On my blogroll…

Hello, all! Some time ago, I listed on my blogroll a blog called “A Place at the Table.” I thought I had already written a post about it, but like so many things, I just never got around to it. Claire describes herself as “a Catholic woman defecting in place, I re-imagine a Church into [...]

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From the mouths of babes…

OK, this is a very old video, but it has been getting a lot of attention on YouTube lately. It is (then) 13-year old Severn Suzuki from Vancouver, BC addressing a 1992 U.N. Conference on Environment and Development. Some on YouTube have discounted her speech because she happens to be the daughter of environmental activist [...]

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She went to bingo, then went to God

I’m writing of one of my sisters who prayed specifically for me as part of her ministry. Those of you who have been with me a while may recall a post I wrote over a year ago about Sister Dorothy Baxter, who at that time was told by doctors that they would be surprised if [...]

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Virgin point of the soul

She’s baaack… Yes, I’ve just finished a tremendously consoling retreat, after a very consoling Chapter of Elections. Life is good! I thought in my first post after retreat, I’d share with you an image that my retreat director, Sr. P., mentioned to me during one of our sessions. I looked up this quote from Thomas [...]

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The power of allegory

In light of our recent and lively conversation on Women in the RC Church, I thought I’d share with you a piece I wrote for the National Catholic Reporter quite some time ago, the Nov. 18, 1994 issue, to be exact. Enjoy! When I was a little girl, my science teacher asked what I wanted [...]

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Let’s keep talking

I hesitate to start a new post, as we’ve had some lively conversation on the last post about women in the Church and don’t want to cut short further discussion. Thanks, Koko, for getting it started. And please, let’s keep having engaging conversation on this or any topics. This will probably not be as lively [...]

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Women in the RC Church

Getting back to some of your suggestions for topics… This one comes from Kokopelli25: How do you deal, as a woman, with the church’s view of women on equally valuable yet excluded from the “high-prestige” posts the church has to offer? It would certainly turn me off. Thanks for the topic, Koko! This certainly is [...]

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It’s all about communion…

I shared the following with my Christian Life Community tonight. This is the statement that tells the story of how I and the other members of my religious congregation want to be about incarnating the mission of Jesus as Sisters of St. Joseph over the next five years. The statement starts with a prologue that [...]

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A teaser – 2008 Chapter

It’s already quite late, so I cannot embark on a lengthy post. I had mentioned that we Baden CSJ’s were in our “Chapter of Affairs” last month and that the Holy Spirit was very much in evidence. So my little teaser is just to share with you our Chapter logo and theme: “Incarnating Mission – [...]

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