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Spirituality
Talk on St. Madeleine Sophie - May 18, 2009
Our Spirituality
Written by Barbara Carey, rscj   
Wednesday, 20 May 2009
"We all know that we are in the midst of a social and cultural upheaval; a new civilization is being created.  Our world, and within it religious life, is experiencing the pangs of giving birth;  it is a painful and messy moment but also a beautiful and exciting one.  What have touched you during these months are values that, consciously or unconsciously, humanity is crying for.  We are at a turning point in history, but this time, you and I, all of us, are agents of change. . . .  Every birth is a wondrous mystery (a mystery that inspires wonder) that calls for a new song….   The history of religious life is a remarkable story of change, of adaptation, of re-focusing of the charism and mission;  in other words, it is the story of one great act of giving birth.  Our future lies in our capacity, your capacity, to give birth and thus revitalize our mission and structures across time.  The fate of our Society is in your hands, as it is in ours.  Your song, your incarnational creativity in living out our charism, our mission, will be an expression of your faithfulness, an act of giving birth."
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US Province Spirituality Statement
Our Spirituality
Written by RSCJ.org Admin   
Monday, 28 July 2008
We in the US Province affirm our fundamental identity as women summoned by God’s love revealed in Jesus. With a common refrain across the province we acknowledge that our communion with the Triune God, who is Holy Mystery and Sacred Presence in our universe, is the ground of our being. Prayer and intimacy with God in the Pierced Heart of Jesus is the wellspring of all that we are and do, and everything in our lives flows from it. Fed by prolonged times of contemplative silence and solitude, we offer our lives daily, generously, in cooperation with the transforming power of the Spirit, to further God’s work of healing and redemption. The mystery of Incarnation—the conviction that God has taken flesh among us—alerts us to know God in humanness: our own and that of others. We know ourselves as members of the body of Christ where Eucharist is lived daily both in celebration and in acts of solidarity with all. The call to be “wholly contemplative /wholly apostolic” resonates deeply within our hearts and challenges us to be women who engage the world around us with the intuitions and convictions that come from deep within the heart of Christ, a heart that, throughout our lives, we come to know and love above all else.
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A Year of Prayer: Resources
Living toward the future
Written by RSCJ.org Admin   
Thursday, 17 May 2007

May Resources:
file icon Part Two: Sophie's feast and Pentecost (May 25 and May 27), and several marvelous prayer outlines from the International Heads meeting. Click here to download.

file icon Part One: Prayer in Preparation for Pentecost and quotes from St. Madeleine Sophie Barat and St. Rose Philippine Duchesne. Click here to download.

 

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Reflection for Area Directors' Meeting, October 1, 2006
Our Spirituality
Written by Justine Lyons,RSCJ   
Friday, 20 October 2006

thumb_openarms What is it that fills our hearts?
What is it that we really want?
Are we so pre-occupied with what we have to accomplish, with doing things right, with measuring up, with meeting expectations that we can not attend to the emptiness of our hearts?

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Mater in her old age
Those who have gone before us
Written by Madeleine Sophie Cooney, RSCJ   
Wednesday, 18 October 2006
Mater In 1883, nearly forty years after she completed the fresco of Mater Admirabilis on a corridor wall of the Trinita dei Monti in Rome, Pauline Perdrau painted another study of Mary—one much less famous than her earlier work. Though its aesthetic qualities leave much to be desired, this later Mater, which is known in the United States chiefly through the copy made by Sister M.M. Nealis in 1935, rewards careful study and comparison with the Trinita fresco.
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