About 20 women attended a retreat for administrative assistants titled, “Spirituality at Work: Being a Letter from God” on April 27 at the Mount Saint Joseph Conference and Retreat Center. Led by Ursuline Sister Mary Matthias Ward, the one-day retreat coincided with Administrative Professionals Day.
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Sister Mary Evelyn Duvall, OSU
Sister Mary Evelyn Duvall, 88, an Ursuline Sister of Mount Saint Joseph, died April 26 at Mount Saint Joseph, in her 70th year of religious life. She was a native of Sunfish, Ky. Sister Mary Evelyn loved to travel, and was an excellent cook, seamstress, and craft maker. She was a teacher for 44 years,…
Easter is a season of joy!
Easter joy lingers, in fact for 50 days, we rejoice in this hopeful season. Why is it that worries like the quickly approaching flood waters get center stage? Why is joy a neglected part of our days? My days are filled with complaints and beseeching of God’s help when things don’t go my way. How…
MORE NYC WEEKENDS
The clock is ticking down, the calender moves toward May 14, the day of my return to Kentucky, so I’d better see everything on my list. High on any former biology teacher’s list would be the exhibit BODIES. Many are horrified at the thought of going to an exhibit of dissected humans and human parts,…
SIDE SHOWS, U.N. STYLE
Besides the programs, panels, films, and speakers over in the meeting rooms, there are always other things going on in the lobby of the public part of the U.N. building. The other day, in front of the lovely blue Chagall stained glass window in the lobby, there was a memorial service for the 44 United…
Christian Women’s Retreat
Members of the Christian Women’s Retreat enjoy their time at the Mount Saint Joseph Conference and Retreat Center on the weekend of April 15-17.
Sts. Joseph and Paul RCIA
Members of the RCIA class at Sts. Joseph and Paul Catholic Church in Owensboro, Ky., gathered in the Madonna Room of the Mount Saint Joseph Conference and Retreat Center on April 16.
SMORGASBORD WEEKS
These past two weeks have not had a single “theme,” but have offered a real smorgasbord of interesting things–pretty typical of some of the topics the U.N. deals with. While the Security Council has been meeting every day on topics like Libya, the Ivory Coast, and Sudan, other U.N. and NGO groups have been immersed…
SHADOWS AND SUNSHINE
Being in a large city for Holy Week has been a rich experience. St. Agnes church (near Grand Central Station) where I stop in sometimes for daily Mass has a number of more traditional practices; the statues were covered with purple drapes this week. On Wednesday we attended a “Tenebrae” (from a Latin word meaning…