Nothing is more practical than finding God, that is, in FALLING IN LOVE in a quite absolute, final way. What you are in love with, what seizes your imagination, will affect everything. It will decide what will get you out of bed in the morning, what you will do with your evenings, how you will [...]
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 [...]
God of might, giver of every good gift, put into our hearts the love of your name, so that, by deepening our sense of reverence, you may nurture in us what is good and, by your watchful care, keep safe what you have nurtured. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns [...]
"Every time I extend my arms in prayer to God, I feel that at the same time I am holding the entire world in my embrace." - a solitary hermit in Chile "He's got the whole world in His Hands..." I wanted to share the following comment with you from Contemplatives and the [...]
Today is the feast of St. Kateri Tekakwitha.. She is a favorite of many of the Sisters and even has a home in one of our stained glass windows in the Chapel. Let us ask the "Lily of the Mohawks" to intercede for us. Like her may we be single-hearted, determined, and fully surrendered to [...]
Shortly after posting Contemplatives and the World, I came across this excerpt from Fr. Wilfrid Stinissen that presses the point even further. It makes a perfect Part II to the original blog: When a person is captured by God's love and leaves earthly pursuits behind in order to cling - as far as possible - [...]
So embrace the whole world with the arms of your love and in that act at once consider and congratulate the good, contemplate and mourn over the wicked. In that act look upon the afflicted and oppressed and feel compassion for them." - St. Aelred Wall space in our tiny novitiate classroom is VERY limited. [...]
Devotion to the Sacred Heart should bring us to a life of intimate union with Jesus who, we know, is truly present and living in the Eucharist. The two devotions — to the Sacred Heart and to the Eucharist — are closely connected. They call upon one another and, we may even say, they require [...]
Fergus before "the summer cut" Sr. Augusta's Clothing Ceremony, A Refelction by Fergus, the West Highland Terrier It's getting hot here in Arizona, so at the end of May, the Sisters decided it was time for the "summer cut". NOOOO! Not the dreaded summer cut: Bye bye westie fluffy adorableness, hello 'rat [...]
