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Instilling Christian/Religious Culture: Instinct and Connaturality

by Nihal Abeyasingha CSSR

From the Jan/ Feb 2002 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS

Abeyasingha writes from Sri Lanka. In this article he envisages a rationally planned and directed program for the transmission of the "subculture" of religious life and the "culture" of the Christian life to new entrants.

The Culture of Religious Life within Asian Culture

by Nihal Abeyasingha CSSR

From the May/June 2002 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS

Abeyasingha is pursuing his sabbatical year in Pico Rivera California. In this article he outlines some considerations that Asian religious need to observe when adapting to Asian culture, not merely fitting in but challenging the culture to conversion.

Lonely and Small: Religious Brothers' Situation

Philip Armstrong CSC

From the Nov/Dec 2002 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS

Writing from Notre Dame, Indiana, Armstrong was last published in Review for Religious in the September/October, 2001 issue. In this article he makes a case for religious life, the vowed commitments to a life of service to the church and to the world through the public profession of the evangelical counsels, to be rased to the status of a sacrament in the Roman Catholic Church.

Diocesan Priesthood: Discerning the Fire in Our Midst

by George Aschenbrenner SJ

From the Jul/Aug 2002 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS

Aschenbrenner was cofounder of the Institute for Priestly Formation at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, and is director of the Jesuit Center for Spiritual Growth in Wernersville, Pennsylvania. In this article he describes four steps that are part of a discerning life and three dimensions of the human stage on which the drama of a personal love-relationship with
God is played.

Made Perfect through Suffering

by Marie Beha OSC

From the Sep/Oct 2002 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS

Beha who writes from the Monastery of St. Clare in Greenville, South Carolina, reflects on the meaning of suffering seen in the light of the September triad of feasts-the Exaltation of the Cross, the feast of the Sorrowful Mother, and the Stigmata of St. Francis of Assisi.

St. Alphonsus and Today's Spiritual Direction

by Dennis J. Billy CSSR

From the May/June 2002 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS

Billy writes from Academia Alfonsiana in Rome, Italy. In this article he examines St. Alphonsus's relevance as a "spiritual master" and identifies elements that people can use in their own practice of spiritual direction.

Right Relationships in Consecrated Life

by Dennis J. Billy CSSR

From the Sep/Oct 2002 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS

Billy writes from Mount St. Alphonsus in Esopus, New York In this article he applies the clear and extensive teaching on the spirituality of communion, what it means to live in right relationships with others, to the community life of religious congregations.

Eucharistic Faith: Jesus' Bread-of-Life Discourse

Dennis J. Billy CSSR

From the Nov/Dec 2002 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS

A frequent contributor to Review for Religious, Billy writes from Mount St. Alphonsus Retreat Center in Esopus, New York. In this article he reflects upon Jesus' discourse on the Bread of Life (John 6:22-71 to emphasize the call to faith which every Eucharist celebrates.

Heaven: The Day the Drilling Stopped

by Mary Stephen Brueggeman PHJC

From the Sep/Oct 2002 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS

Brueggeman writes from St. Catherine Convent, East Chicago, Illinois. In her article she reviews her changing ideas of heaven which bring her closer to the truth of our life forever with God.

Distinctiveness, Diversity, and Commoness in Consecrated Life

by Deborah M. Cerullo SSND

From the May/June 2002 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS

Cerullo is a visiting associate clinical professor of law at Boston College in Newton, Massachusetts. In this article she proposes ways of dealing with diversity and externalizing our new reality so that we sustain the distinctiveness that is religious life.

CREATIVE RESPONSE TO RACISM

by Mary Alice Chineworth OSP

From the Jan/ Feb 2002 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS

Writing from Baltimore, Maryland, Chineworth presented this paper at the August 2001 convention of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious and the Conference of Major Superiors of Men. In it she shares her experiences of racism within the religious-life context.

Mary Magdalen: An Icon for Women Religious

Mary Kay Dobrovolny RSM

From the Nov/Dec 2002 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS

Dobrovolny is pursuing a doctorate in New Testament studies at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. n this article she uses the resurrection story found in John 20:11-18 to present Mary Magdalene as an icon for celibate loving and apostolic misssion for women religious.

