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WHO
IS A BROTHER?
by Philip Armstrong CSC
From the January/February 2001 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
Armstrong writes from Notre Dame, Indiana. In this article he traces the church
reality of brothers through history to the present-day challenges.
UNTYING
THE NOTS: VOWED COMMITMENT TODAY
by Philip Armstrong CSC
From the Sep/Oct 2001 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
On the provincial team of the Brothers of the Holy Cross, Armstrong writes from
Notre Dame, Indiana. In this article he traces his own transition in understanding
the vows of poverty, obedience, and chastity with the three key identifying
words of emptiness, openness, and fruitfulness.
REFLECTIONS
OF A NOVICE DIRECTOR
by George J. Auger CSV
From the July/August 2001 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
Auger writes from Arlington Heights, Illinois, where he currently ministers
as novice director for the Chicago province of the Clerics of St. Victor. In
this article he pictures the kind of candidates coming to religious life and
why, and then proposes what we should offer them.
ON
THE SEVENTH DAY GOD RESTED
by Marie Beha OSC
From the Nov/Dec 2001 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
A writer familiar to regular readers of RFR, Beha writes from Greenville, South Carolina. In this article she suggests ways of understanding and making more creative use of Sabbaths in our life.
THE
CROSS OF AUSCHWITZ: A LENTEN REFLECTION
by Dennis J. Billy CSSR
From the March/April 2001 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
A frequent contributor to Review For Religious,Billy writes from Rome,
Italy. In this article he enters us into the silence of Auschwitz and its mystery
of evil met by the mystery of the cross.
PERSONAL
AND SOCIAL: SHARED EXPERIENCE CAN RENEW US
by Dennis J. Billy CSSR
From the Sep/Oct 2001 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
Billy continues to write from Accademia Alfonsiana in Rome, Italy. In this
article he examines the interplay between the individual and the community
which releases creative energies to help the community remain faithful to
its tradition while adapting to the challenges and needs of the present.
CRITERIA
FOR CHANGE: WOMEN'S MINISTERING TO THE BODY OF CHRIST
by Marie Brinkman SCL
From the Nov/Dec 2001 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
Brinkman presented this paper at the History of Women Religious Conference
at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in June 2001. She is a
professor at Saint Mary College IN Leavenworth, Kansas. In this article
she looks at the lives lived by sisters in the past as the foundation that
must validate today's discernment criteria for the needed changes.
TILL
THE END OF MY DAYS
by Agnes Cunningham SSCM
From the January/February 2001 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
Cunningham writes from Holy Heart of Mary Community in Batavia, Illinois. In
this article she indentifies five factors that have proved helpful in her actively
pursuing retirement.
MILLENNIAL
STIRRINGS IN RELIGIOUS LIFE
by A. Paul Dominic SJ
From the Sep/Oct 2001 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
Dominic writes from Secunderabad, India. In this article he reads the signs
of the times to picture the healthy stirrings of growth in religious life.
GOD'S
WILL: WHERE DESIRES COMMINGLE
by Denis Donoghue SJ
From the Nov/Dec 2001 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
Donoghue is a lecturer in
the theology and religious studies department at Seattle University. In this
article he ruminates on the seeking out of God's will and illustrates some principles
of discernment in a personal example.
TAKING
THE PSALMS TO HEART
by Francis Dorff OPream
From the March/April 2001 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
Writing from Albuquerque, New Mexico, Dorff has taught philosophy and theology,
has published several books, and is completing another, The Songs of the
Soul from which this article is adapted. In it he walks us reflectivily
through St. Rmouald's Brief Rule so that we may live the psalms wholeheartedly.
OBEDIENCE:
VOW AND VIRTUE IN OUR CONTEMPORARY WORLD
by Kathy Dunne RC
From the May/Jun 2001 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
Writing from Matairie, Louisiana, Dunne is a spiritual director and works with
her community's affiliates. In this article she looks at the vow of obedience
as it is born of love, forms us as lovers, and bears the fruit of love.
CONTEMPLATION
TO ATTAIN LOVE: A PARADIGM FOR APOSTOLIC PRAYER
by Gerald M. Fagin SJ
From the March/April 2001 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
Fagin teaches theology at Loyola University in New Orleans, Louisiana. In this
article he explains the four points of the final exercise in the Ignatian Exercises
as a description of the prayer of an active minister.
PRISMS:
ANNIVERSARIES
by David L. Fleming SJ
From the January/February 2001 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
In this article the Review For Religious editor is inspired by the
60th anniversary year of the publication of Review For Religious and
muses on the meanings of anniversaries in the the life of a Christian.
PRISMS:
SPIRITUALITY OF COMMUNION
by David L. Fleming SJ
From the March/April 2001 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
In this article the Review For Religious editor reflects on the spirituality
of communion among all Catholics as expressed in Pope John Paul II's apostolic
letters "At the Beginning of the New Millennium" (2000) and "As the Third Millennium
Draws Near" (1994).
