" . . . those others have all made offerings from their surplus wealth, but she, from her poverty, has offered her whole livelihood."

"What if we were willing to shift our hold on our individual truth so as to affirm the emerging truth of the whole?"

GSR Today - Just try to resist reading a story under this headline: “Golf cart nun to retire at 93.” I couldn’t do it this week. So read on.

Truly, the deeper I got into it, the more discernment felt like dating. I had to pay attention to what felt attractive and comfortable. I’d track what caused me to feel joy and peace. Did we like each other? Did we fit? Was there a spark between us? Was this a community I could imagine spending the rest of my life with?

From A Nun's Life podcasts - How is prayer a way for Carmelite nuns to reach out to the needs of the world?  

See for Yourself - On the day that I went with my friend, Brenda, to the antique show, she went in and out of every booth but I walked in the aisle between the booths. I had a notebook with me and had fun jotting down interesting items I saw being offered for sale. It was like reliving my childhood seeing items straight out of our homestead growing up and I intended to compare notes with my sister.

Two priests, Redemptorist Fr. Tony Flannery and Fr. Gerry Bechard, and two laywomen, Deborah Rose-Milavec and me, talked about our experiences of working in various clergy-lay coalitions. (In case you were wondering, nuns are laity, and we're proud of it.) The room was packed for this presentation at the annual Call To Action conference on Nov. 8.

Last month, when the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate released a special report on American women religious, the Sisters of Charity of Seton Hill were featured for their growth – not in the Pittsburgh area, where they are from, but in South Korea, where they started ministering in 1960. In 1965, Sr. Sung Hae Kim became one of the congregation’s first two Korean postulants, and in August she became its first Korean General Superior.

"We are not biologically determined; nature has an inner dimension of freedom and transcendence."