PRISMS: A Different Face

by David L. Fleming SJ

From the Jan/ Feb 2002 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS

The Review for Religious Editor takes time to reflect upon the changing face of America and some of the it implications for Christians on their spiritual journey.

PRISMS: The Christian View

by David L. Fleming SJ

From the Mar/ Apr 2002 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS

In this article the editor of Review for Religious reflects on the Christian view of life, death, and resurrection.

PRISMS: The Scandal of Christianity

by David L. Fleming SJ

From the May/June 2002 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS

In this article the editor of Review for Religious reflects on the ways that Christianity is a scandalous religion, a small stone that causes another to fall, deliberately or not.

PRISMS: "Ordinary" Time

by David L. Fleming SJ

From the July/August 2002 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS

In this article the editor of Review for Religious offers new insights into the meaning of the liturgical phrase "ordinary time".

PRISMS: September 11

by David L. Fleming SJ

From the September/October 2002 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS

On the first anniversary of the terrorist attack on the United States, the editor of Review for Religious reflects on some of the changes that this event has brought about.

(Because these publication changes are a radical departure from the journal's 61-year-old history, the entire text of the editor's Prisms for the November/December issue of Review for Religious has been reproduced here.)

After sixty-one years of publishing on a bimonthly schedule Review for Religious begins a quarterly schedule of publication beginning in the year 2003. As our readers may well surmise, rising costs of publishing and mailing have played a significant role in leading to this decision.

As editor, I have explored, with the help of my Board members and staff, various options. We could raise the subscription price and still be competitively equal to other journals and magazines. But since women and men religious with their religious vow of poverty make up the larger part of our readership, I want to keep the cost as low as possible. Perhaps even more importantly, a large number of foreign subscribers, especially in India and in the countries of Africa, would find any increase in price unbearable in terms of currency exchange rates.

We thought of reducing the size of the journal from 112 pages to 64 or 72 pages, a common pagination for journals of our kind. A cheaper production and a lighter weight for mailing would save some expense, while at the same time allowing us to maintain a bimonthy schedule. After serious discussion among Board members and staff, we decided that the continuity of appearance and quality of material should not be sacrificed for the sake of economy.

As we considered the quarterly schedule, the Board encouraged us as an editorial staff to try to engage our readers in a more interactive way with follow-up questions or reflection/prayer helps and, perhaps, with some sort of readers' forum or letters-to-the-editor column. As we reduce the number of regular issues of Review for Religious from six to four times a year, we intend to provide a 32-page supplement issue for the seasons of Lent and Advent which will allow us to experiment. These supplements will be included in the regular subscription price that remains the same as it has been.

Since we are an international journal, we will not try to designate our quarterly issues by seasons since they vary with our readers' northern or southern climates. Instead we will identify the volume number and then each issue as "Quarterly" numbered from one to four in every year. The two supplements will be identified by the church seasons of Lent and Advent.
We are grateful to you, our subscribers and readers, for your loyal support. We intend that you will find the same consistent high-quality articles in every issue. We also will be looking forward to your response to our interactive supplements, whether for possible publication or not. In fact, we welcome comments from our readers even now.

We are always seeking to increase our readership and so we continue to encourage you to give a gift subscription or suggest that a friend or colleague subscribe. If you or your community could provide a gift subscription for those financially limited communities or individuals, usually in countries other than the United States, your charity would be much appreciated. Either designate the gift-recipient or allow us to fund the many requests that we receive and do not have the resources with which to respond. You then extend your own mission in wonderful ways through the mission of Review for Religious.

The editors and staff of Review for Religious wish you the richest blessings of the Advent and Christmas seasons.

No Rapine In The Holocaust: Eremetical Life Today

by Karen Karper Fredette

From the Mar/ Apr 2002 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS

Fredette writes from Hot Springs, North Carolina. In this article she surveys some of the different forms eremitical life has taken in a fresh flowering in church life today.

