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Well, welcome back to the Let Love Podcast. This is Sister Mary Grace. This is Sister Veritas. Sister Anna MacUleigh and Catherine Joy

Marie. Woohoo! Changing things up. Welcome to more of the crew. Yay. Welcome downstairs. We have an

official name for the room now. Right? The upper room? Yeah, on the the crew. Yay. Welcome downstairs. We have an official name for the room now.

Right?

The upper room? Yeah. On the lower level. That's right. Just to keep things edgy. But welcome, Sister Kat and Joy. Thanks. This is the final five. Mm-hmm. And we're just so excited to share you for everyone to meet you and hear you. And we just love Sister Gath and join Mary so much.

So we're so happy.

It's so great to live with you all. Well, and the cool thing is about the four of us now here is that actually sister and Emecule and Sizakad and Joy and myself, we went through and survived formation together, which is awesome. So we are loaded with stories that we will keep to a minimum this time. But talking about just communio and as we go through Lent together, and we were talking about recently, I don't know if you remember, but in Poshiancy, just the extremities of what you can experience within community life. You know what, what is good for someone is like the worst thing for another. And I think something happened around our retreat in Poshiont that sisters, you'll have to help me out, that was just a perfect display of this. Yeah, no, totally. We had a fun. We were laughing about this the other day. So the day before we started our five-day silent retreat, we went to the bowling alley to go bowling, but for some reason we couldn't bowl. I can't remember what it was. I'm not sure where the bowling alley was closed that day, but... So then we decided to go laser tagging. So much better than bowling anyway. Yeah, zipped our black sweaters up over our mock neck shirts. Cool. Yeah. Because it's black light laser tag. Which was actually, that was a lot of fun and I think for everyone it was a lot of fun. But then after we finished the retreat. So picture this. You've just been on five days. Total silence. You know, you're kind of, no one else is interrupting. You're doing prayer periods. It's very low key. And then you come off. What's the first thing you want to do when you come off a silent retreat? Just kind of ease back in. We were taken to the circus, which was awesome.

And was hard for others. It was a confirming grace for me. It was a very hard day for me.

There you go. That's awesome. You loved it. I loved the circus. Oh my gosh. Have you always

loved the circus or this was like a surprise? You love the circus? No, I think I've always

loved the circus. I think the first circus I went to, I was very, very little and I decided that

I wouldn't mind joining the circus one day. Okay. That's awesome. And I've acquired some good circus acts myself, but it really was like the delight of the circus,

like the excitement.

I just didn't ever think I would do that again as a sister.

Ever.

And so the fact that after our first time going on a silent retreat, that that is how it would end, was like, Jesus, you are the hundredfold. That's awesome. That's so awesome. Meanwhile, this is Drian? I'm like, I still say yes. I choose this with all my might. That's awesome. And you know it's so funny, too, like I have never done laser tag or gone to the

circus as a sister ever. So I'm like, you guys really special, special week. Special training.

That's amazing. Isn't it funny how like one, I used to the pool I used to work at before I entered?

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