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Backlit with Joy
Backlit with Joy is the new vocation blog of the four U.S. provinces of the Ursuline Sisters of the Roman Union. Sr. Elisa Ryan and Sr. Jean Hopman, vocation co-directors, invite you to visit them here to experience God’s presence through the joyful spirit of the Ursuline Sisters. Backlit With Joy
Pentecost
Painting of Pentecost is a watercolor on canvas by Sr. Anne Therese Dillen, O.S.U. Pentecost Anne Therese Dillen, O.S.U. All is silent. The door is locked. O my heart, how often this is true! Fear prevails, But love entails An openness of heart … Yet mine is locked. How gently does He knock! Whisper-wind…
Sr. Ann Dumas, O.S.U. – Final Vows of Religious Profession
Sr. Ann Dumas made her final vows of religious profession in the Ursulines on August 11, 2013 at the chapel of the Ursuline Provincialate. Ann has been serving as a mathematics tutor at The Ursuline School in New Rochelle, and in summers she has served as a math tutor at St. Ann’s Home in Guyana….
In The Beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God
Once again the Christmas proclamation resounds through our world. We can never fully grasp the awesome reality of this event. The Word of God has made his dwelling among us and is manifested in the person of Jesus. Jesus becomes the new dwelling place of God. The biblical scholar Mary Coloe, in her thesis God…
CHRISTMAS SHOWS GOD IS FULL OF SURPRISES
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….
DELIGHT
Have you ever noticed the power that a word, a painting, music, or nature has to captivate you? That’s just what happened as I came across the word delight and began to think of all its shades of meaning-the unexpected, surprise, joy, love, a smile, goodness, beauty, a spark of light, a bubbling over. Then…
The Time Between
Late spring and early summer is a time between big events and the laid-back spirit of vacation. In the church calendar, it’s the post-Pentecost season that has the dreary title of Ordinary Time. Happily, the presence of the Holy Spirit in this season is the silent breath of life. The big events of late spring…
Our New Blog – Windows on Ursuline Life
Be sure to check out a new blog at Windows on Ursuline Life written as a further opportunity to share with our friends and others more about our community, our ministries, how we live, and what’s important to us.
LENTEN LIFELINES
Choosing Lenten practices for 2010 led me to look back over the years at all the ways and means of entering into the spirit of the season. I have a more mellow view of the days when we gave up candy for Lent-even saving some of it until Easter. What excitement when Easter came and…