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Joining Worthy Women – Reaching out their Hands to the Hungry

Posted on November 13, 2011 by opreach

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The first reading today, on the Thirty-third Sunday of Ordinary Time talks about a worthy wife. Obviously sisters and nuns are not wives. And in the days that the Book of Proverbs there weren’t nuns or sisters, so our lives could not be imagined.… Continue Reading “Joining Worthy Women – Reaching out their Hands to the Hungry”

Category: God's CallTags: dominican sisters of san rafael, nuns, proverbs 31, Religious Life, serving the poor, sisters, sisters/nuns, Sr. Anne Bertain, st. dominic church, thirty-third sunday in ordinary time

All Souls Day

Posted on November 2, 2011 by opreach

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Is there not a beautiful thought connected with prayer for the dead? Were it not sad to feel that when our loved ones pass away, they are wholly separated from us? Through prayer we may still hold communion with them; by the spirit of… Continue Reading “All Souls Day”

Category: HeritageTags: all souls day, andrew barrett, concepcion arguello, dominican sisters, dominican sisters of san rafael, mother justin barry, new beginnings, nuns, prayer, prayer for the dead, sisters, sisters/nuns

St. Teresa of Avila

Posted on October 15, 2011 by opreach

Today is the Feast of St. Teresa of Avila (1515-1582). She was a Doctor of the Church, also a mystic and writer – and truly a practical, down-to-earth woman who saw into the heart of God, and truly made a difference in her world.… Continue Reading “St. Teresa of Avila”

Category: SpiritualityTags: Beauty, carmelites, nuns, poppies, Religious Life, Spain, Teresa of Avila

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