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Following is a series of letters concerning the discernment and formation of a fictional young woman, Melanie (now Sister Mary Rosaria), as she discerns her vocation to be a cloistered Dominican nun. How fictional is fictional? Events may not have a one-on-one correspondence with events at the monastery, as we wish to keep our day-to-day life veiled behind the enclosure, but these letters do accurately depict Dominican monastic life as it is typically lived here at Marbury. For example, does Sister report that the nuns planted corn? This doesn't mean that we planted corn that day; but it does mean that we do garden, and sometimes do grow corn, although perhaps this year we decided to plant zucchini and did so last month!
On this page the Vocation Letters are presented beginning with the first (oldest) letter. To read them beginning with the most recent letter, see the Vocations Letters category.
The following is a letter to a fictional young woman discerning a Dominican monastic vocation. It is the first in a series which will accompany her discernment and formation. The name of the Novice Mistress is also fictional: "Magistra" is Latin for "lady teacher."
Ave + Maria
Dear Melanie,
Prayerful Advent greetings from Marbury! We received your letter expressing interest in our community, and sharing about your family and your own discernment. May Our Lord be praised for what He is working in your heart! Yes, it may be possible to arrange a discernment visit. Would you be able to come over your Christmas break from college? Please let us know.
In answer to your question about discerning the contemplative life, it seems to be a common misconception that "extroverts should be active, introverts should be contemplative." However our community history does not bear that out. We have had outgoing, "extroverted" Sisters as well as more withdrawn, "introverted" types. God calls people of all temperaments to live for Him in the contemplative life. The question in discerning a vocation to a particular religious community involves two elements: first, the desire to be consecrated to God through a life of obedience in that particular charism; second, qualities suitable for the life (such as good health, appropriate maturity, etc.). The Dominican contemplative life calls for an interior solitude with God, which might be seen as "introverted," along with an intense community life of prayer, work, recreation, everything—which is more on the "extroverted" side. So really a balance is best.
We have included some of our vocation literature with this letter. Let us know if you have any other questions! We will keep you in our prayers as we enter this last period of Advent. The great "O" antiphons begin today in anticipation of Our Lord's birth. We hope you have a blessed Christmas.
In Our Lady,
Sister Mary Magistra
Also see: Vocations, Vocation Contact Form.
The following is a letter to a fictional young woman discerning a Dominican monastic vocation. It is the second in a series of Vocation Letters which will accompany her discernment and formation.
Ave + Maria
Dear Melanie,
Joyful greetings on this feast of the Baptism of the Lord. We're glad to hear you enjoyed such a good Christmas holiday with your family. Our Christmas was very beautiful as well—Father sang Midnight Mass in Latin with a solemnity truly befitting Christ's birth. In the monastery the Liturgy carries us through all the seasons of the Church year, so that we can experience again in ourselves the graces of each of the mysteries of Christ's life. Each year seems to bring something new even in the midst of all our traditional celebrations.
I am glad you asked about the role of our vocation as cloistered nuns in an Order dedicated to apostolic preaching, because this is so central to our identity as Dominican nuns. We are contemplative nuns, "free for God alone," as our Holy Father St. Dominic founded us to be, but at the same time we are associated with the "holy preaching" of his Dominican friars by our prayer and penance. There is a beautiful passage from the letter of Fr. Anecitus Fernandez, O.P., the Master General who introduced our new Constitutions. He says: "The contemplative life of the nuns is of the greatest benefit to the apostolate of the Order, not only because, like other contemplatives, they offer their prayers and their life to God on behalf of the apostolic needs of the Church, but also because their contemplation and their life, inasmuch as they are truly and properly Dominican, are from the beginning and by their very nature ordered to the apostolate which the Dominican family exercises as a whole, and in which alone the fullness of the Dominican vocation is to be found." It is a great motive for fidelity and joy in living our cloistered, contemplative life, to know that we are living it on behalf of and in union with our brethren the Dominican friars (and the other members of the Dominican family) in their consecration to God and in their preaching for the salvation of souls.
That is also why we recommend reading the Spiritual Motherhood for Priests booklet (PDF) published by the Congregation for the Clergy. Although it is not about Dominican nuns, the stories it contains illustrate so vividly the value of a hidden life of prayer and penance for the salvation of souls. We hope that is a help.
Concerning your visit, the dates you mention work well for us. Flying is no problem; just send us your flight information and we will have a friend pick you up at the airport. We hope your semester has gotten off to a good start, and we will look forward to seeing you next month!
With prayers in Our Lady,
"Sister Mary Magistra"
View the Vocations Page, contact the Vocation Directress.
This installment in our fictional Vocation Letter series is from Melanie to her older sister Clare.
Dear Clare,
Thank you for your prayers during my latest vocation visit, to the Dominican Nuns in Marbury, Alabama. You know I have been increasingly drawn to contemplative life, but this was my first visit to a cloistered order.
You are probably wondering, "What is it like to visit a cloister?" Since the nuns stayed in the enclosure and I stayed outside, how much "come and see"ing could there be? I found the monastery to be amazingly simple and radiantly beautiful. Yes, I stayed outside the cloistered part, in the small guest area. Through a door at one end of the hall I could walk right into the chapel, where Our Lord awaited me in the Blessed Sacrament; at the other end, the door opened to the parlor, where the visitors' section is separated from the nuns' section by a railing and grille. I thought the grille might be an obstacle in talking to Sister, but after a few minutes I didn't even notice it. There is also a grille in the chapel separating the sanctuary from the choir (the part where the nuns pray).
Praying the Office with the nuns was incredible. They gave me a little booklet with the chant so I could follow along with the antiphons and with the Latin psalms and canticles of Lauds and Vespers. (Compline has its own booklet—with the Dominican Salve Regina for the Salve procession!) The chant itself is so beautiful. I was also able to speak with the Vocation Directress, who answered many of my questions about discerning a cloistered contemplative vocation and about the Dominican monastic life. It was also helpful and a lot of fun to hear a few of the Sisters' vocation stories—some more recent, one from the very first Sister to enter this monastery back in the '40s! She's been here 68 years! Do you know what she told me? "It's been the best life."
My strongest impression from the weekend is of simplicity and peace. From the chapel, with its simple concrete block walls and holy statues immersed in peace and the presence of God, to the grounds (they have some nice wooded parts in front, lots of pine trees), to the spirit of the Sisters. It really is the spirit of Our Lady, too. Sister says that they are hidden away "under the mantle of Our Lady." That is a really beautiful image.
I could go on and on, but I'll tell you more when I talk with you next. Please keep praying for me to know what is God's will!
With love,
The complete series of Vocation Letters can be read here. See also Vocations, Vocation Retreats.
The following letter in our fictional Vocation Letter series speaks of the role of Marian Consecration in our vocation as cloistered Dominican Nuns at Marbury.
Ave + Maria
Dear Melanie,
Prayerful greetings from the Dominican Nuns during this month of Our Lady. It was truly a delight to meet you this past spring, and to receive your most recent letter. All the Sisters have been asking, "Have you heard from Melanie?" so it was most welcome.
How good to hear that you and your sister will be preparing to make St. Louis Marie de Montfort's Total Consecration to Jesus through Mary on the feast of Our Lady's Assumption. Have you finished reading his True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin? Each Sister here has made the full preparation and official Consecration. During the year we make a formal renewal using a shorter form of the Total Consecration on each Marian feast day–and there are quite a few of them! Our devotion to Our Lady is like the air we breathe–all around us, all the time, present in each activity of our lives as Mary's Guard of Honor. Our devotion especially focuses on the "Ave Maria" (as you see at the head of our letters) because we devote ourselves to the "Perpetual Rosary" which overflows from the Hour of Guard to all the actions of the day.
Our practice of renewing our Consecration each morning upon rising (and each evening before retiring) is just one example of how interwoven our Blessed Mother is with our life, which is really to say with our giving ourselves to Jesus for the salvation of souls. Our monastery's Custom Book holds her out to us as an example in everything: "It is indeed our desire that we should so well reproduce in ourselves the virtues and dispositions of this ever Blessed Virgin that, our lives being wholly in accord with her example, we might become, to Jesus, so many 'other Marys." Of course, the exterior practices are meant to intensify our interior practice of living through, with, by, and for Mary that we may live more perfectly through, with, by, and for Jesus.
We will be praying for you as you prepare for your Consecration and as you enjoy your time at home this summer. Thank you for your prayers for us, and especially for the other young women who are writing and visiting.