PRISMS:
SPIRITUALITY OF COMMUNION
by David L. Fleming SJ
From the May/June 2001 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
In this article the Review For Religious editor reflects on the spirituality
of communion among all Catholics as expressed in Pope John Paul II's apostolic
letters "At the Beginning of the New Millennium" (2000) and "As the Third Millennium
Draws Near" (1994).
PRISMS:
COMMUNION OF SAINTS
by David L. Fleming SJ
From the Jul/Aug 2001 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
In this article the Review For Religious editor reflects on the signifcance
of canonized saints in the Communion of Saints.
PRISMS:
HOSPITALITY
by David L. Fleming SJ
From the Sep/Oct 2001 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
In this article the Review For Religious editor reflects on the exercise
of hospitality in our interpersonal relationships.
PRISMS:
INEQUALITY
by David L. Fleming SJ
From the Nov/Dec 2001 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
In this article the Review For Religious editor reflects on the exercise
of spiritual aspect of inequality.
SPIRITUALITY
FOR MISSION: MARGUERITE BOURGEOYS AND THE IGNATIAN TRADITION
by Mary Anne Foley CND
From the January/February 2001 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
Foley wrote this article to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the death of
Marguerite Borgeoys. After translation by P. Richer, it first appeared in the
April-June edition of Cahiers de spiritualite ignatienne. In this version
of her article, Foley traces the originality of the missionary spirituality
of Marguerite Bourgeoys, drawing upon a varity of sources including the Ignatian
tradition.
APOSTOLIC
COMMUNITY IN THE ASSUMPTIONIST / AUGUSTINIAN TRADITION
by John L. Franck
From the March/April 2001 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
Franck is provincial superior of the North American province of his order. He
first presented this article as a respons at the ecumenical institute at Assumption
College in Worcester, Massachusetts in June, 2000. In it he sees with St. Augustine,
that religious communities work to shape our very lives and this our very work
in the world.
COMMUNITY
AND COMMUNION: MAKING THE CONNECTIONS
by Doris Gottemoeller RSM
From the March/April 2001 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
Gottemoeller is a past president of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas and
now is Senior Vice President for Mission and Values Integration at Catholic
Healthcare Partners in Cincinnati, Ohio. She first presented this paper at the
Eucharistic Congress in Washington, D.C. on 7 October, 2000. In it she presents
four dimensions of a powerful analogy between Eucharistic life and religius
community life that sheds light on both and shows a common spirituality between
them.
POVERTY
AS CHARITY: THE SEARCH FOR A LIFESTYLE NORM
by Garth Hallett SJ
From the Sep/Oct 2001 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
Writing from St. Louis, Missouri, Hallett is a philosophy professor at St. Louis
University and author of a number of books on philosophy and theology. In this
article he presents a resolution to the confused practice of religious poverty
by a more definite norm, one more surely grounded in the New Testament.
MISSION
AND COMMUNITY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD: A PERSONAL REFLECTION
by Catherine M. Harmer MMS
From the March/April 2001 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
Harmer writes from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In this article she shares her
experinece of being a religious community member living and participating in
the community and the ministry of neighborhoods.
THE
COMPUTER'S EDGE: SOME SOCIAL AND ETHICAL CONCERNS
by Linda Herndon OSB
From the May/Jun 2001 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
Herndon writes from Madison, Wisconsin. In this article she introduces some
of the social and ethical issues in the computer world, raising some questions,
and proposing some practical responses, to stimulate further discussion.
MOTHER
TERESA: JOY IN THE NIGHT
by Albert Huart SJ
From the Sep/Oct 2001 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
Assistant to the provincial of his Calcutta province, Huart published a different
version of this article in Vidyajyoti, New Dehli. In this version he shows from
letters which are part of the beatification process for Mother Theresa that
spiritual darkness was a constant companion of this joy-giving woman of our
day.
LEAP
OVER THE WALL: WHY DID I NOT?
by Mary Anne Huddleston IHM
From the May/Jun 2001 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
Writing from Monroe, Michigan, Huddleston has published Celibate Living,
Springs of Spirituality and Friendship. In this article she offers her personal
witness to the commitment value of consecrated life.
FLAMES
OF LOVE: LIVING CONTEMPLATIVELY
by Carolyn Humphreys OCDS
From the July/August 2001 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
Writing from Paramount, California, Humphreys edits and distributes a quarterly
double-sided sheet of quotations whose purpose is to bring us closer to Jesus.
In this article she describes holiness in terms of living a contemplative life,
that is, an adventure in love.
EXAMINING
MY CONSCIENCE: DO I HAVE AN ATTITUDE?
by Brendan Kneale FSC
From the Sep/Oct 2001 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
Kneale writes from Napa, California. In this article he proposes a refinement
of our examination of conscience that deals with acquired attitudes or mindsets
or preconceptions over which we have some supervision.
