Part 2: Hospitality (Making Space for Another)
Part 3: What we Need to Grow, to Risk, to Enter the Holy
Part 4: Putting Down Deep Roots
Part 5: Lectio (Listening to God)
Part 8: The Heavy Weight of Stuff
Lenten Online Retreat
Refocus for a Deep, Sacred Lenten Season
Deer stroll along our lake in plain view every day … yet if you don’t look for them, it’s easy to miss them!
By Sister Stefanie MacDonald, OSB
We can all go on autopilot during the year, right? Lent is the right time to get out of it … to go deep, to seek – and see – the sacred.
In my Benedictine community, the Sisters give a lot of thought to their Lenten resolutions. They choose spiritual reading to help guide and support them. Maybe some of their thoughts and suggestions will help you!
Let it Shine!
The word “Lent” actually literally means Springtime, the perfect season for renewal! Here’s Sister Mary’s mid-week pick-me-up for the “mini-retreat” that will refresh your soul throughout Lent. Here’s a list of all of the weeks’s posts.
By Sister Mary Core, OSB
Such confidence Jesus has in us, as he proclaims: “You are the light of the world.” (Matthew 5: 14-16)
I‘ve been repeating that phrase every day this Holy Week, and on Wednesday, as I was thinking of entering into the Triduum (the 3 days of Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday), I sensed God saying: Continue Reading
Mid-Week #6: Persevere!
The word “Lent” actually literally means Springtime, the perfect season for renewal! Here’s Sister Mary’s mid-week pick-me-up for the “mini-retreat” that will refresh your soul throughout Lent. Here’s a list of all of the weeks’s posts.
By Sister Mary Core, OSB
We’ve all heard the old adage: “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.” It’s that perseverance and determination on the part of the blind Bartimaeus that so endears this man to me. Continue Reading
Week #4: Do Justice! Love Goodness!
Sister Anne Newcomer, OSB says a Hail Mary for every client she serves at a local food pantry.
The word “Lent” actually literally means Springtime, the perfect season for renewal! Here’s Sister Mary’s Week #4 of the mini-retreat that will refresh your soul throughout Lent. Here’s a list of all of the weeks’ posts.
By Sister Mary Core, OSB
You have been a grain of wheat, you have stilled yourself, you have trusted God’s grace is sufficient for you. Now trust that God loves you enough to to want you to walk hand-in-hand doing justice and goodness.
Here’s why: “You have been told, O mortal, what is good, and what the Lord requires of you. Only to do justice and to love goodness, and to walk humbly with your God.” (Micah 6:8) Continue Reading
How Weakness becomes Holiness in God’s Hands
The word “Lent” actually literally means Springtime, the perfect season for renewal! Here’s Sister Mary’s mid-week pick-me-up for the “mini-retreat” that will refresh your soul throughout Lent. Here’s a list of all of the weeks’ posts.
By Sister Mary Core, OSB
“My grace is sufficient for you, for power is made perfect in weakness.” (2 Corinthians 12:9).
Wow! What an eye opener this statement has become. How often have we prayed, “Give me strength, O Lord. Help me through this situation.”?
How often we want the strength, the grace, the credit, the glory. Continue Reading
Sitting Still with God
The word “Lent” actually literally means Springtime, the perfect season for renewal! Here’s Sister Mary’s mid-week pick-me-up for the “mini-retreat” that will refresh your soul throughout Lent. Here’s a list of all of the weeks’ posts.
By Sister Mary Core, OSB
“Be still and know that I am God.” There it was this morning at Lauds: the verse we are praying in this Lenten retreat.
I was struck with the repeated verse in the psalm, “The Lord of hosts is with us.” Continue Reading
Week #2: Be Still and Know I Am God
The word “Lent” actually literally means Springtime, the perfect season for renewal! Here’s Sister Mary’s Week #2 of the “mini-retreat” that will refresh your soul throughout Lent. Here’s a list of all of the weeks’ posts.
By Sister Mary Core, OSB
Last week I invited you to become a grain of wheat. This week I’m suggesting we take to heart the words of Psalm 46:10, “Be still and know I am God.” Continue Reading
Who is Your Sun, Soil, Rain?
The word “Lent” actually literally means Springtime, the perfect season for renewal! Here’s Sister Mary’s mid-week pick-me-up for the “mini-retreat” that will refresh your soul throughout Lent. Here’s a list of all of the weeks’ posts.
By Sister Mary Core, OSB
“Unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains just a grain of wheat.”
How are you doing at being a grain of wheat during this first week of Lent?
Have you thought about how dying literally breaks us open, changes us, allows something new to happen in us? Continue Reading
Week #1: Be a Grain of Wheat
By Sister Mary Core, OSB
Amen, Amen, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains just a grain of wheat; but if it dies, it produces much fruit. (John 12:24)
I don’t much like the idea of dying, in any way, but then, neither do I want to remain the same – to stagnate.
I like the notion of growing and becoming a better me, but l’d rather do it without the cost of “dying to myself.”
I suspect I’m not alone in those feelings. Continue Reading
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