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March 10, 2021
Last year, during the Lent that still hasn’t ended, I took my children on a walk to the…
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March 8, 2021
The ministry at the Maple Mount campus most affected by the Covid pandemic is the Mount Saint Joseph Conference and Retreat Center, where in-person retreats have been canceled for the past year.
The Center has adapted by offering virtual retreats and programs via Zoom, and this year has been helped with its programming by the addition of Sister Cheryl Clemons
March 7, 2021
This Sunday is the third Sunday of Lent and we are nearing the middle of the Lenten season. This Sunday’s gospel speaks about the resurrection of Jesus. Jesus refers to His body as a temple that will be destroyed but rise again after three days. A great “mid-Lent” reminder of the joy we look forward to on Easter Sunday and on the life-giving power of our Lord. Let us continue toward this joyous day by prayer, fasting, and charity.
March 5, 2021
Today, Sister Ellen shared this article with me:
The Next Four Years for Indian Country Need Human Rights
It's timely, indeed.
March 4, 2021
Sister Julia Walsh and author Kaya Oakes discuss the importance of being humble and the value of vulnerability in discipleship, in this episode of Messy Jesus Business.
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March 2, 2021
By Sister Marietta Wethington
Pope Francis has declared this the year of Saint Joseph, recalling the 150th anniversary of Saint Joseph as patron of the Universal Church. March is usually thought of as the month of Saint Joseph. His feast day is March 19.
We live here at this place called Mount Saint Joseph, so it seems appropriate that our reflection this month be about Saint Joseph.
March 2, 2021
With the Guest House and Bethany – two locations at Maple Mount where those visiting the Sisters stay – both closed due to Covid-19, Sister Cecelia Joseph Olinger expected her ministry as coordinator of those two facilities to disappear for a while. It turned out she just had to adapt to a newer version of that ministry.
“I became the ‘go-between’ for some who wanted to know how certain Sisters were doing,” Sister Cecelia Joseph said. November was an especially difficult month, when six Sisters went to heaven.
February 28, 2021
You know how sometimes you experience moments, and they almost feel "normal." Like a moment that you would have experienced before March 2020. This weekend had a touch of that.
On Saturday we heard an excellent presentation on contemplation and grief. When I say "excellent," I mean, it was the kind of material that one works with for the rest of her life. One of the lines that I wrote down and will contemplate for a while was:
I have to believe that I can never have an experience apart from God.
February 25, 2021
One of the biggest efforts at the “new normal” during the Covid pandemic is helping students to continue learning. This is certainly true at Brescia University in Owensboro, Ky., where Sister Betsy Moyer serves multiple roles in the School of Education – office manager, data collector, networker with the local schools for student placements, and coordinating the Curriculum Resource Room.
February 24, 2021
Years ago, I sat before my friend after a particularly hard week and said, “I don’t know if I can take this anymore.” I was thinking that I didn’t deserve to live anymore. He looked at me and didn’t try to talk away the pain. He listened. And all he said in reply was, “IContinue reading "Listening as a Radical Act"
February 23, 2021
To Paradise now may the angels bring you, and may the martyrs now come to meet you on your way, and may you be led into the holy city Jerusalem. All the choirs of angels make you welcome there, and with Lazarus once so ill and poor, may peaceful joy be now forever yours. ~In […]
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February 23, 2021
I've been on the internet since... well, almost since it first went public! But, I've never had a VANITY ADDRESS until now!!
Ready?
February 23, 2021
Generosity is not measured by what we have or how much we give but by the amount of love enshrined in what we give.
February 23, 2021
The Covid-19 pandemic may have shut down much of Kentucky in 2020, but Sister Vivian Bowles was adamant the children of St. Alphonsus Parish were going to receive the sacraments they prepared so hard to achieve. It looks like nothing is going to stop her this year either.
Sister Vivian is the director of Faith Formation at the parish across the road from Mount Saint Joseph. She didn’t realize how creative and disciplined she would have to become when the pandemic struck.