Provincial Sr. Mary Sullivan opens the 2014 Chapter for the election of a new provincial and leadership team. Tellers Sr. Marilyn Muldoon and Sr. Alice Marie Giordano present ballots to Sr. Mary Sullivan and Sr. Marie Celine Miranda for tallying, while Mary Ragan, PhD, facilitator of the Chapter, oversees the process. On Saturday, February 8,…
Joseph Flynn, OFM Cap. The fifty days of celebrating Easter have come to a conclusion with the Feast of Pentecost and the descent of the Holy Spirit. In the reading from the Acts of the Apostles in the liturgy for Pentecost, we listen to Luke’s astounding portrayal of the descent of the Holy Spirit and…
Mrs. Joanne Kelly, Assistant Principal Academy of Mount St. Ursula As I sit in the midst of summer with a warm ocean breeze swirling around me, basking in the hot, summer sun, I am reminded of how our Lord asks us to bask in his love and to share it with all our community to…
Bridget Puzon, O.S.U. As we pray this Pentecost Sunday, “Send forth your Spirit and renew the face of the earth,” we might well invoke the Spirit, while acknowledging the astronomical changes in our understanding of God’s creation: “Renew the face of the cosmos”—of which we are a part (not the whole). Genesis 1:1: In the…
” Land of Mists” is a reflection by Sr. Martha Counihan, OSU,a Sister who celebrated her 50th Jubilee of commitment to the Ursuline Community at the onset of the Coronavirus Pandemic. As we celebrate the April 30th feast day of St. Marie of the Incarnation, I think back about a child’s book that my Ursuline…
Memories of childhood visits to scenes of the Bethlehem stable are treasures. It seemed that Christmas was especially for children. We have St. Francis of Assisi to thank for bringing us the reality of the poor stable. And I have a pastor to thank for setting up a nearly life-sized stable in a school yard….