I came upon a story that I loved the first time I heard it and the significance and lesson it presents is still powerful. I regret that I cannot give credit to the author so if you know the author I would love to know. The story goes like this: “Tell me the weight of…
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Summer Retreat for Women Religious
About 50 sisters gathered in Conference Room A of the Mount Saint Joseph Conference and Retreat Center the week of July 10-16 for the Summer Retreat for Women Religious titled, “At the Heart of All Spirituality is Relationship: With God, With Self, With Others.” It was led by Father Jim Marchionda, OP, with the Chicago-based…
Known in PRESENCE and WORD
I came across this YouTube video from the National Religious Vocation Conference communication and was very inspired. It is a powerful reminder to me that God comes to us and really touches us through WORD and PRESENCE. Enjoy! I would love to hear what your reaction was when you viewed it. For those not sure…
WWAD?
We’ve all heard the little mini-meditation, WWJD? “What would Jesus do?” Well, I (like most Ursuline Sisters) could paraphrase that a little and ask WWAD? “What would Angela do?”–in seeking to be true to the charism of our founder, Saint Angela Merici. While I was discerning a new ministry I spent a lot of time…
2011 Jubilarians
Community Days Celebration: The 11 members of the 2011 Ursuline Sisters of Mount Saint Joseph Jubilee class celebrated at the Motherhouse on July 9, at the completion of Community Days. To accompany the theme of being on a journey that began with Saint Ursula and her boat, the Chapel that morning was decorated with a…
Ursuline Community Days
Ursuline Sisters from all eight states where they minister came to Maple Mount to celebrate Community Days together on July 6-8. Here are some pictures:
CLOUDS OF WITNESSES
Many years ago, I read a mystery entitled “A Cloud of Witnesses.” I don’t even remember what it was about, but the title continued to intrigue me, even before I knew it was a Bible quotation from the book of Hebrews. Almost every day for the past few weeks, I’ve been helping to edit the…
Sister Kathleen Condry: Blending leadership with a gentle spirit
Update: Sister Kathleen Condry died Sept. 5, 2016, less than two months after taking office as the elected assistant congregational leader. In the summer of 2009, Ursuline Sister Kathleen Condry was planning to take a long break before looking for a new ministry. Her community, the Ursuline Sisters of Paola, Kan., had just completed a…
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This week at the Motherhouse we have been having a special period of 60 hours of adoration before the Blessed Sacrament praying for those discerning a vocation to consecrated life in observance of Pope Benedict 60th anniversary of his call to priesthood. It has been a graced time for me. The silence and quiet stirs…
Angela’s vision has prospered
Today I revisited a section of a book where Angela Merici, founder of the Ursuline Sisters, spoke about the vision God sent her in the Brudazzo which took many years to come to fruitage. This was an amazing vision of creating a company of women deeply committed to God which continues to unfold since 1535…