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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.

Joan Chittister reflects on the Beatitudes in a NCR online column titled, “Happy are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness—for they shall boil over.” 

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.

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.

If you can, will you please add a prisoner to your Christmas gift list and send a donation to the Joan Chittister Fund for Prisoners? 

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 Welcome to the Wisdom of the World by Joan Chittister

NCR Column on Blessed Are the Poor in Spirit

From Where I Stand       NCR     November 11, 2021

The most popular and most reprinted publication produced by Benetvision over the past 30 years is A Month of Memories: Words