December 2024 Communiqué
Advent-into-Christmas-into-Jubilee-Year greetings to dearest Sisters in Christ – When in Nursing School, a Professor referred to a study regarding Harvard business school alum all educated during the same time with comparable instruction. Some proved remarkably successful; others fell miserably flat. What distinguished the two was lists. Those managing flourishing enterprises maintained the habit of scribing daily lists. We likely can relate to these findings as we look at our own use and...
Events
Communiqués
Communiqué (January 2023)
Greetings to dearest Sisters in Christ as we continue in Christmastide celebration. Our joy cannot be limited to one day. The Church gives us a full season to happily sweep others into the jubilation! Emmanuel is here! O come, let us adore Him! Responding to a door...
Communiqué (December 2022)
Greetings to dearest Sisters in Christ – Mary’s fiat on the 25th of March lent allowance to the overshadowing of the Holy Spirit. The query of how can this be, came to be. Her fiat might be said to be all-embracing in quietness, trust and strength. Come every...
Communiqué (November 2022)
Greetings to dearest Sisters in Christ – Our purses, totes and backpacks require frequent, all-the-way-to-the-bottom cleaning. We each have a method and timetable. Sometimes we get to the task later than planned and suffer consequences. The goal is the same: making...
Communiqué (October 2022)
Greetings to dearest Sisters in Christ – By shapes, color, text and images a logo portrays and hopes to beckon a pause in the onlooker to consider something. For Seven Sisters, our emblem splendidly conveys what we hold central in our lives as Catholics and what we...
Communiqué (September 2022)
Greetings to dearest Sisters in Christ – In the very heart of this month (Sept 14), a most beautiful Feast besieges us – the Exultation of the Cross. The enormous gift of our liturgical cycle is that it calls us surely and steadily to revisit all the glorious aspects...
Communiqué (August 2022)
Greetings to dearest Sisters in Christ – Each August, the Church sets our inner orientation on the Blessed Sacrament and Adoration. How enlivening to every Seven Sister’s heart! Two of our great loves! August happily begins with thoughts and celebration of our dear...
Oh, Love beyond all telling…
Greetings to dearest Sisters in Christ – On Corpus Christi Sunday (June 19) a plan to reaffirm and enflame Eucharistic love and zeal across the United States was launched. A chord of three strands is not easily broken. Three years of prevailing, intentional prayer is...
Pray, and get others to pray, that God not abandon His Church, but reform it
Greetings to dearest Sisters in Christ – The holy fires of Pentecost (June 5) reach us and seem to fittingly launch our deeply cherished month of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus. The universal time of recommitment in accepting the invitation given us for this Work...
Could you not keep watch with Me for one hour?
Greetings to dearest Sisters in Christ in these reflective April Lenten days into Holy Week into the jubilant Alleluia-rich Eastertide. Let us live the days with attention and responsiveness. The protracted days of the Lenten season grant one’s soul the gift...
Go Against the Flow
Greetings to dearest Sisters in Christ! The stream of baptismal waters spilling across one’s brow just might be the first hint that the path in this new life goes against the flow. The serious Christian soon discovers that the life of righteousness truly runs counter...
Our Lord, the Living Word
“Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path.” — Psalm 119:105 Greetings to dearest Sisters in Christ! On 30 September 2019, the 1600th anniversary of St Jerome’s death, Pope Francis instituted the Sunday of the Word of God with the apostolic...
Bookends of our Holy Hours
“Let us proceed each one along our path to the same goal, united in purpose and by means of God’s order which, in its great variety, is in us all.” — Fr. Jean-Pierre de Caussade Greetings to dearest Sisters in Christ! Blessed Christmastide and New Year of the Lord...