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Holy Week has begun. It is the busiest and holiest week of the Church Year. It is a week of highs and lows, of cheers and jeers, of crowds and loneliness, of saints and sinners. There is a bit of everything in Holy Week. . . .
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. . . Often when faced with a cross, we become emotionally and physically overwhelmed by the Passion and Death aspects. We forget that a resurrection is hidden mysteriously within every cross of our human lives. . . .
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I venture to say that Lent is about hanging on. After all 40 days is a long time to maintain laser-like focus on conversion and whole-hearted faithfulness to our Lenten promises. (Come on now…be honest . . .
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I need reminders of the Lenten season and what it means to me. Fortunately there are helps surrounding me. As I enter the chapel, I see the African milk-tree, also known as the cathedral cactus. I don’t get too close to it because . . .
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This retreat will look first at Paul’s life and spirituality. The following two sessions will look more deeply at what “Living in Christ” means and lastly, how that leads to “The Cross” and our own call to ongoing conversion in our lives. Facilitator: Sister Pauline Micke, OSB, MA.Theology Certified Spiritual Director and Director of the [...]
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As I was walking on the road behind the Monastery, I was in awe of the white, silent, pure and unsullied snow. Many of us had anxiously and nostalgically waited for the snow to come – never believing that we would even say or think such a thought in winter’s past! Now the immaculate new snow of . . .
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