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OUR PAST MISSION'S UNFINISHED DESTINY: THE PERSPECTIVE OF VOWED COMMITMENT
by Philip Armstrong CSC
From the September/October 2000 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
Armstrong is on the provincial team of the Brothers of the Holy Cross and lives in Notre Dame, Indiana. In this article he finds a new relevancy in Johannes Metz's Poverty of Spirit for any community's preparation for canonical chapters or assemblies.
FROM RESENTMENT TO ACCEPTANCE: ELDERLY RELIGIOUS RETURN
by Benedict Auer OSB
From the May/June, 2000 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
Auer has a doctorate in Christian spirituality and is an associate professor of education at Saint Martin's College in Lacey, Washington. In this article he looks at the adjustments
MARY
WARD: CENTURIES HER SCROLL
by Lawrence F. Barmann
From the November/December 2000 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
Barmann is a professor of American studies at theological studies at Saint Louis
University. In this article he sketches the life story of Mary Ward, the saintly
English founder of the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary, as an inspiration
for us living in the current ecclesial milieu.
by Maria Beha OSC
From the September/October 2000 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
Beha lives at and ministers from the Monastery of St. Clare in Greenville, South Carolina. In this article she ponders the various ways of living out the Franciscan directive "Work in such a way as not to extinguish the spirit of prayer."
ON DEVOTION TO GOD THE FATHER IN RELIGIOUS SPIRITUALITY
by Dennis J. Billy CSSR
From the January/February, 2000 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
Billy originally presented these ideas in a paper delivered in the spring of 1999 at the Institute of Spirituality of the Angelicum in Rome. In this slightly revised version he guides us to a richly balanced appreciation for our devotion to God the Father.
CONTEMPLATIVE RELIGIOUS WITNESS: A REDEMPTORISTINE MONASTERY
by Dennis J. Billy CSSR
From the November/December 2000 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
A frequent contributor to Review For Religious, Billy lives and ministers in Rome, Italy. In this article he finds the life of a group of contemplative sisters very much present to his apostolic mission, and reflects that the reverse is true as well.
SISTER MOMS: SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW
by Louise Cababe OP
From the July/August, 2000 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
Cababe is the assistant superintendent of schools in the Archdiocese of Newark, New Jersey. In this article she reports on the contemporary phenomenon of women, having been married and having raised a family, bringing a new and beautiful experience to the religious congregations of which they are now members.
THE EASTER FAITH OF CATHERINE OF SIENA
by Roland Calvert OSFS
From the March/April, 2000 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
Calvert is the chaplain at the Dominican motherhouse in Adrian, Michigan. In this article he explains the paradox of Easter faith found not in Catherine's writings but in the activities of her life.
by Keith Clark, OFMCap
From the March/April, 2000 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
Originally, Clark presented this paper at a symposium titled "Celibate Chastity: God's Invitation to Love in a Sexually Confused Culture," held in October 1999 at the Jesuit Center for Spiritual Growth in Wernersville, Pennsylvania. In this article he gives evidence that a celibate life well lived communicates to our culture a powerful message about the nature and meaning of sexuality, the unique nature of Christian marriage, and the motivation for the church's ministry.
CELIBATE LOVE AS CONTEMPLATION
by Julie A. Collins
From the January/February, 2000 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
Collins is a single laywoman who does adult spiritual direction and teaches in the Religious Studies Department at Georgetown Preparatory School in Washington, D.C. In this article she explains the need celibates have to work at a contemplative stance towards those they love if their affection is to become real love.
by Robert T. Costello SJ
From the January/February issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
A former professor of
philosophy and provincial superior of the Missouri province of the Society
of Jesus, Costello now does retreat work in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. In this
article he reflects upon the conflicted stress that men and women religious
in leadership positions experience.
APOSTOLIC COMMUNITIES IN AMERICA: MOVING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION!
by Francis W. Danella OSFS
From the May/June, 2000 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
Danella is a clinical assistant professor of pastoral theology at the Catholic University of America and has served as director of planning for his province. In this article he stops, glances back appreciatively at the road U.S. religious life has traveled, turns again, and sees encouraging signs on the new road ahead.