In Our Lady,
"Sister Mary Magistra"
This following installment in our fictional Vocation Letter series touches on some difficulties parents may face in understanding and accepting their daughter's vocation to the cloistered life. Some imagine that girls who enter the cloister aren't close to their families. Not so! We loved our families very much in the world, and love them even more now in Christ — and by fidelity to our cloistered vocation, we pray for an eternity with them in Heaven.
Ave + Maria
Dear Melanie,
Prayerful greetings from Marbury during this month of the Precious Blood. We hope you are enjoying summer—we certainly are here, with a good deal of rain and a flourishing garden.
The concerns expressed by your parents as you become more serious about a cloistered vocation seem pretty normal to us. Often even those who are very supportive of a religious vocation in general, find the cloistered life hard to understand and support. "My daughter is so talented! She won't be fulfilled or happy in the cloister." And also, of course, the reality of the sacrifice involved is often hard to accept. Many of our Sisters can tell you that their family's first visit to the monastery helped enormously. When Mom and Dad experience first-hand the peace to be found here, and see for themselves the joy of the nuns, they understand much better why such a life could be attractive and fulfilling for their own child. Giving oneself totally to God—living here on earth a little foretaste of every person's ultimate vocation to union with God in Heaven—is an ultimately fulfilling and joyful life.
That is not to say that it does not also involve sacrifice. The cloister does mean a real separation from family and friends—not because such relationships are bad, but because the radicality of this way of belonging to Christ includes giving up those true goods for the sake of the higher good. We still love our families dearly, of course, but it is a love in and through the love of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. We entrust our families to His Heart, pray for them, keep in touch, and enjoy their parlor visits several times a year, but we know that we no longer live in their midst. Our life is now "hidden with Christ in God." Certainly, it takes time to adjust, but Our Lord showers many graces on both the nun and her family for this generous sacrifice. "We brought a whole suitcase full of graces home with us," said one mother after visiting her daughter as a postulant for the first time. It can also be a great consolation to parents to know that this daughter, at least, is safe in the Heart of Christ, in a world in which so many children fall away from the Faith.
We will be praying for you and your family, and looking forward to seeing you again soon. We're so glad you could squeeze in another visit before heading back to college. Keep us in your prayers too—especially the young women attending our Vocation Retreat.
In Our Lady,
"Sister Mary Magistra"
See also Vocation Letters, Vocation Retreat, Vocations Home.
Part of our series of "Vocation Letters" to a fictional young woman discerning religious life, the following letter considers the appropriate time to enter religious life, and the difference between preparation and delay.
Ave + Maria
Dear Melanie,
Joyful greetings from Marbury on this feast of the Queenship of Our Lady! It was such a delight to visit with you this past week; Our Lady certainly obtained a great grace for you during your stay, so soon after your Total Consecration to her! How many more she has in store as well. We know you are preparing to return to college soon but we wanted to get this note out as soon as possible.
When is the best time to enter religious life? Without delay. Usually a time of preparation is required, at least to complete the application and settle one's affairs; for some, this may also mean finishing high school or college, depending on the requirements of the community, or working to pay off a certain amount of debt. Preparation is different from delay. As soon as you have decided to respond to Our Lord's invitation to religious life, and are morally certain which community you should enter, don't delay. Remember Peter and Andrew's response to Our Lord in the Gospel? "Immediately they left their nets and followed him."
One of our Sisters hoped to enter a convent after high school, but when she received a scholarship for university studies she went off to college instead. During her freshman year, however, Our Lord gave her the grace to realize that the excitement of college social life and studies was distracting her from her vocation. "No," she said to herself, "This won't do. If I keep on like this, I will lose my vocation. Go now." After the spring semester ended she prepared to enter the monastery—but her brother was being discharged from the army! Should she wait to visit with him? This time our Mother Foundress was the instrument of God's grace. "Come now," she wrote. One delay leads to another. Jesus' invitation is not to dawdle with the goods of the world, but to leave everything and follow Him. Sister did.
After talking with Mother, we think that it would be best for you finish your last year of college while you complete the entrance application and prepare to enter. Your idea of bringing a group of girls down from your school sounds good as well—one of our Sisters managed to bring two different groups to visit during the nine months before she entered!
Be assured of all of our prayers for you. Please keep us and the other young women discerning with us in your prayers as well.
In Our Lady,
"Sister Mary Magistra"
What happens after one applies to enter the monastery? Find out here: Stages in Formation. See also Vocations, Vocation Retreats.
In this letter to a fictional young woman applying to enter the monastery, Sister addresses two temptations facing those preparing to enter religious life. Read all Vocation Letters here.
Ave + Maria
Dear Melanie,
Prayerful greetings from Marbury on the feast of our patron, St. Jude! It's been great to hear from you about how your semester is going, and how you are growing in your desire for this vocation. As you continue to discern and to prepare your heart in the months ahead, you should beware of two "preparation pitfalls.": first, "living it up" now, "while you have the chance!" and second, trying to live according to some grim penitential idea of life in the cloister.
St. Therese of Lisieux mentions the first preparation pitfall in her Story of a Soul. During the three months between her acceptance and her entrance to the monastery, she was initially tempted not to lead a life "as well regulated as had been my custom." It's easy to imagine this temptation: After all, a girl might think, I'm soon going to embrace a life of total abnegation! To sacrifice everything to God in the cloister! This is my LAST CHANCE to indulge myself–I'd better eat more ice-cream NOW!
But Therese wasn't taken in by this. "I soon understood the value of the time I was being offered. I made a resolution to give myself up more than ever to a serious and mortified life." Did she then fall into the second preparation pitfall, and try to live according to some preconceived notion of cloistered life? You know–fast every day, sleep on jagged potsherds like St. Rose of Lima, rise every night to pray for hours, deny oneself every pleasure. Ice-cream? Unthinkable!
The Little Flower did not make that error either. "When I say mortified, this is not to give the impression that I performed acts of penance. Alas, I never made any." Instead, she says, "My mortifications consisted in breaking my will, always so ready to impose itself on others, in holding back a reply, in rendering little services without any recognition, . . . etc., etc. It was through the practice of these nothings that I prepared myself to become the fiancée of Jesus, and I cannot express how much this waiting left me with sweet memories."
This points to an excellent preparation for religious life: fidelity to one's daily duty out of love for God; cheerful self-sacrifice in being kind, patient, and helpful to others; and denying oneself in little things in order to seek satisfaction not in creatures but in God. So, when the occasion arises, enjoy some ice-cream! At the same time you can tell Our Lord that He is your first love, simply by taking just a wee bit less than you want, or choosing your second favorite flavor rather than your first. Ask our Blessed Mother to help you give your heart to Jesus with increasing faithfulness during this time of discernment and expectation.
I have more I should say on that, but the bell just rang for Office—"the voice of Our Lord calling me!" You are in our thoughts and prayers. Please pray for us as well.
In Our Lady,
"Sister Mary Magistra"
Don't worry–in real life, the Vocation Directress writes to applicants much more frequently than the correspondence posted in this fictional Vocation Letters series!
Ave + Maria
Dear Melanie,
Happy Feast of the Presentation! This is a special feast for us, traditionally closing the Christmas season with the celebration of the Purification of Our Lady and Presentation of Jesus in the Temple. For centuries this feast was known as Candlemas, because on this day the faithful brought donations of candles to the church to supply the altars and shrines throughout the year. Even now the liturgy retains a special blessing of candles (the Sisters work hard ahead of time to bring all the candle boxes into the sanctuary for Father to bless), and Mass begins with the Sisters processing through the choir bearing lit candles and singing Dominican chant. Our own brother Blessed Henry Suso used to make his spiritual preparation for this feast on the theme of "candles" as well, making a spiritual "three-standed candle" by special prayers in honor of Our Lady's virtues.
The Feast of the Presentation is also World Day for Consecrated Life—a fitting day to write and let you know that just yesterday we received the last of the papers for your application for the Aspirancy! Now we will be able to take your application to Council. (When one of our Sisters was applying to enter, Mother mentioned the "Council" to her. Sister, as a young girl in the world, understandably didn't know that much about religious life. "Council?" she thought. "Hm, I guess that must be something in the Vatican. Why would they send my information there? They don't know anything about me in Rome!" Happily Mother was able to explain to her that the Council is simply the group of four Sisters elected by the Chapter—all the Solemnly Professed nuns—to advise the prioress in important matters. The entrance of a new member is certainly an important matter.)
