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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.
March 3, 2022
“Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert for 40 days.” Mt 4:1
March 2, 2022
Behind barbed wire In the county jail Woman recites poetry; Declares she’ll die. Bodies young, old Form lines.…
The post Death Poetica appeared first on Messy Jesus Business.
March 1, 2022
By Sister Marietta Wethington
My mother, a very wise woman, used to tell me not to make a mountain out of a mole hill. I can do that quite easily. I can exaggerate the smallest thing into something insurmountable.
The book Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff and it’s All Small Stuff contains some practical suggestions for making peace with the imperfections in our life. We are beginning the season of Lent – a perfect time – it seems to me to let go of the small stuff. A perfect time to focus on Jesus and his journey to Mount Calvary.
February 24, 2022
Season 5, episode 5, of Messy Jesus Business podcast, hosted by Sister Julia Walsh. Photos by Scott Langley.…
The post Sister Helen Prejean: Legalized Vengeance and Waking Up to Justice appeared first on Messy Jesus Business.
February 23, 2022
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 21, 2022
On February 19, 1867, in Washington, DC, the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and a group of "chiefs and head-men of the Sisseton-Wahpeton bands of Dakota Indians" signed the final treaty between the United States and the people who came to be named the Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribe.