Heartbeats
Heartbeats is a publication distributed monthly by the Roman Union Ursulines in the United States.
Heartbeats is a publication distributed monthly by the Roman Union Ursulines in the United States.
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…
St. Angela Merici was a woman who traveled, listened, prayed, observed and was open to the influences of her day. Following the founding in 1440 of the Gutenberg press, books for the first time became widely available and very popular.
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…
Anne Therese Dillen, OSU In honor of LAUDATO SI Woman, why are you weeping, Bent in scalding tears? What has wrenched your heart to breaking, No smile to hide your fears? “Look here! Can you but see? They’ve shaved away my mountain – The trees, the moss, the laurel – The scent of morning dew!”…
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….
Anne Therese Dillen, O.S.U. HOLY, INDEED! A sacred march to town, with seating on a donkey’s colt; A path of palms thick-strewn, yet soon to be awash in tears; Joyous songs of children echoed by the very stones. HOLY, INDEED! A crowning for the King, a regal purple robe as well: A throne erected…