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.
A friend gives me an amaryllis every Christmas. They bloom beautifully, though not always on Christmas — one was a Valentine amaryllis — and then die back. That’s the end of my luck with them. I put them in the basement, with some vague thought about planting the bulbs outside…
If you were dying and someone asked you, “Do you have any last words?” what would your words be? The setting of today’s passage from John’s Gospel is the last supper, so we are hearing some of Jesus’ “last words,” the words the Evangelist thought were the most important of…
If you visit the ancient basilicas in Rome, a few dating to the first half of the fourth century, you will find the motif of the vine and branches everywhere. It is on facades, on domes, on doors, climbing up pillars, in mosaic floors. It seems this motif was a…
There will be many, many people who won’t hear our Gospel for the Fourth Sunday of Easter precisely because of what Luke’s Jesus is talking about in it: bad shepherds. As I visit “Catholics” in the large country hospital, I meet them — people who have walked away because of…
O Lord, in union with that divine intention with which you praised your Father to the shedding of your blood, I offer this day in adoration. This short “morning offering” which I say daily, urges me to see my day as an opportunity to do something more than simply “getting…
Our Third Sunday of Easter has a third Gospel account of a resurrection appearance; just like last week when Thomas touched the wounds on Jesus’ risen body, this account also features those wounds. The “eleven and their companions” at first believe they are seeing a ghost. So Jesus says, “look…
Today’s Gospel is the well-known episode where the Apostle Thomas, unwilling to believe the other disciples telling him that Jesus was alive, demands the outrageous “proof” of being able to put his hand into the wound in Jesus’ side. It is difficult to hold on to faith. We always do…
For those of us in Ohio, “I’m ready for spring!!!” is a refrain that is heard almost everywhere you go. This last snowfall seems to have tipped even the hardiest winter-lover over the edge into a longing for warm breezes, sunshine, long days and flowers and trees in bloom. For…
I love 1 Cor 5:6-8, one of the selections for the second reading of Easter day Mass. It is all about feasting. Yum! It is about yeast leavening dough – an image of how the kingdom grows, slowly, but inexorably, but also an image of how we gradually grow in…
It is Palm Sunday, and year B, so we read the passion account from the Gospel of Mark. I love the story, near the beginning of the narrative, of the woman of Bethany who crashes the dinner where Jesus was the invited guest, and anoints him with expensive perfume. What…