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Jesus’ Transfiguration is one of the most dramatic scenes in the Gospels. It is a central image of Lent, reminding us that during this season we are invited to ascend a high mountain with Jesus to live a unique spiritual experience. Pope Francis has chosen the Transfiguration as the theme for his Lenten message this year. Highlighting the voice coming from the cloud, “This is my beloved Son, wi...
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Sr. Constance Veit, l.s.p. Thanksgiving will soon be upon us with its cornucopia of beloved traditions — from pilgrim scenes to turkey, pumpkin pie, parades and football. Today, however, the warm, nostalgic sentiments once associated with this holiday have been overshadowed by our 21st century indictment of the first Thanksgiving as a regrettable example of colonialism and the oppression of ind...
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by Sr Constance Veit, l.s.p. When I was a kid I was fascinated by magnets. I loved to watch the little magnetic skaters glide across a mirror in our family’s Christmas village at the flip of a switch, and I enjoyed doing science experiments with magnets and iron shavings in school. Much later I was struck by a comparison Pope Saint John Paul II made between the Eucharist and the force of a magn...
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La Vallée des Saints, as it is called in French, is located in Carnoët, a small village of about 700 inhabitants located in central Brittany. Conceived in 2008 as a cultural and historic project, the Valley saw the installation of the first group of enormous granite statues in 2010. The hundredth statue was inaugurated in 2018. The site’s creators envision the installation of 1,000 statues ove...
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from our Little Sisters in Philadelphia XXI World Congress of Catholic Nurses in Doylestown, PA August 2-4, 2022 Are you a Nurse who is Catholic, or are you a Catholic Nurse? A wonderful opportunity for nurses from around the world to tackle the challenge of this question by coming together for spiritual nourishment, education, and mutual moral support was being offered in the U.S. for the first...
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At our Home in Washington DC the World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly was well prepared and very well celebrated, with an afternoon of family visits and entertainment provided by a talented family and a local magician. For several weeks a group of nursing care Residents created artwork reflecting the themes of "still bearing fruit" and "still fresh and green," although shades of purple se...
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from our Little Sisters in Kansas City Speaking of “still bearing fruit,” we would like to introduce you to one of our Residents, Frances. She moved into the Jeanne Jugan Center last year at 100 years old. She has since celebrated another birthday, and is a lovely addition to our family. She is very much an active participant in the life of our home - she goes to parties, joins in activities, c...
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from our Little Sisters in Louisville “In view of their baptism,” says our Holy Father Pope Francis in Evangelii Gaudium, “all the members of the people of God have become missionary disciples” (cf. Mt. 28:19), and in Christus Vivit # 239 we are told, “Even those who are most frail…can be missionaries in their own way, for goodness can always be shared….” So it was that some of the Residents of...
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Sr Constance Veit, l.s.p. With the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v Wade, June 24, 2022, will no doubt be remembered as an historic day by pro-life advocates the world over. I have to admit that my thoughts were elsewhere that day — focused on life’s last stage — as my family bid farewell to a beloved uncle, our family patriarch. As I tried to catch up on the news the day after his funer...
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Sr Constance Veit, lsp As a Little Sister I don’t usually follow pop culture trends, but something in the music world recently caught my attention. Last May the winner of this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, the world’s largest music competition, was crowned. Ukraine triumphed over forty other countries with a unique song combining rap, hip-hop and traditional folk music. It was wonderful to...
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