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Sister Alice Walsh (formerly Sister Julia Therese)
“That is why I am telling you not to worry about your life and what you are to eat nor your body and how you are to clothe it.” —– Matthew 6:25-26 “So Jesus went round all the towns and villages teaching in their synagogues announcing the good news of the kingdom.” —– Matthew 9:35 Those of us who knew Sister Alice well will understand why I chose these passages from scripture. As I continue, they will become self-evident. It...
A year of St. Joseph, family protector
A statue of the St. Joseph and the baby Jesus located in the courtyard of Providence Hall at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. Pope Francis has proclaimed a “Year of Saint Joseph.” I am elated. I have a special devotion to Saint Joseph because he reminds me of my father who was a steady, faithful presence in our family. Joseph has that same aura. I remember putting Joseph’s figure in the crèche in front of the manager only to have him put back...
Called to transformation, called to transform
...for it. I think it is rather providential that Sister Joni Luna was one of those you met who actually invited you to a Come and See weekend here at the Woods. Time there as well as subsequent time with Sisters Editha Ben and Jeanette Lucinio seemed to seal the deal. Transformation What you have done with the time since then is a testimony to my second “T” word — transformation. Jessica, I loved the first line of your letter...
Ten years of transformation
...all. Transfiguration On the last day of my retreat, my director asked me to read and reflect on the Transfiguration passage in Matthew (Mt 17:1-9). I sat still, closed my eyes and tried to imagine the scene. I saw Jesus with, as Matthew says, “his face becoming as dazzling as the sun and his clothes as radiant as light” standing in the cloud, reaching down to pull me up to him. As I passed through the cloud, I saw my...
February 5, 2023: Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Gospel: Matthew 5:13-16 Jesus said to his disciples: “You are the salt of the earth. But if salt loses its taste, with what can it be seasoned? It is no longer good for anything but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot. You are the light of the world. A city set on a mountain cannot be hidden. Nor do they light a lamp and then put it under a bushel basket; it is set on a lampstand, where it...
February 26, 2023: First Sunday in Lent
Gospel: Matthew 4:1-11 At that time Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert to be tempted by the devil. He fasted for forty days and forty nights, and afterwards he was hungry. The tempter approached and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command that these stones become loaves of bread.” He said in reply, “It is written: One does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes forth from the mouth...
March 5, 2023: Second Sunday of Lent
Gospel: Matthew 17:1-9 Jesus took Peter, James, and his brother, John, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. And he was transfigured before them; his face shone like the sun and his clothes became white as light. And behold, Moses and Elijah appeared to them, conversing with him. Then Peter said to Jesus in reply, “Lord, it is good what we are here. If you wish, I will make three tents here, one for you, one for Moses,...
May 21, 2023: Seventh Sunday of Easter (Solemnity of the Ascension)
Gospel: Matthew 28:16-20 The eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had ordered them. When they saw him, they worshiped, but they doubted. Then Jesus approached and said to them, “All power in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded...
October 29, 2023: Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Gospel: Matthew 22:34-40 When the Pharisees heard that Jesu had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, and one of them, a scholar of the law tested him by asking, “Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?” He said to him, “You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. The second is like it: You shall love your neighbor...
November 26, 2023: Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe
Gospel: Matthew 25:31-46 Jesus said to his disciples: “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit upon his glorious throne, and all the nations will be assembled before him. And he will separate them one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. He will place the sheep on his right and the goats on his left. Then the king will say to those on his right,...
Celebrating National Catholic Schools Week
...country and we will share those with you in this blog. Sister Janet Gilligan ministers as the director of the Archives Department while Sister Marie Grace Molloy also ministers in the department. Here are two photos from St. Rose, which is located in Chelsea, Massachusetts. The first photo is of the late Sister Joan Matthews and the second is of the late Sister Kathleen Mary Gay. Here is a photo of the late Sister Joan Matthews teaching music at St....
2024 Saint Mother Theodore Guerin Donor Dinner Award Recipients
...the Kiefer Charitable Foundation, Jack and Barb Kiefer, who established the foundation. Their daughter, Kathleen Gollmont, now manages the foundation. The Sarah and Joseph Thralls Award honors individuals, a family or a group that has made significant contributions of time, talent and expertise. It is named in honor of the family that offered hospitality by way of a cabin in a dense forest to Mother Theodore and her five companion sisters after they arrived at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods in 1840 and...