Religious Life Revisited

by Lucy Fuchs

From the May/June 2002 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS

A former nun, Fuchs writes from Brandon, Florida.. In this article she reflects on some aspects of religious life, with her reflections occasioned by a fifty-year reunion of those who stayed as religious and those who left.

Expert Practitioners of Union: Forming, Living, and Sustaining Community

by Joel Giallanza CSC

From the Jul/Aug 2002 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS

Giallanza writes from Austin, Texas. In this article he reviews the complexities involved in defining or describing religious community and suggests strategies to form and live and sustain community

Discouragement Viewed through Mark's Gospel

by Eugene Hensell OSB

From the Sep/Oct 2002 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS

Hensell who writes from St. Meinrad Archabbey, St. Meinrad, Indiana, enters us into an imaginative reading of Mark's Gospel in order to help contemporary religious communities to move away form our preoccupation with quantity and focus on the quality of our discipleship.

Louise de Marillac and Elizabeth Seton: Women of Spirit

by Anne Higgins DC and Betty Ann McNeil DC

From the May/June 2002 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS

Higgins is a poet, English instructor, and campus minister in Emmitsburg, Maryland. McNeil is province archivist for the Daughters of Charity. In this article the authors allow Louise de Marillac and Elizabeth Seton to speak out how their lives as wives, mothers, widows, and spiritual leaders model the life of the Spirit for contemporary women in ministry.

St. Albert's Method: 19th-Annotation Retreats at Parishes and Schools

by Hank Hilton SJ

From the Jan/ Feb 2002 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS

Hilton is assistant professor of economics at Loyola College in Baltimore, Maryland. In this article he shares an adaptation of the retreat method according to the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius for larger group settings in a parish or school situation.

Time as Gift

by Carolyn Humphreys OCDS

From the Sep/Oct 2002 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS

Humphreys writes from Paramount, California about how we might make time, God's gift to us, our gift back to God.

Ignatian Indifference and Structural Restraints

Ignatius Jesudasan SJ

From the Nov/Dec 2002 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS

New to the pages of Review for Religious, Jesudasan writes from Loyola School in Uthiramerur, India. In this article he enters us into the contemporary struggle to apply indifference as understood i spirituality to the various structural situations of authority and obedience.

Why Only Three Evangelical Counsels?

by Brendan Kneale FSC

From the May/June 2002 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS

Kneale writes from Napa, California. In this article he offers some new reasons to the traditional ones for our having three defining vows for consecrated life. He echoes Pope John Paul's challenge to clarify the anthropological significance of the counsels.

Liberal or Conservative: Temperaments and Faith

by Edward Krasevac OP

From the Jul/Aug 2002 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS

Krasevac is an associate professor of theology at the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. In this article he proposes that awareness of temperamental affinities for liberal/conservative positions can give us a greater and sometimes much-needed sensitivity to what others are saying and give us at least a partial understanding of why we believe what we believe.

The Workers in the Vineyard: Insights for the Moral Life

by Patricia Ann Lamoureux and Paul Zilonka CP

From the Jan/ Feb 2002 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS

Lamoureux teaches moral theology and Zilonka teaches Scripture at St. Mary's Seminary and University in Baltimore, Maryland. In this article the authors reflect on one Gospel parable as an example of how to develop moral theology in accordance with biblical vision.

Desert Spirituality

by Ernest Larkin OCarm

From the Jul/Aug 2002 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS

Larkin writes from Kino Institute in Phoenix, Arizona. In this article he examines the ancient traditions of desert spirituality and contemplative prayer and proposes ways to adapt them to our times.

The Decline of Religious Life: A Success Story

by Michael Dominic W. Ledoux OFM

From the Mar/ Apr 2002 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS

Ledoux holds the Sisters of St. Francis Endowed Chair for Franciscan Theology at Neumann College in Aston, Pennsylvania . In this article he asks whether the next task for religious congregations is to let go of our hold on institutions and ministries and allow them to find a charism based upon their own stories and histories rather than being too strongly attached to religious communal stories.

