Giving Thanks
It's November--the month of giving thanks.
For me this year, giving thanks for all that God has blessed me with is extremely poignant and I am so grateful for all of God's goodness to me.
It's November--the month of giving thanks.
For me this year, giving thanks for all that God has blessed me with is extremely poignant and I am so grateful for all of God's goodness to me.
In the past months, the theme that keeps finding me is vulnerability—but not necessarily as a bad thing. How can that possibly be? It first found me when I read an article by the English theologian Sarah Coakley, who spoke of prayer as vulnerability. She explains that she herself was transformed by her prayer. Her silent prayer allowed God’s word to work in her, to transform her understanding (as it so often does, if we only let it).
Sisters in their 20s & 30s are invited to join us for our annual peer-led retreat MLK Weekend at Our Lady of Guadalupe Monastery in sunny Phoenix, Arizona. Gather with other younger women religious for prayer, reflection, conversation and relationship building. Visit the GV website to
If you are a formation minister or in community leadership, encourage your younger members to attend! The connections they make will sustain them for years to come.
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