“Be still and know that I am God.” (Psalm 46:10)
God, still in me all that is not You.
God, still in our world the cries of suffering, want, and war.
Let us be still and know that You are God. Amen.   

Sr. Patricia Lawlor

I live in a convent where we share resources and we are aware of each other’s needs as well as the needs of the materially poor in our neighborhood. We are able to reach out to them in so many ways. And in this, I see us living out our vow of poverty as connectors and conduits… When I reflected on what I spend the most, I realized that it is not usually money or material things, but rather my time that I spend for others, and it is because of community that I am able to spend my time well.

Sr. Frances Keegan

We gather today as a family of promise, coming in touch once again with the cross, the evidence of divine graciousness and mercy in our midst. As Joel’s call to Assembly in…[the Ash Wednesday] reading echoes through our minds and hearts, more and more people become present to us. The old and the young, the enthusiastic and the disillusioned, those in war torn regions, those whose peace goes undisturbed, the hungry and the surfeited, the overworked and the underemployed, the victims of injustice and their perpetrators. The list is endless…Today, in the shadow of the cross, the love and compassion of Jesus is so compelling that each of us staunchly claims our place in the human family. We are a family gathering desperately in need of reconciliation, conversion and communion.

Sr. Sheila Brosnan

God powerfully revealed in Jesus that God’s own identity is Love and Compassion….It is that Love which revolutionizes lives, transforms minds and hearts, creates peace and generates hope….As did Jesus, may we also continue to gift our afflicted world and its suffering people with Divine Love and Compassion enfleshed in our own love for all Creation and especially for those most in need.

Sisters Mary Meyler and Virginia Searing,
who minister in Guatemala

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