Experiencing Lent as Transfigured Disciples By Mother Miriam, CSM As we journey through a second Lent under the COVID-19 pandemic, the synoptic Gospels’ story of Jesus’ Transfiguration provide a fruitful opportunity for growth as disciples of the liv... Read More...
Coming to Terms with Our Cultural Blinders: The Beatitudes as a Case Study 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 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) 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) 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 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 The time between Easter and Trinity Sunday is ideal for instruction in trinitarian doctrine.
Imagination, Transposition, Transfiguration The use of the Transfiguration Gospel for the Last Sunday of Epiphany is a stroke of genius.
