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

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

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

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

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