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My Vocation Story (as I reflect on it today)…
My vocation story was shared in this way with a small group of Seniors at the Rosary, our Sacred Heart school in New Orleans, LA and my Alma Mater. These are my reflections as shared with them this morning. I grew up in a large Catholic family of 10 children. We lived in New Orleans, not far from Audubon Park and in the middle of the university section. My parents were not necessarily pious in a devotional sense, but they were definitely fervent. Our family went to Mass every weekday morning at 7:30 AM before school at Holy Name of [...]
Ah-Ha: Epiphanic Moments
Yesterday, we celebrated one of my favorite feast days of the liturgical year: the Epiphany. This feast is the culmination of the 12-day Christmas season. It brings it to a celebrative closure with the story of three Magi who courageously followed a shining star through the dark nights of a very long journey in a foreign land to discover the Christ child. This evocative story is full of many colorful images that invite us into the mystery of God’s self-revelation in Jesus, the Christ child. Now, if you are a little like me, the story of these three wise men [...]
Christmas and New Year Blessings , 2014
May the Good news of Christ's birth Fill your heart with peace, joy and gladness Throughout this season of Christmas and Every day of the coming New Year.
A Journey of the Heart: RSCJ Profile
When I was 13 years old and in the 8th grade at the Rosary, a Catholic priest asked me to teach a class in religious education to a group of “20 or so” first-graders on Saturday mornings. There were no desks, no classroom, no instructional materials, and no supplies: Just me, and them — and a few church pews and a concrete yard. Total chaos in the beginning led me to an immediate self-revelation: I did not know what or how to teach! I turned for guidance to Tootsie Torian, RSCJ, who had an incredible Christ-like way with children that [...]
A Prayer to celebrate the Feast of Mater
Yesterday, Sacred Heart communities celebrated the Feast of Mater Admirabilis, Mother Most Admirable. To her, we turn in prayer knowing that she is guiding us to peace, serenity, hope and joy through her Son, Jesus. Here is a prayer that strikes me as timely and timeless: Prayer to Mater - Marie-Therese de Lescure, rscj (Ninth Superior General Society of the Sacred Heart) Under the pressure of over activity which at times consumes us, disturbs us, or scatters our energies in doing what is visible and accidental, let us come to our "Mater". She is the Mother of the Invisible, and the Mother of [...]
