The Weary World Rejoices
Here it is again. Advent is suddenly here, and I am once again thrust into the world (and the work) of “waiting in joyful hope.” Waiting, in its many forms…
Love Stronger Than Death
Perhaps it is my age. I will turn eighty in July 2025, and I am becoming increasingly aware of death. Death as a reality that comes for me too. Death…
The Universe Story: Celebrating Existence
In the first week of June 2024, I met with seven other RNDM Sisters, to reflect together on the “new cosmology”, and its implications for our life and mission. The…
Father Sky and Mother Earth
The recent solar eclipse of April 8th was applauded by many as a singular event, and the most viewed astronomical event in history. For humans who gathered in droves along…
The World in Our Eyes
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker recounts a moment in her life when she was 8 years old and one of her brothers shot her in the eye with a BB…
On the Threshold of Lent 2024
In the Christian world, Lent comes, as it always does, in late winter/early spring, when the world is grey, and seasons shifting.The beginning of the 40-day Lenten season is always…
How to Participate in the Synod on Synodality
Sr. Elizabeth Davis RSM believes the 2021-2024 Synod on Synodality is as historically significant as Vatican Council II was in the 1960’s. Davis was one of 54 women voting delegates…
Eulogy for Cecile Delorme – December 4, 2023
Cécile Marie Blanche Delorme was born into a proud French-Canadian family, as snow thawed on the prairie fields of St. Joseph MB, in the Spring of 1935. The timing of…
Eulogy for Patricia Orban – November 23, 2023
In trying to describe something of who Patrica Orban was, and what she meant to us, the Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, I am reminded of the film…
A Teaspoon of Neutron Star
Usually Advent stirs in me feelings of wonder and light – waiting in joyful hope. This Advent, I am more aware of the hovering presence of darkness and death, than…