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“What is Emerging” Reflections
What is Emerging?: An ongoing contemplative process. Read reflections here.
Becoming Attentive to Signs of Emergence in Our Midst
Against the backdrop of the coronavirus global pandemic, with the new moon of late May beginning to set with the sun, 25 women from 19 locations in two countries came together for a weekend retreat where we became “a temporary…
What is Emerging?
The ending is a beginning! LCWR’s most recent Reflective Journal on Discernment presents us with a poem entitled “Trasna” by Raphael Consedine PBVM. It challenges us to view this historic moment in the world as a crossing place — a…
What is Emerging?
The truest thing that can be said about Loretto’s Emerging Forms Committee (EFC) is that, since its inception, our understanding of our work has been … well … emerging! And like all of us, we are operating in a global…
What is Emerging?
Soon we will be celebrating the Easter Mysteries once again. We invite you to join us as we ponder these mysteries with eyes of the heart and discover the Risen Christ anew. Let us begin by sitting in silence, breathing…
What is Emerging?
You may recall in the Advent Reflection 2019 booklet which was inspired by “A Vision for the Future of Religious Life” by Sr. Teresa Maya CCVI, the fourth week was about ‘noticing.’ Teresa challenges us: The future of our lives…
What is Emerging?
By Mary Ellen McElroy and Cathy Mueller Advent provides for us the opportunity to reflect and pray about our role as Mothers of God in our world today and in the future. We often get caught in the old paradigm…
Emerging Forms Committee Asks, ‘What is Emerging?’
(Editor’s Note: Reflections from the Emerging Forms Committee) A question people often ask and wonder about is, “What is really meant by evolutionary consciousness?” We invite you to ponder with us as we reflect on what a few mystics have…
What is Emerging?
lIia Delio muses on the future of religious life: “I anticipate religious life in the 21st century will be more provisional and local than institutional and permanent. … What form will this new type of religious life take? Many forms, for love and…
What is Emerging?/Emerging Mission
(Editor’s Note: Part 1: A reflection at the one-year anniversary of the Nov. 4, 2017, vow celebration.) JoAnn Gates and I recently visited Natural Bridge State Park in Kentucky where I was fascinated by tree roots growing around large boulders…