Welcome to our blog. In this space we share stories of our lives as Sisters of the Precious Blood. We hope you find our posts both enjoyable and inspirational. Please note: all comments are subject to approval before being displayed.
In this Sunday’s Gospel, Luke pictures Jesus giving a significant sermon. It’s a sermon that summarizes things Jesus said during his preaching career about how his followers should behave, and we’ll hear another portion of it next Sunday. Over the years I’ve met a number of former Catholics who have…
Last week, a Sister in the house I live in related a saying often attributed to St. Mother Teresa. It went something like this: “God never gives us more than we can carry. But I wish God didn’t trust me so much!” While Mother Teresa didn’t actually say this, it…
Prophets in Hebrew Scripture were like canaries in coal mines, alerting rulers, authorities or the Hebrew people when they were getting off track. Our first reading and our Gospel have Jeremiah and Jesus doing this. Jeremiah is trying to wake people up to the consequences of straying from their covenant…
We had another funeral this morning. This was the seventh sister that passed away this year. Although I did not know Sr. Mary Anne Schiller personally, I always appreciate being able to attend a funeral with the Sisters. The first funeral I attended with the Sisters was a profound experience…
On this 3rd Sunday of Ordinary Time, notice the second reading from 1 Corinthians 12. There Paul uses his signature metaphor: body of Christ. We Catholics are Eucharistic Christians, but unfortunately we often think only of the consecrated host as the body of Christ. In Paul’s day, the Eucharistic ritual…
Today our Gospel is the account of the wedding feast at Cana from John’s Gospel. John’s Gospel is the most “literary” of our four Gospels. The other three Gospels were in wide use at the end of the first century when “John” wrote a different kind of Gospel. He was…
This Sunday is the first Sunday of “Ordinary Time,” the counted weeks of the liturgical year that are not part of the liturgical seasons of Advent, Christmas and Lent. Some “ordinary time” Sundays occur after Christmas — how many depends on whether Easter is early or late — and the…
Many times, we find ourselves thinking badly of people, judging, cursing, hating, and resenting. Our minds go down a negative path and we enact vengeance or rehearse the words to defeat our “enemy.” These thoughts continue until we horrify ourselves. We all have our favorite political target, our pet irritations,…
Years ago just before Christmas, I took some mail to the post office in Scottsdale, Arizona. In those days Scottsdale was very upscale, and no African Americans lived there. In the long line was a mother and a young boy, perhaps 4 years old. In the line next to him…
“I will never leave you!” “This is my last drink!” “If you come back, I promise never to hit you again!” “I will get you a doll for Christmas!” There are promises that we really want to believe. We become cynical eventually, though, after many disappointments. The Christmas Season is…
