64.3 2005 Review for Religious

 

INTERACTIVE ARTICLES

Some of the articles in this issue of Review for Religious are interactive, having prayers, psalms, and points for personal prayer and reflection. You can find the full text of these articles and material for reflection and prayer by clicking on the GO icon next to the interactive articles. Readers are invited and encouraged to share their reflections and comments through letterse or e-mails.

Topics

| Prisms | Community Chapters | Religious Life | Witnessing | The Spirit | Scripture Scope | Canonical Counsel | Poetry | Book Reviews |

Prisms

Prisms: The editor of Review for Religious reflects on the meaning of the word communion.

Articles

Community Chapters

Where Two Or More Are Gathered
Ted Dunn explores some of the unique challenges and opportunities pertaining to religious chapters of election, especially highlighting the differences between politics and discernment.

Excerpts: "Discernment is newly learned and also countercultural behavior. ... The power of discernment rests on faith. ... Communal discerment is about electing women or men who bring togehter a complement of gifts that, in its unity, is important for the entire community."

Chapter Delegates, Once and Future
Sister Marie de Lourdes Mates IHM recapitulates and refurbishes some earnest practical suggestions about wht to look for in chapter delegates.

Excerpts: "Regardless of who speaks, the delegates's desire for truth must help her listen and then evaluate. ... Prophetic delegates need to be persons of deep prayer, especially Scriptural prayer."

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Community Chapters: Seven Personal Beliefs
Melannie Svoboda SND presents an outline of concrete expectations for a religious congregation's chapter meeting.

Go to this article to find questions for reflection and discussion.

Religious Life



Invisible --- Even To Ourselves?
Marie Brinkman SCL emphasizes that visible unity --- community bonds --- must become the sign of Christ and his church that religious life is meant to be.

Excerpts: "Do I want another generation of Sisters for the future mission and life of our community? ... Community sponsorship maintained the charism of the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth through strong programs of mission integration.

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Living In Community: Continuing the Conversation
Doris Gottemoeller RSM returns to the discussion about the place of community living as an uncommon and striking witness to the power of the gospel and the dynamism of a congregation's charism.

Go to this article to find a psalm prayer and questions for reflection and discussion.

Witnessing

With Love From Calcutta and Lisieux: Letters of Mother Teresa and St. Therese
Mary C. Carroll SSSF gives witness to the wisdom of a loving friendship expressed in the letter exchanges of Mother Theresa of Calcutta and Father Michael van der Peet SJ and Therese of Lisieux and Maurice Barthelemy-Belliere.

Excerpts: "If he could find a poorer woman than I, He would not choose me but He would choose that woman. ... A dieu, little brother, may God give us the grace to love Him and to save souls for Him."

Alfred Delp SJ and the Heart of Jesus
Mary Frances Coady focuses on Alfred Delp's devotion to the Heart of Jesus that sustained him in his Nazi imprisonment and eventual death by hanging.

Excerpts: "The heart is the symbol of God's innermost being and God's fundamental relationshop with us."

The Spirit

Led By the Spirit: St. Basil the Great
Andrew Ryder SCJ enters us into St. Basil the Great's contributions to our theological understaning and appreciation of the Holy Spirit as the third person of the Trinity.

Excerpts: "Basil's new doxology gave equal praise to the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. ... The communion of men and women with the uncreated God is the work of the Spirit. ... The question of the procession of the Holy Spirit has been the sole dogmatic ground for separation of East and West."

Departments

Encountering the Parables of Jesus
Eugene Hensell OSB contuinues his Scripture essays, a regular feature of each issue of Review for Religious.

Canonical Counsel: Additional Comments on Interpretation

Elizabeth McDonough OP continues her on-going series of canonical information and reflection. She is canonical advisor for numerous religious communities as well as for the Archdiocese of Washington and several other dioceses.

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Poetry

At Cana by Leonard Cochran OP
Before Lauds by Kate Martin OSC
The Crossing by Kate Martin OSC
The Transient Seed by Walt Bado SJ

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Book Reviews

The Acosmic: Human Quest for Liberation and Deification Revisiting Christian Spirituality at Its Soutce by Devat (Cletus Mathew OSB)
Reviewed by Joel Rippinger OSB

Earth-Friendly: Re-Visioning Science and Spirituality through Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas and Rudolf Stiener by Adrian Marie Hofstetter OP
Reviewed by Tyson Anderson

Evening Visits with a Sister, or the Destiny of a Strand of Moss by Desiree Martin. Translated by Calude L. Remillard and Denise Remillard Chachere
Reviewed by Frances M. Gimber RSCJ

Book Shelf Life A collection of 15 mini-book-reviews by Philip C. Fischer SJ

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