By Sister Catherine Cleary, OSB
ADVENT 1st Sunday, 2013: Ist Reading –Is. – 7:10-14; 2nd Reading – Rom 1:1-7; Gospel – Mt 1:18-24
Along with our wonderful health care nurses, I assist my younger sister, who has Alzheimer’s.
To me, Audrey is charming and precious and loving despite the ravishing diagnosis.
She is the personification of Emmanuel, “God with us.” Continue Reading
By Sister Stefanie MacDonald, OSB
I was reading Joyce Rupp’s wonderful poem, The Perfect Cup, recently. It was the subject of a reflection in “Give Us This Day.” I’ve been thinking about it ever since!
Why?
Well we – whether you are discerning religious life or what to do later today – all are called to steward the cup of our lives. We are all called to examine the contents of it. How are we using it? How are we filling it? Are we more concerned with how it looks or how it works? Continue Reading
By Sister Stefanie MacDonald, OSB
Recently someone told me that young people are looking for community but not a vowed life. Hmmm. While it’s clear not as many women are pursuing religious life today as there use to be, we are still out here. In our hearts, we are looking for something more … together.
As Pope Francis said in a General Audience on May 22, 2013, “… it is necessary to open ourselves once again to the horizon of God’s Spirit.” Continue Reading
By Sister Margaret Murphy, OSB
I sat in the park beneath a blue autumn sky with warm breezes and swirling leaves in shades of red and yellow.
My reflections mirrored the scattered movement of falling leaves. Continue Reading
By Sister Stefanie MacDonald, OSB
We all want a sign from God … and some people get one. Moses, for example. Never me, though. That would be far too easy.
I thought about this again last Saturday as I read a wonderful reflection by C. Vanessa White in “Give us this Day” (a monthly magazine of daily prayer and reflections by Liturgical Press. I read the print version, but there is an e-version for those of you with IPads and Kindles.) Continue Reading
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