Monthly Archives: July 2011

Thoughts on Mary and Martha*

By Sister Mary Martha Pavelsky, MHSH “Taken for granted.”  Unless you’re a masochist, you don’t like feeling that way.  Yet haven’t we all said something like, “Oh, so-and-so will take care of that; she always does”?  We may even neglect … Continue reading

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Our Lady of Mount Carmel – A Venezuelan Celebration

By Sisters Asdruanny García and Rosa Sofía Toledo, MHSH Last Saturday, July 16, was the Feast Day of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. Nowhere is the day celebrated with more fervor than in rural Manzanita in the state of Lara, … Continue reading

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A Letter from Eastern Point

From Sister Donna Fannon, MHSH I am spending the month of July directing four people through the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius at Eastern Point Retreat House in Gloucester, Massachusetts. The Exercises were developed by St. Ignatius as an aid in … Continue reading

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BOOK: THEY COME BACK SINGING

By GARY SMITH, SJ LOYOLA PRESS, 2008 Book Review by Marilyn Dunphy In the 1990s Gary Smith found himself contemplating yet another turn in his life.  Smith, a Jesuit priest ministering to prison inmates and homeless people in Portland, Oregon, … Continue reading

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