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Why Reading Reverie?
There are times when the very mention of spiritual reading makes one want to hide (cue Fergus): Just too much to do, not enough time in the day! The excuses can grow at an alarming rate: “My eyes are...
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Fioretti by Andrea Tornielli
God always saves the best for us. But He asks us to let ourselves be surprised by His love, to accept His surprises.” – Pope Francis, July 24, 2013 I know some people who are “One Book People” – they...
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The Father’s Tale
Before I entered the monastery I did not read much. I enjoyed reading bedtime stories to my nieces and nephews, I excitingly read restaurant menus and I longed for the Sunday comics to be delivered,...
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Leisure: The Basis of Culture
As a cloistered contemplative Nun, a question I frequently receive is, “What do you do?” This is closely followed by, “What? All you do is pray?” Leisure: The Basis of Culture by Josef Pieper explores...
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Into Your Hands Father
When we are so preoccupied with our past and our future, we naturally have neither energy nor openness left for the present moment, the only moment that mediates God’s will.” Have you noticed that...
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Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska
Just like The Father’s Tale, in my first blog book review, Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska could be used to prop open a door, but once again I highly recommend it. Here are some quotes for a...
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In Him Alone is Our Hope
So there are challenging books and then there are CHALLENGING books. This, my friends, is a CHALLENGING book. It’s only 136 pages long. But WOWZERS, it really packs a punch. The book contains the...
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Unity in Diversity
Sr. Marie Andre at Matins on Christmas Eve One of the most beautiful dimensions of Religious Life is community. And it can also be full of challenges as well! Pope Francis wisely spoke thus (which, no...
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WRAP Yourself in Scripture
It’s is time for another Reading Reverie Book Review! I can hardly believe that I have not yet reviewed this book, WRAP Yourself in Scripture. For the last 3 or 4 years, it has been my constant...
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The 7 Penitential Psalms
“From my own experience I can certainly say that these seven psalms, though not all equally, are one of God’s greatest gifts in keeping us in touch with a true sorrow for sin and in giving us the words...
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The Legacy of Spiritual Fathers and Mothers
The flu has visited our community, inviting some of us to a different sort of Lenten penance than originally planned. I spent the greater part of my own ‘forced retreat’ with some good friends, just...
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Communion with Christ
“What did not lie in my plan lay in God’s plan. And the more often such things happen to me, the more lively becomes in me the conviction of my faith that – from God’s point of view – nothing is...
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The Confessions
Ferg doesn’t really like when we have our nose in a book! – He would much rather be the center of attention!! (see bottom left of pic) Very slowly I’ve been working my way through The Confessions by...
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Contemplatives and the World, Part II
Shortly after posting Contemplatives and the World, I came across this excerpt from Fr. Wilfrid Stinissen that presses the point even further. It makes a perfect Part II to the original blog: When a...
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Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska
Just like The Father’s Tale, in my first blog book review, Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska could be used to prop open a door, but once again I highly recommend it. Here are some quotes for a...
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In Him Alone is Our Hope
So there are challenging books and then there are CHALLENGING books. This, my friends, is a CHALLENGING book. It’s only 136 pages long. But WOWZERS, it really packs a punch. The book contains the...
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Unity in Diversity
Sr. Marie Andre at Matins on Christmas Eve One of the most beautiful dimensions of Religious Life is community. And it can also be full of challenges as well! Pope Francis wisely spoke thus (which, no...
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WRAP Yourself in Scripture
It’s is time for another Reading Reverie Book Review! I can hardly believe that I have not yet reviewed this book, WRAP Yourself in Scripture. For the last 3 or 4 years, it has been my constant...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The 7 Penitential Psalms
“From my own experience I can certainly say that these seven psalms, though not all equally, are one of God’s greatest gifts in keeping us in touch with a true sorrow for sin and in giving us the words...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Legacy of Spiritual Fathers and Mothers
The flu has visited our community, inviting some of us to a different sort of Lenten penance than originally planned. I spent the greater part of my own ‘forced retreat’ with some good friends, just...
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