Spirituality
Climate SmART: Honoring Our Children’s Future Through Faith, Art, and Action
On April 10, 2015 the Associated Alumnae and Alumni of the Sacred Heart hosted its Annual Conference in Boston, MA. A panel of artists and RSCJ educators explored the topic of climate change to discuss "Climate SmART: Honoring Our Children’s Future Through Faith, Art, and Action.” The 5 member panel was sponsored by Honoring the Future (www.honoringthefuture.org). It was moderated by Frances Dubrowski, Project Director, Honoring the Future and Alumna, Newton College of the Sacred Heart. Members of the panel included: • Peter Handler, award-winning craft artist and creator of “The Canaries in the Coal Mine” sculptural works about the [...]
My Vocation Story (as I reflect on it today)…
My vocation story was shared in this way with a small group of Seniors at the Rosary, our Sacred Heart school in New Orleans, LA and my Alma Mater. These are my reflections as shared with them this morning. I grew up in a large Catholic family of 10 children. We lived in New Orleans, not far from Audubon Park and in the middle of the university section. My parents were not necessarily pious in a devotional sense, but they were definitely fervent. Our family went to Mass every weekday morning at 7:30 AM before school at Holy Name of [...]
Beginning Today
We need a means to encourage the soul, to nourish it and raise it over itself. The means of all means is the Spirit who vivifies and makes it fruitful…This Spirit becomes the breath of the soul…would to God each one may exclaim, “I begin today!” St. Madeleine Sophie Barat-Conference Amiens, 1841
A Garden of Gardenia
"In all things of nature there is something marvelous." (Aristotle) The windows blinds opened this morning to a marvelous sight: a gardenia bush in my garden was full of flowers. Sweet delight. Enough flowers to make any gardener dizzy and any house no longer in need of air freshener for weeks. Not that I use that fabricated chemically concocted stuff. I don't. A Southern home loves a good sprig of gardenia to remind itself about who it is, where it comes from and what’s important. Gardenia are not only fragrant, they evoke powerful feelings and memories. My memory this morning [...]