U.S. HISPANIC CATHOLICS: TRENDS AND WORKS 1999
by Kenneth Davis OFMConv, Eduardo C. Fernandez SJ, and Veronica Mendez RCD
From the March/April, 2000 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
In this article Davis, Fernandez
and Mendez present a panoramic view of 1999's events within the U.S. Hispanic
Catholic community. Their report is followed by an extensive listing of books,
articles and other resources.
EVANGELIZATION AS RELIGIOUS MISSION OF JOY
by A. Paul Dominic SJ
From the January/February, 2000 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
Dominic lives and ministers
in India. In this article he identifies seven movements in carrying out our
Christian mission of joy in evangelizing.
by A. Paul Dominic SJ
From the July/August, 2000 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
Dominic lives and ministers
in India. In this article he explores various relationships between our sleeping
and our praying.
GENERATION X AND RELIGIOUS LIFE: A PERSONAL VIEW
by Matthew Eggemeyer
From the September/October 2000 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
Eggemeyer is a Generation Xer majoring in religious studies at the University of Dayton. In this article he presents some characteristics of his generation and highlights the aspects of religious life which appeal to young people.
ELECTING LEADERS IN WOMEN'S CONGREGATIONS
by Beatrice M. Eichten OSF
From the May/June, 2000 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
Eichten is a consultant with religious communities of both men and women and with congregations that sponsor healthcare. In this article she explores the issue of power in community as it underlies both election and ongoing leadership/membership relationships.
by David L. Fleming SJ
From the January/February, 2000 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
In this article the Review
For Religious editor discusses gratitude as the hallmark of the Christian
stance towards life.
by David L. Fleming SJ
From the March/April, 2000 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
In this article the Review For Religious editor reflects upon the meaning of the Jubilee Year of 2000.
DISCERNING OUR CELIBATE WAY IN OUR CULTURE
by David L. Fleming SJ
From the May/June, 2000 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
In this article the Review For Religious editor spells out some of the implications of discernment --- making decisions with a lover's instinct --- for living celibate chastity, which is defined as a way of loving.
PRISMS: FORGIVENESS AND RECONCILIATION
by David L. Fleming SJ
From the July/August, 2000 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
In this article the Review For Religious editor reflects upon the meaning of forgiveness and reconciliation in the call to be a Christian.
PRISMS: JUBILEE, SABBATH AND VACATION
by David L. Fleming SJ
From the September/October, 2000 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
In this article the Review For Religious editor discusses the meaning of jubilee, sabbath, and vacation as gifts of God.
by David L. Fleming SJ
From the November/December 2000 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
In this article the Review For Religious editor focuses on justice as a major theme of the jubilee year we are celebrating in this new millennium.
PRISMS: JUBILEE AS CELEBRATION
by David L. Fleming SJ
From the November/December, 2000 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
In this article the Review For Religious editor explores the meaning of jubilee and celebration in terms of the season of Advent and the parable of the Prodigal Son.
KATHARINE
DREXEL'S CULTURAL RELEVANCE NOW
by Normandie J. Gaitley SSJ
From the November/December 2000 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
Gaitley writes from Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania. In this article she sketches
the life of the recently canonized Mother Katharine Drexel SBS (1858-1955),
a Philadelphia debutante who used her inheritance to serve Native Americans
and African Americans.
BRIDE OF CHRIST AND ECCLESIAL IDENTITY
by J. Shiela Galligan IHM
From the September/October 2000 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
Galligan resides at and ministers from Immaculata College in Immaculata, Pennsylvania. In this article she proposes that a renewed understanding of the church as the bride of Christ offers support for a readily identifiable religious habit, specifically distinguished by a veil.
by Joel Giallanza CSC
From the May/June, 2000 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
Giallanza lives and ministers
in Austin, Texas. In this article he identifies five essential tasks that are
necessary if religious life is to continue moving vigorously into the future.