Metaphysical Self in Other Mystical Traditions

by James J. Magee

From the Mar/ Apr 2002 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS

Magee has written nine articles for our journal, the last in 1994. He is professor of counseling and gerontology at College of New Rochelle; New Rochelle, New York. In this article he defines metaphysical self as one's self residing in God and God residing in it and then examines this term as it appears in Christian, Buddhist, Hindu, Jewish, and Muslim (Sufi) mysticism.

Conversion: A Summons from the Word of God

by Kathleen McAlpin RSM

From the Jan/ Feb 2002 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS

Writing from Ontario, Canada, McAlpin works with theological students at Regis College in its integration-for-ministry and spiritual-direction programs. In this article she explores how the word of God comes to us through daily life experiences, calling us to an ongoing conversion that leads to mercy as justice.

CANONICAL COUNSEL: Transfer

by Elizabeth McDonough OP, STL, JCD

From the Jan/ Feb 2002 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS

McDonough regularly writes this department of canonical information and reflection. She teaches at Mount St. Mary's Seminary and is canonical advisor for numerous religious communities as well as for the Archdiocese of Washington. In this article she explicates those canons that apply to the transfer of a religious from one community to another.

CANONICAL COUNSEL: Esclaustration: Further Considerations

by Elizabeth McDonough OP, STL, JCD

From the Mar/ Apr 2002 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS

McDonough regularly writes this department of canonical information and reflection. She teaches at Mount St. Mary's Seminary and is canonical advisor for numerous religious communities as well as for the Archdiocese of Washington. In this article she examines some canons that apply to the exclaustration.

CANONICAL COUNSEL: Voluntary Departure

by Elizabeth McDonough OP, STL, JCD

From the May/Jun 2002 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS

McDonough regularly writes this department of canonical information and reflection. She teaches at Mount St. Mary's Seminary and is canonical advisor for numerous religious communities as well as for the Archdiocese of Washington. In this article she interprets those sections of canon law that apply to the voluntary departure of a member from a religious congregation.

CANONICAL COUNSEL: Involuntary Departure

by Elizabeth McDonough OP, STL, JCD

From the May/Jun 2002 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS

McDonough regularly writes this department of canonical information and reflection. She teaches at Mount St. Mary's Seminary and is canonical advisor for numerous religious communities as well as for the Archdiocese of Washington. In this article she interprets those sections of canon law that apply to the dismissal of a member from a religious congregation.

CANONICAL COUNSEL: Automatic Dismissal

by Elizabeth McDonough OP, STL, JCD

From the September/October 2002 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS

McDonough regularly writes this department of canonical information and reflection. She teaches at Mount St. Mary's Seminary and is canonical advisor for numerous religious communities as well as for the Archdiocese of Washington. In this article she explains the conditions necessary for the automatic dismissal of a member of a religious community.

CANONICAL COUNSEL: Mandatory Dismissal

by Elizabeth McDonough OP

From the Nov/Dec 2002 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS

McDonough regularly writes this department of canonical information and reflection. She teaches at Mount St. Mary's Seminary and is canonical advisor for numerous religious communities as well as for the Archdiocese of Washington. In this article she explicates those situations and circumstances that require the madatory dismissal of a religious from his or her community

Reading / Reciting the Psalms: Some Reflections

Roland E. Murphy OCarm

From the Nov/Dec 2002 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS

A renowned Biblical scholar and coeditor of The Jerome Biblical Commentary and the New JBC, Murphy submitted this article a week before his death on July 20, 2002 at the age of 85. In this article he offers, from his lifetime of study and prayer, a bright sprinkling of information and intuition about the psalms.

LECTIO DIVINA: A MEANS TO WHOLENESS

by Mary Renée Nienaber SND

From the Jan/ Feb 2002 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS

Nienaber is a director of religious education specializing the RCIA and adult-education programs at St. Mary of the Assumption Parish in Alexandria, Kentucky. In this article she reviews the six parts that make up the practice of lectio divina, which fosters a spiritual-life wholeness.

Coping with Repetition: A Spirituality for Ministering to the Elderly

by Helen Jean Novy HM

From the Mar/ Apr 2002 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS

Novy is director of mission effectiveness at Magnificat High School; in Rocky River, Ohio. In This article she proposes some spiritual considerations to guide our responses to the repetitiousness of sick/elderly people.

