Cenacle Journal
Posted in Cenacle, Prayer, Religious life on Oct 10th, 2011
Between 1877 and 1926, the Cenacle had only one Superior General: Mother Marie-Aimée Lautier. Imagine! 49 years leading the congregation. (Today twelve years is the limit.) Many changes took places during her time, including opening thirty Cenacles in several countries. Several of these communities were in the United States. One thing that did not change, [...]
Posted in Prayer, Prayers, Religious life on Aug 4th, 2011
We chanted the following prayer tonight, and I thought you might also like to pray it. For those familiar with Compline, you will recognize the first two and the last two lines. The other sources of the prayer are multiple. Visit this house, O God, that no evil may reside here. Cleanse our hearts and [...]
Posted in Religious life on Jul 14th, 2011
The religious vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience are anything but popular right now. I was struck recently by Barry Gault’s essay, “Society Men: What I Learned from the Jesuits,” in the April 22 issue of Commonweal. Gault is a psychiatrist, and his essay, using as examples his Jesuit high school and college professors, suggests [...]
Posted in Cenacle, Goodness, Religious life on Sep 20th, 2009
The expression “good God!” is often not a prayer. But when Saint Therese Couderc used the words, “good God” – and she used them often – it was with reverence. She knew God was good. And she knew that all that God has made is good. Saint Therese, co-founder of the Sisters of the Cenacle, [...]
Posted in Giving All, Religious life on Jan 11th, 2009
Printer-friendly During the sexual abuse crisis, the retired archbishop of San Francisco, Most Rev. John R. Quinn, wrote: “I believe, in fact, that this is the best time in the history of the church to be a priest, because it is a time when there can be only one reason for being a priest or [...]
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