Did You See?

Did you see? The burning question of August: “Did you see the solar eclipse?” Yes, indeed we did!

We were not quite in the line of totality, but at 99%, we got to experience a remarkable dimming of the Sun’s light and a drop in temperature. The cicadas quieted down, the crickets rosined up their bows for a twilight serenade, the dappled light beneath our trees looked like thousands of crescents, and we even spotted a planet during the peak of the eclipse. Mother John Mary provided eclipse glasses for the whole community, so we were able to watch the Sun rather quickly be blotted out to a tiny crimson sliver, then gradually reappear to its full splendor. The whole event put us in awe of our Creator; how precisely our solar system was designed that such a wonder could happen at all!

The week of the eclipse, we happened to have a young woman on a live-in experience at the monastery – she saw the eclipse with us, but she must have seen something more, because the Lord drew her back to continue discerning with us!

On October 3rd, during Night Prayer, Emily received the little Passion Sign pin of an aspirant and began a new season of seeking the Lord’s designs for her. Please remember her in prayer, that this may be a time of grace and clarity in discernment, and continue asking the Lord to draw more young women to follow Him in Passionist life.