WHEN
VOCATIONS HAPPEN BY ACCIDENT
by Elizabeth Julian RSM
From the November/December 2000 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
Julian writes from Chicago, Illinois. In this article she describes with quiet
enthusiasm her sense of a flexible small community in New Zealand that fosters
acquaintance and has shown itself to foster vocations.
FINDING
GOD'S WILL --- A MANUEVER
by W. Henry Kenney SJ
From the July/August, 2000 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
Kenney is the founder of the Bluegrass Spirituality Center in Lexington, Kentucky
and now works as a free-lance "prayer coach." In this article he describes a
process for finding God's will by popping loaded questions to God in prayer
and noticing the pattern of desolations and/or consolations.
TRANSFORMING
MISSION: A SPIRIT OF ADVENTURE
by John Klein FMS
From the January/February, 2000 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
Originally, Klein presented these ideas as a presidential address at the August,
1999, assembly of the Conference of Major Superiors of Men (CMSM). In this article
he looks at Jesus' mission as our challenge to intimate relationships with God,
to commitment to the marginalized, and to intentional community life.
THE
LITTLE WAY OF ST THERESE OF LISIEUX
by Ernest E. Larkin OCarm
From the September/October 2000 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
Larkin ministers at Kino Institute in Phoenix, Arizona. He first presented these
reflections on 21 December 1999 at services in St. Agnes Church in Phoenix,
Arizona, on the occasion of that city's verneration of Therese's relics. In
it he explains the "specialness" of the life and writings of Therese of Lisieux
in presenting the gospel in a new light, with new insight, under the descriptive
phrases "little way" or "little doctrine."
VOCATIONAL
CONFIDENCE
by Donald MacDonald SMM
From the July/August, 2000 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
Macdonald lives and ministers in Glasgow, Scotland. In this article he sketches
out an environment of vocational confidence where vocations are invited, expected,
challenged, and supported.
LET
ME ALONE! TRUE CHRISTIAN SOLITUDE
by Donald MacDonald SMM
From the May/June, 2000 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
MacDonald lives and ministers in Glasgow, Scotland. In this article he gives
insights into why solitude is a necessary part of our Christian life and how
it can be practiced.
TWO
JOURNEYS: COMING HOME AND GOING ON PILGRIMAGE
by Janet Malone CND
From the May/June, 2000 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
Malone lives and ministers in Mabou, Nova Scotia, Canada. In this article she
proposes hard questions to women and men religious about being at home in their
communities and about being available for true pilgrimage.
"I
STAND HERE IRONING": DELAYS IN DEVELOPING INTIMACY AMONG CANDIDATES AND MEMBERS
by Suzanne Mayer IHM
From the May/June, 2000 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
Mayer lives at the IHM Spirituality Center in Immaculata, Pennsylvania. In this
article she addresses intimacy concerns at two points: (1) if women entering
religious-life communities come deficient in forming voluntary closeness and
(2) if formation within religious life lacks such experiences.
CANONICAL
COUNSEL: THE NOVITIATE
by Elizabeth McDonough OP
From the January/February, 2000 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
McDonough regularly writes for Review For Religious on canonical information
and reflection. She is canonical consultant for a number of religious communities
as well as canonical advisor and tribunal judge for the Archdiocese of Washington,
D.C. In this article she discusses canon law regarding the program, the place,
the period of time, and the people connected with the canonical novitiate in
religious institutes.
CANONICAL
COUNSEL: LOCATION OF THE NOVITIATE
by Elizabeth McDonough OP
From the March/April, 2000 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
McDonough regularly writes for Review For Religious on canonical information
and reflection. She is canonical consultant for a number of religious communities
as well as canonical advisor and tribunal judge for the Archdiocese of Washington,
D.C. In this article she discusses canon law regarding the location of the novitiates
for religious institutes.
CANONICAL
COUNSEL: DURATION OF THE NOVIATE --- GENERAL NORMS
by Elizabeth McDonough OP
From the May/June, 2000issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
McDonough regularly writes for Review For Religious on canonical information
and reflection. She is canonical consultant for a number of religious communities
as well as canonical advisor and tribunal judge for the Archdiocese of Washington,
D.C. In this article she discusses canon law regarding the duration of the novitiates
for religious institutes.