We very much enjoyed your last letter about your adventures on the March for Life. We have received quite a bit of snow here, too, for Alabama anyway. Our Sisters from the North East and the Midwest are always excited to have some real winter weather!
With prayers in Our Lady and her little Son,
"Sister Mary Magistra"
on behalf of Mother and all the Sisters
- What is the Aspirancy? See our Stages in Formation Page.
- Interested in a Dominican monastic vocation? Contact the Vocation Directress.
- Read all the Vocation Letters.
Our Vocation Letter series continues with this letter addressed to her grandmother by our fictional discerner, Melanie. It sure is hard to keep up with her progress!
Dear Grandma,
Praised be Jesus Christ, now and forever! I am so glad you were able to attend my graduation. It was such a whirlwind of finishing up finals, packing up to move back home, and the whole excitement of commencement weekend. Me, a college graduate, and almost ready to enter the cloister? I can hardly believe it!
Mother suggested May 31, the feast of the Visitation, as the day to begin my Aspirancy. The nuns always like to plan important events as much as possible on significant feast days, especially feasts of Our Lady. In traveling "in haste" to assist her cousin Elizabeth, Our Lady was responding to God's call with great generosity and without doubting His word or His guidance. May God grant me that same grace as I begin the Aspirancy in the cloister!
Do pray for me though, because I do want to follow God's Will, and even amid all my excitement and the different preparations I've made over the past few weeks, I am still a little nervous and uncertain. After all, I've never been inside a cloister before. I've visited the nuns several times, spoken with them in the parlor, joined in singing the Office, but I know that actually living the life will be a very difference experience.
By the time you receive this letter, I will already be experiencing my first few days in the monastery. I will be staying about four weeks for my Aspirancy. I will be sure to visit you once I return home! If all goes well, I may be able to enter for good before the summer is over, God willing.
Again, please pray for me, Grandma! I will keep you in my prayers, too—I will be doing a lot of praying in the next month!
With love,
You Might Also Like
- Previous Vocation Letters in our series
- Learn more about the Aspirancy on our Stages in Formation page
- Next weekend's Vocation Retreat (please keep all the young women in your prayers–and us too!)
What was it like inside the enclosure? Now home from her Aspirancy, our fictional discerner Melanie writes this letter to her fictional Vocation Directress/Novice Mistress, Sister Mary Magistra.
Dear Sister Mary Magistra,
Praised be Jesus Christ, now and forever! I hope you are all having a wonderful July–are the figs ripe yet? It feels like my Aspirancy ended so quickly, there is so much more I would like to experience!
Reflecting on my recent four weeks living in the monastery, I understand much better your warning that the Aspirancy isn't long enough to know "what it's like to be a Dominican nun." For the first part I was simply trying to master the rubrics of the monastic life–when to bow during the Office, how to make the processions for graces at meals, where to hang up my–I mean "our"!–apron. But there are three things that really stand out to me from my experience: the silence, the order, and community life.
I guess I never noticed before quite how LOUD my days usually are. Just listening to the radio on the way to the store, or chatting with my family constantly . . . not bad things, but many of them empty and distracting. The silence in the monastery really brought that home to me. That is one reason why the ORDER was so striking and apparent to me as well. "Here I am at 2 o'clock, doing my spiritual reading AGAIN!" To have the whole day almost "automatically" unfold so that all the different elements lead you to God–how awesome! I just love the Office and the chant, and how you are always hearing the words of Scripture and letting that form your whole life.
Finally, it was such a blessed experience to be able to join you all "inside" (the cloister) in your community life. The silence was great, but it also made me really look forward to talking at recreation! And the Sisters are so dear, and the novices so much fun!
[Here Melanie goes on to ask some questions she has for the Novice Mistress. We are sharing this fictional correspondence, but we can't share everything! For instance, since Melanie wants to return as a Postulant, she must write a formal letter to Mother Prioress asking to be accepted. That will all happen (fictionally) behind the scenes . . . if the community accepts her, our next update here should tell about her entrance.]
Give my love to Mother and all the Sisters! Tell them I am praying for them and ask them to be sure and keep on praying for me!
Sincerely in Christ,
You might also like:
- Melanie's last letter: Beginning the Aspirancy
- How fictional is fictional, anyway?
- Learn more about the Aspirancy on our Stages in Formation page
- Or some reflections on Silence and on being Good Soil for the Word
Interested in learning more about our life? Contact the Vocation Directress.
Our fictional postulant Sister Melanie writes home to her family in this continuation of our Vocation Letter series.
Ave + Maria
Dear Mom, Dad, Josh, Zach, and Tessa,
Happy feast of the Holy Name of Mary! How are you all? I hope your new school year got off to a good start. Sister Mary Magistra said I could write home today, and send you this picture from when I entered the monastery last month. You can see Mother handing me the crucifix and side rosary as part of the official ceremony of beginning the postulancy. The crucifix I wear on a cord around my neck; the large, black rosary swings from my belt, on the left side just as the nuns wear their brown rosary. (Where the knights would have worn their sword!)
I have become very familiar with this Rosary over the past weeks, since as a postulant I kiss it for various monastic ceremonies when the other Sisters kiss their scapular. Both the scapular and the rosary are blessed objects, and represent devotion to Our Lady, so that makes sense. We also pray the Ave Maria (Hail Mary) frequently to bless various activities and keep recollected throughout the day, and each time reach down to pray on a bead. What a beautiful sense it gives me of the whole day strung together, bead after bead, for Jesus and Mary.
I am so glad that you all were able to drive me down to the monastery. Thank you so much for your letters, and tell everyone who sent a note how much I appreciate their prayers for me. You are all in my prayers. I hope to write you more next month!
Love and prayers in Our Lady,
Sister Melanie
P.S. I get "Sister" before my name now since I am a postulant.
You Might Also Like . . .
- A reflection on the Holy Name of Mary
- or on the Rosary, Spiritual Motherhood, and Spiritual Warfare.
- Other most recent Vocation Letters in this series.
- An explanation of the Stages in Formation to become a Dominican Nun.
Can you see yourself embarking like Melanie on a life totally dedicated to God and Our Lady? To learn more, read our Vocation Page, and Contact the Vocation Directress.
This letter is written by our fictional postulant Sister Melanie to her little sister Tessa.
Ave + Maria
Dear Tessa,
Praised be Jesus Christ, now and forever! How are you doing? I was thinking of you especially at the beginning of this month when we celebrated the feast of the Guardian Angels. That little prayer which you like so much we pray every day here:
Angel of God, my guardian dear, to whom God's love commits me here, ever this day be at my side, to light, to guard, to rule, to guide.
Our Novice Mistress also read us a passage from our Custom Book about the angels in Our Lady's service, who keep busy carrying the "sheaves of our Aves" up before the Throne of God. How beautiful! So I think of them as I pray the Rosary during my Hour of Guard. Living in the monastery, so focused on God, I find that I am thinking of the holy angels and calling on their help much more than before.
I have another "angel," too, that I wanted to write you about: this angel is one of the novices, whom Sister assigned to watch over me during the early days of my aspirancy and postulancy, to watch over me and help me learn where things are and what to do in the monastery. She is a big help, making sure I know the rubrics to follow for the different ceremonies, helping me find my place in our Office books for the next hour of prayer, and keeping her eye out (just like an angel!) so I don't get lost while we're singing! I hope that I can do as good a job when it comes my turn to be an "angel" for someone new.
When you get a chance, write and tell me how your hamster is doing with his new wheel. Mom said in her note that it was quite elaborate! I hope you are being "angelic" at home, too. You are in my prayers–please keep on praying for me!
With love and prayers in Our Lady,
Sister Melanie
Read More:
Browse the rest of our Vocation Letter Series here.
Learn about vocations to our monastery, or contact our Vocation Directress.
This entry continues our series of "Vocation Letters" concerning our fictional postulant, Sister Melanie. Here she tells her family how nuns live the liturgical year. Sister Mary Magistra is our fictional Novice Mistress/Vocations Directress—"Magistra" means "lady teacher" in Latin.
Ave + Maria
Dear Mom, Dad, Josh, Zach, and Tessa,
Joyful Eastertide greetings! Christ is risen—indeed He is risen! I hope you all had a wonderful Easter. I was so thrilled to see all your letters in the bundle of mail Mother had saved up during Lent to give us at Easter.
