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“What is Emerging” Reflections

What is Emerging?: An ongoing contemplative process. Read reflections here.

What is Emerging?

By Mary Ellen McElroy SL / June 1, 2020 /

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…

What is Emerging?

By JoAnn Gates / May 1, 2020 /

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…

What is Emerging?

By Mary Ellen McElroy SL / April 1, 2020 /

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…

What is Emerging?

By Mary Ellen McElroy SL / March 1, 2020 /

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…

What is Emerging?

By Loretto Community / December 1, 2019 /

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…

Emerging Forms Committee Asks, ‘What is Emerging?’

By Loretto Community / November 1, 2019 /

(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…

What is Emerging?

By Loretto Community / September 1, 2019 /

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…

What is Emerging?/Emerging Mission

By Susan Classen CoL / November 1, 2018 /

(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…

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