by AbbessJane | Dec 26, 2024 | Promises 2025
Mia – My Promise for 2025 What prevents me from preferring nothing whatever to Christ? My lack of patience with my human. I’m impatient when she picks me up and when she is late getting home from work. I lose my patience when she stops brushing me too soon and...
by AbbessJane | Dec 26, 2024 | Promises 2025
Xochi – My Promise for 2025 What prevents me from preferring nothing whatever to Christ? When I joined the Feline Cloister, I confessed that I needed to review the ladder of humility. As a novice I have been doing this and found one step that is impossible for...
by AbbessJane | Dec 26, 2024 | Promises 2025
Angelo – My Promise for 2025 What prevents me from preferring nothing whatever to Christ? I joined the Feline Cloister to learn how to be an agent of change in my community of gatti randagi (stray cats) here in Castlemola, Sicily. It’ not been easy. I get...
by AbbessJane | Dec 26, 2024 | Promises 2025
Joey – My Promise for 2025 What prevents me from preferring nothing whatever to Christ? I don’t like dogs. When a dog roams into my field of vision, I feel immediate distaste. I wonder how God could allow such creatures to be near me, because it makes me so...
by AbbessJane | Dec 26, 2024 | Promises 2025
Black Pearl – My Promise for 2025 What prevents me from preferring nothing whatever to Christ? What gets in the way of preferring Christ is that I prefer me! What REALLY annoys me is when I don’t get my way. And I like to be first! And I DON’T like to be told...