We invite you to Walk With Us as BVM sisters and associates share their reflections on spirituality, our daily life, and the charism of the BVM community as expressed in our core values: freedom, education, charity and justice. We welcome you to share your comments, your reflections and your questions.
Father’s Day Reflection: Patience and Playing Barbies
The Freunds at a family reunion in 1995: Josh (l.), Marabeth, Norm, and Gabe Freund. My favorite devotion is to the Communion of Saints. As…
Love Calls Us to Listen to Strong Winds and Whispers
"Suddenly there came from the sky a noise like a strong driving wind . . ." (Acts 2:2) This reading for Pentecost shows that sometimes we…
Celebrate the Legacy of All Kinds of Motherhood on Mother’s Day
Associate Grace Mendez and her family: John Sr. (l.), John Jr., Norma, Grace, and Norma Wright in 1957. Mother’s Day has been an official holiday…
A Tree Was Created to be a Tree
Be a tree hugger: BVMs Mira Mosle and Mary Ann Zollmann embrace a tree during a prayer ritual. Featured in the fall 2020 issue of…
Easter Sunday: The Resurrection
THE RESURRECTION GOSPEL Jn 20:1–9 EASTER SUNDAY Let him easter in us, be a dayspring to the dimness of us, be a crimson-cresseted east.”—GM Hopkins…
‘Holy Is the Waiting:’ Sights and Sounds of Holy Week
Pause! Wait! Bow! Enter Holy Week! In this week, time and eternity intertwine. Holy is the waiting. Holy is the common suffering. Holy is God’s…