Two sisters share their dialogue, in hopes of raising awareness about suffering in Myanmar. Sr. Sung Hee Moon of Korea speaks with Sr. Ann Nu Tawng, whose photo begging soldiers to not shoot protestors went viral this year.
I traveled 12 hours to attend a workshop organized by Africa Faith and Justice Network, and the Tanzanian Catholic Association of Sisters. The workshop inspired me to raise my voice against trafficking and abuse of the vulnerable.
Christ came in the past and will come again in the future, but Advent reminds me that Christ is coming now. He is coming into the world today through every person who is willing to cooperate with God's saving grace.
Horizons - Are we listening? Are we shining our light into the darkness? Are we bringing attention to that which the powers-that-be would prefer remained hidden?
Let us take this time of Advent to realize the gift God gave us — and gives us — in Jesus. Let us live patiently during this Advent time and celebrate Christmas in the joy of the Word made flesh.
COVID-19 worsened the blanket of insecurity and fear in the Democratic Republic of Congo, but the Daughters of the Resurrection in Bukavu — teaming up with other congregations — persist in their health care mission.
Contemplate This - Advent is about taking time to prepare to celebrate an event and recommit to a process. The Advent calendar is a way to slow down and focus one's reflection every day. How would I create an Advent calendar today?
Liturgical seasons are bottomless wells of possibility, with water that can be calm and consoling or turbulent and disturbing. This year, "turbulent and disturbing" feels about right.
Thanksgiving is a holiday designed to celebrate individual freedom and liberty — at the same time as those same liberties and freedoms are stripped away from others. It is a holiday rooted in domination, exploitation, appropriation and violence.
To make the surprise of gratitude a part of one's eucharistic spirituality, one needs only to become aware of opportunities that appear regularly in one's life. Here are some of my moments of "surprise as Eucharist."
As nature unfolds throughout the year, my imagination and thoughts take flight, with questions arising deep from my heart: If there were no God, then what makes all these seasons possible, over which no human being has power or control?
Leave the freeway and drive through urban neighborhoods as a spiritual traveler. That allows you to see more clearly the stark, but hidden realities, of poverty and racism that remain out of sight and out of mind when we speed along, avoiding city driving.
Horizons - Throughout November the church acknowledges the men and women who lived in imitation of Jesus. Hopefully there is someone with whom you feel a kindred connection. I look at the world through the eyes of Blessed Clelia Merloni.
Organ donation is not one of those things most sisters have on their "must do" list. But the selfless offering of ourselves in order to give life to others is exactly what we are about as women religious.
I'm making a conscious effort to look for connection and unity instead of division. The School Sisters of Notre Dame and School Sisters of St. Francis may have been rivals once, but neither community started that way, and we aren't that way now.
We have been living for over a year in the pandemic. At this time that we should reflect on the theology of everyday life (or quotidiano). Everyday life is holy, sacred, the actual juncture where God meets us, where we encounter God.
The stories of how the Spirit of God incorporates religious life into different cultures is especially fascinating. Such is the case with the journey of the Presentation Sisters in Papua New Guinea.
Horizons: My classes watched a documentary about immigrant students who were in high school. They were from different countries with different circumstances regarding their legal status. After watching the film, my students had some questions.
Talking with people about their pandemic experience of attending Mass (or not) led me to an awareness of what type of church is emerging, and to consider how Fratelli Tutti is a clarion call to a new way of ministering.
Months ago, a Catholic women’s group invited me to speak at their luncheon about my work with the Haitian people. My presentation was later canceled. The following is what I had planned to share, as spoken in words that Jesus might have used.
