A prayer for little blessings
In August 2024, we received this prayer on a lovely card. You may know that our Sr. Laura was seriously injured in a car accident last summer when she was hit by an elderly woman having a heart attack while…
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Appreciating the beauty of silence
Standing in the monastery library in 1980, I was browsing Teilhard de Chardin’s book The Divine Milieu. I came upon a sentence that impacted me profoundly and settled my soul that was full of doubts about my life. He was…
A current of joy
Throughout my life people would ask “Why did you want to be a sister?” When I was younger, I would say something like “I want to serve and love God.” Now I realize that my deepest desire was and continues…
Remembering two prophetic bishops
Remembering two prophetic bishops By Dr. John A. Dick, from Another Voice: On April 4th, Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, a Detroit, Michigan Catholic bishop, passed from this life. He was 94. Gumbleton became a national religious figure in the 1960s when…
Heart to heart
As I was browsing a recent issue of National Catholic Reporter, this article’s title attracted me because Lent is very much on my personal horizon. The idea of “let’s try softer — not harder” really spoke to me as we…