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Thanksgiving and Celebration

By |2018-11-21T10:43:09-07:00November 21st, 2018|Nun News Blog|

"What would happen to the Church and the world without the beacons that signal the port to those who are lost on the high seas, without the torches that illuminate the dark night we are going through, without the sentinels announcing the new day when it is still night?" - Pope Francis, for Pro Orantibus [...]

Advent Photo Update

By |2015-11-30T17:47:05-07:00November 30th, 2015|Nun News Blog, Year of Consecrated Life|

Advent is concerned with that very connection between memory and hope which is so necessary to man. Advent’s intention is to awaken the most profound and basic emotional memory within us, namely, the memory of the God who became a child. This is a healing memory; it brings hope. The purpose of the Church’s year [...]

O Lord, I am Your Servant!

By |2015-09-06T06:50:59-07:00September 6th, 2015|Nun News Blog, Year of Consecrated Life|

One of the things that I love to meditate on are the many paradoxes of our Catholic faith, because they are not what they seem to be at first glance, and if you would understand them you must take the time to look more closely. Understanding paradoxes require a disposition like Our Lady who with [...]

Grateful and Longing Hearts

By |2013-12-04T01:00:51-07:00December 4th, 2013|Nun News Blog|

You turkeys! We were blessed to have Fr. Bob Reddy from Canada and Sr. Genevieve, OSB join us for our Thanksgiving festivities! A belated happy Thanksgiving to you!  We hope your day was filled with much joy, as was ours.  Thanksgiving gives us a great opportunity to reflect with gratitude on [...]

Receiving with Thanks

By |2012-06-02T04:57:00-07:00June 2nd, 2012|Nun News Blog|

Growing up in the 'country', sharing garden vegetables was as much a part of summer as swimming, picnics, and road trips!  Whatever our garden produced, we shared with neighbors and cousins.  And it was a two way street! Zucchini, tomatoes, peas, green onions, berries - whatever anyone's garden produced, the whole neighborhood enjoyed it.  Such [...]

O Come, O Come Emmanuel!

By |2010-11-30T17:51:00-07:00November 30th, 2010|Nun News Blog|

This blog is going to be a bit of a mish mash of this and that!  So, on your mark, get set, let's blog!!!Wish List:  Firstly, as you may have noted, we recently posted a wish list.  More recently, we added a link to the Moon Valley Nursery site, with a customized Wish List of [...]

Happy Thanksgiving

By |2010-11-23T19:00:00-07:00November 23rd, 2010|Nun News Blog|

It's hard to believe that it is already Thanksgiving!  We hope and pray that you and your family have a very blessed day of gratitude and joy.  We will be celebrating our first Thanksgiving in Tonopah.  Since entering the Monastery (for many of us that was about 15 years ago), we have celebrated Thanksgiving with [...]

Fr. Mariusz

By |2009-07-27T18:29:00-07:00July 27th, 2009|Nun News Blog|

Happy Feast of Our Lady of the Angels! This past week we were blessed to have a visit from Fr. Mariusz, Fr. Leo, and Fr. Gabriel, Franciscan Friars of the Renewal -- the men in gray. Fr. Mariusz is celebrating his fortieth anniversary of Ordination to the Priesthood this year (in conjunction with the Year [...]

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