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4/10/2016

Some dialogues allegedly with Jesus “speaking in my heart,” from back in 2014:

June 7, 2014
Ronda: Oh, Jesus, help! I woke up in a manic state over project ideas. Is this all wholesome bubbling joy, or is it a manic phase the devil is using to make me crazy?

Jesus: Don’t try to answer those questions when you are in a high or a low. Bring them to me during our quiet time of being together more totally. Now pray the Jesus prayer for a while with consciousness that I am really, really, here with you.

Ronda: The minute I started praying the Jesus prayer, I thought of St. Philip Neri, the joyful saint whose heart beat so hard and fast people could hear that beat in his confessional.

Jesus: That’s part of the answer. Your question should be about each project, each encounter, and each mood: is this full of holy love or is there too much ego mixed in? Seeing the ego-mixed in doesn’t mean you shouldn’t do the project, but that you should bring the ego to Me to be expunged before going further. Your prayer could be: Jesus, I love the idea of this project, or the way this person or persons are full of qualities I love, or I love being “high as a kite.” Smile. “But, Jesus I need You to purify those feelings. I don’t need to know how. Help me to bring those feelings to you for purification.” Just throw yourself into My heart and wait quietly so that you can do the same projects, or be with the same people with felt joy but without a manic hysterical overtone.

Ronda: Praying this way, I went into tongues and got “Sana me!”, which sounds like Spanish for clean me. Also the image of Isaiah’s lips being purified with the burning coal. And words in the heart from You, my Jesus:

Jesus: Of course, Satan wants to keep you on a revved up high. That high is not the same as depth or intensity. Let Me give you those two beautiful qualities (depth and intensity) which were My own. Remember? Not Ronda, but Ronda and Jesus! When we are together I can tame that manic part.

June 9, 2014
Ronda: I am expecting a jumpy day with dental stuff, prayer group without Carol running it. I have a bit of anxiety about one of those encounters.
Jesus: You are, again, imagining your day as if it was you and them instead of you and I with them. This morning the reading was from the Beatitudes. Poverty of spirit means that you realize you can’t make all those encounters come out lovingly just because you have lots of insights about love in your books. This is because each encounter could either be a repeated pattern, often negative in tiny or big ways, or it can be fresh because you can’t know beforehand what I want to do in that situation. Also, it is the week of Pentecost. Call upon the gifts of the Holy Spirit, especially healing in the form of praying for the gift of healing to be a healing presence for those you meet who are suffering in many ways, bodily and in the heart.

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Lots going on during the Triduum and Easter.
Here is an absolutely exquisite link from an American Friend of mine studying in Rome and singing in the famous St. Cecilia Choir. They put together the choir singing with Fra Angelico paintings on a youtube. Enjoy. https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXOSTvgcDJQ1hSDK7pXimYFxL6EsMznW2

About 70 students from Holy Apostles went on Holy Saturday morning to pray the rosary in front of the abortion clinic. This massive amount was quite a sight for the pro-choice escorts who stand in front to keep clients away from us! This week they didn’t come. Maybe they got the grace to see this wasn’t such a good part-time job! We think some may have been cradle Catholics….”Father, forgive them, they know not what they do.”
It’s a great thing to do Holy Saturday morning.

Good Friday we always watch the Passion at the Seminary. Since in our family someone suggested we all write little narratives and send them around, and since some in my family don’t believe in God or that Jesus is God, here the one I made up:
“At the funeral of Ronda Chervin there was a surprise! Well, really, it was quite in character! Sean and Jenny handed out scrolls to each member of the family with this message:
March 25, 2016
Dear family,
I just saw for the 5th time the movie The Passion. And it gave me my legacy to my beloved family of all degrees of belief and unbelief.
Since this director meticulously researched what crucifixions were really like, I maintain that it provides us with the factual and logical proof of the Resurrection because
No disciple would ever have let themselves in for such a death unless they had seen the Resurrection!
Believe! The truth shall set you free!
Love, Ronda - Hope to see you all in heaven!"

A whole bunch of my books have been transferred from CMJ to Enroute Books and they are cheaper. They include these:
Quotable Saints,
Seeking Christ in the Joys and Sufferings of Aging,
Fabric of our Lives,
Becoming a Handmaid of the Lord,
Feminine, Free and Faithful, and
Holding Hands with God in Tragic Sufferings.
Also at Enroute is my husband’s wonderful novel about Christ and Satan in the Desert called Children of the Breath
Click on the link below to find wonderful descriptions of each of these books as well as descriptions of other very interesting books they have published.
http://enroutebooksandmedia.com/other-titles-by-chervin/

An on-line student was questioning whether the Church isn’t sexist after all. Here is part of my response you might like reading:
Basically, ontological equality is not an opposite to difference of roles. I like to bring this out with pithy humor in talks I give on this subject by sentences such as the following:
Do we think of St. Joseph as a second class citizen because Mary had a higher role?

St. Catherine of Siena was illiterate until Jesus Himself taught her how to read. She had 6 priest scribes sitting at her feet taking down dictation from what Jesus revealed to her. Did that make those priests lower ontologically than her!!!!!

Jesus calls God, Father, so His name for God is normative for us. If you happen to be a biological father and your child tells you that you are also motherly because you are so tender and compassionate, would you like him/her to add "So I am going to call you Mommy from now on?"

You might like to get hold of my book on this called Feminine, Free and Faithful, published by Ignatius Press and then reprinted by Franciscan University Press. The basic thesis is that women do not have to choose between the best of the traditionally feminine or the worst of radical feminism. By being faithful to the Holy Spirit you can avoid the bad part of the traditionally feminine and adopt the good part of freedom.

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