The BEAUTY of VIRGINITY: July 2017

Tuesday, July 25, 2017

Cardinal Burke: The New Evangelization of the Fallen Christian West

Meryl's EVANGELIZATION is what I prefer ~

SPIRITUAL Motherhood ~ and VIRGINITY

Wednesday, July 19, 2017

VIRGINITY ~ is BEAUTIFUL for both man and woman

Monday, July 17, 2017

St Maria Goretti ~ VIRGIN and MARTYR ~ Office of Readings

Thursday, July 13, 2017

Eucharistic Adoration: St. Stephen Catholic Church

CHILDREN'S Stories ~ on the BEAUTY OF VIRGINITY!

The Princess and the Kiss ~

The Garden WALL ~

Tuesday, July 11, 2017

St. Maria Goretti - VIRGIN MARTYR

St. Maria Goretti ~ DEFEND US!

Veneration of Virgin Martyr, St. Maria Goretti

Sunday, July 9, 2017

CONSECRATED VIRGIN ~ prostrate

Saturday, July 8, 2017

Friday, July 7, 2017

A VIRGIN ~ VIOLATED by the LAW

A VIOLATION was made in using a LAW to VIOLATE the RIGHT of Meryl Viola Bravo to enter a Monastery. And in the VIOLATION of her Dignity as a United States Citizen to worship, they used a citation to prevent her from entering into the convent to pray with the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist. In turn, she was placed in jail and was stripped of her dignity to speak for herself and was forced to cooperate to their procedures.

A Country she TRUSTED to protect her ~

used a Law not to ~

and now she has a Felony ~

for simply being at the door of the Monastery.

Meryl Bravo Statement

August 25, 2015

On Monday, July 1, 2013, I arrived in Detroit, Michigan to discern a vocation to the Religious Life. I had contacted several Religious Communities on my arrival and visited Our Lady of Assumption Grotto in Detroit, Michigan to attend 7:00 P.M. Mass and Adoration with the Holy Cross Sisters in the Area. In speaking with the Holy Cross Sisters, I was introduced to the Sisters of the Children of Mary and contacted the Sisters to visit them in Ohio. I then decided to attend Mass at Ave Maria Chapel at Domino Farms Office in Ann Arbor, Michigan and spent 4^th of July in the area. I introduced myself to the people there and continued to attend Daily Mass and Adoration in the area for Prayer and Reflection. I was then welcomed by Elizabeth Seigal, a Parishioner of Christ the King and Employee of Domino Farm’s Gift Shop to stay in her home until my arranged meeting with the Sisters of the Children of Mary in Ohio; and was scheduled to leave on July 10, 2013 from the Ann Arbor Greyhound Bus Station to Columbus, Ohio to arrive at around 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. for the Sisters to pick me up. I was welcomed to stay in her home until I was to leave for Ohio on the 10^th.

On Sunday, July 7, 2013, around 4:40 p.m. I was invited by Elizabeth Siegal as she shared with me that people were welcomed to attend Evening Prayer at the Monastery of the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist. I was told it was a public event open on Sundays for anyone to attend. She drove me to the Monastery and brought me to the door and the Sisters greeted me and welcomed me into the chapel. I introduced myself as Meryl and stayed for evening prayer and in the middle of prayers, Sister asked to speak with me and I followed her to the door. There were police officers there who requested my identification and asked me of my presence at the Monastery. I shared with them that I was told that it was a public event open for anyone to attend and so I attended something I would usually do as an aspiring Catholic who desires to enter the Religious Life. There were other visitors also present that were also welcomed to attend.

I was given the option to call someone to pick me up. I called someone to pick me up and my belongings that were left in the chapel were prayer books. As soon as the people I called to pick me up arrived I was asked to get into the police car and was handcuffed and taken to jail. I was given a bond and a pretrial on July 18, 2013 under the misdemeanor of stalking. I have been accused of stalking a community that I have been affiliated with in the past and was treated like I was there for other reasons than to spend time in prayer. I was sitting among the visitors of the Monastery attentive to the prayers of the Sisters until I was requested to be spoken to.

I had arrangements to visit another Religious Community that was welcoming me; therefore, I was open to other convents that would consider me for candidacy. I went to prayers at this public event open to visitors to pray with the Sisters and no other reason. I had plans to have dinner with Elizabeth Siegel’s family after the prayers was concluded, but I was arrested and put in jail.

On July 18, 2013, I plea bargained and pled guilty to the misdemeanor of stalking with a deferred sentence of probation for a year. I returned to California that evening.

