With a lot happening in the world that can easily pull us into a gloom-and-doom mentality, I decided to make a conscious effort to look for resurrection before Easter. Big things, small things, whatever I could find.
Horizons - In response to collective vulnerability amid the start of the pandemic in 2020, the Sisters of the Lovers of the Holy Cross of Dalat, Vietnam, launched an effort to provide free meals to neighbors in need.
"Across history, God continues to invite people to bring the Word into the world — to say yes to something larger than themselves," writes Sr. Mary Rose Kocab.
"Even as we hear the sounds of destruction we must tap into our stubborn hope to assess what are the good bones and begin the revisioning of what we have into what can be," writes Sr. Nancy Sylvester.
Theologians' Corner - The Gospel proclaimed this Sunday offers a framework neither of denial nor despair. Like Martha and Mary, the church is summoned to bring its grief, protest and questions directly before Christ.
Despite the powerful charisms bestowed upon many women, "it is no secret that women leaders face significant obstacles in exercising their God-given gifts within the church," Christine Schenk writes.
Across the world, countless sisters live lives that will never be publicly recognized as heroic. Yet it is precisely in this ordinariness that holiness continues to take shape.
