A Word of Welcome
Dear Sisters, Dear Friends,
At the moment of the celebration of the anniversary of the Foundation of the Company of St Ursula, 25th November, we are publishing the first part of a collection of new source documents for all those who collaborate in our work of education.
URSULINE EDUCATION (click here)
We have chosen the SYMBOL of the TREE, with its roots, trunk, and branches for presenting articles from all the regions, written by colleagues representing our Ursuline schools and colleges in different parts of the world.
The ROOTS, a source of life, will include articles on Angela’s spirituality and life; and aspects of Ursuline education and history.
The TRUNK, drawing life from the roots, will offer articles which focus on core values and on profiles of Ursuline educators and students.
The BRANCHES, will present articles which express the lived realities of the core values n various schools and colleges worldwide. This first section published in November 2011 presents the roots. St. Angela herself did not found schools, but her vision has inspired education over four centuries, for women and girls for whom education was often simply not an option. In the 21st century, this inspiration touches the lives of many young women and men in many different countries and cultures. May these source documents be the occasion of an openness to the spirit of St. Angela and to the depths inherent in our Ursuline educational traditions.
Mother Cecilia Wang, OSU, Prioress General
Please visit our “Vocations” box on the homepage for more insights on this issue. And please click HERE to enter the back issues of Journeys, thought-provoking aids for your own spiritual journey.
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Today with Saint Angela
Be bound to one another by the bond of charity.
Last Counsel/2
Saint Angela at the Foot of the Cross. Stained Glass. Duomo, Bergamo
Scriptures of the Week
Third Sunday Ordinary Time - January 22, 2012
Jonah 3:1-5, 10
Psalm 25
1 Corinthians 7:29-31
Mark 1:14-20
Third Sunday Ordinary Time - January 22, 2012
Jonah 3:1-5, 10
Psalm 25
1 Corinthians 7:29-31
Mark 1:14-20
There is a feeling of urgency about the readings today. An urgency which characterises the Gospel of Mark which we begin to read now Sunday by Sunday.
We hear that John has been arrested. And could we be right in thinking that the arrest and death of John was the catalyst for Jesus’ public life?
The Jesus of Mark is decisive and breathlessly active. Today we are left in no doubt about his mission and the immediacy of it.
‘Repent and believe the Good News.’
‘The time has come’…..
the reign of God is breaking into our world. Now is the time: now, today, is the moment of grace. This is a new year, a new beginning and we are being invited to repent, to let go of the past, to leave behind the nets of jealousy, untruth, hurt, to be able to hear clearly the Good News of Jesus spoken constantly.
We are being invited again into an attentive discipleship and, as Mark always points out, the position of the disciple is behind Jesus, keeping ‘our eyes fixed on him’ to hear, to watch and to learn. As we follow, the words of the psalm are on our lips
Lord, make me know your ways.
Teach me your paths.
Make me walk in your truth and teach me:
for you are God my saviour.
Teach me your ways O Lord
Sr Mel Williams, Province of Australia
Our visual meditation is a detail of the face of Christ showing a strong, decisive man of mission, a leader who draws his followers to give all for the Good News, in Masaccio’s “The Tribute Money,” 1424-1428. Fresco. Brancacci Chapel, Church of Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence
Wisdom of the week
The glory of God is a human being fully alive; and the life of the human being consists in beholding God. St. Irenaeus of Lyons