On March 20, 2014, in the Catholic Season of Lent, I returned to the Monastery of the Dominican Sisters of Mary seeking to enter their community and receive some form of understanding and reconciliation. I arrived on their property and rang their doorbell once. Within minutes, a police officer was at the premises and I was arrested.

I was placed in custody at the Washtenaw County Jail, and on July 14, 2015 I pled No Contest to the Felony charge of Aggravated Stalking. I have learned that any form of communication with these Sisters will be perceived as a form of harassment. I resolve never to contact them again. Reconciliation is not possible when the other party is not open to dialogue and I resolve to respect their decision and leave it in the hands of Providence.

I had been on Retreat with the Sisters of Mary three times in previous years and the fourth time I requested to come on retreat the Sisters declined their welcome. There was no reason and I sought to find some understanding from their rejection. Unfortunately, pursuing this led to legal problems.

I am seeking justice for being severely punished for coming to the Monastery on March 20, 2014. Forgive my poor judgment in returning. I have learned not to pursue this any further and will respect the decision of the Court of no contact with the Dominican Sisters of Mary. However, my need for reconciliation with this extreme act from a Religious Institution I revere and respect has not come to terms. And would request the prayers of the faithful, to pray for my continued recovery from the injustice no human being deserves. I wish to move forward with my life as a Faithful Catholic in my home community and have no intention of returning to Michigan until it is time for me to go before the court to get this felony expunged from my record.

Please understand and consider that I have had no criminal record until this event with the Dominican Sisters of Mary. After graduating Rialto High School with highest honors and recognized as Salutatorian, I entered the convent in California with the Carmelite Sisters of Most Sacred Heart of Los Angeles and after six years of formation with the Sisters, I returned to my family. I went back to School and earned a Masters in Education at California State University of San Bernardino and worked as a Kindergarten and 4^th Grade Teacher. This incident will affect my future opportunities in teaching. With continued hope for my future, I will move forward from this experience with the support of my family and will not pursue any contact from a community that has horrifically treated me with an act that contradicts all charity.

Dear Viewers, how do we respond to injustice? The only way to respond is charity. And CHARITY ALWAYS ADMONISHES those who broke charity. And continue to admonish.

If you are aware of the case that occurred with the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist done against Meryl Bravo and would like to file a petition in support of Meryl Bravo's vocation to the Consecrated Life please file a complaint with the Attorney General of the State of Michigan for the Religious Community's violation of a law in using it to discourage Meryl in following God's CALL!

http://www.michigan.gov/ag

https://secure.ag.state.mi.us/complaints/consumer.aspx

Thursday, July 6, 2017

VIRGINITY ~ is a GRACE!

An UNDIVIDED HEART ~ written by Meryl Viola Bravo

The Consecrated Life, deeply rooted in the example and teaching of Christ the Lord, is A GIFT OF GOD THE FATHER to his Church through the HOLY SPIRIT. By the profession of the evangelical counsels the characteristic features of Jesus — the chaste, poor and obedient one — are made constantly “VISIBLE” in the midst of the world and the eyes of the faithful are directed towards the MYSTERY of the Kingdom of God already at work in history, even as it awaits its full realization in HEAVEN.

In every age there have been men and women who, obedient to the FATHER’S CALL and to the prompting of the Spirit, have CHOSEN this special way of following Christ, in order to devote themselves to him with an “UNDIVIDED” HEART (cf. 1 Cor 7:34). Like the Apostles, they too have LEFT EVERYTHING behind in order to be with Christ and to put themselves, as he did, at the service of God and their brothers and sisters. In this way, through the many CHARISMS of spiritual and apostolic life bestowed on them by the Holy Spirit, they have helped to make the MYSTERY and mission of the Church shine forth, and in doing so have contributed to the RENEWAL of society. Supreme Pontiff John Paul II (1996) Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Vita Consecrata. Libreria Editrice Vaticana.

JMJ

CHRIST, in All His MAGNIFICENT SPLENDOUR, bestows on a SOUL the special GRACE of COMPLETE OBLATION to the Eternal Father through the Vow of Poverty, Chastity, and Obedience as a WITNESS of the GOSPEL of CHRIST in REFLECTION of His Divine Son poor, chaste and obedient. How often CHRIST lived among the poor and was rejected by men for the TREASURE He HELD in His ETERNAL FATHER! We as Christians CALLED by GOD to PROCLAIM to the ends of the EARTH of a KINGDOM that is to COME must LEAVE EVERYTHING to bring to the ALTAR a COMPLETE and TOTAL OFFERING of ourselves to the TRIUNE GOD most pleasing to the EYES of the FATHER! In this OFFERING a PURIFICATION of the Heart is evermore brought to a RESPLENDANT DIAMOND chosen to be MERITED in the HEAVENLY COURTS for all ETERNITY!