When I first was getting to know the Sisters, one of the older Sisters mentioned how intense the experience of Holy Week and Easter was for her during her first year in the monastery. She had always attended the services while growing up, but the way we live out the liturgical year here in the monastery is so all-encompassing! Now that I have experienced both Christmas and Easter here at Marbury, I can assure you that what she said is true.
I wasn't sure what to expect as we went into Advent. The Office books changed, and I discovered that the Advent hymns and antiphons and readings, the purple of the vestments and the Advent candles, the solemnity of the Mass without any organ accompaniment, all reflected the long dark nights of December in longing and anticipation for the coming of the Redeemer. Then Christmas itself! Not simply the glorious celebration of the Nativity of Our Lord, but the grace of the Infant Christ overflowing into the feasts of St. Stephen, St. John, the Holy Innocents, then Mary, Mother of God and the feast of Epiphany! What a celebration!
Lent, of course, has a different, more penitential tone of preparation and purification in union with the sufferings of Our Lord. It's like a desert journey preparing our souls for "dies tua, / per quam reflorent omnia" "Your day wherein all things bloom anew," as the Lauds hymn says: the Paschal Feast of the Lamb! So we say special prayers, and pray the Passion Verses every Friday . . . Holy Week itself is like the summit of the mountain towards which we have been journeying. Everything we do becomes focused on living out this week in the Liturgy—preparing the palms, the cleaning, the purple drapes and the Repository for Holy Thursday. One of the Novices impressed me with her enthusiasm for the chants which are so powerful during this season: the chants for Good Friday, the Reproaches of our Crucified Lord and our own pleas for mercy. And we have special chants for Tenebrae too.
Then, at the Easter Vigil, all the intensity of Holy Week bursts out into joy, joy, joy, with flowers and organ and singing and light and a whole eight days of celebration! And more chant! The Haec Dies, and the Christus Resurgens! Since we don't have to return to work or school, we can really enter into the celebration for the whole week—and everything changes, from the penitential atmosphere of Lent all throughout the house, to the radiance of Easter when now, finally, our interior joy can match the superabundance of flowers blooming all around down here in the South.
Since this was my first time being here in the monastery for the Paschal Triduum, I had to use of lot of energy just following everything and trying to turn the page at the right time, but I am so looking forward to having these ceremonies grow into a part of me over the years. That's what Sister Mary Magistra told me: as cloistered nuns, we don't "go anywhere"; we "stay at home all the time"; and we don't "do" any external apostolate (I mean, we have plenty of work here—the laundry we will always have with us!—but we don't have the occupation of an apostolate). So for us, it is truly the liturgy that gives direction and movement to our lives, drawing us ever deeper each year into union with the Mysteries of Christ, "whom we desire to love solely."
That is all for now. After finishing up this epistle I will barely be in time for "light's out"! I hope you all have a wonderful Easter season. Please keep up your prayers for me—you know I always keep you in mine!
Love in Our Lady,
Sister Melanie
Are you wondering how our fictional postulant, Sister Melanie, is doing? She won't be a postulant much longer! Below is the latest update in our Vocation Letters series.
Ave + Maria
Dear Mom, Dad, Zach, Josh, and Tessa,
Praised be Jesus Christ—now and forever! I have such good news for you: I have been accepted to receive the habit and begin my novitiate on August 22, the feast of the Queenship of Our Lady!
The past month or so has been a time of evaluation. How have I been doing in the monastery, and do I want to go ahead to the next step? My answer to this: Yes! What I have learned and experienced here in the monastery since my entrance last August only makes me want to enter more deeply into this life of total giving to Jesus through Mary for the salvation of souls. After I answered some questions for Sister Mary Magistra, the monastery Council and Chapter voted to accept me to begin the novitiate. I am so excited as I look forward to this next step in formation as a Dominican nun.
I know you are wondering, "So what happens now?" Well, the Sister in charge of sewing came and took my measurements for the habit. We Sisters in the Novitiate will be helping her sew the new habits and alter a few old ones—"preparing the trousseau" as the Sisters say. Sister Mary Magistra likes to tell us that the habit is our wedding dress that we get to wear every day of our lives. The habit marks us as belonging to Jesus and Mary, although timing-wise Solemn Profession is a better parallel with the commitment of wedding vows. (As a novice I will wear a white veil to show that I am still "in training" and have not yet made vows.)
Also, Vestition is the time when we receive our new religious name. I will have to tell you about that in my next letter! I hope you are all doing well, I keep you in my prayers, and I can't wait to see you all again when you come in August!
Love and prayers in Our Lady,
Sister Melanie
Learn more about Vocations, Vocation Visits (Retreat), or Stages in Formation; or Contact the Vocations Directress.
Happy feast of the Nativity of Our Lady! This is the last Vocation Letter from Sr. Melanie as a postulant. We had hoped to post this letter before her fictional entrance to the novitiate on August 22, the Queenship of Our Lady, but better late than never. A letter on her vestition will be coming "soon."
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August 13
Dear Mom, Dad, Zach, Josh, and Tessa,
Praised be Jesus Christ, now and forever! I promised to write you about how we choose our religious name, so I am trying to squeeze this letter in so that it will reach you before you leave home to come down to Marbury for my vestition.
Sister Mary Magistra told us that the custom of taking a new name has existed in our Dominican Order at least since the 14th century reform movement under Bl. Raymond of Capua (who was St. Catherine of Siena's confessor and biographer) and Bl. John Dominic. Taking a new name symbolizes an important change or new start in life–think of Abraham in the Old Testament, and St. Peter and St. Paul in the New.
Each community has its own customs concerning choosing a religious name. Even in our monastery it has differed over the years. Some Sisters were given their names by our Foundresses; other Sisters were inspired to request the very same name that the superior had in mind for them! Usually a Sister chooses her patron and title because that Saint or mystery in the lives of Jesus and Mary has particular significance for her. We all take the name of Mary first, in honor of our Blessed Lady. We may also choose a second name and a title, or just a title alone.
Although the Novice Mistress and Prioress approve the name, it is a DEAD SECRET to everyone else until the very end of the Vestition ceremony when the postulant has been clothed in the holy habit of our Order. Then the Mother Prioress reads out: "In the world, you were known as Miss N. N.; in the Order, you shall be known as Sister Mary N. of N.!" What suspense!
Please pray for me! Tonight I begin my private "10 day" retreat in preparation for receiving the habit. I do so desire to make a good retreat and begin my novitiate well. And I am looking forward to seeing you soon.
In Our Lady,
Sister Melanie
What is the difference between a postulant and a novice? Find out here: Stages in Formation. See also Vocations, Vocation Retreats.
At last, our fictional postulant Sister Melanie has become our fictional novice Sister Mary Rosaria of Divine Mercy. In this Vocation Letter she shares the story of her vestition with her grandmother. The year of postulancy is a year of seeking to become part of the community—"postulare" is the Latin for "to request." Receiving the habit—Vestition—is a sign of reception into the Dominican Order, but not of consecration, which occurs through profession.
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Dear Grandma,
Prayerful greetings during this month of the Holy Rosary! I hope you are doing well. I celebrated my very first feast day in the monastery last week on the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary. Since I received the name "Sister Mary Rosaria" almost two month ago, my daily Hour of Guard praying the Rosary has meant so much more to me. It's as if our Blessed Mother uses these mysteries of Jesus, all strung together in the Rosary, as the "bands of love" to draw me closer to Him and conform me more closely to His image.
My title, "of Divine Mercy," honors the Jubilee of Mercy which begins soon, and the great mercy which God has shown in my life and which is a hallmark of our Order. "What do you seek?" the Prioress asks each candidate at the entrance to the postulancy, novitiate, and profession. "God's mercy and yours," is the response.
That is how my Vestition ceremony began this past August: asking for God's mercy and the mercy of Mother and the Sisters as I firmly resolved to "follow the Lord Jesus according to the evangelical way of life of our Father St. Dominic." I knelt before Mother as she and Sister Mary Magistra clothed me in the white tunic, belt and rosary, white scapular and black cappa of our Dominican Order, and the white veil that marks me as a novice. Why do they clothe me? Because the Dominican monastic life is a tradition I am receiving in obedience from my superiors and all the Dominicans who have gone before me for the past 800 years.
If you see a picture of me from the day of my Vestition, you will notice I am wearing a crown of thorns. This isn't part of the usual attire of a novice! Towards the end of the Vestition ceremony, Mother offers the novice two crowns, one of flowers, one of thorns. This tradition comes from an event in the life of St. Catherine of Siena:
Once, when she complained to Our Lord about a bitter slander against her, Jesus appeared to her and offered her two crowns, one jeweled and one of thorns: she could choose whichever she liked now, and the other would be hers in eternity. The Saint responded: "I choose in this life to be evermore conformed and made like to Thee, my Lord and Savior, and cheerfully to bear crosses and thorns for Thy love, as Thou hast for mine."
