Heartbeats March 2021
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April 2, 2021 We are Easter People, and Alleluia is our Song Noli MeTangere Fra Angelico (c 1442) In these Easter days we are invited to sit with Mary and her women companions at the tomb. In Mark’s gospel we are told that Mary of Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome,…
Our community at St. Teresa’s celebrated the end of the Season of Creation and the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi yesterday, October 4th, with song, prayers and a planting. Outside the Iselin house an Ilex bush and lovely mums were planted and will be a symbol for our commitment to care for our common…
Please see the Heartbeats newsletter from February. Heartbeats February 2021
Marie-Celine Miranda, O.S.U. Christmas is coming. Time to celebrate. What are we really celebrating? All the stores seem to be celebrating, but people these days look pretty bushed, as far as I can see. It’s the birth of a baby, a long time ago. For a baby born a long time ago it’s a pretty…
St. Angela Merici founded the Company of St. Ursula (also known as the Ursuline Order) 482 years ago in 1535. Its members would live for God, on the job or in family life. In sixteenth-century Italy, where women’s choices were marriage or religious life, Angela developed an unheard-of alternative: consecration to God for single women…
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…