January 2024: Community Coordinators in Saskatchewan and Manitoba
Opening to Something New
These two events were historic moments of transition; a transition none of us would have imagined, even as recently as ten years ago.
In such a moment of transition, we are all called to re-create religious life as we have known it. As Thomas Berry says, a responsibility such as this is
“not a role that we have chosen. It is a role given to us”
and “the nobility of our lives” depends upon how we respond to a moment of great transition such as this.
We gathered to mark this transition, and bless Kyleigh and Anna, in the presence of the trees, rivers, and all the beings of the Prairies, and all the RNDM Sisters who have gone before us. In the presence and hope symbolized by our Celebration Maple planted in 2023.
For the Time of Necessary Decisions
John O'Donohue, To Bless the Space Between Us
Often we only know it’s time to change
When a force has built inside the heart
That leaves us uneasy as we are.
Perhaps the work we do has lost its soul
Or the love where we once belonged
Calls nothing alive in us anymore.
We drift through this gray, increasing nowhere
Until we stand before a threshold we know
We have to cross to come alive once more.
May we have the courage to take the step
Into the unknown that beckons us;
Trust that a richer life awaits us there,
That we will lose nothing
But what has already died;
We bless the work we are doing
Trusting the guiding hand of Spirit
And the enduring strength of our common call
To witness to and extend the loving work of God.