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Canticle of St. Gertrude, Spring 2010
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Witnessing Hope
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Sister Louise Olberding - A Vocation Story
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Membership Update
Developments
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Spirit Center News
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Peace & Justice
Historical Museum at St. Gertrude News
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In Memoria: Sister Wilma Schlangen, 1915-2010
In Memoria: Sister Winifred Lorentz, 1915-2010
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Our Daily Life
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Care of the Land - Recycling Program
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A Reflection For those
Who Serve
It helps, now and then, to step back and take the long view. The
Kingdom is not only beyond our efforts, it is even beyond our
vision.
We accomplish in our lifetime only a tiny fraction of the
magnificent enterprise that is God’s work. Nothing we do is
complete, which is another way of saying that the Kingdom always
lies beyond us. No statement says all that could be said. No prayer
fully expresses our faith. No confession brings a perfection. No
pastoral visit brings wholeness. No program accomplishes the
church’s mission. No set of goals and objectives includes
everything.
This is what we are about. We plant the seeds that one day will
grow. We water seeds already planted, knowing that they hold future
promise. We lay foundations that will need further development. We
provide yeast that produces effects far beyond our capabilities.
We cannot do everything, and there is a sense of liberation in
realizing that. This enables us to do something, and to do it very
well. It may be incomplete, but it is a beginning, a step along the
way, an opportunity for the Lord’s grace to enter and do the rest.
We may never see the end results, but that is the difference between
the master builder and the worker. We are workers, not master
builders; ministers, not messiahs. We are prophets of a future not
our own. Amen.
Archbishop Oscar
Romero
The Transmigration of
Sister Herman
“If you weren’t a person, what would you be?”
I asked an old nun they called Roadrunner.
She laughed at the thought of being anything else
except a bride of Christ, trudging streets
in rusty habit, castoff tennis shoes,
scorning permed hair and polyester
Brought to the Convent as an orphaned toddler,
she never left, rendering menial work
as dairymaid, cook and sacristan.
The blighted apples from abandoned trees,
outdated food from markets,
she brought the worthy and the profligate,
leaving behind a vintage joke
and a blessing.
After a moment she reconsidered,
announced with snaggled grin,
“I’d be a horse. When you get to Heaven,
look for me among the horses.”
I dream of her now in the tree-ringed meadow blue
with camas, frolicking among playful fillies,
the great stallions, the gentle geldings.
A mare, loose in her skin of glossy black,
shivering in the spring chill
but lost in the heaven of another sun.
Carolyn Frei,
Lewiston, ID
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