Today our community gratefully and joyfully celebrates the 65th year of the Consecration of our Chapel! We give praise to God for his goodness and remembered at our morning Mass all our dear Sisters who have gone before us and our family, friends and benefactors who have supported our life of prayer throughout the years.
Read MoreSeptember already?! For most that means school is back in full swing, complete with extra-curricular activities, and a busy work schedule. And for many students, that first assignment is to write a report, or share with the class "How I Spent My Summer Vacation."
Read MoreAlleluia! He is risen! Are you still overcome with Paschal joy? Nearly every day at Mass during the Easter season, if we pay close attention, we hear those words during the preface of the Eucharistic liturgy: “…overcome with Paschal joy…” So how come many of us feel more relief that Lent is over and a bit of anxiety over what to do about all the Easter candy in the house with shorts season right around the corner?
Read MoreAlleluia! He is risen! Though we may prepare for Easter with forty days of fasting, we celebrate our new life in Christ by His passion, death and resurrection with fifty days of feasting!
Read MoreThe chapel is dark and hushed. We've processed inside from the Easter fire, holding our lighted candles. In darkness we stood for the Exultet, listened to excerpts from the Scriptures telling our salvation history, responding in psalms and prayers. Then the moment comes: the sounds of the Gloria swells, the bells peal, the lights come on and all the sisters cast off their black copes, revealing the full white of the Dominican habit.
Read MoreWhat was that Saturday morning like for Mary? Just yesterday, she stood by at the foot of His cross, unable to take Him in her arms as she did when he was a small boy. To brush his locks of hair from his sweaty brow and offer him a drink like she did when he was a young man, working as a carpenter in Joseph’s shop. He looked at her, she looked at him. It reminded her of their first look so long ago in that stable in Bethlehem when He was born and she wrapped Him in swaddling cloths and laid Him in a rough-hewn manger. Now they looked at each other as he was stretched out on a rough-hewn cross, soon to be wrapped in burial cloths and laid in a cold, dark tomb. But these two looks held eternity… and then he gave her the next phase of her mission, her motherhood: “Behold your son.” And with that, she went to live with John in his house.
Read MoreOf all the fears and pain we face, there is one we find most terrible. Yet no matter how hard we try, we cannot escape from it: the pain of loneliness, isolation, abandonment. To feel unwanted and unloved. As He was fully human, this was part of the pain Jesus underwent throughout His passion, beginning in the garden of Gethsemane. His pain of loneliness and abandonment reaches to the depths of human suffering when He cries out from the cross, “My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?”
Read MoreWhat would you do if you knew today would be your last? That during the night, one of your closest friends would betray you to others who would see that you suffered a cruel and painful death? Would you gather with your friends for one final farewell? Would you have one more adventure, one more thrill? Would you throw up your hands, cry out to God? Would you try to seek out your betrayer before you were betrayed? What would you do?
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