Perhaps you’ve already heard this news, but the Holy See has appointed our Sister Catherine Marie as superior pro tempore of the community of Passionist Nuns in Lucca, Italy.
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Today's Web Wednesday feature (the final one!) addresses just a few ways you can lend a helping hand even from a distance.
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This week's web feature is one of our favorite parts of the website: the Passionist Nuns world map!
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Nothing feels quite so self-referential as blogging about our blog…but that is exactly what today's installment of Web Wednesdays will be exploring!
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“Oh, what joy there will be when you find yourself totally drowned in the Immense Divinity and you will be satiated, seized, and inebriated with the Infinite Good, which is the fullness of the Holy Trinity.” - St. Paul of the Cross
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Living in the rhythm of the liturgy makes for nary a dull moment, as each day and season brings its own highlights of feasts (and fasts!) This week on Web Wednesdays, our spotlight turns to the site calendars that help you to share in our prayer and festivities.
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Last week we featured the Header Navigation on Web Wednesdays - now it's time to take a look at the Footer Navigation.
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On Sunday, May 6, we had our annual May Crowning Procession before evening prayer - a beautiful opportunity to show our love for our Blessed Mother Mary! We could hardly have asked for more beautiful weather for the day, a perfect sunshiny May afternoon to honor our radiant Queen and tender Mother.
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Welcome to the first installment of Web Wednesdays! Today, we will focus on the big picture, the basics of navigating our site.
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“If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.” - St. Therese
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Having just passed the half-way mark of the Easter Season, we thought it was about time to share some photos from our Easter Egg Hunt. On Divine Mercy Sunday, some of our Junior Professed Sisters put together an egg hunt culminating in a very silly activity.
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Our Spring 2018 newsletter is now available online.
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Some of our younger Sisters were recently discussing the process of vocational discernment, and how at times they felt they'd never discover God's plan for them. Someone even comment that she once felt like she belonged to an "Order of Perpetual Discerners."
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After His resurrection He appeared again surrounded with splendor more or less accessible to the senses. His face, His tone of voice were the same. he was the Jesus His friends knew before His death. But His body, now breathed in the region of celestial light which was now in Him
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[Consider] Mary in her solitude after the death of Jesus. Jesus was her all. By offering Him she was giving everything to God; she had nothing left. She could with all truth say: 'Consummatum est.'
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What was sufficient for God's justice was not enough for His love. This is the reason why Jesus chose to suffer
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Blessed time of the last supper in which the chained torrent in the Heart of Jesus burst open! It is the hour of Jesus, the hour of all of us who have had and now have the happiness to eat of that Bread, the pledge of eternal life.
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Our radio station, featuring programming from EWTN, has changed to a new frequency. You now can tune in to WJOR at 95.5FM.
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In our Passionist tradition, we understand “mourning” as a compassionating love for Jesus Crucified, just as Our Lady had for Him as she stood at the foot of the Cross. So, even though black is a color of mourning, it is meant to remind us that we are to compassionate Jesus Crucified and console Him in our daily lives, by a life of love and virtue.
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The Gospel of Mark records that after Jesus' triumphant entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, "He entered Jerusalem and went into the temple area. He looked around at everything and, since it was already late, went out to Bethany with the Twelve" (Mk 11:11).
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