Weekly Word

There is a magnet in a seeker’s heart whose true north is God.

Mahatma Gandhi wrote, “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” Gandhi could have been a Benedictine.

“The true division of humanity,” Victor Hugo wrote in Les Miserables, “is between those who live in light and those who live in darkness.” Victor Hugo, it seems, understood Easter.

What is worse than the actual event of death is the awareness of the degree of loss that comes with it.

Throughout March, Women’s History Month, Vision and Viewpoint will highlight some of Joan Chittister’s most prophetic writings about women’s rights and contemporary feminist spirituality.

Throughout March, Women’s History Month, Vision and Viewpoint will highlight some of Joan Chittister’s most prophetic writings about women’s rights and contemporary feminist spirituality.

The ancients talked about the “gift of tears,” the grace of sorrow for sin. Sin is not a popular concept these days, and sorrow is even more suspect in this culture.

After a woman makes perpetual profession of her monastic vows of obedience, stability, and metanoia, she lights her profession

Everyone is defeated some time. Many then simply quit the fray. But the really strong, the really committed, do not. They decide whether or not the mountain is worth the climb.

For over twenty years, Mary Lou Kownacki, OSB, edited and compiled the weekly Vision and Viewpoint newsletter, as part of her ministry as director of Benetvision.

Holiness is not about hiding from the world in the depth of our rituals or in the distance from the questions of the time.