Weavings Reflection: April 2023
On This Holy Mountain By Tom Ruggaber, Covenant Companion In August of 1996, along with our youth minister, I accompanied 6 teens to Nazareth Farm… Read More »Weavings Reflection: April 2023
On This Holy Mountain By Tom Ruggaber, Covenant Companion In August of 1996, along with our youth minister, I accompanied 6 teens to Nazareth Farm… Read More »Weavings Reflection: April 2023
Recalling 125 Years of Devotion By Larry Zengri, Covenant Companion Larry Zengri has had a lifelong devotion to Santa Maria Incoronata, along with many in the… Read More »Weavings Reflection: March 2023
A Poet’s Prayer By Georgene L. Wilson, OSF, D. Min. Poetry is a SYMBOLIC language!!!! The entomology of the word SYMBOLIC is: “SYM”, like symmetry,… Read More »Weavings Poetry Reflection: February 2023
The Virtue of Courage by Connie Gaul, Covenant Companion I was looking through the web when I came across a site that helped lift my… Read More »Weavings Reflection: January 2023
Toward a Flourishing Future Haikus – Part 2 of 2 by Mary Ellen Durbin, Covenant Companion I have practiced daily meditation for more than 35… Read More »Weavings Poetry Reflection: December 2022
This Reflection Has Gone to the Dogs… and Cats… and Birds! Part 1: Wheaton Franciscan Pooches Wheaton Franciscans have a long history of sharing their… Read More »Weavings Reflection: September 2022
A Call To Serve by Naomi Hroncich, Covenant Companion I live in a Retirement Community in Geneva, Illinois. In the early phase of the Pandemic,… Read More »Weavings Reflection: August 2022
Thoughts on “Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of Therese of Lisieux” by Covenant Companion Book Club 2022 Winter of 2022 provided an opportunity for… Read More »Weavings Reflection: July 2022
Sharing God’s Presence by Sister Julie Walsh, Wheaton Franciscan for 67 Years Recently I found two incidents most interesting in my life. First was when… Read More »Weavings Reflection: June 2022
Quilting For Hospice Patients Written by Veronica Ward, Covenant Companion After all the work I did as a Pastoral Associate to support the dying and… Read More »Weavings Reflection: May 2022
Unexpected Surprises: Part 2 by Sister Alice Drewek In 2021, the border between Canada and the U.S. opened in early September. I packed my bags… Read More »Weavings Poetry Reflection: April 2022
Unexpected Surprises: Part 1 by Sister Alice Drewek Every summer for the last ten plus years I have been traveling to the Algonquin Highlands in… Read More »Weavings Poetry Reflection: March 2022
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