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Mother Miriam, CSM

Mother Miriam, CSM, made her life profession as a sister in the Community of Saint Mary in 1983 and was elected ninth Mother Superior of the Eastern Province of the order in 1996. She has a BA in Economics and Business Administration from Rollins College,Winter Park, Florida, holds an MBA in management systems and strategic planning from Fordham University, New York, and an STM from Nashotah House. She currently resides at St. Mary’s Convent in the Diocese of Albany’s Christ the King Spiritual Life Center, Greenwich, New York.

Coming to Terms with Our Cultural Blinders: The Beatitudes as a Case Study

Mother Miriam, CSM
December 1, 2020
Bible, Commentary, The Episcopal Church
By Mother Miriam, CSM Recently, we encountered once more the Beatitudes, which comprise the traditional gospel reading at Mass for All Saints’ Day. On that day, we celebrate the miracle of untold numbers of ... Read More...

A Spiritual Tool for Social Distancing

Mother Miriam, CSM
May 25, 2020
Commentary, The Episcopal Church
By Mother Miriam, CSM In a large group of people, it is easy to get lost, think your own thoughts, find like-minded thinkers or feelers, and generally plow your own furrow or hitch your wagon to someone else... Read More...

The Hidden Lives of the Church’s Religious (Part Two)

Mother Miriam, CSM
March 9, 2020
Commentary, Contributors, Ecclesiology, Ministry, The Episcopal Church
The external witness of vowed religious — habits, cloister, the Opus Dei (the daily round of psalms, hymns, and collects recited in chapel) — are the first things Christians notice about the monastics among them. But, of course, that is not the whole story of the charism and fruit of the religious life

The Hidden Lives of the Church’s Religious (Part One)

Mother Miriam, CSM
March 2, 2020
Commentary, Contributors, Ecclesiology, Ministry, The Episcopal Church
Why have so many religious communities determined that the distinctive separation of religious men and women from the laity is a problem to be erased?

A Postmodern Reflection on Mary the Second Eve

Mother Miriam, CSM
September 9, 2019
Commentary, Contributors, Liturgy, The Episcopal Church
Among the various characterizations of Mary, I find myself repeatedly drawn to Mary as the Second Eve in parallel to St. Paul’s reference to Christ as the Second Adam (Rom 5:12, 15; I Cor 15:45, 47).

Seeing Ancient Words Anew: Looking through the Dictionary Darkly

Mother Miriam, CSM
June 7, 2019
Catechesis, Commentary, The Episcopal Church
The time between Easter and Trinity Sunday is ideal for instruction in trinitarian doctrine.

Imagination, Transposition, Transfiguration

Mother Miriam, CSM
March 1, 2019
Bible, Commentary, The Episcopal Church
The use of the Transfiguration Gospel for the Last Sunday of Epiphany is a stroke of genius.

Imagination, the Gospel, and Impossible Situations

Mother Miriam, CSM
October 29, 2018
Commentary, Ecclesiology, Ethics, The Episcopal Church
In our disputes, we might need to recall that holiness dwells precisely in ambiguity.
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