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Service with a Smile

Post author:Claudia Stecker
Post published:November 13, 2023
Post category:Mission Work Poverty Social Justice
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I look forward to Tuesdays. The day gets off to a quick start as my companion and I ready ourselves for the rather long bus-train trek to Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn,…

Reflection for the Thirty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time / Twenty-Fourth Sunday After Pentecost A

Post author:Susan K. Roll
Post published:November 10, 2023
Post category:Scripture Reading
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Wisdom 6: 12-16 (RM) or Amos 5: 18-24 (RCL); Psalm 63; 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 (RM) or 13-14 and 15-18 (RCL); Matthew 25: 1-13. At my age, just a tad past…

The Magic of Beauty

Post author:Christina Cathro
Post published:November 6, 2023
Post category:Eco-Spirituality Poetry Reflections
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The new season of Spring has arrived in New Zealand and life is singing in all her splendour. It is such a wonderful time to just wander in the beauty…

Reflection for the Thirty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time / All Saints Sunday A

Post author:Susan K. Roll
Post published:November 3, 2023
Post category:Scripture Reading
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Malachi 1:14-2:2, 8-10 (RM) or Micah 3: 5-12 (RCL); Psalm 131; 2 Thessalonians 2:7-9, 13 (RM) or 1 Thessalonians 2: 9-13 (RCL); Matthew 23: 1-12. For All Saints Sunday: Revelation…

Coming to Completion

Post author:Susan Smith
Post published:October 30, 2023
Post category:Endings Religious Life
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Many apostolic congregations of religious women in the West find themselves having conversations about “coming to completion,” that is, about declining membership, a rising median age, and lack of interested…

Reflection for the Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time / Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost A

Post author:Susan K. Roll
Post published:October 27, 2023
Post category:Scripture Reading
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Exodus 22: 21-27 (RM in Canada) or 20-26 (RM in the U.S.) or Leviticus 19: 1-2, 15-18 (RCL) or Jeremiah 31: 31-34 (Lutheran); Psalm 18 (RM) or 1 (RCL) or…

You say Pot Marigold and I say Calendula officinalis

Post author:Wendy MacLean
Post published:October 23, 2023
Post category:Food and Gardening
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“Latin is a dead languageThat is plain to see.It killed off the RomansAnd now it’s killing me.”Someone wrote these words in my autograph book when I was in elementary school.…

Video: Prayer for the Synod at Cardinal Flahiff’s Grave: October 4, 2023

Post author:Veronica Dunne
Post published:October 18, 2023
Post category:RNDMs in Canada Rome Synod 2023 Synod 2021 - 2024
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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…

The Taste of Things IX: The Universal Intellect

Post author:Sandra Stewart
Post published:October 16, 2023
Post category:Personal Growth Reflections
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From the time I was very young I thought my intellect could save me. If I could “just figure it out” my world would be safer, more predictable, less chaotic,…

Willingness, Discipline and Persistence

Post author:Veronica Dunne
Post published:October 9, 2023
Post category:RNDMs in Canada Rome Synod 2023 Synod 2021 - 2024
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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…