Pentecost has always been a special time for me, though wrapped in mystery. I remember as a little girl in the Lutheran church learning, t...

“Sister, I have a question.” These words fill me with a whole array of emotions: fear, curiosity, trepidation, excitement, and eagernes...

              Some sisters like to say that our simple way of life makes us easy to entertain. It's another way of saying that our simp...

A few months before I entered community, I received a list of things that I could bring with me to the monastery as well as a list of o...

I heard my vocational call during Holy Week of 1998 (the Year of the Holy Spirit) while on retreat in Rome. That week started with Palm Sun...

I can't get over it. Every year, she takes the towel and dries between my toes. She lifts my foot to her lips and kisses it, ever ...

“If you build it, they will come.”  These words echoed through my mind as I looked out one of our windows this past Saturday morning and w...