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Our Spirituality
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Written by Barbara Carey, rscj
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Wednesday, 20 May 2009 |
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"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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Our Spirituality
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Written by RSCJ.org Admin
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Monday, 28 July 2008 |
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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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Living toward the future
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Written by RSCJ.org Admin
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Thursday, 17 May 2007 |
May Resources:
 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.
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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Our Spirituality
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Written by Justine Lyons,RSCJ
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Friday, 20 October 2006 |
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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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Those who have gone before us
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Written by Madeleine Sophie Cooney, RSCJ
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Wednesday, 18 October 2006 |
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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