Advent Week Three
Advent is my favorite season of the Church Year. I love all the Advent Hymns, especially “O Come, O Come Emmanuel.” My parish is using the refrain “Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel Shall come to thee, O Israel” as the response to…
The Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe
On this feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe may we be renewed in our faith and our devotion. May we experience God’s compassion and consolation in our sorrows. As Our Lady of Guadalupe called upon the Church to heed the…
The Feast of Mary Frances Clarke
As we celebrate the Feast of Mary Frances Clarke, a peacemaker, a woman whose background includes the Quaker tradition, we ponder how she would react to the acts of violence, the vitriolic rhetoric which is ever present in our world…
Mary McCauley, BVM Responds to DACA
A DREAMER shares: ... I grew up reciting the Pledge of Allegiance and proudly singing the National Anthem. I grew up learning what it means to be an American. I am an American!
Summer Gathering “United in Heart”
UNITED IN HEART was an incredibly powerful experience for me. It was a stroke of genius to hold the event in the Mount Carmel chapel, where I, like most BVMs had my first experiences of religious life, and to which…
Everyone Has a Vocation
Everyone has a vocation. Whether living our lives as married, single or religious God calls us to be faithful to the Gospel and to be a loving people. Our challenge is to listen and discern how to respond to that…
Ecuador Immersion April 2017: Monday
Today was a busy day. Madre Cindy led us on a walking tour of the Working Boys Center #2. Cindy told us that it is the only organization in Ecuador that works with the entire family as a unit.
Ecuador Immersion Trip April 2017
Meet the travelers on the Ecuador Immersion Trip happening April 19-28, 2017
Easter Refection 2017
Wake up! We are alleluia people from head to toe! We raise our voices in joy and thanksgiving for God’s amazing and wonderful works. We sing, “Alleluia,” and proclaim, “Jesus Christ is risen.” With Magdalene, we say, “We have seen…
Lenten Reflections: The Fifth Sunday of Lent
“And Jesus wept.” “Jesus told her, ‘I am the resurrection and the life; whoever believes in me, even if he dies, will live, and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die.’ ” A week away from Holy…