ACT OF OBLATION Lord Jesus, I unite myself to your perpetual, unceasing, universal sacrifice. I offer myself to you every day of my life and every moment of every day, according to your most holy and adorable will. You have been the victim of my salvation, I wish to be the victim of your love. [...]
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Gracious Sufficiency
Posted in Cenacle, God Among Us, Gratitude on Feb 26th, 2005
[This was written in 2000, shortly after our arrival in Gainesville.] The Cenacle is making its small beginnings in Gainesville. Two of us arrived a couple of weeks ago, and two others will come the end of August. For now we are engaged in the ministry of pots and pans, of mop and broom, instead [...]
Continually Turned Toward God
Posted in Cenacle, Holiness, Prayer, Religious life, Turned Toward God on Feb 18th, 2005
This year is the bicentennial of the birth of Saint Therese Couderc, co-founder of the Cenacle Sisters. My group (five of us) entered the pre-novitiate on February 1, the birthday of the saint we call Mother Therese, but about whom I knew precious little then. Oh, I had read a romantically pious biography of her, [...]
On the Road Again
Posted in Cenacle, On the Road, Prayer, Transformation, Union with God on Feb 18th, 2005
I have sometimes said that insights come to me more easily when I am on the road. Perhaps the fact of being in between two places — being neither here nor there, so to speak — frees the mind and the heart to receive what is offered. But on the road or not, insights do [...]