CANONICAL
COUNSEL: EXCEPTIONS TO DURATION OF THE CANONICAL NOVITIATE
by Elizabeth McDonough OP
From the July/August, 2000 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
McDonough regularly writes for Review For Religious on canonical information
and reflection. She is canonical consultant for a number of religious communities
as well as canonical advisor and tribunal judge for the Archdiocese of Washington,
D.C. In this article she discusses canon law regarding the length of the novitiate
and some exceptions to the rule.
CANONICAL
COUNSEL: ROLE OF THE NOVICE DIRECTOR
by Elizabeth McDonough OP
From the September/October 2000 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
McDonough regularly writes for Review For Religious on canonical information
and reflection. She is canonical consultant for a number of religious communities
as well as canonical advisor and tribunal judge for the Archdiocese of Washington,
D.C. In this article she discusses the canons that refer to the novice director
of a religious community. She ties the counsels of the papal document Vita
Consecrata into these canons.
CANONICAL
COUNSEL: RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE NOVICE DIRECTOR
by Elizabeth McDonough OP
From the November/December 2000 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
McDonough regularly writes for Review For Religious on canonical information
and reflection. She is canonical consultant for a number of religious communities
as well as canonical advisor and tribunal judge for the Archdiocese of Washington,
D.C. In this article she discusses the canons that refer to the responsibilities
of the novice director of a religious community.
FERTILITY
AWARENESS AND WOMEN RELIGIOUS
by Renee Mirkes OSF
From the May/June, 2000 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
Mirkes is the director of the Center for NaProEthics, a division of Pope Paul
VI Institute in Omaha, Nebraska. In this article she presents medical, spiritual,
and theological reasons for the practice of fertility awareness in the lives
of consecrated women religious.
TOWARD
A SPIRITUALITY OF WEARINESS
by Michael D. Moga SJ
From the July/August, 2000 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
Moga lives and ministers in the Philippines. In this article he considers some
of the paths that lead to spiritual treasures hidden in the areas of our exhaustion
and weariness.
A
SPIRITUAL DIRECTION
by Mary Beth Moore SC
From the November/December 2000 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
Moore writes from Wantaugh, New York. In this article she gazes at, listens
to, a few moments of reality and possibility within contemporary sisterly living.
MISSION:
NOT DO WE HAVE ONE BUT DO I LIVE ONE?
by Robert J. Murray OSA
From the March/April, 2000 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
Murray works in the Department of Education and Human Services at Villanova
University in Villanova, Pennsylvania. In this article he emphasizes the need
to live the values reflected in mission statements for the health of the congregation.
HELPING
SEMINARIANS LIVE CELIBATE CHASTITY
by Robert Nugent SDE
From the January/February, 2000 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
Nugent has been much involved in ministry regarding human sexuality. In this
article he reviews the principles and programs for celibate formation of the
church's ordained priests.
TELL
THEM, TELL THE NEW MEMBERS ...
by Eileen O'Hea CSJ
From the July/August, 2000 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
O'Hea is a decade-long contributor to Review For Religious and had her
third book published in May, 2000 (In Wisdom's Kitchen: The Process of Spiritual
Direction, Continuum). In this article she proposes the need to share with
younger members of congregations hints about what is most central to religious
life: the mystery of divine intimacy.
CONSULTING
YOUR INNER WISDOM
by Hilary Ottensmeyer OSB
From the July/August, 2000 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
Ottensmeyer, stationed in Beech Grove, Indiana, passed away on May 17, 2000.
In this article he guides us to the central core of ourselves where we hear
the echoes of the voice of Jesus and of all the good people who have been examples
of faith and good conduct for us.
THEOLOGY
LIVED IN FAITH
by Stan Parmisano OP
From the September/October 2000 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
Parmisano lives and ministers from Saint Albert's Priory in Oakland, California.
This article was originally presented as a commencement address. In it he reflects
on the all-pervasiveness of faith in our study of theology. He describes faith
as a seeing or understanding all the way.