Created in His Image and Likeness, the SON bestows on HIS BRIDE, a GIFT, a GRACE known only to Man as ONE that is defiled and rejected, but to the ETERNAL FATHER as ONE MOST MERITED for the GLORY of HIS ETERNAL KINGDOM! For what is it to the world to be poor. It is NOTHING and to be DESPISED! What is it to be chaste. It is NOTHING and to be DESPISED! What is it to be obedient. It is NOTHING and to be DESPISED! How AWESOME to KNOW that the MERITS of ETERNAL LIFE are considered as NOTHING and DESPISED all for the GLORY of GOD whose KINGDOM reflects a DIMENSION in Man that CAN ONLY BE FOUND IN CHRIST, poor, chaste and obedient! For the KINGDOM began from a babe so LOWLY and so HUMBLE that the ANGELS of the HEAVENLY COURTS REJOICED and GLORIFIED the whole of HUMANITY to reach down and BRING to us THE DIVINE AND INFINITE GOD OF LOVE! LOVE BEYOND all telling, is BORN for us so that those who have been rejected and despised might KNOW of the GLORY that is to COME for those who have been brought to the ALTAR with a LIVING OBLATION of SACRIFICE so pleasing to the Heart of the FATHER! For it is in the HEART that the Eternal Father SEES ALL!

O UNDIVIDED HEART, loved for the SAKE of LOVE! The WHOLE OF HUMANITY is at your beckoning so that the MANY SOULS that have been placed under your care may be LOVED for the sake of LOVE! LOVE reflected in the HEART of the FATHER so that CHILDREN embraced by LOVE may know of the TRANSCENDANT GLORY that is to COME! For the UNIVERSAL CHARACTERISTIC of the Heart of the Father is one that is UNDIVIDED yet so UNIQUE to each CHILD according to His PLEASURES and to that of the TRIUNE and INFINITE GOD! For He speaks to each HEART and CHOOSES WHOM HE WILLS!

O WILL of the FATHER, UNITED to You in OBEDIENCE, the Undivided HEART becomes ever more RESPLENDANT in GLORY as she reveals to you her SECRETS and UNITES it to YOU in a CONTEMPLATION of DIVINE LOVE so pleasing to the HEART of YOUR SON! For in the UNION of the WILLS we have been brought to an ATONEMENT OF LOVE so GRACIOUS and so BEAUTIFUL that the LOVE of the SON is ever more RENEWED and BROUGHT TO THE ALTAR ONCE AGAIN FOR AN OBLATION OF DIVINE UNION!

UNION only CHARITY can bring through a VOW made for the CHRIST, poor, chaste and obedient! UNION with the ONE who is ALL LOVE so that all of MANKIND may know of this GRACIOUS and INFINITE GOD who wishes to be so INTIMATE with His CHILDREN!

And yet, so often bring to Him a GIFT that is not always so FULL of HIS SPLENDOUR!

And yet, what does He do, HE BRINGS to us HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON as MEDIATOR and VICTIM PRIEST to expiate what is lacking and receives HER GIFT and REFLECTS UPON HER THE AWESOMENESS of His DIVINE GOODNESS and brings her to the Altar to be evermore RENEWED and LOVED by the Heart of the Father!

O AWESOME SACRIFICE of the Father, Your SON IS IN LOVE and wishes to BRING HIS BRIDE to the ALTAR for a UNION of DIVINE MYSTERY that only the SECRETS of HEAVEN can only be REVEALED to a HEART so PURE and UNDIVIDED for the ETERNAL SPLENDOURS of the KINGDOM! For we merit HEAVEN only through the BLOOD of YOUR DIVINE SON so GENEROUSLY OFFERED to Man through His CHASTITY, Poverty, and OBEDIENCE! O Splendour of the Father, bring forth to me a RESURGANCE of DIVINE VOCATIONS to the Evangelical Counsels of Poverty, Chastity and Obedience so that in IMITATION of Your Divine Son the whole CREATION may KNOW of the GLORY that is to COME for those that have been WILLFULLY CHOSEN for the KINGDOM of ETERNAL GLORY! O IMMACULATE Mary, Mother of PRIESTS, pray for us who have recourse to thee. Amen.