Season of Advent - Saison de l'Avent - Tiempo de Adviento
Let us share photos or paintings, images or symbols of waiting, of hope, of longing.....
Sacred Heart reflections and prayers for feast days and the seasons of the year
Celebrating the Seasons
"Puertas de Joigny"
Pilar de la Herran RSCJ of the Province of Spain shares this collage of doors -- photos which she took while in Joigny. Dolores Aleixandre RSCJ offers this insight on the “doors" that closed and opened for Sophie and for all of us today.
PENTECOST: A Conference of St. Madeleine Sophie Barat
"Let’s look at the different periods of our life, when we have received more fullness... when a fuller gift of ourselves has particularly attracted us. Let’s look with humility and without discouragement whether we have been careful to develop the Spirit’s gifts to us."
A Reflection for the Season of Easter (John 20: 19-31)
With the possible exception of Martha, as in “Mary has chosen the better part,” I suspect there is no scriptural character more misunderstood than the Apostle Thomas.
“Doubting Thomas” we’ve called him and all his spiritual progeny down through the ages because Thomas lived by the adage “seeing is believing” and because he looked for certain tangible signs to shore up his belief.
I’d like to challenge this characterization of Thomas!
Walking with the Women at Easter
On the morning of the first day of the week, fear kept the disciples locked up in the Supper Room, but the women who had followed Jesus did not seek to escape, though their hopes were dashed. They set out "while it was still dark" and "came to the tomb, taking the spices that they had prepared" (Lk 24:1) in an attempt to snatch from death something of its victory.
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