September 14th: the Exaltation of the Holy Cross
An excerpt from the 8th-century poem The Dream of the Rood. It is one of the earliest known examples of Christian devotional poetry. In it, the narrator dreams of a beautiful cross covered with gold and jewels, wondrous to see. As he draws closer, however, the cross...
From My Inner Cell (3): Let the Light In!
By AfterEpiphany. Don't be scandalised... but it took me a while to get excited about the Luminous Mysteries when St John Paul the Great first gifted them to the Church. If even a tiny bit of me had held on to that initial lack of enthusiasm, that is now well and...
Rice
By Penny. I'm about to head off on pilgrimage to England for a month (please pray for me!), so I've been trying to think of a quick and simple blog post I could write before I go. It struck me that we haven't had a recipe post for ages - not since The Magic Fruit back...
From My Inner Cell (2): A Different Kind of Love
By AfterEpiphany. "Do not cling to me," (c.f. Jn 20:17 The post-Resurrection encounter between Jesus and Mary of Magdala is one of my very favourite Scriptural accounts. Yet it poses a gentle challenge that I found very helpful upon returning to the world, if a...
I’d Rather Go to Heaven
By Amata Some years ago, I was talking with a dear friend. She and her husband had been struggling to conceive, and she was sharing with me how painful this experience was. However, she said, if this was something that she needed to go through, to suffer, so that...
Stepping out of the boat
By Amata. I was a sophomore in college, haunted by a persistent idea. Could I be called to religious life? This thought had persisted since I was eleven years old, but the urgency was new. At January's March for Life, I met some amazing religious sisters. Before I...
From My Inner Cell (1): A Meditation on Hope
By AfterEpiphany. I think Joseph is quite a comfort to the average convent/seminary leaver. I'm not talking St. Joseph the Foster-Father of Jesus... he's awesome, yes. But right now I'm talking about the owner of a certain Technicolour Dreamcoat. We all recall that he...
From my Inner Cell: Conversations with God for convent-leavers
By AfterEpiphany. You may have had the experience of making casual reference to your former "cell" in a conversation with a friend or family member, only to be met with a surprised look and that inevitable comparison between convent cells and prison cells. You...
Hope O My Soul
By Anonymouse. It was about four years ago now. I was on a discernment retreat and I heard Jesus speak to my heart that he was not calling me to be a religious sister. He was calling me to marriage. I told Him about the beauty of religious life, how these women give...
Do You Love Me?
By Ignatia. When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?" He said to him, "Yes, Lord; you know that I love you." He said to him, "Feed my lambs." A second time he said to him, "Simon, son of John,...
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