Words for Life Book Launch
Sister Rosemary O'Toole, pictured left, celebrated her book launch at St. John the Apostle Parish Hall in Ottawa, on Saturday, November 9, 2019. Rosemary shares the day's highlights with us here:
Over eighty some guests streamed in gradually over the Saturday afternoon picking up their pre-ordered sets of books or purchasing them at the various stations. They browsed the memorabilia table illustrating the evolution of her teachings on Medaille Spirituality: first in local parishes; then by correspondence booklets; then as an Online Forum; then taught in Le Puy, France and at Galilee Centre in Arnprior, Ontario.
Weekly Pause & Ponder
Cultural nightmares of our time, like global warming and horror scenes of warfare, are certainly shifting our consciousness – toward the awareness that our conventional ways of being and acting are seriously out of kilter with the wider web of life. We are beginning to understand differently from the outside, but at the inner level the conversion has scarcely begun. I use “inner” here as applied to both our collective and individual identities.
– from Christianity’s Dangerous Memory by Diarmuid O’Murchu
It's Time!
by Alex Neve, Secretary General, Amnesty International Canada
One week in late October, I travelled along the US/Mexico border with a delegation made up of Amnesty leaders from six countries around the world – the United States, Mexico, Canada, the United Kingdom, Greece and Kenya. As we moved back and forth across the border we witnessed and heard first hand of the Trump Administration’s deepening assault on the rights of refugees and migrants.
Counting
I’m counting my blessings
On fingers and toes
On eyes and on ears
On mouth and on nose.
I’m not nearly finished
But that’s how it goes.
When you stop to ponder
What’s good and what’s bad
You remember the good things
Not the perplexing and sad
So take time to thank God
For great friends you’ve had.
- Sr. Eileen Foran