The world really doesn't understand intimacy with Jesus very well and only people who are relatively contemplative understand intimacy with Jesus. I think we see evidence of God's Providence in our lives and love for us but intimacy with Jesus is a special kind of intimacy. Mother Nadine knows that we've been through a Canonical procedure because the Church moves very cautiously. But even then you have to test the Spirit and the task of the Bishop is to discern the Spirit in the lives of a lot of people, especially those who minister in the name of the Church. One of the things that intrigued me about the Intercessors of the Lamb is the emphasis on intercession.
Somebody has to continue intercession in the world.
Somebody has to constantly pray that the Church will be strong and that there will be people responding to God's grace and that out of the cacophony of sounds and sensations and pressures and powers that the call to holiness will be answered by some in our world. Because unless there are some of us who are determined to be holy, then the power and Presence of Jesus is no longer perceived in our world. That intercession for priests and deacons and seminarians and people, people of God, prayers of intercession not just cursory, but daily and with some sacrifice, that's the kind of prayer of intercession that makes the difference. And to be willing to continue the spiritual warfare that began as soon as the first man and woman recognized they had free will and continues in our own day. The forces arrayed against Truth and holiness are formidable but yet because of the Presence of Jesus and His Spirit, because we're caught up in relationship with Him that is very real and very powerful, we're willing to war, first of all with ourselves, with our own independence and passions and self-determination, so that we're willing and able to listen to God speak to us and to make known His Will to us.