sell all of it for
00:31:22.720 donations so we because we had every penny of this I thank God for you every
00:31:29.740 day has been taken care of but we're gonna need some money to do a lot of
00:31:34.120 construction so we'll sell a lot of the furniture and and all these beautiful
00:31:40.600 chandeliers and I don't know I have no idea what things are worth but we could
00:31:50.140 replace them yeah so looks more like a ballroom how do you feel ready in the
00:32:01.240 wedding feast sister Joan Marie sister Faustina Marie these two are sisters
00:32:10.120 about two hours oh really they we had their novitiate this morning oh they were
00:32:15.640 postulants this when they woke up and their sisters now wow sister Joan after
00:32:21.040 Joan of Arc Joan Marie and it's the best sister Joan Marie of the Holy Cross we have
00:32:26.440 titles and sister Faustina Marie of the merciful Savior so if I might ask what
00:32:33.060 happens then and so is that a ceremony or what is that how does that I can give
00:32:39.340 you a book it's a beautiful ceremony it's a beautiful we have somebody and our
00:32:44.820 visitor our discerner was that person who introduced them mother I have observed
00:32:51.040 their lives and I think we think they're fit to enter the novitiate so they enter
00:32:55.240 and I don't remember the whole thing you probably remember it more than me but
00:33:01.780 they expressed they want to give their lives to God and I give them an
00:33:06.880 exhortation a message that I write specifically for them and it includes a
00:33:14.980 foot washing and the cutting of their hair sister Faustina Marie was down to
00:33:23.260 there not quite down to there well both of them for that long and we cut their
00:33:29.740 hair and we ship their hair to their moms or dads or whoever which is it because they
00:33:35.260 give everything to God and then with each piece of the habit the tunic and do you
00:33:44.940 remember a sister I know I have to remember each one each piece I tell you
00:33:53.220 what would you get a booklet please it should be on my desk the tunic first then
00:34:01.620 the scapular and his yoga is easy his burden is light each piece reminds us of
00:34:11.260 our life in Christ the people say why should belt too long it's not it's a a
00:34:17.500 singture and it's for chastity the same Francis de Sales is one of our patrons and
00:34:25.900 he didn't allow any any physical penance because he said you have community
00:34:32.920 that's enough and he's right so okay all the lessons and all the antiphons and
00:34:41.200 postulance Neil and very reverend mother entrusting my weakness to the mercy of
00:34:50.260 Christ my ignorance to his wisdom and my future to his providence I ask you to
00:34:55.540 clothe me in the vesture of those who hold nothing dearer than Christ that I may
00:35:00.520 appear outwardly in the sight of angels and of men as an image of the church
00:35:05.500 virgin spouse and mother and as one whose heart belongs to the lamb alone in a
00:35:11.680 covenant of bridal love beautiful now these are specific to your order is that
00:35:15.460 right well to Benedictine in Italy no no it sounds like it's totally like
00:35:21.160 tailor-made for your order specifically well this was put together for me by a
00:35:27.780 Benedictine priest in Tulsa who was our first religious assistant and I got a
00:35:34.140 copy of the Benedictines of Gower a beautiful order it's almost word for
00:35:39.060 word really yeah it's almost word for word the whole thing I just this you can
00:35:43.920 have it oh man please that would be amazing yeah this is what I just read yeah
00:35:48.360 this part of it I thought for sure it was tailor-made to you because they asked you
00:35:51.600 to quote me in the vesture of those who know that I may appear outwardly in the sight of
00:35:56.760 angels and men that's right that's your whole that's the whole charism all right
00:36:00.780 there yeah right there okay yeah since since the habits were shortened when I
00:36:04.800 was 19 yeah and had nothing to do with me so I thought now we want to be signs to
00:36:11.220 God in the world that's beautiful beautiful well congratulations to both of you
00:36:16.200 yeah that's amazing it was very very wonderful it's an auspicious day for us to be here that's wonderful
00:36:20.760 yeah it's a very very special day and then for my having final vows tomorrow and if we can manage it
00:36:27.660 sister Gertrude will have her temporary vows in a month or so if we haven't talked to the bishop and
00:36:34.260 then normally it'd be five years before final but if it works out one year for her one year for final vows for
00:36:42.720 her because she's been here so long and she's yeah she's more faithful than I am she's wonderful benedictine
00:36:48.220 wow wow yeah I don't know what I would do without her I don't know because I'll just tell you this
00:36:55.680 sister Gertrude Marie I want to say it accurately runs the place I want to be accurate here
00:37:05.340 I know you ask this is okay that's okay I understand but she runs it she she's the furniture
00:37:14.040 the arrangement everything is hers because she's magnificent and all the shopping all the mayor
00:37:20.240 planning all the oversight of the sisters the kitchen all the work all the errands everything
00:37:26.400 is under sister the only thing I do is sit at my desk I said she does everything else and she is
00:37:33.840 structured and so because when sisters here we pray on time when she's not here the sisters come
00:37:40.920 mother we pray and I said oh sure why I'm a dreamer but she's fantastic I don't know what I do without
00:37:47.580 her go listen to this oh no German no German yeah yeah that's that's for the talks
00:38:02.340 but 27 years in accounting before she came here oh 27 years in one job okay banking and counting
00:38:12.960 right am I right yeah is that okay okay beautiful
00:38:19.240 hi everyone this is John Henry Weston we hope you enjoyed this program to see more like it be sure to
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