Reflections

First Week of Advent
by Sister Patricia Bruno, Dec. 2, 2018
At advent and with Dominican Brother Meister Eckhart’s help we are challenged to answer the question.  How will we give birth to the Son of God in our time and our culture?  How do we bring Christ’s presence into our local communities, schools, workplaces and family gatherings?

by Sister Pat Farrell, Dec. 16, 2018
Salvation happens every time someone with a key uses it to open a door he could lock instead. – Barbara Brown Taylor

by Sister Pat Farrell, Dec. 12, 2018
On this Feast of St. Lucy, whose name means Light – celebrated in the darkest days in the Northern Hemisphere, I’ve chosen this quote for those times we find ourselves in darkness, no matter the time of year or the hemisphere. We must believe it is darkest before the dawn of a new world. We will see it when we believe it. – Saul Alinsky

Before, I always lived in anticipation .

Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift

232nd   Edition November   2018     Matthew 5: 9:  Part II “Blessed are they who strive for peace and justice; they shall be called the sons and daughters of God.

Sister Pat Farrell

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all the darkness.