Welcome to Let Love, a podcast with the Sisters of Life. We invite you to join us for conversation,

looking at life through the lens of love. You are loved, you are made in God's image, and your life

matters. Let's talk about it. Hello everyone. This is the Let Love

podcast with the Sisters of Life. My name is Sister Anne Imaculay. I'm Sister Veritas and I'm Sister

Mary Grace. And Merry Christmas. It is the last day of the octave of Christmas. And happy New Year.

And Happy New Year. God saves the best to lost. That's right. Yeah. So it's just, yeah, it's a joy to be with you. And I hope you've had a blessed Christmas octave. And the season goes on. Epiphany is very soon, actually. Is it next week? I don't know. Okay. We should look it up. It's around the corner. Yeah, yeah. It's around the corner. I feel the cusp of that.

And today's the Feast of Mary, Mother of God. Uh-huh. And lines up, right? Lines up. We did not plan this. So this is Holy Spirit. Promise. It is the World Day of Peace. Whoa. Amazing. Isn't amazing as we finish this prepare for peace podcast? That awesome. God, he knew from all eternity.

He wanted it.

It's pretty awesome.

To land on peace.

Cool. And we were just talking a little bit before this episode, you know, as you remember that today is the solemnity of Mary Mother of God, we were just, we were just remembering our own mothers and stories of their love. It's always a good time to remember them all the stories. Yeah. Yeah. And it's funny, we, you know, we get to talk to our families on the phone every once in a while. And I was on a phone call with my parents recently. And it was a very short phone call just to check in about something. And as soon as I get on the phone, like one of the first things my mom says,

I love my mom so much, she's like, how are you doing? I'm like, oh, you know, sharing a little bit. And then like later on in the phone call, it's like, wait, but how are you? And I'm like, okay, I think I just said that. And then I'm about to get out the phone. I'm like, okay, mom and dad, Like I think I need to go and it's like, wait, before you go, how are you?

I just need to know.

But it's like, wait, before you go, how are you? I just need to know.

But it's like such a beautiful image of a mother's heart is like they just, yeah, they see you, they see your heart and they want to know how you are. I mean, it's very simple, but just, yeah, it's such a beautiful expression of a mother's love and at love receiving it. Yeah, I don't know about you all. Oh my gosh. There's so much communicated just in the question of it. You know, whatever answer we say or don't say, the mother's heart stays on you. Yeah. So beautiful. Definitely. Yeah. It reminds me of a story of one of our priest's friends that when he would go home, whenever he'd go home to see his mom, he'd, you know, ring the doorbell or whatever. And then she'd come to the door and she would say, stop, let me look at you. And so he'd stand there and

just, she'd just look at him and look at him. And then he tried to go and she's like, not yet.

I'm not done looking at you. It's so sweet. Just want to look, gaze upon him, you know. And then he tried to go and she's like, not yet. I'm not done looking at you. It's so sweet.

Just want to look, gaze upon him, you know.

And then she'd eventually let him into the house.

Definitely.

But every time he'd go home.

It's amazing.

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