CONTINUING REFLECTION ON ADVENT
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…
One August, returning by car to New York after several weeks in the austere landscape of the Southwest,
Sr. Maureen Welch, OSU, is in the midst of her immersion experience in Thailand and Cambodia en route to the Enlarged General Meeting in North Sydney, Australia next week. This is an update on her travels to Cambodia. “Today we not only visited but travelled the roads and bridges our “Roads to Learning” funds helped…
Today we celebrate the birthday of Saint Angela Merici, who founded the Ursuline Order in 1535. This day in 1474 (543 years ago), she was born in Desenzano del Garda, Italy. Angela Merici lived on Lake Garda with her parents and sister, her closest companions. Angela diligently worked on her father’s farm and was also…
Christmas, 2017 Dear Friends of the Ursuline Sisters, Each Christmas, we remember that moment when God “came into the world as light, so that everyone who believes might not remain in darkness.” (John 12:46) When we turn towards Jesus, as Mary and Joseph did on that first Christmas, God’s light is reflected within us….
Does that title make you think the writer might be a bit jaded about Lent? Or, did the title give a hint that the writer is excited that Lent is here again? For most of us Christians, Lent can offer mixed emotions. It is a time of repentance (a sinner … who, me?). To be…