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Honor Divine Providence
...and leaders in spirituality such as Miriam Therese MacGillis, OP, and Judy Cannato. Our founding director of the White Violet Center for Eco-justice, Sister Ann Sullivan has also guided us. On this journey of more than 10 years, two scientifically verifiable facts have increased my reverence for all creation and deepened my trust in Providence that sustains this incredible web of relationships. Fact #1: Earth formed as a planet in our solar system 4.25 billion years ago. The eons between...
Practical ways to make a difference
...his contagious interest, Sister Florence developed a love for things in the heavens, in the trees and on the ground. Early this summer, Sister Florence took vacation from her ministry as a pastoral associate at Our Lady of Grace Parish, Chicago, to participate in the Women of Providence in Collaboration’s Earth Plunge event. This workshop features several days of immersion into Earth to contemplate its impact on participants’ spirituality. Although she has always been aware of the sacredness of water,...
A Valentine’s Day reflection for 2014
...Let’s pray with and for the heart of each person of Earth; let us pray with and for the heart of Earth, our dear planet. Let us bless Providence every time we see a red, pink or multicolored paper heart today — or candy heart! Let us praise Providence for all those in our lives about whom we can say this: For true hearts there is no separating ocean; or rather, God is their ocean, in whom they meet and...
Sister Lourdes Kline
“O Lord, our Sovereign, how majestic is your name in all the earth: human beings – mortals for whom you care, the heavens – the moon and the stars, sheep and oxen, the beasts of the field, the birds of the air and the fish of the sea, and whatever passes along the paths of the seas … How majestic is your name in all the earth! — Psalm 8 (adapted: The psalm translation is from the New Revised Standard...
Water Poem
...and jump over heights. A beautiful cascading waterfall I could be. Soft snow covering Earth or hard ice that would make trees dazzle in the bright sun are specialties. I’ll be rain helping the flowers and gifts of Earth to grow. With the help of Brother Sun I’ll be dew diamonds in the morning grass. So as not to take myself too seriously, I could be seven on the enneagram. Sometimes I would just evaporate into thin air. I would...
The Smile of a Sister: Where a Life of Love Began
...every corner of our earth. I always treasured the missionary desire to bring the Gospel to “the ends of the earth.” Surprisingly, this has been fulfilled not because I crossed oceans, but because the ends of the earth came to me. My religious vows have offered me the freedom I needed to give all my energies to love and serve many and in various ways. Together with my sisters, who have always inspired and supported me, we have reached out...
Hospitality: making it real
...call it cosmic beyond-ness; maybe it’s that for which I’m pining. Truly no place on Earth could satiate this longing. But here’s the crux – I believe that, through acts of hospitality, we actually co-create moments of heaven on Earth by way of intimate connection with others. To me, the practice of hospitality is sharing space and consciousness with friends and strangers. There I can land and experience my truest Self through right relationship, and, in those moments, I feel...
Week 5: Daily reflections with Saint Mother Theodore Guerin
...let go of self-interest for the sake of doing God’s work? • How can I foster the type of detachment Mother Theodore showed in this instance, faced with being kicked out, not only of leadership, but of the community she had founded? Monday, March 27 “Thus says the LORD: Lo, I am about to create new heavens and a new earth; the things of the past shall not be remembered or come to mind.” – Isaiah 65:17 “This land was...
Sister Rosalie Cullen, formerly Sister James Clare
Sister Rosalie Cullen The prophet Isaiah proclaims: “Have you not known? Have you not heard? I am the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. I do not grow tired or weary; my understanding is unsearchable. I give power to the weak, and to those who have no might, I increase strength. The young may grow tired and weary and others may stumble and fall, but those who hope in Yahweh will have their strength renewed. They...
Celebrating World Environment Day
...back at me, I know that what I tell them can impact how they live with the land while here at the Woods, but also, how they treat the earth as they move on from these few crop-filled acres, nestled in western Indiana. How we treat the earth is changing, but not nearly fast enough. For millennia, humans considered it to be full of unlimited resources. The planet seemed vast. Most of it was unreachable and unexplored. We now know...
Called to transformation, called to transform
...how Jesus lived on this earth. He said, “A religious must never abandon prophecy.” Scripture scholar Carroll Stuhlmueller, in commenting on the book of Jeremiah, explains what that prophecy might look like. He wrote, “We judge the prophets’ credibility by their wholesome, religious impact upon the people. In a prophet’s peace and goodness,” says Stuhlmueller, “people discover the mysterious presence of God once again.” I find resonance with both Pope Francis and Stuhlmueller’s words in the lines from our Constitutions...
Oral history: Sister Patricia Geis, a life of adventures and little ones
...like a nun!” That amused her to no end, and she replied, “That’s because I am one!” Sister Patty loved her stay at the Bed & Breakfast lodgings in Ireland because it gave her the opportunity to be with the Irish people in town, whom she cherishes as charming and hospitable. Listening to her talk about Ireland left no doubt that Ireland just might be her second favorite place on this earth. “This is the path traced by Providence. And...