Lessons from a Time of Distress

by Joel Rippinger OSB

From the Sep/Oct 2002 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS

Rippinger who writes from Marmion Abbey, Aurora Illinois, reflects as a male, a monastic, and an ordained religious on the sexual-abuse scandal in the church in order to discern the voice of the Spirit and the signs of the times in the events we have experienced.

From Paschal Mystery to Reconciliation, from ASCs to Adorers

by Regina Siegfried ASC

From the May/June 2002 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS

Siegfried writes from the department of Theological Studies at Saint Louis University in St. Louis, Missouri. In this article she traces the expansion and maturing of her own religious congregation's foundational charism, modeling for other congregations how to discover their still relevant and appropriate gift in contemporary society.

Choose Life: Reflections Ten Years after Five Deaths

by Regina Siegfried ASC

From the Sep/Oct 2002 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS

Siegfried writes from the Department of Theological Studies, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri. In this article she reflects on the tenth anniversary of the murder of five Adorers of the Blood of Christ by noting 1) that Liberia is still in the grip of a life-and-death struggle, 2) that the paschal-mystery charism of the ASC's is in clearer focus, and 3) that ASC mission in Liberia continues on.

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The Birth of Christ in the Human Person

Janet Sullivan OSF

From the Nov/Dec 2002 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS

A Franciscan Sister of Allegany, Sullivan is associate professor of pastoral theology at St. Vincent de Paul Regional Seminary in Boyton Beach, Florida. In this article she brings home the faith reality that God asks of us what he asked of Mary: to allow his Son to come to birth in us.

Medaille's"Means" and Religious Life's Renewal

by Joan Wagner SSJ

From the Mar/ Apr 2002 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS

Novy presented this paper in Milwaukee in June 2001 at the fifth triennial meeting of the Conference on the History of Women Religious. In it she focuses on six "means" derived from Father Medaille's writings that nourish religious community life.

The Emergence of the Contemporary Traditionalists

David M. Whalen OSFS

From the Nov/Dec 2002 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS

An Oblate of St. Francis de Sales, Whalen teaches in the University of St. Micheal's College in Toronto, Canada. In this article he presents certain "verbal snapshots" of young people indetified as contemporary traditionalists whose interim theology includes an exemption or "notwithstanding" clause.

A Collaborative Model of Missionary Formation

Guy B. Wilson ST

From the Nov/Dec 2002 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS

A member of the Missionary Servants of the Most Holy Trinity, Wilson first published this description of formation principle and practice in his congregation's newsletter, Tri-Com. He writes from Santo Domingo de Heredia, Costa Rica. In this article he explains a model of formation for the men candidates of the Missionary Servants of the Most Holy Trinity which involves the collabortion of the Trinitarian family of men and women religious and lay persons, following the inspiration of their founder, Father Thomas Augustine Judge.

Seminary Formation and Lonergan's Conversion Theory

by Steve Wlusek

From the Jan/ Feb 2002 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS

Wlusek, a diocesan priest, is a faculty member of his diocese's St. Peter's Seminary in London, Ontario; Canada. In this article he uses Bernard Lonergan's theory of conversions to illuminate personal development in seminary formation.

Aging: Spiritually Present to the Burning Bush

by Geraldine M. Wodarczyk CSFN

From the Mar/ Apr 2002 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS

Wodarczyk wrote this paper originally in a gerontological pastoral care program at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota. In it she reflectively enters us into her six-year experience of living among her own congregation's aging and prayerful sisters.

Three Forms of Community Living: A Survey Report

by Barbara Zajac

From the Jul/Aug 2002 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS

Zajac writes from the Department of Sociology at Indiana State University. In this article she summarizes a a sociological survey of sisters in one religious community to explore how they define and create "community."

Merton and the Enneagram: The Ritual Enactment of His Myth

by Suzanne Zuercher OSB

From the Jul/Aug 2002 issue of REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS

Zuercher writes from Chicago, Illinois. In this article she examines Thomas Merton from his journals, considering him as an enneagram 4, his true self more acknowledged over the years, then anguished over, and ultimately embraced.