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Christmas is a strange season. When you’re a child, it is a season of presents. When you’re young, it’s a season of parties. When you get your own home, it’s a season of preparations.
“Contemplify,” a podcast that aims to explore the contemplative life through conversations with “scholars and creatives,” released an episode featuring Joan Chittister.
It was our second day in Erie, Pennsylvania. I was about ten years old. “Momma,” I said, “This is the place where I want to live.” My mother smiled a little.
An excerpt from Joan Chittister’s book, In Search of Belief, was featured in a Richard Rohr’s newsletter.
Advent is one of the most difficult periods of the church’s liturgical cycle and all of the life questions the scriptures bring. Why? Because Advent is all about waiting.
From Where I Stand NCR 12/2/2021
I believe in God
who made us all
and whose divinity
infuses all of life
with the sacred.
The signal is clear: There is no time to sink into the quiet of fall that is promised with the coming of Thanksgiving.
Sister Joan was interviewed for a podcast on her book, The Monastic Heart, by Banyen Books and Sound, Canada’s largest spirituality book store.
Gratitude is not only the posture of praise but it is also the basic element of real belief in God.
In a NCR online column, Sister Joan expounds on the third “Beatitude, Blessed are they who mourn”…and lists a multitude of realities that need to be mourned and then acted upon i
Cassian wrote that Abba John, the leader of a great monastery, went to Abba Paesius who had been living for forty years very far off