Daily Meditation for October 3, 2023
Rumi, a thirteenth-century Persian poet, wrote, “Sell cleverness and buy bewilderment.” Now, eight-hundred years later, that is still good advice. Cleverness can be a thin, shiny veneer covering shallow ideas […]
Entries by Laura Suhr, OSB
Daily Meditation for October 4, 2023
Scuba diving on the coral reefs off the Florida coast reveals an ecosystem like none other on the planet. Each animal, plant, and organism on the reef lives because of […]
Daily Meditation for October 2, 2023
Today on the Catholic Church calendar is the Feast of Guardian Angels. Has anyone ever called you “an angel” or have you referred to another person as being “an angel”? […]
Do this in Memory of Me
My second grade teacher said, “Patty, we will pray that your Daddy can go to heaven, too.” Why would she say such a strange thing to me? We were getting […]
Prayer Matters
Just think about it! The next presidential election is more than a year away, yet it sounds and feels sometimes, as I listen to commentators and such on television, as […]
Extravagant Love
God’s love is extravagant. God seems to have created with abandon. Who can count the number of the stars, the variety of hues in an autumn-colored maple tree, the intricacies […]
Annette Brophy, OSB
Annette (Margaret Mary) Brophy, OSB Saint Benedict’s Monastery St. Joseph, Minn. August 7, 1927 – August 31, 2023 The Eucharist of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10:30 a.m. on […]
A Moment in Time
What was I to do? I just finished my doctorate and was fluent in Hebrew and could read Greek. Necessity had me accepting a position as chaplain for about 300 […]
Community Day: An Outing Blessed by God and One Another
Normally at the monastery when we talk about a community “outing” we mean that a group of sisters, whatever the size, goes together to experience a particular event or place. […]
Parable of the Broken Bottle
“I can’t open this bottle,” I sputtered in frustration. I was late in eating lunch before dashing for the city bus to the university. I hit the bottle of salad […]