We, too, choose the crown of thorns in this life, so as to receive in Heaven the crown of glory from our Spouse. It is very striking to see, even here on earth, the crown of real roses placed on the head of a deceased nun in her casket as token of that crown we pray she in enjoying in eternity.
Please pray for me, Grandma, that during these next two years of novitiate I may "assiduously follow our Holy Father St. Dominic" so that I may be "ready for the day of my espousals to Jesus Christ"! You are always in my prayers.
Love in Our Lady,
Sister Mary Rosaria
What to Read Next:
Sister Mary Rosaria's story: Preparing to Receive the Habit; Choosing a Religious Name (can you spot the hints in the illustration?); all the Vocation Letters.
Real Life: learn about the Stages in Formation; see our Vocation Page, Vocation Retreats, or inquire about a Vocation to our community.
After a hiatus of two years, we continue following the story of our fictional novice, Sister Mary Rosaria, taking up her life where we left her after her Vestition. For the history of this series, see our Vocation Letters page.
Ave + Maria
Dear Mom,
Joyful greetings as we close this month of the Holy Rosary! I have been meaning to write you about my life as a novice, as I know you have been wondering how things have changed for me in the months following my Vestition (reception of the habit).
I have found it to be a beautiful experience of entering more deeply into this vocation as a Dominican novice—even literally, as I "enter into" the habit each morning as I dress myself in this sign of dedication to Christ and of belonging to this Dominican community. Of course, it takes some time to get used to wearing a flowing white garment every day, and to handle the white Dominican scapular that hangs down in front and back, a sign of Our Lady's loving care all around us. Looking so much more like a nun, and responding to my new name each day, reminds me continually to strive to correspond to God's call by giving myself more fully to Jesus and Mary for the salvation of souls.
As a novice, I am assigned new roles in our singing of the Divine Office, which is lovely, and I have a greater responsibility to give a good example to the Sisters younger than I. Most daily activities, though, remain the same: my daily Hour of Guard praying the Rosary, our novitiate classes, helping cook on the days the novitiate helps in the kitchen, enjoying recreation with the novitiate or with Mother and all the Sisters, being ready for whatever big or little project Sister Mary Magistra has planned for our work period or to do at recreation! It is mainly my perspective which continues to grow as I enter more deeply into the life of a Dominican nun.
I keep you all in my prayers—pray for me and give my love to everyone at home!
With love in Our Lady,
Sister Mary Rosaria
Further Reading:
- What is a day like in our life? See our Daily Life page.
- How does being a "novice" fit in to the process of becoming a Dominican nun? See our Stages in Formation page.
- Could this life be your vocation? See our Vocations Page or contact our Vocation Directress.


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30 October 2004 Comedy 121 mins
In pre-war Japan, a government censor tries to make the writer for a theater troupe alter his comedic script. As they work with and against each other, the script ends up developing in unexpected ways.
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Data center is a physical or virtual infrastructure used by enterprises to house computer, server and networking systems and components for the company's information technology needs. A data center generally includes redundant or backup power supplies, redundant data communications connections, environmental controls (e.g., air conditioning, fire suppression) and various security devices.
In the last few decades, we've been building a variety of data centers in the world and now there are almost more than 500,000 data centers around the world. As most people's impression like, data center is an unreachable and mystical place where contains a lot of serves and devices, secure and reliable, grand and tidy. Thus, most of the data centers are built in some remote or low temperature place. With the growth of technology advances and energy needs, data centers around the world will trend to high-tech, secure, and eco-friendly inspiration. Some interesting data centers which are with innovative designs or in weirdest locations arouses to the people's interest. Today, Fiberstore will bring you for a visit to these fascinating and innovative data centers around the world.
Pionen Data Center, Sweden
Pionen Data Center lies in an underground bunker 100 feet beneath Stockholm, Sweden. This former military bunker was designed to withstand a blast from a hydrogen bomb. It's in a good environment with the granite cave, there are greenhouses, an artificial waterfall and a 686-gallon salt-water fish tank. It has once been well known for hosting two servers of the famous site Wikileaks.
MareNostrum Center, Spain
MareNostrum is located in the the former Torre Girona Chapel on the campus of the Technical University of Catalonia. Housed in a glass room, the supercomputer sits inside the chapel, which was built in the 1920s. It predates the green data center movement, but its location within the religious setting along with the subdued lighting make for an impressive visual experience. It is one of the fastest supercomputer in the world which are made up of 10,240 IBM Power PC 970MP processors, performance of 94.21 trillion floating-point operations per-second.
Deltalis Radixcloud Data Center, Attinghausen, Switzerland
Deltalis Radixcloud Data Center is located in the mountains and tucked in the Alps. As the former command and control center for the Swiss Air Force, this data center is plenty secure, reinforced. Due to its location, it takes advantage of cool air and glacial waters to cool the facility at low cost. The data gear within the center is modular units made by Netherlands-based Minkels.
Citi Data Center, Germany
Citi Data Center is an innovative green data center which is located in Frankfurt, Germany. It features a green roof made up of living plants that help reduce runoff from the building and to keep it cool. In addition, the facility uses fresh air for cooling, reverse osmosis to reduce sediment build-up in cooling towers and thereby saving 13 million gallons of water per year and uses virtualization to reduce the number of physical servers needed. However, the green wall shown here is made up of living plants that don't improve the efficiency of the center, but promote biodiversity at the site.
Bahnhof modular data center, Sweden
As we know, Bahnhof leases traditional data center space from a variety of locations. However, outside Kista, Sweden, it is building a modular facility made of a central, inflatable hub that can connect to three portable armored-steel rooms that house data center hardware. When it opens this spring the inflatable hub will serve as an office as well as a space for unpacking gear headed for the hardware rooms. Bahnhof says the modular nature of the facility means it does not require a huge initial investment and it can grow as demand grows.
OVH data center, Canada
The OVH Data Center is located in Canada which has remodeled a former Rio Tinto Alcan aluminum plant to fit its model of running data centers with efficient heat transfer and can hold room for 360,000 servers. It use all the hot aisles in the facility back onto a central air shaft that carries heat out the roof. Thus, this data center does not need air conditioners because it relies instead on proprietary technology it designed. In addition, hydroelectric power from a nearby generation facility provides electricity.
Yahoo Computing Coop, Lockport, NY
Yahoo Computing Coop is located in Lockport, NY. You may find it familiar at first glance. Yes, each building looks like a huge chicken coop. That's because some of it's design principles were adapted from chicken coops! The YCC is optimized for fresh air cooling, which they can use for the majority of the year.
Iron Mountain Data Center, Pennsylvania
The Iron Mountain Data Center in Boyers, Pennsylvania is built into an old limestone mine. It is located more than 200 feet underground, Room 48 takes advantage of its subterranean environment that the energy efficient data center that uses the mine's limestone walls to absorb heat and eliminate the need for typical data center cooling systems.
McMurdo Station, South Pole
With the problems that data centers have with cooling, the Antarctic is perhaps the ideal site for such a facility. McMurdo Station is located in South Pole, as a scientific research center for the US. This "white snow" data center is dedicated to supporting scientific work and running the station – with 64 servers and more than 2TB of storage connected to hundreds of desktops by a gigabit Ethernet network. Though it looks poor, every day up to 100GB of science data is transferred from the station to the US via satellite-communication links in support of multiple NSF-funded science projects.
Cyberbunker, Southern Netherlands
The Cyberbunker hides in the forests of Kloetinge, Southern Netherlands. There is a four-level Cold War-era nuclear bunker made up of numerous tunnels and operations rooms. And because every data center should be protected from the outside world, there is even nuclear, biological and chemical (NBC) air filtration throughout the complex.
What's your feeling after visiting the above ten interesting and special data center? They are the achievement of people's wisdom and efforts. And as the time goes on and the technology develops, more and more innovative and green data centers will be built all over the world. The interesting data centers mentioned in this paper just a small part of them. If you know of other data centers that are as super-designed, environment-friendly and special, please let us know. You could link the pictures and information to our Facebook Page.
