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….
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…
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…
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.
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…
With the season of Advent and the changes in nature at this season, a look at the meaning in what surrounds us as we prepare for the coming of the Lord.
Construction of Serviam Gardens, an affordable senior residence (62 years of age or older), has neared 90 percent of completion. Take a tour in the Gallery or visit the reality on the campus of Mount of St. Ursula in the Bronx. Click here to view the progress on the building.
One August, returning by car to New York after several weeks in the austere landscape of the Southwest,
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…
Each year brings the celebration of the jubilee of Ursulines on the anniversary of their religious profession, for their faithfulness in dedication to God and in fulfilling the work of service to others entrusted to them by the church. They are honored on the day they made vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience in the…