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Celebrating a snowy World Day for Consecrated Life!
Here in the Chicago area, we’re getting snow, snow, and more snow! Plus the winds are whipping around, so that when I look out the window, it’s like looking at a snow-globe that’s just been shaken. I’m not real fond of snow, but I love to engage with nature. So this morning, which BTW is World Day for Consecrated Life, I put on a ton of warm clothes and went outside with Sister Julie.
World Day for Consecrated Life was established in 1997. One of its purposes is to celebrate the ways that God works in and through the lives of consecrated women and men. Today, with the snow and wind swirling around us, Sister Julie and I celebrate our lives as religious and rejoice in the ministry of A Nun’s Life that the Spirit has breathed into being.
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Happy day of Consacrated Life, dear sisters!!! Thanks for all the good work you do!!
Lots of love from Argentina!!
Amparo
Gracias, Amparo! We’re delighted that you are part of the A Nun’s Life Community!
Well, I forgot about today’s celebration. Most (arch)Dioceses push this celebration to a weekend. It was providential that, in the Candlemas procession this morning, I opted to carry my 25th Jubilee candle instead of a vigil light. (A couple of the sisters here decorate candles given to sisters for their investiture/profession/jubilees. My jubilee one was painted with the image of a bald eagle flying over a mountain range. Awesome!)
We got 2-3″ of snow yesterday, but now are dealing with ICE and freezing COLD!! The temp this morning was 1 degree with a wind chill of -23. Tonight’s low will be -8 (Lord knows what the wind chill will be!)
Everyone keep safe and warm out there!
The Candlemas procession sounds wonderful, ASJ! Would love to see pix of your Jubilee candle!
i love my pseudo-eskimo sisters! happy celebration to you both.
i have so many sisters who have been an important part of my life, but two in particular made my life sing in the dark: sister margaret devereux, bvm, my grade school principal who always took me in when i ran away from home and who convinced me i was a writer; and sister mary dennis lentsch, pbvm, my dear friend and fellow activist, who shared many christmases with me and taught me to speak truth to power (and to enjoy scrabble even without keeping score). i am still in touch with sr. margaret, though mary dennis has disappeared somewhere, but they both loved me far better than my family ever did.
and i should mention sr. mary jane herlick, who traveled all the way to haiti, at the request of my non-catholic grandmother (my catholic grandmother didn’t ask her), to bring me home when i was very sick and could not find the will to leave the beautiful haitian people.
i could use one of those very faithful friends now, for a million reasons.
Those are powerful stories, Marla. Thank you for sharing them!
You and Jules are the nuns I rely on now, and you always make my heart feel lighter and my brain feel not quite so abandoned. Thank you for all you do.
I grew up around the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians (aka Salesian Sisters) and many of them have been apart of my life for many years. One in particular, Sr. Mary Ann Caspary, FMA, and I used to communicate via ‘snail mail’ on a regular basis. She had such a calming pressence and wonderful spirit it was contagious! She would often encourage me, and the others, to make ‘little visits’ to the chapel to tell Jesus and Mary how much we love them! She also taught me ‘lectio divina’ or a variation of it when I was much younger, and still use it in my prayer life today! Hugs to all my consecrated sisters! Thank you for the blessings you bring to us all!
A lot of our sisters talk about the gift of being present to others — sounds like the Salesian sisters, especially S Mary Ann Caspary, brought that gift to the world and to you — and you to them as well!
You two are two of our favorite nuns, no surprise! You have created a ministry that shows the joy and creativity of what KB calls “nunship”. Snow joke! Thanks for all you do and blessings on your ministry.
We delight in “nun-ship”– and in pun-ship! Great to have you and KB on board
A most blessed day to the two of you and continued blessings in abundance on A Nun’s Life Ministry! It is a recognizable source of grace.