Creative Musings from the Convent

Sister Doreen’s Reflections Blessed are the peacemakers for they will be called children  of God. “Our life and our death is with our neighbour.  If we gain our neighbour, we have gained God, but if

Sister Doreen’s Reflections Blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain mercy. “Mercy within mercy within mercy.”(Thomas Merton) Just a reminder: Blessed, what does Jesus intend by using this paradoxical word?  In trying to understand

Sister Doreen’s Reflections Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied. Bread for myself is a physical question; bread for my neighbour is a spiritual question.(Nikolai Berdyaev) Just a

Sister Doreen’s Reflections Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth. O the magnitude of meekness! (Christopher Smart) Just a reminder: Blessed, what does Jesus intend by using this paradoxical word?  In trying

Sister Doreen’s Reflections Blessed are those who mourn for they will be comforted. In the deserts of the heart,Let the healing fountain start.(WH Auden – in Memory of WB Yeats) Just a reminder: Blessed, what

Sr. Doreen’s Reflections Blessed are the Poor in Spirit, for theirs is kingdom of heaven. Blessed are they who have nothing to lock up. (Dostoevsky – Crime and Punishment) Anthony Bloom commenting on this Beatitude

Sister Doreen’s Reflections The beatitudes really introduce and set the tone for Jesus’ sermon on the mount. Richard Rohr calls the beatitudes Jesus’ inaugural address, defining a new covenant with all humankind, a manifesto revealing

Sister Doreen’s Reflections One of the main purposes of all meditation practices is to take a brief vacation from ourselves!  I share some quotes and ideas that might be helps along the way in growing

Sister Doreen’s Reflections Living as Contemplatives in the world: Centering / Contemplative Prayer Prayer, real prayer, real contemplation happens when our hearts are open to God in all the colours of the world.  It is

Sister Doreen’s reflections I Thank You God For Most This Amazing Day A Poem by E.E. Cummings I thank you God for most this amazing dayFor the leaping greenly spirits of treesAnd the blue true