Creative Musings from the Convent

Sister Doreen’s Reflections Hospitality itself is a complex category.  It has much to do with the intersection of the private and the public life.  The stranger is encountered in the public realm, hospitality has to

By. Sr. Doreen, SSID. Sister Doreen’s Reflections I would like to share a story with you – it’s a real story.  A year before my mother died, I was home on holiday.  The folks had

By Kelsea Willis, May 10, 2022 For the past six years, I have lived and built a specific and fulfilling life. I spent hours in prayer, structured my life around Sundays and the offerings of

Sister Doreen’s Reflections How often in the midst of the busyness of a day or of time, when we seem to go from meeting to meeting and project to project, I wish I could make

Sister Doreen’s Reflections Dayenu – it would have been enough Dayenu is a song that is part of the Jewish holiday of Passover.  The word Dayenu means approximately ‘it is sufficient’ or ‘it would have

Lectio Divina – A Way of Meditating on Scriptures or the Word in Daily Life Sister Doreen’s Reflections There are different forms of praying the scriptures or listening for the Word in daily life, different

Sister Doreen’s Reflections “The world and time and all created by GodAre eastering and rising up to life again.The universe and all of us are the resultOf unbearable tenderness, and we are lacedAnd threaded with

Sister Doreen’s Reflections The Lord’s Prayer is Jesus’s own prayer.  When you pray it, imagine yourself standing alongside Jesus addressing this prayer to God. Jesus gathers up the whole of life in this prayer.  It

Sister Doreen’s Reflections Meditations on the Lord’s Prayer: Part Two I have found that it is helpful to begin to ponder the several translations of the Lord’s prayer that are being used today, and I