Image by Juergen Striewski from Pixabay. By Sister Michele Morek I have to agree with Mrs. Albert Einstein. Whan asked if she understood her husband’s famous Theory of Relativity, she said, “No, but I trust him.” I’m that way about Quantum Physics. It fascinates me but ultimately I have to trust those who try to explain it to…

By Sister Michele Morek (seen riding an elephant in Thailand 20 years ago with her sister-in-law Gah, and below petting a baby elephant with her niece Lisa.) Besides Easter, there were so many of my favorite days to celebrate in April! Earth Day on the 22nd. Pope Francis’ transitus on April 21. And Rachel Carson’s…

(Photo of Siberian cocklebur by Miroslaw i Joanna Bucholic from Pixabay) By Sister Michele Morek To the casual observer, I didn’t do a very good job of making retreat. It was not our Benedictine Brother Zachary’s fault: we were distracted by the deaths of two of our Sisters during those days. There was the exhaustion…

Image by marvinbla on Pixabay. By Sister Michele Morek, OSU I was re-reading an account of Saint Angela Merici’s childhood vision that shaped her Company and our Ursuline Community. It was a Vision of young women and angels going up and down a ladder between heaven and earth. But there is Vision and there is…

(Photo by Nowaja on Pixabay.) By Sister Michele Morek In January I was part of the group of elected delegates for our official Chapter meetings. (In case you are not up on “nun-speak” the Chapter is the governing body that creates policies and sets directions for the next few years.) We had an excellent facilitator…

(Image by Gerd Altmann on Pixabay) By Sister Michele Morek After the explosion of color and pageantry and sacred stories that is Christmas (Angels! Shepherds! Kings!) it may be hard to re-enter the reality of the world into which The Word became incarnate. That world was certainly not perfect then, nor is ours. Peace and…

(Cosmos image by Reni Becker from Pixabay) By Sister Michele Morek First, you have to trust me: this will eventually turn into an Advent reflection. We all find our paths to God and pray in our unique ways – our experience of God comes out of our own “internal environment.” For example, several spiritual directors…

(photo by Mable Amber on Pixabay) By Sister Michele Morek Did you ever see the poster that said, “When God closes a door, he opens a window?” I like it. It reminds me of one of my favorite chores when I was a teenager: irrigating our apple orchard. In New Mexico you didn’t need convincing…

By Sister Michele Morek You’ve probably seen them, perhaps in the oddest places.  In the neglected grounds around an old homestead, or maybe even coming up in the middle of a lawn (like this picture taken out by the maintenance building, where our old Mount Saint Joseph water tower used to be). In late summer,…

(Photo: “Roots of the Forest” by Jerzy from Pixabay) By Sister Michele Morek My first meeting with the California redwoods was in the John Muir Woods outside of San Francisco. Several subsequent experiences with them were no less awe-inspiring, but that first impression of being in God’s temple – in a holy place – has…