Fall: 1981 The golden, brownish reddish, orange leaves, though withering, bear hidden life— In panoramic beauty, Their splendor for our pleasure, As they fall from stalwart trees in Autumn-tide We gather them up in piles— For cozy fires, warm. We pluckkand fill our baskets full with nuts, pumpkins apples— Plentiful fruit, Rreadily [...]
Song of Bread Bread, good wholesome, Wondrous… bread, Coming from the gracious earth, Wheat and water, salt and grain—To Feed and nourish us. Mixing kneading, rising loaf, Baking, breaking sharing all; Warmth and laughter, love and beauty For the hungry heart. Bread, Fulfillment, o come down! Daily Bread to strengthen us… Love [...]
Silence Often, it seems to me, that as human beings, we fight against the very things in life that are the most valuable gifts to us or the best roads for us to walk on. We may always want our lives to be different, always wanting something we do not have, but that [...]
Silver “When the sun falls on the silver, It heightens my gaze, And brightens my eyes…†Here are some lines from a poem I wrote many years ago—it has to be about twenty-five years ago now— As I remember, I wrote it when all of a sudden, in the middle of a cold drab [...]
By Sr. Helena of Mary Feast Day: November 8 The Carmelite Order celebrates the feast of Blessed Elizabeth of the Trinity on November 8th. Elizabeth was a beautiful soul who tasted the delights of contemplating God in the depths of her soul and invites us to do the same. She was born July 18, 1880 in [...]
 A Daughter of Saint Teresa  It is a bold statement to claim to be a daughter of the Great Saint Teresa!  But it is not so bold when one gets to know our Foundress, Venerable Mary Angeline Teresa, who had such great devotion and admiration for this great woman of faith and mission, that she [...]
An Orange by Song of Light (Lindy Morelli) With all that has been tragically happening in Haiti, in Syria, and in the many other troubled places in the world, I was feeling their pain somehow, if I could even presume to say such a thing. I was picturing all the people on the streets in [...]
