We wish all of you a very blessed New Year!
“In this light, I see
What I see is Light itself.
The Light is a single Word.
I will not cut the diamond; the stone is too precious.”
– Sr. Irene Mahoney, OSU (1921-2015)
Artwork by Sr. Anne Therese Dillen, OSU
Our Lady of Guadalupe – Guadalupe, Mexico (1531) Patroness of the Americas Feast Day in the USA – December 12th Click on the link below to read the story. //www.catholic.org/about/guadalupe.php Here are some photos of staff at the Ursuline Province Center in New Rochelle, NY dressed up in celebration of this special day!
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…
FIRST SUNDAY OF ADVENT From the prophet Jeremiah 33:14-16 The days are coming, says the LORD, when I will fulfill the promise I made to the house of Israel and Judah. In those days, in that time, I will raise up for David a just shoot; he shall do what is right…
SECOND SUNDAY OF ADVENT From St. Paul’s letter to the Philippians 1: 4-6, 8-11 Brothers and sisters: I pray always with joy in my every prayer for all of you, because of your partnership for the gospel from the first day until now. I am confident of this, that the one who…
The monthly publication distributed by the Roman Union Ursulines in the United States called Heartbeats is producing a newsletter each week for Advent. Weekly newsletters will be added to this post. Visit each week to see the new publication. Click on the links below to view each week’s newsletter: Heartbeats-First Week Advent 2020 Heartbeats Week…
Bridget Puzon, O.S.U. As I prepared a Thanksgiving prayer for a community meeting, the great and the small things to be grateful for in our lives sprang to mind, as they do every year. But now they didn’t seem to be enough. The ache I feel this year in saying thank you to God comes…