The Lenten season is a time for conversion, but we often wonder how to enter into our own transformation. The insights of Jesuit Bernard Lonergan can help us understand ourselves and how God heals us with our help. These five sessions will explore God's action and our intentional
response.
Book Review of the Week
Grieving With Grace: A Woman's
Perspective, by Doris R. Leckey. St. Anthony Messenger Press, 2008.
This book contains many of the reflections the author chronicled in the first year after the death of Leckey’s husband, Tom. She found that there was a tremendous change in the rhythms of her life; there were shifts in consciousness, in the ways she saw God, and in the ways she associated with her family and friends. In every case, she tries to impart a measure of consolation and hope for anyone in grief. Her reflections draw heavily on Easter, Christ’s Resurrection, and
the Communion of Saints.
Leckey’s story is a personal gift to her readers because as she says, “we belong to each other” and we can learn from one another’s joys and sorrows. This book is intended for anyone experiencing a loss, and is intended as a guide to help one express the grief and deepen one’s trust in God.
Each chapter ends with reflective questions and a way to ritualize one’s reflections in a prayerful manner.
(Thanks for Sr. Irene Hartman, OP for this
review.)
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Saint of the Week
St. Colette: (1381-1447): Feb. 7.
Colette did not seek the limelight, but in doing God’s will she certainly attracted a lot of attention. Colette was born in Corbie, France. At 21, she began to follow the Third Order Rule and became an anchoress, a woman walled into a room whose only opening was a window into a church.
After four years of prayer and penance in this cell, she left it. With the approval and encouragement of the pope, she joined the Poor Clares and reintroduced the primitive Rule of St. Clare in the 17 monasteries she established. Her sisters were known for their poverty—they rejected any fixed income—and for their perpetual fast. Colette’s reform movement spread to other countries and is still thriving today. Colette was canonized in 1807.
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