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October 30, 2021
Sister Betty Vetter enjoyed a brief visit to Sisseton this past week. The fun began with a visit to the petroglyph site near Jeffers, MN. These petroglyphs were created between 2,000 and 5,000 years ago. There are over 5,000 pecked into the granite bedrock ridges all across the area.
October 29, 2021
Ursuline Sisters in Saint Joseph Villa enjoyed treats on Oct. 29, 2021, while discussing some of the pranks kids would play on Halloween when they are growing up. It was a low-key but fun party to end October. Here are some pictures.
October 28, 2021
Season 4, Episode 8 of Messy Jesus Business podcast, hosted by Sister Julia Walsh. “Once we surrender into…
The post Beverly Lanzetta: The Freedom of Surrender to the Divine appeared first on Messy Jesus Business.
October 28, 2021
LIVE.....LOOOOOVE.....LAUGH.....
October 26, 2021
Each fall, the Steering Committee of the Council of Religious for the Diocese of Owensboro sponsors a celebration of the jubilees for the women religious in the diocese. This year’s event was held Oct 23, 2021, at St. Martin Catholic Church in Owensboro. Ursuline Sisters, a Glenmary Sister and a Carmelite Sister were honored, although not all jubilarians could attend. The celebration was canceled last year due to Covid, so jubilarians from both 2020 and 2021 were honored.
October 24, 2021
I’m spending some time with my sister and her family in Chicago this week. Today’s rainy day activity? Teaching my 6th grader nephew how to build a website!
October 21, 2021
In hope, in prayer, we find ourselves here … I sang these words with a chorus of climate…
The post Being Catholic on Indigenous Peoples’ Day: We need to do more appeared first on Messy Jesus Business.
October 21, 2021
Ursuline Sister Cheryl Clemons will be honored as one of Brescia University’s Distinguished Alumni during homecoming activities on Oct. 22, 2021. Ursuline Sister Mary Henning will also be honored over the weekend with the Father Charles Saffer Alumni Award.
October 21, 2021
Some of you know that the last few weeks of my life have been quite, quite, full. A week and a half ago I made my perpetual monastic profession, the last step in becoming a fully committed member of the Benedictine Sisters of Erie. It was a six-year formal journey, but one that began many years prior with spiritual mentors, teachers, and other graceful influencers asking the right questions and accompanying me while living into them.
October 20, 2021
When Sister Rebecca White was in the 8th grade in Glennonville, Mo., she read a book on Saint Francis of Assisi by Franciscan Friar Murray Bodo.
“Ever since the eighth grade, I’ve been in love with Francis,” she said. “I chose his feast day (Oct. 4) for mine. For years, I’ve wanted to make a week retreat in Assisi. Three years ago, I almost went. But now that I know more about the topography of Assisi, I doubt I could walk the hills.”
October 19, 2021
As a way to display the crosses we all bear during Lent in 2021, some of the Ursuline Sisters took part in a social media campaign called “Crosses Close to Our Hearts,” in which the Sisters shared photos of their favorite crosses and the stories behind them. In October, during the Communicators for Women Religious annual conference, “Crosses Close to Our Heart” was selected as the best electronic media campaign of the year. Jennifer Kaminski, who developed the idea, was on hand to receive the award.
October 14, 2021
Season 4, Episode 7 of Messy Jesus Business podcast, hosted by Sister Julia Walsh. “We have to acknowledge…
The post Paul Engler: The Mess Calls for Community appeared first on Messy Jesus Business.
October 14, 2021
Images of God
October 12, 2021
Do you have a favorite place where you can sense how close you are to the sacred? For some, it is in a church or in the presence of a favorite person.
For me, it has always been the woods.
For me, it has always been the woods.