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Meditations for Lent

   

Journey with us during Lent
Our Lenten Meditations, written on the theme "The Crosses we bear," will be posted each week throughout Lent. We invite you to be united with us in prayer through these meditations as we accept the crosses in our life - just as Jesus did.

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Ash Wednesday - the first meditation on "The crosses we bear"
Click on "more" to read the meditation written by Sister Maryann Berard.

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The second meditation on "The crosses we bear"
Please click on "more" to read the meditation written by Sister Leola Brown.

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The third meditation on "The crosses we bear"
Please click on "more" to read the meditation written by Sister M. Paulette Collings.

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The fourth meditation on "The crosses we bear"
Please click on "more" to read the meditation written by Sister Janet Ebben.

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Discussion Groups
Our Justice and Peace Office is providing discussion groups for Sisters and Associates to reflect on and share insights from Pope Benedict XVI's recent social encyclical, Caritas in Veritate (Charity in Truth). There are four sessions focusing on the Common Good, Rights and Duties, Economic Life and Global Solidarity. Twenty Sisters and five Associates are participating. Please click on "more".

 

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