Posted on 02/25/2010 6:10:16 AM PST by marshmallow
Oprah Winfrey was surprised after her recent show featuring the Dominican Sisters of Mary when the sisters in the studio said they had a present for her. "No one ever gives me a present," the television star said. Then, as Sr. Teresa Benedicta related in a talk before a packed gathering at The Bean of Ave Maria Tuesday night, "the sisters gave Oprah a rosary, and taught her how to pray it. She seemed really interested."
The Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist, is one of the fastest-growing orders of women religious in the United States. Founded 12 years ago, it now has 98 women and has run out of space at its mother house in Michigan, Sr. Teresa Benedicta said.
The sisters' appearance on national television earlier in February (click here for previous Ave Herald story) may attract even more women to the order, whose average age is 26. "We had 70 interested women signed up to attend a retreat," Sr. Teresa Benedicta said, "and after the broadcast we now have 135."
Sr. Teresa Benedicta teaches at the Donahue Academy in Ave Maria and is the host of the EWTN television program Truth in the Heart. The Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist, also teach at schools in Michigan, California, Texas, Arizona and South Carolina.
The order is looking to establish another "foundation" house, probably in Texas or California, Sr. Theresa Benedicta said.
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First The Oprah interferes in politics and we get 0bama. If she interferes in religion...what will we get? Most likely, the opposite of what’s GOOD for America!
And I gotta ask...why won’t Steadman marry you, Sister? ;)
Yeah well, Sisters, that's what she does for a living - she seems interested. If she didn't seem interested, she couldn't afford her jet.
Oprah can touch Rosary beads and not burst into flames???
May she meditate deeply on the Mysteries of the Rosary ... and thereby be led by God to repentance and conversion.
I will join you in that prayer.
I agree. Praying the Rosary could change her heart. Wouldn’t that be wonderful.
Oprah adds another superstition to her repertoire
These things indeed have an appearance of wisdom in self-imposed religion, false humility, and neglect of the body, but are of no value against the indulgence of the flesh. Colossians 2:23
Indeed. We shall see.
The Rosary, on the other hand, is a prayer in which we meditate on the lives of Christ and His Mother. Meditative prayer has a long history in the Church and is most certainly not "superstition".
The rosary = vain repetition
Please tell us, in your own words, what you think praying the Rosary entails.
“The Rosary, on the other hand, is a prayer”
So why do you need the beads?
ping
You don't.
Please tell us, in your own words, what you think praying the Rosary entails.
Ping!
So why do you need the beads?
“You don’t.”
Then what is the importance of them?
“Please tell us, in your own words, what you think praying the Rosary entails.”
I have no definition of it. I learn by asking questions. Don’t be so defensive, you don’t come off as helpful as you might wish.
Repetitive it is, but why is that "vain"?
With regard to prayer, repetition is good!! Especially when it comes to meditating on the lives of Jesus and His Mother. Are you perhaps thinking that repetition is synonymous with "lack of faith"? That would be a mistake.
Why?
The Gospel parable of the "unjust judge" who was constantly petitioned by the widow (Luke 18). "And the Lord said: Hear what the unjust judge saith. And will not God revenge his elect who cry to him day and night: and will he have patience in their regard?
Perseverance in prayer is a virtue, not a vanity. It denotes, faith, insistence and patience while waiting on the Lord.
We can only hope and pray for the scales to fall from her eyes.
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