This month presented us with a particular challenge: how could we hold one of our semiannual vocation retreats when our retreat house and chapel were closed to the public?
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While we have not had visitors in our chapel lately due to the pandemic, our Sister Sacristan has still been keeping the Lord’s house beautifully decorated for the spring and summer feast days.
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One favorite hobby of many nuns is gardening — there is something prayerful about working so closely with God’s creation.
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We all knew something was afoot when Aspirant Abbey entered the chapel one day with a smile bright enough to dazzle the casual observer.
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At first glance, today’s readings can seem a bit intimidating – persecution, betrayal, fear, and “fiery Gehenna!” A closer look, however, reveals some beautiful lessons about how to endure suffering in this life with peace and even joy.
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As we accompany Jesus in His sufferings, His Heart is really and truly comforted by our presence and our love. What an awesome mystery!
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During our Forty Hours, we held the Eucharistic Procession in Time of Epidemic and Plague, an ancient devotion used by the Church for centuries.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has kept people “cloistered” at home for months now, and even as restrictions are being lifted, many are still isolated because of age or underlying health conditions.
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This Sunday we celebrated the most central and yet hardest-to-grasp mystery of our Christian faith: the Holy Trinity. This inner secret of the life of God, though only revealed in its fullness through Christ, is foreshadowed in many hidden ways even in the Old Testament.
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The temperatures have finally started to warm up here in rural Kentucky, and all the Sisters have been eager to take advantage of the nice weather!
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While the Church may not celebrate today with quite as much external “pomp and splendor” as she does the Resurrection or the coming of the Holy Spirit, a close reading of the liturgy reveals that the Ascension is far more important than we might initially think!
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Have you ever wondered if God has a favorite color? After taking a few walks around our property in the spring, you might start to suspect that He does …
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Today’s readings reflect the Church’s excitement that Pentecost – her “birthday” – is drawing ever closer!
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You may have wondered before, “What does a Passionist nun do during the Easter season?” After all, the Church is focused throughout these days on the glorious mystery of the Resurrection. It might seem that a Congregation devoted to promoting devotion to and grateful remembrance of the Passion is irrelevant at such a time.
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This Sunday’s Gospel is taken from Jesus’ beautiful Last Supper discourse in the Gospel of John. We began our discussion at the very start of the passage, where Our Lord states clearly, “Do not let your hearts be troubled or afraid.”
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It’s always delightful to take a stroll around our property after a heavy Kentucky rain in the spring!
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The One Who is the narrow Gate is also the loving Shepherd, and as our Psalm says, “even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil, for You are with me.” He has chosen to enter into our suffering so that we might never be alone.
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The other day at recreation, several of us nuns were commenting to each other about how struck we’ve been, during this extraordinary time when Masses are cancelled throughout the world, by the core of our vocation as contemplative nuns.
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This story can serve as a parable for the Christian life after the Resurrection and Ascension: Jesus still walks with us, but in hidden ways, and it is in the Word of God and “the breaking of the bread” (the Eucharist) that we come to recognize Him.
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On this glorious feast of God’s infinite mercy, the Church asks us to reflect on the famous story of “doubting Thomas.”
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