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Sunday, August 09, 2009
Living Out Her Spiritual Gifts

Living Out Her Spiritual Gifts

Last summer, EWTN talk show host, Rosalind Moss, announced that she is starting a new community of sisters in the Archdiocese of St. Louis with the permission of Archbishop Raymond L. Burke.

For those that aren’t familiar with her, Rosalind Moss was raised as a child as a conservative Jew, before converting to Christianity as an adult. She spent 18 years as an evangelical Protestant before becoming a Catholic in 1995.

She has hosted popular talk shows on the Catholic television network, EWTN, for a number of years – “Household of Faith”, and “Now That We’re Catholic”, and is also a Staff Apologist with Catholic Answers. Rosalind’s new order will be called The Daughter’s of Mary, Mother of Israel’s Hope. They are currently developing a web site, but it has nothing other than a simple home page and contact information at this time.

Now this is not new news. The web has been buzzing about this since last year. What is new is that I just heard that back in May Rosalind came out this way - to Tyringham, Massachusetts, to become a postulant for a year at the Visitation Monastery.

It’s truly exciting to find out that Sr. Rosalind is taking the next year to develop her vocation with the Salesians up here in Massachusetts with The Sisters Of the Visitation of Tyringham. The sisters at Tyringham are cloistered, contemplative group of religious – and Sr. Rosalind has stated that her new order will have much of this component – but she has also said that her order will also have much of the same charism as that of St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal, and St. John Bosco had – to get out there, into the community, where the people are, and minister to them “where they’re at”. One of her other stated goals is to design a “head to toe” habit – she feels that it “preaches and teaches” without saying a word.

If the recent experience of some young Franciscan friars is any lesson, she’s right. And then again, St. Francis de Sales was very fond of the spirituality of St. Francis of Assisi, and used many examples of his teachings and sayings in his sermons! I would guess that Sr. Rosalind too has heard St. Francis’ oft quoted saying, “Preach the Gospel at all times, and if necessary, use words!”


Let’s all pray for Sr. Rosalind as she completes her year of postulancy with the Sisters of the Visitation, and pray for her new order, the Daughter’s of Mary, Mother of Israel’s Hope. If you’re interested, there is an interview with Sr. Rosalind at the St. Louis Catholic site, and Blessed Sacrament, in Greenfield, has posted a great article discussing her conversion story, courtesy of Envoy Magazine.

God bless!
Written at 5:06 PM by Luminaria2112.
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