If you had been a lady bug sitting on our chapel windowsill a couple of Fridays ago, you would had seen an unusual sight. . .
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As we head into Holy Week, we decided to go ahead and publish our spring newsletter — written before the pandemic was declared! — to bring you tidings of the many good, happy, and exciting things that are still going on here at the monastery.
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In the midst of these challenging times, the powerful Gospel account of the raising of Lazarus offers us a much-needed message of confidence in God’s power.
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I don’t know about you, but over the past couple weeks I have at times been pretty bummed, feeling the weight of the coronavirus crisis, and finding myself in a “gloom and doom” attitude. But Jesus has been showing us His tender, personal love in countless ways… in so many “lamb-kisses!”
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In the book of Daniel we find this heartbroken prophet unable to pray in the Temple of God yet he continues in earnest supplication, trusting that God will hear him as he humbly submits to this great deprivation that the Lord has allowed.
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The fourth issue of the Passionist tricentenary bulletin, Jubilaeum was recently released. Its focus? Hope and renewal.
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After an afternoon’s hard work, when the sticks and thorns and tools were piled high in the back of our UTV and Sr. Mary Veronica and Aspirant Abbey were seated in the cab and ready to head back inside, suddenly they realized they had a problem.
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Oftentimes, our novitiate members will prepare a Lenten project to help us all enter more deeply into the spirit of this season of greater prayer and penance. This year’s project shines a spotlight on the wisdom of St. Paul of the Cross.
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During this time of crisis, as even our churches are suspending public Masses because of COVID-19, we wanted to share with you a beautiful passage on spiritual communion from one of the letters of St. Paul of the Cross.
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This Sunday the Church asked us to reflect on the beautiful story of Jesus’ encounter with the Samaritan woman at Jacob’s Well.
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After many years of correspondence with John Schweska, promoter of St. Gabriel of the Sorrowful Virgin (Possenti), we were pleased to finally meet John in person!
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On February 27, the feast of St. Gabriel Possenti, we were visited by two of our Passionist brothers.
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The Church began her “annual retreat” of Lent on Ash Wednesday, and today she presents her children with readings about a universal human experience: temptation.
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Our sharing today was rooted in the last verse of the Gospel: “Be perfect, as your Heavenly Father is perfect.” Is Jesus asking the impossible? What mere human being can ever hope to be perfect, especially when the standard is God Himself?
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This week’s readings offered us many avenues for reflection.
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This week’s readings, continuing the theme of light and holiness, proved particularly fruitful as we connected them with our Passionist charism.
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This beautiful feast – also known as “Candlemas,” because of the blessing of candles that takes place at today’s Mass – commemorates the fortieth day after Christmas, when Mary and Joseph brought the Child Jesus to the Temple in Jerusalem to dedicate Him to the Lord.
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On January 30th, we were blessed to host the Passionist Jubilee Icon and special relic of our founder, St. Paul of the Cross, as it makes its way around the world during the Tricentennial celebration of the Passionist Congregation.
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Our Scripture sharing this week really focused in on the Second Reading, the great call of St. Paul for unity among the Corinthians to whom he is writing. We explored how Christians in the 21st century can live out St. Paul’s advice.
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The cause for canonization is moving forward for Sr. Carmelina Tarantino, a Sister of St. Paul of the Cross.
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