Weekly Word

The function of Advent is to remind us what we’re waiting for as we go through life too busy with things that do not matter to remember the things that do.

Hope is a thin and slippery thing, sorely tested and hard to come by in this culture. We have seen the social fabric of the country rent, not only by others but even by our own hands.

Life is not meant to be a burden. Life is not a problem to be solved. It is a blessing to be celebrated.
 

Life, Ecclesiastes leads us to understand, is not about change; life is about sowing. And therein lie both the struggle and the gift.

The "Weekly Word" for this edition of Vision and Viewpoint comes from Sister Mary Lou Kownacki's writings.

Prayer does not make us less aware of the circumstances of life. It makes us even more aware than we ever were before. Why? Because now we see the world as God sees the world.

A young woman, the newspaper tells us, who had been nothing but heartache and shame to her family all her life, walked away from an automobile crash that killed everybody else in the car.

“Moses was a reluctant prophet.

“I kept my sin secret and my
frame wasted away. Day and night
your hand was heavy upon me.”—Ps. 32

Commitment is that quality of life that depends more on the ability to wait for something to come to fulfillment—through good days and through bad—than it does on being able to sustain an emo

The feast of Saint Clare of Assisi is August 11.

Give us, O God,
leaders whose hearts are large enough 
to match the breadth of our own souls 
and give us souls strong enough
to follow leaders of vision and wisdom.

The feast of Mary Magdalene is July 22.

There were two old monks who lived together for many years and they had never quarreled.

Loving God, You who dwell in our hearts,
make for us a cave there
in which to hear your voice more distinctly,
feel your care more tenderly,
understand your will more clearly,