Reflections
Final countdown to final commitment
September 7th, 2019
Lenten Reflection, 2018
February 16th, 2018
By Gabrielle Stratford (Grafton, Ontario) In our world today Exercise has pride of place. We understand that as muscles are strengthened, health improves. Fitness is the universal goal. Exercise is the key to spiritual health too. It is the practice of putting others first, by responding... Read more...
The Word was made flesh…
December 19th, 2017
Our little apartment in Edmonton faces North and is very close to the North Saskatchewan River Valley which is home to many of our homeless sisters and brothers. We are surrounded by apartments and behind each apartment there is a commercial garbage... Read more...
Pentecost – Do you ever feel alone?
June 4th, 2017
Easter: Believing In New Life – Embracing Mission Anew
April 15th, 2017
A Reflection on Trinity Sunday & Vocations
May 29th, 2016
I have just returned from a talk given by Dr. Nuala Kenny, a Sister of Charity of Halifax, a Medical Doctor, Bio-Ethicist and much sought after speaker. Each time I have had the opportunity to hear her speak,... Read more...
A Reflection for Easter 2016
March 26th, 2016
“Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here but has risen.” (Luke 24: 1-12) These are the words that greet the women who go to Jesus’ tomb at dawn to anoint His body. They find the... Read more...
A Reflection for Easter 2015
April 5th, 2015
“Gratitude…Passion…Hope” Fifty years ago on April 24th in St. Anthony’s Parish (fondly known as Tony’s Roundhouse), I began novitiate, receiving the habit as an Ursuline of Jesus. Even though I had a boyfriend who was very special to me, and who I... Read more...
A Reflection for Lent
February 18th, 2015
Ash Wednesday is the beginning of Lent, a 40-day interior journey of the heart open to the Lord. Lent comes from an old English word meaning to ‘lengthen’. It is observed in spring, when the days begin to get longer. Lent is... Read more...
Reflection On The Year Of Consecrated Life
February 2nd, 2015
By Elizabeth M. Davis, RSM In proclaiming the Year of Consecrated Life (the Year of Religious Life), Pope Francis cried, “Wake up the world! Be witnesses... Read more...