Sister Ansgar Holmberg, CSJ, recently gave a wonderful interview with America Magazine about her artwork in Praying the Advent Names of God. You can read the interview and view some of the art in the book here. If you are interested in purchasing a copy of Praying the Advent Names of God, call Good Ground …
As our Christmas gift to you, we share Our Lady of Peace by Ade Bethune. Ade was a Belgian-born artist, a co-worker with Dorothy Day, an illustrator for The Catholic Worker, and a friend of the Sisters of St. Joseph. This piece is done with tempera and gold leaf on gesso and is in the Richard Sipe …
Merry Christmas to all our friends, customers, and website visitors. Jesus makes incarnate the heart of God, full of creative and merciful love that never stops calling us into the communions of friends, family, and church. We make an early gift to you of A Christmas Story by Rose Tillemans, CSJ. Share this story with family and friends. Many blessings …
A Rune of Hospitality A rune of hospitality I saw a stranger today I put food for him in the drinking place And music in the listening place. In the Holy Name of the Trinity He blessed myself and his house My food and my family. And the lark said in her warble Often, often, …
Sunday Readings: Acts 3.13-15,17-19; 1 John 2.1-5; Luke 24.35-48 The two disciples returned to Jerusalem and explained to the eleven and those gathered with them what had happened on the road to Emmaus and how Jesus was known to them in the breaking of bread. While they were still speaking about this, he stood in their midst …
Gospel Reflection for April 18, 2021 – 3rd Sunday of Easter Read More »
In high school many people come together to form their own social groups. These groups, or cliques, often have expectations about how to dress and act and who to include as a friend. Sometimes we have to sort out who we really are and who we like regardless of what other people expect. The song …
Music and the Gospel: “Who Says,” Selena Gomez & The Scene Read More »
O God who brought me from the rest of last nightTo the new light of this dayBring me in the new light of this dayTo the guiding light of the eternal.Lead me O God on the journey of justiceGuide me O God on the pathways of peaceRenew me O God by the well springs of …
Loving God, open our eyes to see your hand at work in the splendor of creation and in the beauty of human life. Touched by your hand, our world is holy.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not you that shapes God, it is God who shapes you. If then you are the work of God, await the hand of the artist who does all things in due season. Offer God your heart, soft and tractable, and keep the form in which the artist has fashioned you. Let your clay …
All blessings come to us through our Lord. He will teach us, for in beholding his life we find that he is the best example. St. Teresa of Avila
All you who are thirsty, come to the waters; even though you have no money, come! You who have no money, come; receive grain and eat. Come without paying, without cost; drink wine and milk. Why spend money on what is not bread, your wages on what fails to satisfy? Listen carefully to me, and …
Sunday Readings: Acts 4.32-35; 1 John 5.1-6; John 20.19-31 Jesus said to the disciples, “Peace be to you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you.” He breathed on them, saying, “Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive people’s sins, they are forgiven them; if you hold them bound, they are held bound.” …
Gospel Reflection for April 11, 2021 – 2nd Sunday of Easter Read More »