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.
Advent: We Are Already Ransomed by Grace, Even During Pandemic
Artwork by Associate Maureen Frommelt Advent is an awesome liturgical season that speaks to the heart like no other! As we await the birth of…
Gratitude For All Gifts From God
This is a partial description of my gratitude list: Raking brightly colored red maple leaves into gigantic piles in the abnormally warm autumn temperatures. Family…
Saints Among Us on All Saints Day
Gilbert Keith Chesterton once defined the Communion of Saints: “The Church Triumphant is All Saints, the Church Suffering is All Souls, and the Church Militant…
Patron Saints of Ecology Walk Among Us
The Feast of St. Francis on Oct. 4 concluded the Season of Creation, so appropriate for the man named the Patron Saint of Ecology by…
Centering Calmness of a Peacemaker
Painting of young BVM Foundress Mary Frances Clarke by BVM Mary Faith Lautz. As questions swirl and not knowing grows, I feel myself teetering on…
Be Audaciously Peaceful
The Audacity of Hope was a book written by former President Barack Obama 14 years ago. At that time I thought it was a very…