Thank you to the DC Section From one of the consecrated members at Mater Ecclesiae The section received a beautiful thank-you card for last weekend from the consecrated team in Rhode Island. Unfortunately the effort to scan it wasn't so successful (though you can click here to at least see the signatures ). Be sure, though, to read the lovely testimony one of the Rhode Island team sent and is allowing us to share:
"A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to visit the shrine of Divine Mercy in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. I had many things on my heart to speak with the Lord about that day -personal challenges and the challenges that come with the renewal process we're going through right now in consecrated life in the Movement. I knelt down and prayed, asking Christ to come into my heart, to make me vulnerable to his grace once again. As I prayed, the Gospel passage of the sick man at the pools of Bethesda in John 5 came into my mind and heart. Basically, John is describing an absurd situation. There's an ill man who longs to be healed by the waters of Bethesda, but he's too sick to even get down into the water, and no one will stop by to help him into the water because they all long to be healed too. The ill man has been there for 38 years... so close to the healing water, and yet 38 years waiting to be cured! Absurd! ... until our Lord comes to him. Jesus knows the deepest desires of this man's heart. "Do you want to be well?" Jesus asks him, reaches out to him, and heals him. As I was driving to the retreat center this past Friday, I was following behind a red Cadillac for about a half hour on 95; the license plate read: "MyPeace," a sign of what was to come from my weekend there. I had no idea the Lord would literally take me to Bethesda to heal me. But this time at Bethesda, it was all of you, who made the weekend possible, at the side of the pool, who helped me get into the water...since I couldn't do it by myself... To all of you in the Bethesda area, thank you for being the hand of Christ for us during this time of renewal." | 
