
“We wear ashes not to show how good we are, but to show how human we are.”
Lenten Reflection: Something New
We all enjoy “something new:” a new friendship, the opportunity of a new job or ministry, a new home, a new discovery that can lead us in a new direction, the sense of new life after surgery or treatment for a life threatening illness. The prophet Isaiah invites us to...
Lenten Series Part 2: A Meditation on Almsgiving
Three sisters share their reflections on making almsgiving more than clicking the donate button.
Ashes, a Reflection by Sister Debbie Blow
Flickr: Fr Lawrence Lew, O.P. Our palms from last Sunday are now behind us, a foreshadowing of the whisper we will hear once again next year, "You are dust, and to dust you shall return." However, during Holy Week, the message of ashes is more pertinent than ever....
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.
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...
3 Ideas to Change the Way You Look at Lent
Ask some Dominican Sisters of Hope what they’re giving up for Lent, and you might be surprised at their answers. Lent is traditionally a time of fasting, almsgiving, and penance; but it’s easy to lose the true meaning of these when we focus our attention on display or...
5 Ways to Do Good Now, According to Sister Connie
Flickr: Pennsylvania National Guard “In our call as Christians, as Catholics, as people, we should be able to help one another without being asked to do it,” says Sister Connie Kelly, a Dominican Sister of Hope. She’s not all talk. Sister Connie was the Campus...
Lenten Reflection: Worrying Can Help, Until it Hurts
Do not worry about tomorrow, tomorrow will take care of itself. Is that the message of (last) Sunday’s Gospel? There was a song years ago “Don’t Worry be Happy.” Is that what Jesus is telling us? I think we need to remember this reading is part of the Sermon on...
Lent: Serving from the Periphery
After the public display of Ash Wednesday, God moves among us unnoticed in everyday life. During this first week of Lent, we are reminded God takes up residence in the lives of the unassuming ones. And, as always, God visits them at unexpected...