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El trabajo colaborativo en la educación virtual: estrategias aplicadas en la Universidad Virtual del Estado de Guanajuato
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Collaborative E-learning in Virtual Education: Practical Strategies Applied at the Guanajuato Virtual University • Eduardo Martínez Negrete, Susana Anguiano Torres y María Josefina López Arreguín
Performing collaborative learning is one of the main challenges that networking environment institutions face nowadays. Since our first years of operation at the Guanajuato Virtual University (UVEG) we have identified that our students have expressed certain difficulties in developing collaborative tasks. This article presents an outline about the observed difficulties, as well as some of the strategies accomplished by UVEG to allow both students and advisors to enhance the way to perform and evaluate collaborative working.
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Kalisundham Raa Trailer (2000)
Raghaviah (K. Vishwanath) and Ram Mohan Rao (Ranganath) are brothers-in-law. But Ram Mohan Rao is at loggerhead with Raghavaiah because of a family feud. Raghavaiah is nearing his 60's and it's time for his Shastipoorti ceremony. It's time for gathering, folks!
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When I first become pregnant I asked myself what contractions look like? I asked my friends who already gave birth and the most common answer I got was that they are something similar to period pain. That is not that bad, I told myself.
Since then I gave birth for three times and I certainly must say that that description is not true at all. For me the beginning was like having period crams. The feeling is uncomfortable and painful but you can hold it. I felt strong pain in my abdomen the same as period pain. As the time for giving birth was getting closer and closer the pain intensified. Goodbye period pain! Hello to the feeling which it's close to taking you organs out of your body like squeezing wet towel!
I felt lucky because there were pauses in between where I could gather strength for the next series of pain. Until I wasn't open 7 cm I could function on the pauses. I could talk with my husband, the doctor and the nurses. I felt that I could handle this which was happening to my body. But unfortunately that feeling of control disappeared and my body took control. The feeling of knife stabbing spread from my abdomen and I felt that my whole body was in pain. The pauses were rarer. The feeling is like nothing before. I won't lie to you; it was more intensive than I thought. It was hard for me to find a comfortable position. Literally I wanted to go out of my skin.
The good news is that this phase doesn't last for long. When the baby is born trust me (really trust me), when you see those eyes looking at you, you will forget any pain. Or you may try epidural or some other method to avoid the uncomfortable feeling.
Of course that this pain is different for every woman. A friend of mine agreed with the analogy of a wet towel. Another friend experienced fewer contractions and gave birth very easy. Third friend said that felt pain in the back and pressure for peeing.
My point is not to scare you. I hope that this will encourage and prepare you for the most exciting feeling in the world. Giving birth is a challenge but the pain is 100% worth it! You may be certain that your baby will prove this.


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Among the many pretty faces who debuted in the year 2007, a prominent face was that of Sayali Bhagat. This stunner made her debut opposite 'Serial-Kisser' Emraan Hashmi in The Train. While the movie sank without a trace, Sayali did get noticed courtesy her gorgeous looks and fab figure.
Now Sayali is seen at her glamorous best as the cover-girl in the January issue of fashion and style magazine 'Hair'. This former Miss India is a big name in the modeling world and is now looking forward to make a mark in the world of films too. For all you Sayali fans, this issue of 'Hair' is a must-have.


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ReviewWe bought this when after first looking at a VW Beetle. New styling of 200 is refreshing. Interior is classy in black. Lots of power with the V6; I expected there to be more torque steer during spirited driving with 283hp going to front wheels but the traction control keeps TS under control quite well. The mileage could be better but we bought anyways fully knowing what to expect. We traded in a 2010 VW Jetta TDI that had turbo lag the VW dealerships could not resolve.
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After watching the trailer for Wild Awakening it's a bit difficult to know what to make. The film heads into full-on melodrama territory, taking its cues from telenovelas, while adding in a fair dose on man-on-man action. I'm not sure whether it's meant to be funny or not, or whether it's just a bit camp, but I'd like to find out!
The movie follow promiscuous gay man Toni, who lives with his sister Emma on a horse farm they inherit when their parents died. The foreman of the equestrian facility wants his son Aaron to fall in love with Emma. However, Aaron has a hidden sexual attraction hidden for Toni. There's a big problem with that though, as Aaron's dad isn't going to allow that, as he has no intention of having a gay boy for a son!
Wild Awakening is due out on DVD and VoD in the UK. However, you can get a first taste of this mix of high drama, campness, hot guys and villainous homophobes below.


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Wildlife Attractions in Rajasthan Tourism
Rajasthan is rich architectural and cultural sate of Indian country. This place delights the tourists by sandy dunes, majestic forts, luxuriant romantic gardens, shimmering lakes and extraordinary monuments. Dargah Sharief at Ajmer and Shrinath ji Temple at Nathdwara are the two most sacred places in the state Rajasthan. Lake Pichola and a fort in the middle of this lake in Udaipur are the most romantic places of the state. Hawa Mahal, City Palace and Jantar Mantar in Jaipur are the other most popular destination for tourism.
Apart from these places and attractions Rajasthan also preserves diverse wildlife magnetism for wildlife lovers. This is one of the best places in the country for wildlife enthusiasm. Rajasthan has a diverse geography and also contains oldest mountain peaks named the Aravali ranges in the country. This state contains huge expansion of Thar Desert and on other side there are the flourishing green forests and fresh water lands also present. These facts make Rajasthan as a ideal places for diverse flora and fauna.
There are four major national parks and about fifteen wildlife sanctuaries in the state. These are spread throughout the state. Major wildlife attractions of the state are following.
Ranthambore National Park
This national park is well-known tiger reserve of Rajasthan. The core area of this national park is about 390 km-sq. This park is surrounded by Vindhya and Aravali mountain ranges and located very near to the outer Thar Desert. Apart from tigers this park is also the home of numbers of different kinds of animals. Sambhar, cheetal, wild boar, leopard, sloth bear and jackal can be easily spotted in this park. October to march is the ideal time for visiting this park.
Desert National Park
This park is located in desert city Jaisalmer city of Rajasthan. Jaisalmer is a very famous city for Rajasthan Desert Tour due to its huge expansion of desert area. Desert National Park is one of the largest national parks and covers approximately 3160 km-sq area. Sudashri forest and sand dunes are the major attractions of this park. About 20 percentage of area are covered by the sand dunes in this park. This park is inhabitant for blackbuck, chinkara, wolf, Indian fox hare and desert cat. In winter season various migrating birds also can be seen here.
Sariska Tiger Reserve
This is the famous tiger's reserve of Rajasthan Wildlife Tours. The landscape of this park is dry deciduous forests, rocks and covered with various types of grasses. This park is habitant for leopard sambhar, nilgai, wild dog, and chinkara.
This state is ideal place for tourism. There are various Rajasthan Tours India are also available. Choose a tour package according to your time and area of interest and explore the wildlife and desert of Rajasthan.
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Deepak Dixit is an eminent analyst and writer in Travel & Tourism related topics. He has authored many books on tour guide for India Tours and Rajasthan Tours in India.
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Their Style of Play Can be Called Salty, For the Fast and Hard Tempo They Push
Mitch Spiers has two great mentors in travel baseball. First, Spiers coached under Rob Bruno within the NorCal Baseball organization, then he joined his brother Mike in coaching for Amateur Baseball Development.
In a world where it's all too easy for pride and ego to take over, Spiers speaks no ill-will of the prior two organizations he was a part of, there was not a falling out of any sort, no covert coup attempt. In fact, speaking to their instrumental role in him being where he is today.
"I had two good programs I was with that I was very fortunate to be with," said Spiers, the executive director of Team California.
But at the end of the day Spiers wanted to run his own program and take full control of the ability to aid a player's pursuit of their goal.
"I just wanted to just go out there and teach baseball to the best of my abilities. I've been fortunate to have Rob and Mike as mentors, but I just wanted to put my twist on things and create a team."
Team California was created in 2010, with Spiers envisioning a college development program, to provide players with an avenue for greater exposure. Naturally, there was the desire to win a national championship to be able to be called the best, but Team California most takes pride in having college-ready players after their time with them.
"What I wanted was to have an elite program in the high school age groups," Spiers said. "It takes a while, but I've seen it done through ABD and through NorCal baseball. Those were my blueprints. I've had very good blueprints."
For Spiers, tweaking the blueprints and paths laid out of established organizations was necessary. Not that there was anything wrong with how NorCal or ABD operated, but Spiers sees the travel baseball landscape as one that is ever-evolving. To do his best to give next level opportunities to his players, he had to anticipate change and move along accordingly, which is best able with full control and autonomy.
