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March 21, 2022
My friend, Jackie, wrote a great reflection on the Transfiguration last week. She is writing weekly for an email we receive from our community's federation (Federation of Saint Scholastica) as we prepare to celebrate its centennial this June in Atchison, KS and in our home communities.
March 18, 2022
https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2022/03/18/station-cross-ukraine-prayer-242627
Please, join me, join others, in this prayer for all touched by the violence happening in Ukraine. March 17, 2022
There’s nothing like a Catholic saint’s feast day that doubles as a reason to have a party. The Ursuline Sisters celebrated St. Patrick’s Day on March 17, 2022, with a party in Saint Joseph Villa and a simultaneous one in the Motherhouse dining room. Here are some pictures.
March 17, 2022
Somehow in my years of formation as a young adult Catholic preparing to “change the world,” I missed…
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March 17, 2022
In the winter of 1971, Ursuline Sister Angela Fitzpatrick left for a trip to Washington, D.C., which convinced her to be socially active for the rest of her life.
She was an Ursuline Sister of Paola, Kan., for barely six years at the time, serving as a pastoral associate at Holy Trinity Parish in Kansas City, Mo. Sister Helen Marie Neal, a member of her community’s peace and justice committee, asked Sister Angela to join her for this meeting of women religious who wanted to create a group to engage in political activism for social justice.
March 17, 2022
Recently, I received news that my 18-year-old cousin (Tonisha Adams) was discovered dead in her home. Waves of shock, sorrow and concern washed over me. I cried out to God on Tonisha’s behalf. What a hard and short life this precious one had lived. I thanked God for the gift of her life and begged God to have mercy on my sweet girl.
March 15, 2022
I was in a store recently and saw a greeting card that made me laugh.
On a drawing of a cake was the line, "Time is a construct."
Inside: "Happy Birthday!"
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The other day I was writing the date on the top of a bank deposit slip. When I was writing the month, I wrote "11," as if it were November...but it was March.
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We are entering into year 3 of living with, grieving about, and adapting to life in the pandemic.
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March 13, 2022
In this Sunday’s Gospel, we hear the story of Jesus’ Transfiguration. During our Lenten journey, we are called to be transformed and hear God’s voice tell us, “This is my beloved Son, listen to him.” Like those first disciples, we can become afraid, but we acknowledge how good it is to be here with the Lord.
March 11, 2022
Teaching 200 kids science, technology, engineering, arts, and math is an amazing part of my ministry.
Yes, it can be challenging to figure out what projects match what groups of kids. Sometimes you really need to work out the details, and sometimes the details work you out.
Yes, it can be challenging to figure out what projects match what groups of kids. Sometimes you really need to work out the details, and sometimes the details work you out.
March 10, 2022
Season 5, episode 6 of Messy Jesus Business podcast, hosted by Sister Julia Walsh. “I found the courage…
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March 8, 2022
Some of the Ursuline Sisters living at the Motherhouse or in Owensboro are taking part in a “Boundless Compassion” retreat March 6-11, 2022, in the Rainbow Room in Saint Joseph Villa. The retreat is inspired by the book “Boundless Compassion: Creating a Way of Life” by well-known author Joyce Rupp. The director of the retreat is Sister Mary Dean Pfahler, a Sister of Notre Dame who is a certified Boundless Compassion facilitator. Here are some photos from the retreat on March 8.
March 7, 2022
One word keeps coming to me in my prayer these first days of Lent in 2022: Love.
In our first reading today from Leviticus we hear the great commandment, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
I have long wondered if the greatest crisis in our world today isn’t that we don’t realize how much we are, each of us, worthy of love. We are all God’s own beloved. God loved us into being. God calls us to love one another as God has loved us.
March 3, 2022
The Ursuline Sisters began leasing their farm in 2022, and no longer needed the many vehicles and farm implements they had accumulated over the years. On March 3, 2022, more than 200 people arrived at Maple Mount to take part in an auction led by Kurtz Auction & Realty. Every item was sold. Here are some photos from the day.
March 3, 2022
Prompt our actions with your inspiration, we pray, O Lord, and further them with your constant help, that all we do may always begin from you and by you be brought to completion.
The above words come from the collect for today’s liturgy on this Thursday after Ash Wednesday. As we begin this Lenten journey, there is so much in need of constant help.
The wars raging in Ukraine and so many other parts of the human family.