As a member of the NCCL, I receive a weekly newsletter and it is always packed with new and exciting articles. In particular I was thrilled to see a premier issue of a newly published newsletter on adult faith formation entitled GEM:Great Endeavors Mined and Shared. How clever! It also featured our own Fr. Tony…
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Laughter is carbonated holiness.
Let us strive for holiness—and try to erase from our mind, the corrections we received for laughing at inappropriate times and inappropriate places. Why is it that you are overcome with laughter at the most solemn times. I recall gathering with our novice director daily for midday prayer in the Motherhouse chapel and someone would…
Sister Mary Jovita Milner, OSU
Sister Mary Jovita Milner, 89, an Ursuline Sister of Mount Saint Joseph, died Aug. 24 in her 69th year of religious life. She was born in Platteville, Colo., and grew up in Grayson County, Ky. An educator for more than 50 years, Sister Mary Jovita was a compassionate person who lived her life by the…
Death is upon us again
Having just received word of the death of another Ursuline Sister, my sister in community, I pause to give thanks for her life and the many lives she has touched in her ministry. The feeling of sadness and loss is a reality, but it is soon replaced with feelings of rejoicing for her battle is…
I am back
Greetings, this past week I have been very occupied with office responsibilities. It was stressful but things worked out. It was an opportunity for the staff to pull together in the absence of the pastor who was where he needed to be with his family. He got the news that his mother, age 64, had…
Sister Mary Rosaria Ray, OSU
Sister Mary Rosaria Ray, 88, an Ursuline Sister of Mount Saint Joseph, died Saturday, August 21, at Mount Saint Joseph, in her 68th year of religious life. She was a native of Payneville in Meade County. An educator for more than 45 years, she taught at St. Alphonsus School, St. Joseph (1944, 1957-58), and…
The good of a smile is inconceivable
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.–Joseph Addison I have always known that a smile cost nothing but really it is true that a smile can bring about something within another that is inconceivable. Why…
The promise of abundance startles us.
I have several spiritual resources that I use on a daily basis and today as I read from the Living Word I was struck by the reflection on “The Abundance of God”. The reflection flowed from today’s Scripture, Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. 2 Corinthias…
God is boundary-breakingly beyond everything…
I quote from David Knight’s commentary on the first reading of liturgy today from the book of the prophet Ezekiel 1:2-28. “It is a common testimony of the mystics that the experiences they had of God, whether in visions or ecstasies, were indescribable. Words do not exist to portray what they saw, because our words…