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The way of pain and Holy Week
...pain is also salvific: It is perhaps our only means of intersecting our life experience with that of Christ. I will never be able to multiply loaves and fishes, but I can certainly understand how it feels to hurt. Holy Week is coming up next week, a week wherein we remember Jesus’ suffering and his triumph over death. It seems an opportune time to reflect on the pain in our lives. We all experience pain, physical, mental or spiritual. But...
From darkness to the promise of new life in Easter
...through this pain new growth and a new beginning will be on the horizon. It cannot be seen or felt at this time, but it will happen. This story is a version of Christ’s suffering and death more than 2,000 years ago, only we are watching it unfold in the 21st century. As this couple drove away from the home they have known, I prayed that they would experience a Resurrection within their lives. That’s the beauty of this Easter...
Counsel and guidance to middle schoolers
...that came to me sobbing with a note that read, ‘I wish you were dead. Nobody likes you. Here are some ways you could kill yourself: drink bleach, starve to death or slash your wrists. Go kill yourself.’ I talked with her and consoled her as best I could.” Later, after getting a sample of the child’s handwriting from her teacher, Lorrie called her back to her office. I looked at her and said, “I think I found out who...
Faces of the Children
...of the children, all whose lives are cut short. Rachel weeping through the centuries refusing to be comforted. When will we care enough? Donna Butler, SP I wrote this poem in response to the death of Shaylyn Ammerman , 15 months old, who was abducted, brutally raped, strangled and murdered in Indiana, March, 2016. I invite you to pray with the poem and with the song, Faces of the Children, by Kathy Sherman, CSJ. and choir directed by Marc Coderre....
June: Recognizing Torture Awareness Month
...in the month of June, we want to focus especially on the issue of torture as it exists within the United States criminal justice system. The death penalty, issues of racism, mass incarceration, solitary confinement, mental illness, sentencing patterns, juveniles treated as adults – all of these call us to awareness and action. Added to that, Guantanamo prisoners are still being held without charge or trial under horrific interrogation techniques. The National Religious Campaign against Torture (NRCAT) invites us to...
“May we all be saints!” An unpublished letter from Mother Theodore
This next previously unpublished letter from Saint Mother Theodore was written to Sister Mary Xavier. Sister Mary Xavier was one of the original sisters who accompanied Mother Theodore from France to Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. If you have read “Journals and Letters” you may recognize her name, as Saint Mother Theodore wrote many letters of advice to the young sister as she was out on mission. Like the last note, this letter was written just months before Mother Theodore’s death. Advising, encouraging,...
Saint Mother Theodore’s advice to an impatient sister: unpublished letters
...your God, who suffered so much for you from the moment of His birth in a stable to that of His death upon the Cross?” Make your examen on meekness in words, and mark it as a fault whenever you have refused to your Sisters, or given with bad grace, what they asked for; then, to repair the fault, give kindly and with gracious and gentle words what they need, saying interiorly, “For Thee, my God, for Thee!” Above all,...
Sister Mary Loyola Bender
...was not appointed, he would request a change. And, in those days, you know who prevailed. I’ll say more about this chapter of Mary Loyola’s life later in the commentary. Anna Loyola was born Oct. 13, 1917, to John and Mary Cecilia Hay Bender in Owensboro, Ky. Sister is survived by her brother Joseph, as well as several nieces and nephews. Two brothers, John and George, and a sister Mary Catherine, preceded her in death. Anna graduated from St. Joseph...
A Reflection for the Installation of New Leadership
...reeling from the death of their beloved leader AND trying to grapple with the possibility of resurrection, come to recognize Jesus in the stranger on the shore. He invites them to cast their nets again, to trust that his promises of abundance will be fulfilled and then to come and be nourished from that abundance and by his presence. They are not alone. The Lord is with them, and empowered by the Christ they accept the mission to feed my...
Mother Theodore: Who filled her shoes?
...9:30 to 11 a.m., or 6:30 to 8 p.m., on Wednesday, Oct. 5, at Providence Spirituality & Conference Center. The workshop will be facilitated by Sister Jan Craven. She said the workshops will begin with the journey both Saint Mother Theodore Guerin and Mother Mary Cecilia Bailly took from France to the United States. “We’ll go over the death of Mother Theodore Guerin, very briefly, and the days following,” Sister Jan said. “Then, we’ll attempt to give a very fast...
Throwback Thursday: Remembering Sister Mary Clare Fritsch
...Marquette University. Sister Mary Clare taught in Evansville, Fort Wayne and Chicago. In addition, she taught at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College from 1946-49. But it was her time at Immaculata High School – located in Washington D.C. – that sparked interest from our many social media friends. Sister Mary Clare was at the school from 1956 to 1984. And, in 1960, she began a ministry as principal of the school, a ministry she held until her death in 1984. #throwbackthursday #tbt...
A Reflection for the Feast of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin
...lifted in prayer. The voices that get raised are usually asking for the healing of a loved one, for the healing of a troubled spot in their lives or in our world. We all seek healing of some kind of another. Mother Theodore probably learned to be a healer early on in her life. We know that as the result of the death of her brothers and her father, she became a healing presence for her mother and sister. But...