Keeping Christmas Well
I love Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. I find it a beautiful story of conversion, and of what can happen to us when we allow the (Holy) Spirit to work in our lives (reluctant as we sometimes are). We’re told at the tale’s end that Scrooge “knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man[...]
St. Stephen, Protomartyr
“My son, when you come to serve the Lord, prepare yourself for trials,” begins the second chapter of the Book of Sirach. Stephen’s last moments and martyrdom paint a beautiful and inspiring real-life example of Sirach’s advice to his son, and to all of us who aspire to serve the Lord. As the first martyr[...]
Christmas 2015
The Sisters were joined by many guests for Midnight Mass and Carols this year! Christmas is a very special feast for our community as it was for our Mother Foundress: "Greeting you most heartily in the love of the divine Infant, I wish you a very blessed Christmas, fullness of grace, which the eternal Word made[...]
