“We wear ashes not to show how good we are, but to show how human we are.”
Lenten Reflection: Whatsoever You Do
That encounter taught me that I/we are often the ones who need to reach out and include, rather than exclude. We are the ones who must truly be the tender, healing touch of the God we say we believe in.
Relationship
Is this blessed and broken universe and all it contains, all it ever contained, the body of Christ? Even today?
Lenten Reflection: We Must Build a Bridge
In her address to the Dominican Symposium in 2007 held in Adrian Michigan, Ann Willits quoted Jamie Phelps, OP, who said “though it is common to speak of our living today in a global reality, all too often we do so with 'eyes that see but not see and ears that hear...
Lenten Reflection: We Need Dialogue
Flickr: Matus Laslofi In her prologue to At Home in Wisdom’s Tent, Donna Markham, OP states, “We desperately need dialogue – not more discussion! Dialogue describes the kind of conversation which builds a synergistic, new, and better understanding of an issue....
Lenten Reflection: On the Day at Hand, From Sunrise to Sunset
As I reflect this Lent on the early discovery of the immensity of the nature of this Mother Earth both in her mountain and ocean, it gives me a new understanding of Hope.
Lenten Reflection: Thirsting for Jesus
As we journey on the road to resurrection, we look back to the beginning which began in a desert, then continued up a mountain, and now we find Jesus resting along the roadside by a well. He is easy and pauses for some refreshment. He really doesn’t want much: just a...
A Position of the Heart
A Position of the Heart He seduced the Cross into making love. He coaxed it, pressed it to himself, Until it was difficult to see which had initiated the embrace, which was making the offering. And which one had actually given in. Jo-Ann...
Meet the Sister Who Spent Lent Begging on the Streets of France
When Dominican Sister of Hope Mary Alice Hannan, OP heard about a congregation of Dominican Sisters who devoted their lives to serving the homeless, she knew she wanted to meet them. There was just one caveat: the group was located in France, and they adhered to the...
Lenten Reflection: What Do You Need to Change?
We have begun the journey of reconciliation and conversion, Lent. This season of the church year is about repenting for our personal faults and sinfulness. It is about self-analysis and conversion. What do I (you) need to change? In the readings of the season we are...
