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Gospel reflection

December 22, 2024: Fourth Sunday of Advent 6

May we each spend time today reflecting on our responses to the word of God as they are spoken to us in a variety of ways.

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December 15, 2024: Third Sunday of Advent

This third Sunday is called Gaudete Sundy, ‘rejoice’ Sunday

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December 8, 2024: Second Sunday of Advent

What needs to be changed to live more fully in the readiness for the Christ Who will come to you this day in the events of your life?

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December 1, 2024: First Sunday of Advent

Be alert to all that is part of our world, locally, regionally and internationally

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Story

Do You Know?

Note: The following piece was written by Sister Barbara Sheehan on behalf of the Climate Crisis Task Force. Do you know that plastic is everywhere? It’s in bowls, wraps, and a host of bottles and bags used to store foods and beverages. Do you know that certain chemicals in plastics leach out of plastic and into…

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Gospel reflection

March 31, 2024: Easter Sunday: The Resurrection of the Lord

We share in many different ways: by words, attitudes, actions, interpersonal behaviors

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March 24, 2024: Palm Sunday of the Passion of Our Lord

What challenges you and me in the passion narrative?

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March 17, 2024: Fifth Sunday of Lent

Is this Lent inviting you and me to reflect on our experiences and to meet Jesus anew in understanding his death?

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March 10, 2024: Fourth Sunday of Lent

What does it mean for me and you to live in the light?

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March 3, 2024: Third Sunday of Lent

In Lent are you being invited to take time to ponder differently, to discover God’s revelation anew?

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Story

The Cry of the Poor

Can we hear the cry of the poor and respond collectively and individually for justice?

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Story

For our Congregation, this is Eco-Justice

Our work of transformation and conversion is challenging but so necessary!

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Sister Barbara Sheehan, SP, a Sister of Providence since 1960, lives in Saint Mary-of-the-Woods after several years in Chicago, where she ministered as Executive Director/ACPE Supervisor of the Urban Clinical Pastoral Education Consortium, Inc. and as a spiritual director. She has extensive training not only in clinical pastoral supervision but also in care with those sexually abused, those challenged with mental illness and those suffering trauma. She has offered many workshops at regional, national and international conferences, is the author of Partner in Covenant: The Art of Spiritual Companionship and of numerous articles including one of her latest, Formation For Professional Practice: Addressing Social Hurts" in Reflective Practice: Formation and Supervision in Ministry, Vol. 34 2014.

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