(Photo by Creative Inspirations on Pixaby) By Sister Michele Morek If you saw the movie, “The Miracle Worker,” you might remember the scene when the blind and deaf Helen Keller realized that the sign language representation for “water” stood for WATER. It was probably the most powerful scene in the movie. Do you remember learning…
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(Photo by JackieLou DL from Pixabay) By Sister Michele Morek You need to make a firm and clear resolution to submit yourself totally to his will, and with a lively and steadfast faith receive from him what you have to do for love of him. Saint Angela Merici: Testament Jesus wished that we would have…
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Image by StockSnap from Pixabay. By Sister Michele Morek As I descended every day into the hot, crowded, noisy subway under Grand Central Station in New York City, I knew there was a little treat waiting for me. When the subway car pulled up to the platform, it would squeal out three long notes –…
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Image by dhruvshelke1 from Pixabay. By Sister Michele Morek I was walking to a bus stop in upper Manhattan, when I was stopped in my tracks by a frantic, disheveled chicken with almost no feathers, running across the street in front of me. At first I was shocked to see something so out of place on…
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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…
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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…
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(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…
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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…
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(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…
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(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…
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