Post of December 8th: Our readers may recall that the Sisters of Notre Dame in the United States became one province in July. Formerly our four provinces had their own particular feast and patron. When suggestions poured in for a new name for our united province, the results were quite

Post from December 7th: The days of Advent scintillate with one luminous message: God Himself will come to save us! Today’s First Reading paints a vivid picture in which all nature rejoices at the coming of the Lord. The desert blooms with abundant flowers, streams burst forth into pools for

We are sorry that these posts have been missing for a few days! The tech issue is now solved so you can check in each day for two or three posts until we catch up. BLESSINGS on your Advent Days and Christmas Preparation! From the Bloggers!

Post from December 6th: The story of Saint Nicholas, known long before the time of Charles Dickens, was propagated through Dicken’s novel The Christmas Carol. Its vivid description of Saint Nicholas and Christmas festivities changed the way England celebrated the feast. His novel led to much more decoration, gift giving,

Jesus was a very busy man. He would have been hired as an efficiency expert today. But no matter how much he taught, walked from town to town, cured and fed the multitudes, he felt he needed help. He laments that “the laborers are few.” He then sends out his

Leonard Cohen claimed there’s a crack in everything, and that’s how the light gets in. We all have our cracks, our imperfections, our faults and fault lines. But “the Lord is my light and my salvation.” The light of God, His grace, can penetrate anywhere. So, we have nothing to

We’re a few days into Advent. How are we doing? We’ve been making choices to make a better world. Today let’s choose to make a better me. Is that possible? Let’s start by trusting in the Lord. God gave us all we need to be images of Him. That’s more

I love today’s readings from the lectionary, because I love to eat. The First Reading describes “a feast of rich food” that God provides for his people. In the Gospel Jesus feeds the crowd with seven divinely blessed loaves and a few fish. The tone of both readings suggests that

Dr. Seuss said, “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.” I believe things will get better and believe they already are. We are on our way to a world where God’s kingdom will be ever more visible, for we constantly

Anne Frank wrote: “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” Today we can choose to not waste a minute in making our world better. That’s what the first four apostles called by Jesus did: they “immediately left their boat. .