You Are a Gift
What a wonderful gift each guest is. As we hear your stories, we are blessed to share your pain as well as the joys.
Reflections
These are the highlights of the reflections given in mass. These often include a saint’s feast day as well as Lenten or Advent reflections.
Bringing in the Fruits of Our Labor
We’re coming to the time of harvest, the season of bringing in the fruits of our labor. On August 11, the Mount lost an amazing woman.
Memories, the promise of change, and a fresh start
August holds many memories of summer. The days are still long and warm, but there is a whisper, a promise of change.
Were not our hearts burning within us?
There is spiritual wisdom in slowing down, in stepping into the shade, in listening to the cicadas and the silence between.
Reflection for the Vigil of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus
I recently read about a unique perspective on the sacred heart of Jesus proposed by a twelfth-century Cistercian abbot. In a Palm Sunday sermon, this abbot, Guerric of Igny, suggested that Jesus’ side was pierced when he was on the…
Growth, Light, and the Spirit of Pentecost
Nature is in full bloom, and this external flourishing mirrors a call to tend our inner garden. Spiritually, this can be a time to ask, what parts of me are blossoming?
Mourning Pope Francis in the Season of Easter, a Season of Hope
The resurrection is the ultimate triumph over sin and death, transforming sorrow into joy and despair into hope.
Reflection for Vigil of Palm Sunday
“Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.” In preparing this reflection for Palm Sunday, I watched the episode of The Chosen that shows the time before Jesus’s entrance into Jerusalem. I also was reading a book…
Reflection for the Fifth Sunday of Lent
What must it have been like to witness this act of Jesus that we just heard proclaimed in the Gospel? I wonder why this this story of the woman caught in adultery is only recorded in John’s gospel. One would…
Lent to Easter
The resurrection is the ultimate triumph over sin and death, transforming sorrow into joy and despair into hope.
Reflection for Sister Helga Leija’s Rite of Monastic Profession
Reflection: Ephesians 1: 3-14 Sister Helga, a column editor and translator for Global Sisters Report, which is a division of the National Catholic Reporter, shares stories of courageous women religious all over the world who are making a difference in…
Reflection for the Vigil of the Feast of the Annunciation
Mary was a woman of astounding faith and trust – so much so that we may forget that she was as human as you and I. She too knew laughter, tears, weariness, frustration, pain and loss. As a child, I…
