We do not need to frantically figure out the future of religious life or even ensure that it continues — that is God’s work. May we wisely participate in this unfolding.
This Advent and Christmas season, take some time to ponder both the gifts of the Incarnation and the second coming through the insights and words of our ancestors in faith.
Christmas is a call, an invitation and a challenge to interior conversion, communal transformation and external revitalization, letting go, to let emerge and to re-create.
Horizons - Can we dream of a renewed humanity? In this time of Advent, we are invited to explore our inner light and cleanse our gaze, welcoming both light and shadow with generosity.
We are called to straighten perverse attitudes and inadequate behavioral patterns of communication, as well as straighten the warped or broken relationships in our families, communities, presbyteries and society.
I think of the dormant seeds in our souls during this Advent and how, like the desert seeds, new growth comes with prayer and God showering us with his love and blessings.
Sometimes it is better to give and sometimes it is just as appropriate to receive. As we make our way through life's sometimes rocky roads, we learn to give generously and to receive with gratitude.
"When I was born in Mexico, my father was already beyond the border," writes María Elena Méndez Ochoa. "The theme of migration resurfaced when I entered religious life."
Women religious must move from a stage of development marked by relative certainty to one of tentativeness and hope of a fundamental breakthrough. They need to accept "the new normal" of being in transition.
During Advent, Our Lady of Guadalupe points to our limitless God who does not fit within our human limitations. As we ask "Now what?" during hard days or even disaster, we are invited to hold on to Our Lady's message of hope.
Sharing in Mary's motherhood makes me happy. I never begin my day without speaking to her. Even in utter loneliness and pain, I experience her comfort and love.
Loretto Sr. Jeannine Gramick of New Ways Ministry recently spoke on a panel with Jesuit Fr. James Martin of the Jesuit ministry Outreach, and a gay Catholic theologian, Jason Steidl Jack, author of LGBTQ Catholic Ministries: Past and Present.
A call for an awakening of the collective conscience in Nicaragua comes from writer Flying in V Formation, who advocates for freedom, justice and the reconstruction of a divided country.
Today, we hear some of Isaiah's most famous lines, "Prepare the way of the Lord! ... The glory of the Lord shall be revealed. All people shall see it together."
What resonates in everyone's heart is how ordinary people manifest unwavering religious convictions, standing by their faith, facing death, alienation from their family and village, and enduring the loss of land, property and comfort alike.
Sr. Ana Siufi analyzes Laudate Deum and invites us to a change of conscience.that leads us to recognize that everything is interconnected in a universal family.
