New thoughts from a Franciscan Sister

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Never Too Old to Learn!

I can still remember my mom quoting her father as saying: “The day you stop learning is the day you die.” Actually, I don’t think you even stop then. The truth of these words hit…

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What Do You Think?

Would you please take a moment to share your feedback?

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“…And Deserving of All My Love”

Last night before “crawling in,” when I knelt at my bedside to make an act of contrition (a custom I have observed for years), one phrase struck me: “deserving of all my love.&#82…

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Transformations

Lent is almost upon us! It is a time of conversion, a time of sacrifice, a time for growth. Might we even say: a time for transformation? As a sacristan, the days leading up to Lent are a time of…

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Veni Sancte Spiritus

I know it’s not a particularly Lenten prayer, but I have been trying to say the Veni Sancte Spiritus every day in preparation for our community’s upcoming “chapters.” In cas…

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“One Day at a Time”

This afternoon, I headed out of chapel. I had finished up the prayer time missed by my inability to get out of bed promptly earlier this morning. (Winter fatigue had gotten the better of me, I gu…

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Recreation?!

Last evening, after a day of receptionist duties and baking, it might have been nice to just “go home, sit down, and look pretty” (as Sr. Elaine sometimes says). However, this was not t…

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[Irishmom2]

It may not have been recreation, but it certainly sounds like exercise!

 

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Smooth

I just returned from a weekend away, attending the winter retreat for my home parish’s youth group before spending a day or two with my folks. It was a wonderful time and I am so grateful for…

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[Cloisters]

Reminds me of when I was living with my sister and her family many years ago. I’d be sitting at the kitchen table, eating supper with my BIL. I would ask him how things went that day, and he would usually lift his flattened, down-turned palm in the air over the table and bring it across – “Smooth.”

I also noticed your posts on pro-life and vocations don’t get hits. Hmmm. CAF needs to do better than that.

 

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Praise to the Holiest

I just concluded my days of leading Office this evening with vespers. You might call me lazy, avoiding having to re-mark the books for our visitors, but I used the same hymn for both morning and e…

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Miles to Go!

This afternoon, I did not start my aide work around 4:30 as I usually do; I was detained by an important meeting until past our normal suppertime. After a quick meal and KP duty, we hustled off to …

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“May Your Help Always Renew Us”

Last evening, having completed the office work I had undertaken, I headed to chapel to catch up on my spiritual reading and pray Compline (Night Prayer). As I finished the Liturgy of the Hours, the…

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[Irishmom2]

I am not familiar with that song, but you are correct, it is beautiful. Will need to see if that is in our hymnal and put in a request!

 

[sr.christinaosf]

It is, actually, not a song, but the closing prayer from Thursday Night Prayer.

 

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Doubling Up

Have you ever noticed that, at times, a certain scriptural passage or theme seems to keep coming back to you? This happened to me today at vespers. This morning, our Bible study was based off last …

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My First Chapter!

Although I’ve been around our community of Franciscan Sisters for quite a while now, today was my first ever “Chapter of Affairs.” That is because we only have these pre-election…

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Stored in His Flask

Little did I know, when I sat down to do ‘Reading Hour’ for our residents, that I would need my hankie! I had pulled a book out, at random, from my supply which Sr. Jean Louise had lent…

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That was the verse used at our late son’s memorial service. He had been attending the Baptist student center – where the service was held – but was on his way back to the sacraments when things went awry.