Celebrating the Seasons

This Advent, we take the time and the space "to create silence". Here are some resources for personal and group prayer and reflection.

As we listen to the lyrics and rhythm of this song by Cecilia Rivero Borrell rscj, we can imagine the rattling of the doors, the appearance of the tongues of fire, and the energy for mission on that day of Pentecost (Acts 2:1-12).

Wisdom words from Sophie for the feast of the Ascension.

"Mary Magdalene, by remaining at the feet of the Lord, experienced forgiveness, healing, and by welcoming his love was able to communicate love to others."

As we enter into the sacred mysteries that we celebrate during Holy Week, we bring with us concrete situations of the "anguish of humankind" and the "cry of our wounded earth."

We offer some resources that you may wish to use during the Lenten season.

"... his Holy Mother enveloped his tiny limbs in swaddling clothes. A bound God! Infinite power reduced to this excessive humility! Mary attends to him as she deems appropriate, holds him close against her heart or places him gently in the manger...." - St. Madeleine Sophie Barat

An invitation from Janet Stuart to make our Advent a time of sacred silence....

This Advent, we invite you to share reflections that can help "to deepen our interior life, our capacity for contemplation and for listening to the heartbeat of God in ourselves and in our world." (GC2016)

As we celebrate the Easter Triduum in this Jubilee Year of Mercy, we share excerpts from a letter on COMPASSION written by our former Superior General Helen McLaughlin rscj.