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, [...]
In our Christian life, we encounter light (see “You Are Light“) – and also darkness. But take note: there is more than one kind of darkness. There is a darkness that is not from God, the darkness of evil and sin. This darkness we want to avoid like the plague. And there is a darkness [...]
Posted in Emptiness, Emptying, Giving All, Suffering, Union with God on Nov 21st, 2009
The only thing to be done now, now that the waves of our undoing have begun to strike on us, is to contain ourselves. To keep still, and let the wreckage of ourselves go, let everything go, as the wave smashes us, yet keep still, and hold the tiny grain of something that no wave [...]
Posted in Cenacle, Turned Toward God on Oct 5th, 2009
“Many folks want to serve God, but only as advisers.” This quote came in an e-mail filled with Christian one-liners. It seems particularly apt, especially on those days when I am making myself unhappy because God has not consulted me about the way life is going. Saint Therese Couderc knew a more reliable path to [...]
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, [...]
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