ST.
CATHERINE'S LETTERS: HUMAN LOVE, GRACIOUS AUTHORITY
by Stan Parmisano OP
From the November/December 2000 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
Parmisano writes from St. Albert's Priory in Oakland, California. In this article
he finds that in style and content the letters of Catherine of Siena (1347-1380)
have surprising and challenging and charming relevance for persons living today.
A
PATH OF HUMILITY AND TRUTH: HISTORICAL REMINISCENCE
by Bernardine Pieper CHM
From the July/August, 2000 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
Pieper was elected general superior of her the Congregation of the Humility
of Mary in 1966, shortly after Vatican Council II. She writes from her perspective
of the past forty years and shares her experience of being in leadership at
the time of the Vatican II changes in religious life, particularly those affecting
women religious.
MUST
HERMITS WORK?
by Kenneth C. Russell
From the March/April, 2000 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
Russell lives in Vanier, Ontario, Canada. In this article he provides insight
into the place and value of work in the traditions of eremitical life in the
Western church and draws some conclusions for today's monk.
A
VOWED RESPONSE TO THE POSTMODERN WORLD
by Andre Maureen Soete SSND
From the November/December 2000 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
Soete has ministerd in Japan for thirteen years. This article is the address
she gave to an assembly of Japanese and North American School Sisters of Notre
Dame in Kyoto on 9 January, 2000. In it she seeks ways for the vowed life to
contribute more vigorously, more effectively, to the alleviation of troubles
in our troubled world.
THE
POWER TO BLESS: THE SACRAMENTALITY OF HUMAN TOUCH
by Carolyn Sur SSND
From the September/October 2000 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
Sur ministers in the diocese of Shreveport, Louisiana. In this article she encourages
all women and men to participate more fully in their baptismal call to share
in Christ's priesthood. She focuses on the power of every Christian to bless
others and the blessings imparted through touch.
WHAT
IS RELIGIOUS LIFE'S PURPOSE?
by Justin Taylor SM and Albert DiIanni SM
From the March/April, 2000 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
Taylor is a Marist priest from New Zealand who resides at the Ecole Biblique
in Jerusalem where he teaches and writes on biblical topics and on spiritually.
DiIanni works in formation for the Marist congregation and resides in Boston,
Massachusetts. In this article they question whether the basic purpose of religious
life had been obscured long before Vatican II and still calls for clarity now.
SHARING
OUR SPIRITUALITY: TOP-DOWN, BOTTOM-UP, OR LATERAL?
by Bernard Webster FMS
From the May/June, 2000 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
Webster's present work is pre-novitiate formation in India. In this article
he gives perspective to consecrated people sharing a spirituality which likely
was a lay inheritance in its origin.
COMMUNITY
AND OBEDIENCE: MUSINGS ON TWO AMBIGUITIES
by Patricia Wittberg SC
From the September/October 2000 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
A sociologist, Wittberg is a published researcher and teacher residing in Indianapolis,
Indiana. In this article she challenges the notion of reaching a balance point
in community life where the needs of the group and the needs of the individual
are met --- all the while observing religious obedience.
FOUCAULD'S
EVOLVING RESPONSE TO GOD'S CALL
by Cathy Wright LSJ
From the March/April, 2000 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
Wright is a member of the Little Sisters of Jesus and lives in Chicago, Illinois.
In this article she pictures the unfolding of the vocation of Charles de Foucauld
and points to what it says to us about understanding our own vocations.
SISTERS
IN A WAR-TORN DECADE: A REPORT FROM THE BALKANS
by Emanuela Zerdin
From the January/February, 2000 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
A Franciscan Sister of the Immaculate Conception now living in Vienna, Austria,
Zerdin presented this report in July of 1999 in Budapest, Hungary at the fourh
meeting of the Conference of Women Religious of Central and Eastern Europe.
Ladislas Orsy SJ translated it for Review For Religious from the original
German. In this article she reviews the life and work of a province of Franciscan
sisters immersed in the war-torn countries of the Balkans.