"The landscape for baseball is always changing, you want to try to stay ahead of the curve," said Spiers. "Before, there was just events, there were a few big national events. Then all the sudden, you had things come up."
From the plethora of instructional camps, to college-led team camps, the multitude of recruiting showcases and events, and weekend after weekend of tournaments, not a day goes by in the summer without something happening somewhere. While the non-stop calendar is an uncontrollable reality, one is forced to feel they must adhere to in an effort to promote and provide greater exposure, what can be controlled is the quality interactions and integrity operated with.
Those are two areas Spiers makes sure Team California puts its best foot forward.
"You want to do things the right way," he said. "If you want to stay around and be around in this game for a while, you have to do it the right way. There's programs out there that come right in and they do it for the wrong reasons and they're in and out. Before you know it, they're gone."
To do it the right way, Spiers says is to teach baseball the way it needs to be played the right way. The founder of Team California says his teams give 110% effort every time out, their style of play can be called salty, for the fast and hard tempo they push.
But beyond the diamond, maintaining honesty in every interaction, be it between other organizations, or providing fair and accurate evaluations to players and college coaches is a must. The continued relationships with NorCal, where Spiers says Bruno is still one of his best friends, word cannot express how deep their friendship is, being a testament to that. Spiers also speaks of rival organizations that may be his enemy on the field, but tips his cap to those organizations, in particular the San Diego Show.
"There might not be a group I respect more than Brian Cain's Show. I want to beat him every time I face him, but that doesn't mean I don't want to call him right after."
Otherwise, relationships wither, college stop turning out and top players will no longer be a part of your program. And each would be detrimental to Spiers' goal with Team California.
"The goal was to become a program that can put players in college. I wanted to be able to put out good teams, where kids that were uncommitted, they were going to play at a high level so in the end they can get to college."


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A recently-dismissed lawsuit against the maker of a defective hearing aid provides a window into the a recent US Supreme Court decision. A recently-dismissed lawsuit against the maker of a defective hearing aid provides a window into the a recent US Supreme Court decision will affect people injured by defective medical devices. That decision gave medical device makers protection from state product liability lawsuits in cases where a device has been approved by the Food & Drug Administration (FDA). Because of that decision, the Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday reinstated the dismissal of a lawsuit filed against Soundtec, a maker of hearing aids, by a man who claimed he suffered ear damage after having a hearing device implanted in his right ear in 2002.
In February, the US Supreme Court ruled in favor of medical device makers that the Medical Device Amendments of 1976 to the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act that require FDA approval of medical devices preempt product liability lawsuits in state courts. That law clearly says that states can't maintain requirements that are different from federal standards. But Congress didn't specify if those federal standards preempted state common law claims. Medtronic, which had brought the case before the Supreme Court, and the Bush Administration asserted that allowing state personal injury lawsuits against the makers of defective medical devices amounts to a state "requirement" different from FDA requirements because such complaints are based on state laws.
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Eight members of the Supreme Court agreed. In his majority opinion, Justice Antonin Scalia wrote that permitting state juries to impose liability on the maker of an approved device "disrupts the federal scheme," under which the FDA has the responsibility for evaluating the risks and benefits of a new device. Justice Scalia wrote that state tort law amounted to such an additional requirement. He said the 1976 law "speaks clearly to the point at issue," regardless of the federal government's previous or current positions.
While the US Supreme Court ruling will nullify some medical device product liability lawsuits currently making their way through state courts, it is unclear how great an affect it will really have, because most medical devices on the market today went through a different approval process than the one at issue in this case.
One lawsuit the ruling apparently did nullify was Gary Depain's claim against Soundtec
One lawsuit the ruling apparently did nullify was Gary Depain's claim against Soundtec. In 2004, Soundtec successfully argued federal law pre-empted state law in the matter, and the state court therefore had no jurisdiction. Despain's attorneys appealed, and the Arkansas Supreme Court agreed in February that federal law did not pre-empt state law. Despain's lawsuit was returned to the lower court for trail. But less than two weeks later, the US Supreme Court handed down the pre-emption decision. Soundtec's lawyers asked the Arkansas Supreme Court to reconsider its earlier decision, and the panel reinstated the dismissal, citing the High Court decision in doing so.
The lawyer representing Despains said in February his client remains unemployed and disabled from the device, which caused severe ringing in his ear and later was removed. Gary Despain worked at Franklin Electric Co., where welding machines produced electromagnetic fields that aggravated the problem.
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I'm sorry for the delay in responding to your mail. i so much enjoyed the little chat with we had,but the reason why i left so early was because,i had to go back to work and i was in night duty.anyway,i'm free right now so i decided to write you this mail..I'm really glad to come on here and find your mail waiting for me.i so much appreciate your effort to write me these long mail and I felt touched when i read it.
i live in Bays water,East London,UK..it's really cool and lovely down here but the cost of living is too high.the last time i was there in NC, was about 2 months ago,and it was for my aunt's burial...She was a humanitarian and also a Registered Nurse,she ran an orphanage in Benin Republic in western African....ever heard of it???Anyway,that was what she did before she died of cancer of the lungs,and before she died,she told my mum not to let her dream die,that Mum should try and keep the Orphanage going,it was her wish to help the less privelleged and the needy....she was of the opinion that you dont have to have so much before you can touch lives...She got into it during a war in that region,it was on CNN that people where dying in their mass,children and women where homeless and starving to death,she decided to use her little connection to help lives and even till on her dying bed,it gave her so much joy to be able to affect lives positively.
So mum has been talking about going there to see what she could contribute,not necessarily money,but her time...And she mandated that I go with her,I guess that is very much against my wish..but I have vowed never to argue against my mum to,I dont know may be i should tell you this she is a cancer survivor,and I saw her went through alot of pains....so i cant stand her getting worried,though if i could tell her i wasn't going,i would have love to tell her that right away when she was suggesting the idea.....I was raised to respect my mum and never go against them,and that has greatly affected even my personal relationship with people and also my idea of a relationship.
Really,when I saw the photos of those people,they truelly need help and attention,women and children are homeless and dying of starvation...it is really pathetic,that was when i finally agreed to go with mum. I am so sorry for the inconvenience this might cause this newly found love of ours.I am not sure of what i will meet there...I am sure if there is an internet connection there,or if i can even make an international call from there.but what i know is that I wont stop missing even our little communiucation....believe me,i will greatly understand if you are so disappointed and have to look for somebody else,i can only apologize for the inconvenience this might cause you,i really hope you will understand and bear with me....I will get in touch with you,i dont even know how long i will be gone,but what i know is that i will be gone by sunday these week,i hope to hear from you soon,atleast let me know your stands and what you feel about this. And,I must admit,there are alot of interesting things about you.And i am also enjoying it that as the coomunication proceeds,we are getting to know more things about eachother...That i must say is the true essence of communication.And also for me,getting to know more about eachother is a never ending encounter as the moment you stop to know new things about people either in friendship or courtship,boredoms sets in..i think the awareness that there is always something new to be expected creates a sort of suspense that keeps a relationship alive......It is a good thing you said about yourself,that means,you would really know how to treat a woman and make her feel special...I like your area of specialization aswell and you are doing a great job..you have great goals with a great sense of humor,dont let anything stop you from whom you are,i am very sure,the reward is waiting for you at front because those people you helped out today, mihgt not realise it at these moment but in time comes,they would become a great person in their life and remember whom made them achieve their dreams...,i'm so much glad we both trade in the same area of work..and dont forget the reason why we are doing this which is to make the World a better place,and the youth today are the leaders of tomorrow and that was a quality that makes me even want to get along more with this.I love to accept people the way they are,and not try to make people bend just to suite my interest..that would be egoistic,and for me,even supiriority is a complex. i have had numerous childhood struggles and I am quite a bit of a loner,so i spend my time reading inspirational and motivational materials alot,the best and my favorite book which also happens to be the best seller of all times is the Bible,its like a manual that i guide my life through.
I have a plicy when i was growing up...i went for confession at the church,after i first had sex with my boyfriend of 4 years,that was about eight years ago now....after confessing to the Reverend father...he told me something which remains that still remains very fresh in my memory even till today.....he told me that...........I should pray to God to give me the courage to change things that i can,and the serenrity to accept things that i cant change,and finally also the wisdom to know the difference...That is something that have been working for me greatly.At this junture,i must tell you that i am a very prayerful girl,and would also like to know if you are...and if you are not,i will like to ask you to try the prayer power and see the miracles that it works in ones life...i hope i have not bored you along the line...i attached some pictures with this mail,i hope you like them?May the peace of the Lord be with you,and your household...bye for now great guy.And have a great weekend.


