Catholic Benedictine Sisters of St. Mary Monastery, Rock Island, Ill., blog with inquirers discerning their religious calling to monastic life.
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 26th, 2010
Is our faith, our hope and our love great enough to allow for transformation? The three virtues of faith, hope and love pop up as themes through Lent. Abraham trusted God that a victim other than his son Isaac would be given, and God provided the lamb to be sacrificed. Paul’s letter, filled with hope [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 26th, 2010
It seems to me the Passion, Death and Resurrection of Jesus we will celebrate in a few weeks is the most dynamic time of the year. It also strikes me, each year, that without the Resurrection it would not be very celebratory! It is the Resurrection that makes new life happen. Sadly, I suppose, we [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 19th, 2010
Dt 26: 4-10; Rom 10: 8-12; Luke 4:1-13 When we were children, we were always encouraged to give up candy during Lent. I remember one Lent when David, the youngest child, said he was giving up watermelon. We laughed but we all knew he would be giving up candy also.
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 18th, 2010
Return to God with all your heart source of grace and mercy.
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 17th, 2010
Blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord, whose hope is the Lord. S/he is like a tree planted beside the waters that stretches out its roots to the stream: it fears not the heat when it comes; its leaves stay green; In the year of drought it shows no distress, but still bears [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 15th, 2010
“Did you ever look inside yourself and see what you are not?” the crippled daughter in one of Flannery O’Connor’s short stories shouts at her spiritually crippled mother. Lent provides us with forty days to look inside ourselves to see that what seems to us and others as normally attractive – or at least okay [...]