ADVENT REFLECTION

She who reconciles the ill-matched threads of her life, and weaves them gratefully into a single cloth Rilke, Love Songs to God Somewhere (was it in Africa or South America?), I watched an indigenous woman at the loom. She sat behind the weaving where the ill-matched threads made a confusion of colors. She worked the…

During this critical post-election time, the USA Roman Union Ursuline Leadership teams invite our sisters and collaborators to commit ourselves to engage in prayer

With the turn into autumn, the look of things outside changes. From the lush look of summer, the colors of shrubs and plants deepen and thin out. What has begun to happen in things we see every day also happens to the less visible. Yesterday, the resident hedgehog was noshing on the back lawn. Usually…