Is it really possible to live in intimacy with God,

Sister Regina Marie Gorman, as next?

Hello, and welcome to Focus.

The Catholic Cancer's podcast for living,

understanding and defending your Catholic faith.

I'm Sy Kelly at your host, and that's a great privilege recently

of talking with Sister Regina Marie Gorman,

a well-known sister, a woman religious,

from a Carmelite community here in California,

up in Los Angeles.

And one of the things that it's very easy to do,

I suppose, in the Christian life, is to forget what all this is about,

to neglect the main things, as we start worrying about

popes and cardinals and social controversies,

and who we're voting for, and what's on social media, and all that.

But what it all comes down to is, essentially,

the invitation to rest in God, to be close, intimate, friends,

and children of the living God.

And this is one of the things that women religious,

who spend their lives in prayer, are wonderful at reminding us about,

often just by their presence, just by the way that they are,

by the way that they present themselves.

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