Posted in Spirituality on 28 December 2007 | 2 Comments »
I hope all of you had a blessed Christmas, and that you look forward to the beginning of a new year in joyful hope.
I found the following quote attributed to the LTP Sourcebook 1996:
Perhaps the hardest thing to remember about Christmas is this. “It celebrates the incarnation, not just the nativity. The incarnation is an [...]
Posted in Nun, Recovery, Spirituality on 23 December 2007 | 4 Comments »
I may have mentioned earlier that my CLC community is making the Spiritual Exercises in a communal format this year, and our guides have planned our journey so that the past couple of weeks have been spent contemplating the birth of Jesus and the events leading up to that. In the whole picture, I found [...]
Posted in Catholic, Random thoughts on 21 December 2007 | 4 Comments »
I was riding in a car with someone the other night who noticed an outdoor crèche with Jesus missing. She was very upset that someone would steal the baby Jesus from the church that was displaying the crèche. It’s funny…I would not have assumed a theft, as I have lived in convents where Jesus was [...]
Posted in Random thoughts, Recovery on 18 December 2007 | No Comments »
First, I have to wish a happy birthday to my Mom, who turned 75 today…I’m a quarter-century behind you, Mom, and I never seem to catch up…
The end-of-the semester push has had me hopping, but I finally submitted my last set of grades on Monday, and then took the afternoon off to have lunch and [...]
Posted in Nun, Techie Stuff on 10 December 2007 | No Comments »
I spent this past Friday and part of Saturday in London (Ontario, not U.K.), where the Sisters of St. Joseph have recently moved into their new “green building.” One purpose of the visit was to meet with a Toronto CSJ who is soon heading to France to begin ministry on the staff of our Centre [...]
Posted in Techie Stuff on 6 December 2007 | 1 Comment »
Well, the students in my “Fundamentals of Electrical and Computer Engineering” course had their last lab session yesterday, finishing up on building and testing the robots they’ve been working on for the last several weeks. I’m happy to say that everyone succeeded in getting the robot to meet the requirements, which were to:
avoid obstacles
dance when [...]
Posted in Catholic, Nun, Spirituality on 4 December 2007 | 3 Comments »
OK, so that’s a little “nunspeak”…let me explain. Every so many years, in our case, five, members of Roman Catholic religious orders get together to set future directions and elect a leadership team. This gathering, called “Chapter,” is the highest authority in the congregation. Ours is coming next summer, so we are in a Chapter [...]
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