Welcome to our “Ask The Nun” series of informal videos. Today’s questioner wonders if life is ever boring for a nun. Sister Norma Raupple shares her answer. I speak for myself in saying that I have never been bored with convent life. Most of us have to decide how we are going to get everything [...]
For most of us, Holy Week unfolds like many other weeks: work, school, preparing meals, doing laundry. Palm Sunday begins an unusual week – a week – concentrated in a few days on the ultimate meaning of our lives. We are invited this week to reflect on these questions: Why are we here? What have [...]
It is said that certain items are “rust-proof.” Other things are billed as either “dust-proof” or “spill-proof” or “bullet-proof” or “child-proof” or “scratch-proof.” But here’s something which no human being ever has been or ever will be: “temptation-proof.” Temptations are luring. They present us with a seeming good we do not presently have but want. [...]
One night, not so long ago, I was praying and asked to know where I was not one with God. The next day, a knock at my door and for the next hour, I found out where I was not one with God! Be careful of what you pray for! We find it easy to [...]
Taking our Baptism seriously means that the ritual is just the beginning of a lifetime of living for God and for God’s people.
