Pope Francis teaches that if we want to experience the joy of the Gospel and union with God, we need to begin by sharing God's concern for the poorest among us.
"I'm sensing that sitting in contemplation with the noise will be my situation for quite a while," writes Sr. Nancy Sylvester. "I'm challenged to create space within myself even in the midst of the cacophony of deconstruction."
In these difficult times, Sr. Juliet Moussau imagines an aqueduct: I "allow the sorrow and pain of others to move through me to God because those burdens were too much for me to handle."
In popular imagination, we don't usually put "gift" and "elder adulthood" in the same sentence. I am convinced that there is a very special gift in this stage of life: the invitation to journey inward.
More than 1,000 attendees from more than 120 VEYM chapters across the U.S. for the national convention as the Vietnamese Eucharistic Youth Movement celebrated its 40th anniversary in the United States.
