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[Emoke Greschik]

*Friends, today’s Gospel speaks of vows. It calls to mind the story of Ann
Russell Miller, a fabulously wealthy San Francisco socialite. Ann had ten
children and nineteen grandchildren, was a denizen of the finest clubs, and
liked to vacation on her yacht in the Mediterranean.But Ann was also a very
devout Catholic, and she and her husband made a vow that whoever died
first, the surviving partner would dedicate his or her life to God. So when
Ann’s husband died relatively young of cancer, Ann resolved to give her
life to God in the most dramatic way. She threw one more huge party for her
friends—and then gave everything away and joined the cloistered Carmelite
sisters in Des Plaines, Illinois. She now wears the simple brown habit of a
Carmelite religious and lives a life of utter devotion, in poverty,
chastity, and obedience. She sleeps on wooden planks covered by a thin
mattress; she eats the simplest meatless dishes served in the convent
refectory. She is no longer Ann Russell Miller; she is Sr. Mary Joseph of
the Trinity.Sr. Mary fulfilled the vow she made to her husband by taking
new vows as a religious. The new vows she now appreciates not as burdens
but as a means to freedom. For now, in the most radical sense, she is free
to give her life utterly to God.Now, I realize that her path is a radical
one, and that not everyone is called to this sort of total surrender. But
everyone is indeed called to the spirit of the evangelical counsels, for we
must all become detached from wealth, pleasure, power, and honor. They
don’t matter at the end of the day. Only God matters.*

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