Welcome to the Do Something Beautiful podcast. I am your host, Leah Darrow, and I share with you

inspirational people who are truly doing something beautiful to make our world better. We are inspired

by Mother Teresa who said, do something beautiful for God. Do it with your life, do it every day,

do it in your own way, but do it.

Hello, we are live and welcome to our Advent retreat. Oh my gosh, so many of you. Hello,

hello. So great to see you. Let us know in the chat where you are from. Hello,

I'll see you out. Alexander's from North Carolina. Oh my gosh, there's quite a few of you.

Let me tell you guys, welcome so much. I am Leah Darrow. I am your host. Today, we get to speak

with Sister Miriam, but before we get into that, let me just kind of let you know what we're doing

here. So this Advent, I wanted us to be able to really focus in on the Holy Family and try to

meditate throughout Advent on that beautiful family. That should be the icon for all of us

in our own family. And so to do that, the first three Mondays of Advent, what we're doing is

I'm bringing on a special guest and they're going to chat with us about a certain person

in the Holy Family and how that relates to the Holy Family and how we can spread or prepare. So

ideally, these Mondays will have this chat. We'll listen to one of our speakers and then we'll

spend that little time throughout the week allowing the Holy Spirit to just allow that to mature

and to grow and thought and meditation. So as I was mentioning, and we have so many of you have

signed up. So thank you so much. We have well over, I think, almost 3,000 people who have signed

up already for the Advent retreat. The plan for this evening is that Sister Miriam, our guest

speaker tonight will be speaking on the topic of our Lady, our Mother Mary and her relationship

inside the Holy Family as we prepare for Advent. And it's really beautiful, the angle that

Sister Miriam is going to be, or the, maybe the attribute of our Lady that Sister Miriam is going

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