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…
Collective Memory: Treasuring Our Past
On the last weekend of October, nine RNDMs from Melbourne travelled to the small Victorian country town of Charlton where four RNDMs arrived one hundred years ago to assume responsibility…
Reflection for the Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time B / Pentecost 15
Deuteronomy 4: 1-2, 6-8 (RM) or 6-9 (RCL); Psalm 15; James 1: 17-18, 21b-22, 27 (RM) or 1-17 (RCL); Mark 7: 1-8, 14-15, 21-23. Rules. Law. The rule of law.…
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…
The Taste of Things VII: Zeal
My favorite liturgical feast is Pentecost! It announces itself with aliveness, zeal, and spirit—a wildly untamed Spirit that is—and one cannot commit their life to this Spirit and expect to…
Let Us Be Blessing
This entry marks our 100th blog article! Special thanks to all who have contributed and commented over the last few months.The autumn “Sabbath” with which I was gifted1 has eased…