Horizons - This time of waiting and reflection prepares us for the promise of Christmas. Yet, it might also invite us to reconceive of the way in which we prepare to welcome that new life into our lives and our world.
When we accompany, it is the other person who leads the walk. We are happy to stay close, to give support, making our presence felt to encourage, motivating them when they are weary, lost and neglected.
We've all been talking a lot about synodality. But I've been reflecting whether the church has been journeying over the centuries in the right direction, according to God's will.
One must have quite a deep and unshakable faith and many meaningful years on Earth to begin to get comfortable with the idea that one day, he or she will be physically gone, and gone forever.
Many of us are no longer tethered to the church's past, to the Dark Ages. We see with new eyes and new understandings. The winds of change have blown. There is a new dawn and the sun is rising. We go to the light.
The need for more prayer overwhelms me these days, in a world battered with socioeconomic and environmental issues. But with the rejuvenating power of the risen Lord, consecrated persons can turn the world around!
Horizons - My work, where I live in Terre Haute, Indiana, is to build cross-racial solidarity so that we can build a world where all can thrive. Where is your work? Where does your community hurt?
Contemplate This - Fall, with its brilliant display of color as it says goodbye, teaches us that for the new to come something must change. It offers us a way of being as we await the future.
Because I am a person of faith, I seek to understand who God is. However, theology can say only so much, as it is rational — and reason has its limits. We also need the intuition of poets to express what reason cannot.
The beatification of Good Shepherd Sr. María Agustina Rivas López — affectionately known as Aguchita — on May 7 in Peru was the culmination of five years in which I was blessed to help in the process for her cause.
Could the power of the religious significance of Mount Sinai, the holy site of divine revelation to Jews, Christians and Muslims be a game changer for the COP27 climate talks in Egypt's Sharm el-Sheikh?
As a Sister of Mercy, I listen to where God is leading my life, and I pay attention to where God is in the people I meet. This leads to the deep joy I have when I say I love my life as a sister.
Jair Bolsonaro manipulated the deep religious sentiment of the Brazilian people and put the country's historic destiny at stake. But many consecrated men and women were committed to warn about the danger to democracy.
The questions and everyday experience of being hated and terrorized on one side and accepted with compassion on the other side has begun some changes in Ukrainians, including our Basilian Sisters.
A woman named Roasa Ammuel shared her terrible story with St. Louis Sr. Naomi Nkrumah to let the world know what is happening to women and children amid the war in the Tigray region in Ethiopia.
Horizons - This piece is my gesture of gratitude in thanksgiving to God for all the gifts and graces that have come into my life because of Camp Arcadia. Many lessons and skills from there came in handy in the convent.