A
CONTINUING PENTECOST: APPRECIATING ECCLESIA IN ASIA
by James H. Kroeger MM
From the January/February, 2001 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
Kroeger is a Maryknoll Missioner who has served in Asia since 1970 in the Philippines
and Bangladesh. Currently, he is professor of systematic theology, missionology,
and Islamics at Loyola School of Theology in Manila. This article was first
published in the journal of the Loyola School of Theology. In it he shares the
optimism and gratitude that pervade the apostolic exhortaion Ecclesia in
Asia as he summarizes and evaluates its various chapters.
WHAT
TO KNOW ABOUT DISCERNMENT
by Ernest E. Larkin OCarm
From the March/April 2001 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
Larkin writes from the Kino Institute in Phoenix, Arizona. In this article he
provides a succinct explanation of the cognitive, affective, and mystical wyas
of evaluating our experiences which we identify as discernment.
AN
EXPERIENCE OF CHRISTIAN MEDITATION
by Ernest E. Larkin OCarm
From the July/August 2001 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
Larkin writes from Kino Institute in Phoenix, Arizona. In this article he offers
some theological observation, simple personal description, and succinct analysis
of his own experience of the Christian Meditation of John Main OSB.
VOCATIONAL
BEING
by Donald Macdonald SMM
From the January/February 2001 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
A frequent contributor to Review For Religious, Macdonald writes from
Glasgow, Scotland. In this article he stresses that, if we Christians need to
adore the gift of God in Christ from the core of our being, then Scripture provides
the practical means to make our own this perspective of faith.
WHAT
CAN A SEMINARY DO?
by Donald Macdonald SMM
From the July/August 2001 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
A frequent contributor to this journal, Macdonald writes from Glasgow, Scotland.
In this article he develops the notion of a seminary as a place where individuals
are helped to mature within a gospel framework.
WHERE
YOUR HEART IS
by Donald MacDonald SMM
From the Nov/Dec 2001 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
A frequent contributor to this journal, Macdonald writes from Glasgow, Scotland.
In this article he sees in Jesus' journey to Jerusalem (in Luke) an ardor
and constancy that our bonding with him through Scripture's strong and burning
words can accomplish also in us.
AUTHENTICITY
AND CONTACT WITH YOUTH
by Robert P. Maloney CM
From the May/Jun 2001 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
Maloney is superior general of the Congregation of the Mission and writes from
Rome, Italy. In this article he calls for an asceticism of authenticity that
engages and challenges young people in their passion for Christ.
CANONICAL
COUNSEL: CONCLUSION OF THE NOVITIATE
by Elizabeth McDonough OP
From the January/February 2001 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
McDonough regularly writes for Review For Religious on canonical information
and relflection. 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 outlines the sections of canon law that refer to the
conclusion of the canonical novitiate.
CANONICAL
COUNSEL: INCORPORATION INTO AN INSTITUTE OF CONSECRATED LIFE OR A SOCIETY OF
APOSTOLIC LIFE
by Elizabeth McDonough OP
From the March/April 2001 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
McDonough writes regularly for Review For Religious on canonical information
and relflection. 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 examinies the canons that apply to incorporation into
an institute of consecrated life or a society of apostolic life.
CANONICAL
COUNSEL: REQUIREMENTS FOR TEMPORARY PROFESSION
by Elizabeth McDonough OP
From the May/Jun 2001 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
McDonough writes regularly for Review For Religious on canonical information
and relflection. 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 delineates the canonical requirements for temporary
profession.
CANONICAL
COUNSEL: RENEWAL OF VOWS AND PERPETUAL PROFESSION
by Elizabeth McDonough OP
From the Jul/Aug 2001 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
McDonough writes regularly for Review For Religious on canonical information
and relflection. 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 delineates the canonical requirements for the renewal
of vows and perpetual profession.
CANONICAL
COUNSEL: EXCLUSION FROM PROFESSION AT THE EXPIRATION OF TEMPORARY PROFESSION
by Elizabeth McDonough OP
From the Sep/Oct 2001 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
McDonough writes regularly for Review For Religious on canonical information
and relflection. 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 explores Canon 689 and others relating to the refusal
to admit a temporary professed religious to permanent profession. ashington,
D.C. In this article she delineates the canonical requirements for the renewal
of vows and perpetual profession.
CANONICAL
COUNSEL: READMISSION TO A RELIGIOUS INSTITUTE
by Elizabeth McDonough OP
From the Nov/Dec 2001 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
McDonough writes regularly for Review For Religious on canonical information
and relflection. 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 explores the canons related to readmitting former members
to a religious institute.