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Teacher Lisa is a Los Angeles native with 3 grown children and has been involved in the creative community of Westchester, first with Vergari Dance Center when it opened in 1981 and currently as a founding member of Los Angeles Arts Collective. She attended U.C. Santa Barbara and UCLA studying art and business, worked in antiques and design and sold real estate in the area before starting her family and assuming the reins of the VDC. She has been teaching our youngest dancers for 20 years, starting them off on their dancing journey with a loving hand and she is also the producer of our annual, fabulous Spring Showcase-it is more than a recital! Lisa is proud to be a part of the Westchester community and is active with many local professional organizations and her community's public schools.
Linda Gunther - Instructor
(Ballet, Contemporary, Jazz, Salsa, Children's Classes)
LLinda began her early training at the age of four with her step father in artistic gymnastics and continued in the sport until she became Provincial Champion at the age of 10. Linda then made the switch to Rhythmic gymnastics after seeing a local competition and falling in love with the sports beauty and grace. She began training with olympic champion, Lori Fung and Tricia Gilmore and quickly became provincial champion that same year in the novice category. Linda continued to train daily before school and later enrolled in a performing arts school that allowed her to train for half of the day and attend academic courses in the afternoon. Linda soon won a spot on the junior national team and had the opportunity to train at the olympic training center in Colorado Springs. By the age of 15 she had achieved the title of Western Canadian Champion and was a bronze medalist at the Canadian Winter Games. It was during her time as a rhythmic gymnast that Linda was introduced to ballet, which was used as a tool to improve her skills in rhythmic gymnastics. She started ballet at a local studio and found a new love for the art. She completed Royal Academy of Dance exams with honor standings and was accepted to the National Ballet School of Canada in Toronto, Ontario for their summer program. Soon a whole new world of different styles of dance opened up for her, jazz, hip hop, contemporary and salsa, all of which she studied in Vancouver, Los Angeles and New York. She began teaching at the age of 17 and working as a dancer in the film and television industry. Linda has had the opportunity to work with stars such as Halle Berry, Sarah Jessica Parker, Benjamin Bratt, and Sharon Stone to name a few and perform in such films as Catwoman, Dudley Do Right, Saving Silverman and Man About Town. Linda's dance career has also taken her to Japan where she toured with Japan's famous singer "Anri" on her Ever Blue Tour, to the Caribbean, where she was part of the cast on the "Millennium" ship for Celebrity Cruise Lines and to the NBA as a member of the extreme dance team for the "Vancouver Grizzlies".
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Christine Negherbon is a multi-talented performer, teacher and director. She is a Teaching Artist with Disney Musicals in Schools as well as currently performing with Swing Dames. Christine's performing credit include: National Tours of My Fair Lady, produced by Cameron Mackintosh (Eliza u/s), Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (starring Ann-Margret), Chicago, Crazy for you (Polly), 42nd Street (Peggy- European Tour) and The Radio City Christmas Spectacular. Regionally, Christine has played Laurey/Dream Laurey in OKLAHOMA! (Penn. Shakespeare Festival), Jennyanydots in Cats (Sacramento Music Circus, The MUNY - Kevin Kline Nomination for Outstanding Ensemble), Millie in Thoroughly Modern Millie, Maria in The Sound of Music, Nanette in No, No Nanette and Kathy Selden (Singin' in the Rain). Directing/Choreography credits include: Hairspray (MacHaydn Theatre), Crazy for You, Cabaret and West Side Story (DeSales University). TV credits: Haunting Evidence (Court TV), Hart of Dixie. Christine and her husband, Joe Abraham are the co-authors of The Thriving Artists. This book was written to inspire and educate artists in all things, but especially their finances. They have taught all over the country and their book is required reading/curriculum for numerous colleges/universities. They have 2 boys, Cole and Ty. www.TheThrivingArtists.com
Fayad Garcia - Instructor
Born in El Centro, Ca and raised in Mexicali, B.C. Mexico, AKA "a border baby" Fayad began her love of dance at the very young age of 2 ½ and continued for the next 9 years studying ballet, jazz, and modern at a private dance studio. She continued to train extensively at La Jolla Festival Dance Center in San Diego. At 13, her family made a huge move to Los Angeles, but continued her ballet/pointe studies at Stanley Holden Dance studio in West L.A. During her High school years she discovered EDGE performing dance center in Hollywood where she was introduced to the professional dance world and was subsequently accepted at Loyola Marymount University. She majored in TV Production and Dance training under Chair Judy Scalin and professors, Damon Patrick Rago, Holly Johnston, and Jason Myhre performing in LMU dance concerts and dancing with the hip hop group "Kumba Beats". After graduating in 2004, she was hired at Providence H.S. as head Choreographer for musicals such as "Pippen", "Wonderful Town, "Little Shop of Horrors" and "Godspell". She continued to train in Salsa Styling under Lisa Nunziella and Hip Hop-Salsa fusion under Gladys "Cuba" Ortega. This love of salsa expanded her 'Latin' horizons and delved into the dance fitness world. After working at Univision (KMEX) for 11 years, she decided to get her certification in Zumba fitness under the amazing ZES Gina Grant in 2005 and continues her instructor development with Wil-son Williams.She is also part of the ladies salsa group "Artistico Dance Company".
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Neymar Comments on MSN Relationship After Cristiano Ronaldo Dismissed ImportanceFebruary 23, 2016
Neymar has insisted his friendship with Barcelona team-mates Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez plays a "big part" in their success on the pitch following Cristiano Ronaldo's dismissal of the importance of off-field relationships within squads.
The Real Madrid superstar recently said he did "not need little kisses and hugs" or to invite the likes of Karim Benzema and Gareth Bale to his house in order for them to play well together, per Goal's Tom Webber.
However, Neymar believes his relationship with Suarez and Messi is part of what has made them such a devastating attacking trio at the Camp Nou, per John Cross in the Mirror:
Barcelona is about so much more than myself, Leo, and Luis, but of course I love the relationship we have. We are achieving special things on the field, and our friendship off the field plays a big part in that. None of us is concerned about personal glory. Who scores, who assists, who wins individual awards, it does not matter. All that matters is what Barcelona can achieve, and we are believing for another very special season.
Barca are well on course for another La Liga, Copa del Rey and Champions League treble this season, in no small part because of their superlative attacking line, whose goalscoring consistency is quite remarkable, per SuperSport:
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Barcelona's MSN goals: Suárez (41) Messi (27) Neymar (23) 91 so far - how many will they end on? #SSFootball https://t.co/o5NsrCSDn92016-2-22 10:30:29
Nicknamed MSN, Bleacher Report's Sam Tighe recently described them as the best attacking trio of all time:
It is hard to argue with that assessment, and they certainly do seem to get on very well together.
Suarez has also indicated that, although it is not vital to get on well with team-mates, his excellent relationship with Neymar and Messi has been key in their on-field successes, per Matthew Dunn of the Express:
You don't have to be best friends with the people you work with, but it helps. The friendship between myself, Messi, and Neymar is genuine, we are all very close. I am sure that our friendship off the field is helping our understanding and communication on the field. All the time we are improving, and still we can reach an even higher level.
The idea that Messi, Suarez and Neymar can get even better is a frightening prospect, not least for their next opponents, Arsenal.
The Blaugrana face the Gunners at the Emirates on Tuesday in the first leg of their last-16 tie in the Champions League.
Arsenal have failed to get further than the first knockout round for any of the past five seasons, and few are giving them much chance of breaking that run this year, per Squawka:
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The Squawka Talker Podcast: (Episode 3) - https://t.co/RjfwOUO3Mv "Arsenal have no chance against Barcelona." https://t.co/g7PBjNHcaH2016-2-22 17:33:08
The two sides have met twice in the Champions League in the recent past, in the last 16 in 2011 and at the quarter-final stage in 2010.
Both times, the Gunners were at home in the first leg, and both times they got a decent result—a 2-2 draw in 2010, a 2-1 victory in 2011—but were then turned over at the Camp Nou and knocked out of the competition.
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger will be desperate to take something with them to Catalonia in three weeks.
However, Barca are arguably even more formidable now than they were at the beginning of the decade, and Messi, Suarez and Neymar will be almost impossible for the Gunners to contain.


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