
“We wear ashes not to show how good we are, but to show how human we are.”
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: 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.
Lent: A Season for Christian Foolishness
Lent never seems to arrive on time.Whenever we’re ready for it, it seems to come too late in the calendar year, and when it arrives early, it seems we’ve just put the Christmas decorations away.With the arrival of Ash Wednesday this year, we’re faced again...
Growing into Lent
Flickr: Fr Lawrence Lew, O.P. When we were in grammar school, no one would have called us well-behaved, especially during Stations of the Cross on Friday afternoons in Lent. But we were quiet as we timed the priest from station to station and silently cheered...
Whose Feet Do You Wash?
Whose feet need washing in our world? This is ours to do.
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...
Unthinkable, a poem by Sister Jo-Ann
Unthinkable The angelic body bowed low in adoration Before the woman soon-to-be- with child. "Blessed," he called her. "Why?" she asked. "Chosen," was his answer. He waited. She wondered. "How? Not now," she said. "God...
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 Series Part 3: How to Pray
Finding the time and space –let alone quiet– can be a task in itself, not to mention cultivating focus and connection.