We gathered for our regular quarterly call to share the Spirit that is stirring among us, and to talk about future oriented initiatives for religious life.
Summer Sisters - plans are underway for a few sisters and a few young lay women to share the values of religious life in intentional community this summer.
Vision Space will be a gathering of young and middle aged sisters to share the experience of religious life today.
Sisters 2.0 is being launched as a Facebook page for post-Vatican II sisters to network, envision and live into the religious life of the 21st century. If this is your conversation - contact me for details.
Mapping We have a proposal to reach out and identify the sisters in the post-Vatican II cohorts of religious life so that we can network for mutual support and build relationships.
We will check out Sisters of Earth to see where their vision and goals may intersect with ours.
We are still thinking of how to celebrate the Year of Consecrated Life in 2015.
The call was energetic and hopeful as we shared where we come from, and where we are going in this great adventure we call religious life.
The Trinity is indeed the Christian account of God. But that is
not to close down the possibilities for other persons of faith sharing
in God’s inner life. Indeed very much the opposite, for if God is the
God who enters deep into creation and is forever shaping that creation
for God’s own providential purposes, then there can be nothing and no
one beyond the scope of God’s love. Read more...
Deep in the heart of the religious vocation is a spirituality that roots and grounds it. This the ever deepening source of life, community, vows and ministry. This article explores the deep contemplative space that can reach out to the God space in other religions and culture, and across the differences in community and church. It weaves together deep moments of the Catholic tradition, showing their openness to others.
Here is a sister in action - testimony of her students....
