On January 18th, plaid shirts and straw hats could once again be seen around St. Joseph’s … that’s right, our monastic hillbilly band, Transluminous Obscurity, is back! What’s more, we were able to debut a couple of new members: Dill Emma and Miss Kris! (You might know them better as Aspirants Emma and Kristin Marie …)
Read MoreSo we are like the heart pumping life-blood throughout the Mystical Body of Christ. If this love is extinguished, if more vocations to contemplative life are not forthcoming, the life of the whole Church will experience immense loss. Contemplatives give public witness and powerful expression to the prayer of Christ, and the unceasing prayer of Mother Church all over the world.
Read MoreSigns are all around us, communicating information and meaning. A monastery too, is a silent sign. I have witnessed over the years an amazing communication of the Holy Spirit that happens in the minds and hearts of people who drive onto this property, this holy ground.
Read MoreThe Western Kentucky Catholic, newspaper for our local Diocese of Owensboro, recently ran an article featuring Mother Catherine Marie's new call to service in Italy.
Read MoreAlmost three months have flown by since Mother Catherine Marie was welcomed as the superior of the Monastero/Santuario di Santa Gemma in Lucca, Italy!
Read MorePerhaps you’ve already heard this news, but the Holy See has appointed our Sister Catherine Marie as superior pro tempore of the community of Passionist Nuns in Lucca, Italy.
Read MoreAcquiring any habit takes work. Acquiring the habit of resting in the bosom of our Father costs us something. We have to make some decisions. St. Paul of the Cross would say we have to undergo some mystical deaths. The embrace of the Father awaits us but we must undergo some soul work.
Read MoreSt. Paul of the Cross wants to tell us today: “Remain like a child on the bosom of the Divine Father.” These were often his greetings in his Christmas letters! There is something very precious and original in the spiritual direction Paul offers us for living Advent and Christmas in prayerful contact with God. Be like Jesus, the Son of God, in His relationship to the Father.
Read MoreToday, we reflect on how God’s Agape love is revealed in the death and resurrection of Jesus, and how this love is made present to us in the Holy Eucharist in order to transform our hearts and lives. St. Paul of the Cross had an infused understanding of the Passion and death of Jesus as the work of God’s infinitely powerful love for us.
Read MoreIt is so important that we take all our problems to God in prayer in union with the Heart of Mary. It is so important that with Mary our Mother we cross over the threshold of hope, into a prayerful attitude of hope in God. For it’s precisely in hopeless places and in hopeless situations that God wills to glorify His mercy, just like on Calvary.
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