Lenten Reflection: Something New

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 Reflection: We Need Dialogue

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: Thirsting for Jesus

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...
Lenten Reflection: What Do You Need to Change?

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...
Lenten Reflection: We Must Build a Bridge

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...