Cenacle Journal
Posted in Advent, Death, Heaven, Union with God on Dec 23rd, 2006
Right after D-Day, our Sister Elizabeth — not yet Sister, but Lieutenant Hillmann — was stationed at a hospital in Bristol. Among her patients was a horribly burned soldier, barely out of childhood when he went off to war. He was burned every place on his body except for his face and the palms [...]
Although the first of November is the feast of All Saints, followed by All Souls on November 2, the whole month of November is traditionally a time for special remembrance of our loved ones who have died. With this in mind, I have been reflecting on an experience of Saint Therese Couderc — the Cenacle’s [...]
I thought that I had accepted the realities of life. I was startled, therefore, in church a few Sundays ago, to find myself engulfed with anger because of the human condition. To be precise, I was sad because of the illness of a loved one, and angry because we all suffer and age and die. [...]
Years ago, “in between church jobs”, as she puts it, Sister Elizabeth was working as a nurse in a chronic diseases hospital in Massachusetts. One of the patients she was caring for was a man who had on his back a sore that went all the way to the bone and from which he was [...]
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