What is Emerging?
As I was beginning to ponder what the topic for July Interchange might be, it suddenly dawned on me that there is only one thing that is all inclusive in the Universe and that is Love. As we look at…
Mary Ellen McElroy has been a Sister of Loretto since 1958 and currently lives in Denver. She serves on the Loretto Link Board and is a member of the Spirituality/Contemplative Working Group. Mary Ellen is also a member of the Emerging Forms Group. Her latest ministry since 2000 is spiritual direction, which continues to be her favorite. One of her favorite pastimes is conversing with others about things that keep emerging in our lives. Her favorite saying is "It is what it is, and ain't any isser!"
What is Emerging?
A continuation from May’s Interchange article … Last month we glanced at our world today to see what science has discovered regarding our world and our God. This month, let’s look at what science has discovered about the human.* All…
What is Emerging?
Sometimes what is emerging in our lives had its beginning years before humans recognized it. That is what is happening today with our concept of God. In “Crisis and Hope,” a March 13 blog post at the Center for Christogenesis…
What is Emerging?
We all have experienced many changes in our lives these past several years. In our evolutionary journey our consciousness keeps rising and as a consequence, we become aware of new things that are emerging and old things that emerge with…
What is Emerging?
It seems that at any Loretto gathering since the U.S. election on Nov. 7, the conversation would turn to the hard question of how can we love those whose words and actions are so against what we believe? Richard Rohr’s…
What is Emerging?
Every February we celebrate St. Valentine’s Day. It’s not so much a day to celebrate the person known as Valentine, but a day to express our love and receive love in return. There is a deeper more expansive love than…
What is Emerging?
Richard Rohr’s “Daily Meditation” on Oct. 28 featured an article by Wesley Granberg-Michaelson in which he discussed the problem in today’s politics. He based the problem on the temptation to begin with our political position and then use religion to…
Why Are we using Elaine Prevallet’s book, “Making the Shift?”
This piece is an excerpt from the Loretto Link Annual Meeting this past weekend. For those of you who do not know anything about Elaine Prevallet, let me just tell you that she is well known in the Loretto Community as…
What is Emerging?
Recently I received an interesting reflection by Jan Phillips. She started with this quote from Francis of Assisi (1181-1226), “What we are looking for is Who is looking.” The following is her pondering: When you ask a seeker what they…
What is Emerging?
At a recent Zoom gathering, Sue Kenney opened the meeting with reflections from “A Century of Change: Loretto’s Second Century.” She started with this quote from the preface by Patricia Jean Manion: “To move ahead into yet another time will…
What is Emerging?
At the April meeting of our discussion of “I Am The Way” (Loretto’s constitutions), our group was getting close to the end of the booklet when one of our members suddenly discovered the very last page was empty with the…
What is Emerging?
One of the great visionaries of planet Earth is the Jesuit priest-scientist, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. Much of what we have learned about the Universe and the new cosmology comes from his teaching. One of those amazing truths is that…