Winter 2021
GENTLENESS
It is beyond evident that this long lingering pandemic has us all stressed in many ways. We react in different ways: irritability, withdrawal, escapism etc. I suggest there is still another way: the way of gentleness.
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“Tis a gift to be simple, tis a gift to be free, tis a gift to come down where you want to be….” So runs the opening line of the famous Shaker hymn, hauntingly beautiful and evocative of the Spirit it celebrates. These lines spring readily to my mind as I gaze on the simplicity…
Winter 2018
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My Story: By Sr. Bernadette Kasinathan
RCIA is the reason why I am a contemplative nun. When one is baptised as an adult, one cannot help but come to the realisation that one’s life has been very uneventful, and also of many previous unruly and false conceptions. Letting the Saviour into my life made for a complete turnover and drastic changes,…
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IMAGE As humans, we are the pinnacle of God’s creation, made in God’s image and likeness—and yet formed out of the dust of the earth. Our all too earthy dust only came to life when God blew his breath, his Spirit into us. That being so, we are not only important, but in some unnamed…
Winter 2020
FEAR AND FATIGUE What a time we have all been having! What a challenging, difficult, demanding year! As if the pandemic were not enough, we’ve suffered through some of the worst fires in history in the West, and pummeling, unremitting hurricanes in the South and East. With all of this fatigue, and all of these…
Winter 2017
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