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It wasn’t any kind of special moment when it happened. It wasn’t my birthday, for instance, or an anniversary of anything.

Dear God, creator of women in your own image,
born of a woman in the midst of a world half women,
carried by women to mission fields around the globe,

Blessed are the meek — saving the tradition

From Where I Stand     NCR      September 30, 2021

After a woman makes perpetual profession of her monastic vows of obedience, stability, and metanoia, she lights her profession The Monastic Heart by Joan Chittister

from the writings of Joan Chittister: 38 Personal Stories to Transform a Life

Yes, you read that right. Joan Chittister’s online monthly spiritual publication, The Monastic Wayis now free.

Every afternoon, as I sit in my upstairs office, I hear the old monastery bells begin to ring in the once Benedictine church that then Monastic Heart by Joan Chittister

Feast of St. Hildegard is September 17th

The Beatitudes revisited: a template of the good life

From Where I Stand    NCR    September 9, 2021

I once heard a story that used to make me laugh.

One of the most demanding, but often overlooked, dimensions of the creation story is that when creation was finished, it wasn’t really Illuminated Life by Joan Chittister

Loving God,
lead us beyond ourselves
to care and protect,
to nourish and shape,
to challenge and energize
both the life and the world
You have given us.

An article on peacemaking, “My Enemy Is Now My Friend” by Joan Chittister, was featured in this month’s edition of Kolbe News, a print and E-magazine and website, Calgary, Canada

Belief is not contrary to fact. It simply transcends it.

A publishing group in the United Kingdom just bought the rights to Joan Chittister’s soon-to-be-released book,