My parents come from different faith backgrounds, but they both had the same joyful openness to my vocation, they understood that my heart was with the California Carmelites! My Catholic father’s mother always wanted a religious in the family, so Dad in his own quiet way was pretty proud to see that his daughter had a vocation to religious life.
All Souls Day. This day becomes more and more meaningful the older one gets. This will one day, be a day when others are remembering you and me…
As a convert to the Catholic Church, I did not grow up knowing much about the Saints; it was a new world for me when I entered the Catholic Church in my early 20s. I kept hearing about all these ladies…
One question that we sisters receive occasionally is, “So, do you like being a sister?” I recall one instance when I was a novice, meeting one…
Reflecting on which random topic to touch upon this week…let’s just say it was a “no-brainer” when I saw that October 22 was around the corner. The feast day of Pope St. John Paul II!
Assumptions. Presumptions. How prevalent these words are for our world today. If you step back and look at the flow of any given day and reflect upon…
What does it mean to be a life-long member of this religious family? It means that we strive to know and love each other as we are. Not as we think we should be, not as we hope we would be, but simply as we are.
Don’t forget to laugh at yourself. Life is short, live it well. Don’t take yourself too seriously.