COMMITMENT
TO FAITHFULNESS
by Elizabeth McDonough OP
From the July/August 2001 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
A regular contributor to this journal and author of its Canonical Counsel pages,
McDonough briskly reminds herself and other religious that God's faithfulness
through the changes and tensions of thirty-some years calls them today to the
same fidelity their vows joyously witnessed to on the day of their first profession.
MISSIONARY
OR MERCENARY
by Patrick Sean Moffett CFC
From the Nov/Dec 2001 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
Moffett, a psychologist, a former director of formation for his province,
and president emeritus of the Girls' and Boys' Towns of Italy, writes from
Christian Brothers, Central Harlem, New York. In this article he offers
a perspective on changes in membership, changes in collaboration, and changes
in corporate commitment in order to stimulate discussion on community apostolates.
MOTHER
TERESA'S CHARISM
by J. Neuner SJ
From the Sep/Oct 2001 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
Neuner, who knew Mother Teresa of Calcutta, writes from Pune, India. In this
article he sketches the charism of the Missionaries of Charity, the loving appropriation
of the crucified Jesus' "I thirst."
POWER
MADE PERFECT IN WEAKNESS: MINISTERING TO THE DYING AND BEREAVED
by Laurel M. O'Neal
From the January/February 2001 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
Writing from her hermitage in Laurel Maryland, O'Neal offers a correction to our common misconceptions of death, its relation to sin, and especially the relation of God to death.
WHAT
ONLY GOD CAN MAKE
by Ann Marie Paul SCC
From the Nov/Dec 2001 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
Paul is a novice of the Sisters of Christian Charity in Mendham, New Jersey. In this article she imaginatively ponders religious community pictured as a tree, with the trunk representing chastity, the branches poverty, and the leaves obedience.
LEARNING
A FOREIGN LANGUAGE: CONTINUING THE DIALOGUE ON HOMOSEXUALITY
by Christopher J. Renz OP
From the July/August 2001 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
Writing from Oakland, California, Renz is director of formation for the Western
Dominican Province. In this article he considers the continuing dialogue a way
for all to find their deepest human identity in the God they seek to know better.
THE
350TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SISTERS OF ST. JOSEPH
by by Joan L. Roccasalvo CSJ
From the January/February 2001 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
A frequent contributor to Reveiw for Religious, Roccasalvo writes from
Scranton, Pennsylvania, where she is coordinator of the Center for Eastern Christian
Studies and assistant professor of art and music at the University of Scranton.
In this article she gives evidence that Ignatius Loyola's Spiritual Exercises
are the inspiration and source of Jean-Pierre Medaille's Maxims of Perfection,
which contain the entire spirit of the foundational documents of the Sisters
of St. Joseph.
THE
WORLD WILL BE SAVED BY BEAUTY
by Joan L. Roccasalvo CSJ
From the March/April 2001 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
A return contributor, Roccasalvo is coordinator for Eastern Christian Studies
and assistant professor of art and music at the University of Scranton in Pennsylvania.
In this article she revives, in ways both simple and subtle, an awareness of,
a yearning for, the several transcendentals that have their warm, bright oneness
in God
BEING
A HERMIT: WHERE AND HOW?
by Kenneth Russell
From the July/August 2001 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
Russell writes from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. In this article he sees present-day
hermits as needing, for practicality's sake, to build their lives out of solitude
and humble earnings understood in tandem.
THE
POVERELLO'S LEGACY
by Bonaventure Stefun OFMCap
From the May/Jun 2001 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
Stefun writes from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In this article he gives many Franciscan
exmeplars of poverty as lived through the centuries, all united by Francis's
key notion of attachment to Jesus.
CONFIDENTIALITY:
ARE RELIGIOUS SUPERIORS ALWAYS BOUND?
by Vidal Tirimanna CSSR
From the May/Jun 2001 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
Tirimanna is provincial of his congregations Sri Lankan province and president
of the Conference of Major Superiors of Sri Lanka. In this article he explores
the question of whether or not there are limits to the professional confidentiality
to be kept by ministers and religious superiors and the need for appropriate
norms and sanctions.
MULTICULTURAL
AT OUR VERY HEART: THE LITTLE SISTERS OF JESUS
by Cathy Wright LSJ
From the Sep/Oct 2001 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
Wright writes from Chicago. More information and resources on the Little Sisters
are available on their website: www.rc.net/org/littlesisters. In this article
Wright shares some of the story of the Little Sisters of Jesus, founded by Magdeleine
Hutin, as an example of multicultural religious living.
MECHTHILD
OF MAGDEBURG'S SPIRITUAL PILGRIMAGE
by William C. Zehringer
From the May/Jun 2001 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS
Zehringer is a medievalist and free-lance author writing from Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania.
This article is adapted from a chapter of a book in progress. In it he traces
the complex pilgrimage story of the medieval mystic, Mechthild of Magdeburg.