Love Changes Everything
Know it well, love is its meaning. Who reveals this to you? Love. What does he reveal? Love. Why? For Love. Remain in this and you will know more of…
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…
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…
Video: Prayer for the Synod at Cardinal Flahiff’s Grave: October 4, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JB90zTiahfI&ab_channel=RNDMCanada This 20 minute video depicts October 4 prayer at Cardinal Flahiff’s grave in Winnipeg, on the first day of the Synod in Rome. We gathered in solidarity with all…
Willingness, Discipline and Persistence
A friend of mine thinks that “discipline” is more important than “willingness” in effecting personal and/or communal change. Discipline he says, is what gets my “willingness” into action, onto my…
National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
Aligned with the 2023 National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, the members of St Kateri Tekakwitha parish in Winnipeg, celebrated the values of truth and reconciliation when the community gathered…
Attempt at a Foundation at Lac Croche – Part III
In last month’s “history highlight”, (Wednesday August 2), written by Lac Croche parish priest Theophile Campeau OMI, we learned of the festive reception the Sisters received when they arrived at…
Attempt at a Foundation at Lac Croche – Part II
In last month’s “history highlight”, (Wednesday July 5), Sr. M. de la St Trinité Goutelle, gave us a sense of the trip of the second group of four Sisters sent…