Witness to Joy
Among The Lilies
Cameron Fradd
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
A chat with a lovely nun, Sr. Isabelle Maina about her witness to Joy... ENJOY!
I hope you will enjoy her as much as I do, if you want to find out more about her or her order go to... https://www.franciscansisterstor.org
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, awesome. Do you want to start with a song? I think it would be fun. Or do you want to just break into it in the middle of the chat? |
| 0:05.3 | I'll just break in the middle of it. Yeah, I'll do Father Josh does. |
| 0:08.8 | Okay, you know how he does that? Yes, yes. I love him. I met him. Did I tell you how I met him? No. at the National Black Catholic Congress last summer in D.C. |
| 0:05.2 | And we got breakfast together one day, and we got back in the elevator |
| 0:08.6 | because we had to go back to and we got back in the elevator |
| 0:22.2 | because we had to go back to the level that had like the auditorium or whatever and there's this |
| 0:26.3 | old sweet lady like old and she comes into the elevator and he's like ha la la la like singing his song |
| 0:34.1 | from the heart and this lady's like who like she gets like her little she little, she's got so startled and she was like, he was like, good morning! I love it. You gotta love it. The joy, right? Joy. You gotta have joy. We must have joy. We choose joy every day. We choose joy. Amen. Welcome to Among the Lilies! I love these mugs. It's so good to have you on the show. I know, aren't they fun? |
| 0:55.0 | These are our Polish mugs. |
| 0:56.0 | I know. But I got in Poland. Flowers. Flowers are always welcome. Flowers are good. Why don't you just very quickly give me just like a little intro of you and who you are? So my name is Sister Isabel Mayna. I'm a T.O.R. Sister, Third Order Regular, which does not mean a secular Franciscan. |
| 0:55.3 | That's a completely different order. |
| 0:56.5 | Because you're done. name is sister isabel mina i'm a two-r-r-sister third order regular which does not mean a secular |
| 1:12.5 | franciscan that's a completely different order because you're definitely in way too much gab uh garb |
| 1:18.2 | garb to be a secular yeah it's confusing or you're trying too hard is what it is it's like no |
| 1:23.9 | if you're secular this is not you're doing too much you're doing too much you're doing too much |
| 1:28.3 | yeah i'm not a secular Franciscan. |
| 1:30.3 | I am in the third order, which first order is priors, second order is poor Claire's coistered, |
| 1:38.3 | and third order are religious men and women. |
| 1:41.3 | So I have been in community since 2019, professed my vows in 2022, and I got assigned |
| 1:52.3 | to Gambling here, and now you're here, which is super exciting. So I do music director here, |
| 1:58.6 | and there's four sisters here. Yeah, and that's pretty much it I'm a |
| 2:04.7 | bride of Christ yeah you that's my identity beautiful Brat of Christ I'm a bride of |
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