{"id":193896,"date":"2025-02-12T17:10:08","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T17:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shcj.org\/american\/?p=193896"},"modified":"2025-03-18T13:02:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T13:02:24","slug":"graced-moment-karen-gosser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shcj.org\/american\/graced-moment-karen-gosser\/","title":{"rendered":"Graced Moment: Karen Gosser"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In October 2024, the American Province launched Graced Moments<\/strong>, where every month, a Holy Child Sister shares a \u201cgrace-filled\u201d experience that has influenced her life. The project flows from the Society\u2019s mission \u201cto help others to believe that God lives and acts in them and in our world.”<\/span><\/p>\n

We thank Karen Gosser<\/b>, a Sister of the Holy Child Jesus for 56<\/span>\u00a0years, for offering her “g<\/span>raced moment.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Feel free to leave a comment for Sister Karen at the bottom of this page. Thank you.<\/span><\/p>\n

Click the audio player to listen to Sister Karen<\/span> read her
\nreflection or see the text below. Enjoy!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n

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“God writes straight with crooked lines and gets us where we need to be.”<\/em><\/p>\n

A Graced Moment transpired in my senior year at HCA in Portland, Oregon.<\/p>\n

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Karen Gosser (second from right) with SHCJ Novitiate in Pasadena, California<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I had previous thoughts of being drawn to be a sister, even recalling Mother Michael, the principal of St. Rose, asking some of us what we wanted to be. I said I would be a Holy Child Sister.<\/p>\n

Yet, by the early part of my senior year, I was thinking about marrying the Jesuit High School boy that I was dating. I also wanted to make a difference in people’s lives. My intention was to apply to Oregon State University that had a Social Work program.<\/p>\n

But then, a graced moment came with Mary Anita Connolly.<\/p>\n

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Karen Gosser with her parents<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

She had come to Portland from Nigeria, as she had to leave because of the Biafra War. She asked a few of us if we could drive her around to pick up donations, she had sought to provide support to the Nigerian people who were without resources.<\/p>\n

She then led our senior retreat. It was through the graced moments of her yes to God that I was feeling more and more to being drawn in the way Anita and Cornelia were drawn. After the retreat, I told my parents what I would be doing.<\/p>\n

I often share with some of those I accompany that “God writes straight with crooked lines and gets us where we need to be.”<\/p>\n

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“It is not presumption to have hope and joy
\nand confidence in God’s grace.”<\/span><\/p>\n

-Venerable Cornelia Connelly<\/span><\/p>\n

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What in Sister Karen’s graced moment resonated with you? Please share below. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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