Winter 2025
DIFFERENCES
Lately it seems that all we hear about is how divided we are in this country, and how different our opinions are on all sorts of things. With such deep differences and divisions, how are we able to hold together?
DIFFERENCES
Lately it seems that all we hear about is how divided we are in this country, and how different our opinions are on all sorts of things. With such deep differences and divisions, how are we able to hold together?
We who do believe can seem like fools. We live in a world in which so much is diametrically opposed to the values of the Gospels
TAKING TIME What a great relief it was to be away from the responsibilities, from the nearly constant demands on my time and attention. I was just sitting. Just being. Just quietly grateful for the loveliness of God’s creation, for the priceless gift of quiet, of time, of empty space. Fall 2023 Newsletter (1.1 MB)
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PRAYING Perhaps most of us learned as children to pray by way of the Our Father or Hail Mary or the Rosary, or the Divine Mercy chaplet. We were taught that this was how to pray. Perhaps we never were taught, never learned, anything beyond that—yet now that is not enough. Winter 2022 Newsletter PDF
For some time now, during my morning hour for prayer and lectio, I sit and wait, in emptiness. Perhaps idleness? I don’t know. And yet it doesn’t feel ‘dry.’ Fall 2025 Newsletter in PDF (1.5MB)
I was raised Protestant, in the United Church of Christ, but in high school I met a teacher who lent me a biography of St. Teresa of Avila. It was love at first sight, and I knew what I wanted to be “when I grew up.” But it wasn’t that easy! Not only was I…