Four Benedictine Daughters of the Divine Will travelled around Australia on a whirlwind 23-day visit last month. Source: The Catholic Leader.
The sisters included Mother Gabrielle and Sr Jacinta from Tennessee in the US and sisters Francesca and Elizabeth from Tallamello, Italy.
One of the organisers of the visit, Michael Martin, said God’s will had manifested over the past few weeks as the sisters attracted the attention of people wherever they went.
“They have deposited joy and light and planted seeds in this country that will be watered by the Divine Will over the years to come,” he said.
The sisters arrived on October 29 and visited communities and held spiritual retreats around the country.
One of their stops was New Norcia, a monastic town in Western Australia, where they visited the Benedictine monks for two days.
Their stops included Queensland, where they joined a Sunday Mass at the Australian Catholic University Banyo campus.
Seminarians and staff from Holy Spirit Seminary had the opportunity to meet the sisters at the Mass.
“It was such a pleasure that God ordained for the sisters to briefly visit the seminary,” seminarian Gabriel Guillaume said.
“They were so personable and joyful, unashamedly proclaiming their specific charism of spreading the knowledge of living in God’s Divine Will.
“It was more than inspiring, it was contagious.”
The Benedictines of the Divine Will are made up of three communities – San Marino (an independent republic within Italy), Talamello, and Tennessee.
Mother Gabrielle was a Poor Clare with Mother Angelica of EWTN for 33 years and was elected abbess of the order on three occasions before taking a sabbatical, which resulted in her discerning the start of a new order specifically dedicated to the spread of the Divine Will throughout the world.
This began in Talamello, and she has become a familiar face on YouTube and popular Catholic podcasts around the world, with more communities emerging.
Details: benedictinesofdivinewill.org.
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Visiting Italian and US sisters get a taste of Australia while sharing a loving message of Divine Will (By Joe Higgins, The Catholic Leader)
