Letters from the Martin Sisters
With the end of October, we conclude our themed posts about the lives of Leonie and Therese Martin. This last theme post shows an exchange of letters between the Martin sisters a year after Leonie left the convent for the third time in July 1895, aged thirty-two. The...
Afraid – But Not to Fail Part 3
... There I met, of all people, a marketing hotshot who held up to me the image of my former faith-filled, fearless self, and said, in the voice of God: "I blinded you to your future a second time, after you were converted to Me, and you responded in exactly the same...
Rosary Meditations: The Glorious Mysteries
The Resurrection, by Misericordia "Do not hold me, for I have not yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brothers and say to them, I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God" I'm sure many of us can relate to Mary Magdalene in this passage....
Rosary Meditations: The Sorrowful Mysteries
By Misericordia The Agony in the Garden Most of us know the concept of solitude and the silence, and many of us have even lived extended periods during retreats or in our ways of live in Religious Life. Yet we know that connection with others is essential. Even Jesus,...
Afraid – But Not to Fail
In April of 2014, I found myself sitting in a meeting room on a university campus at a departmental "meet and greet," where a bunch of professors gather to listen to wildly successful alumni of their department talk about their exciting career exploits. That Friday...
He Delights in You!
By AfterEpiphany. I experienced God's indisputable sense of humour (hey - He's the AUTHOR of humour!) on the day that I left the convent. Through a strange act of Providence, I was rostered to do the First Reading at Mass with the Community on the morning that I left....
Rosary Meditations: The Joyful Mysteries
By Spiegel. The Annunciation A woman who has fallen in love with God will sometimes start laughing during Mass for no real reason... or she might start crying instead. She might write long journal entries in praise of God, or secretly arrange a towel around her head...
By His Wounds We Are Healed
By Misericordia Today, the Church celebrates the Feast of a Saint very dear to my heart (no pun intended), Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque. She spearheaded the promulgation of the devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus (who was spear-hearted!), which was always present in...
Book Excerpt: A Visit to Leonie
The following excerpt is from Collected Little Flower Works by Albert H. Dolan O.Carm, published in 1944. An American Carmelite priest, Father Dolan travelled across France in the 1920s, and managed to charm, wheedle, and shamelessly beg interviews  from just about...
Longing
By Penny. Few women in the twenty-first century would be able to enter the convent in the way that Leonie did a hundred and twenty-eight years ago today: on impulse, while on holiday with her family. On the sixth of October 1886 she was sightseeing around Alencon, and...
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