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ad lots of work and deadlines and undoubtedly stress ahead i m thinking more about the work of finishing thesis comps but this will also be part of the mix of the work and life of the next 6 years too but for now at least i feel oddly calm deeply at peace and ready for what god has in store thursday i had the opportunity to meet with my spiritual director and look more closely at the movement and my experience of god in my life during these weeks spiritual direction is always such an amazing chance to step back and get a glimpse of what is really unseen in our relationship with god of touching into the underlying presence and power of the spirit in our lives i sometimes compare spiritual direction to the experience of therapy except that instead of being about problem solving or developing coping mechanisms for the craziness of life the focus is on opening the heart and letting god in to do what god does if that makes any sense really it is a graced time of digging into the god stuff in the midst of all of our human stuff my spiritual director listened as i recounted the experience of chapter and my excitement and hope for religious life and the sisters of st joseph of peace as well as my deep desire to share my gifts in service of our charism and future now i also shared some of my own murkier feelings my wonderings my vulnerabilities and the prayer i have felt since the day my community invited me to discern this journey to grow in humility gentleness and patience she then invited me to stop sit with all that i had shared and see if a word or an image or a feeling emerged and it was this i feel the strength of god s presence as i face the unkown i feel held and supported by god s deep abiding love for all god s creation including me and it is upon this foundation step by step that i feel god pushing and pulling and drawing me forward into my our god s evolving future i didn t have a picture for this feeling at the time but since i have remembered and reflected on this picture i took a few years ago on retreat of a stone wall big stones small stones a rocky path but firm true and sure all the same leading us together into the heart of god posted by susan rose francois csjp at 8 55 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels discernment leadership 9 26 2014 margaret anna fridays on hospitality it s a tradition on this blog to share some words of wisdom and inspiration on fridays from the founder of my religious community the sisters of st joseph of peace known in religion as mother francis clare margaret anna cusack was a prolific writer in her day given that our chapter call at our recent congregation chapter centered on hospitality i thought i d share her reflection on the gospel story of emmaus when the two disciples invited the traveller jesus to sit with them at table 1st prelude represent to yourself the room where jesus reclines at table with his favoured hosts 2nd prelude pray that sweet jesus may often visit you thus and reclining in the home of your heart give you himself the living bread 1st point the faithful disciples not only constrain jesus to abide with them they also offer him hospitality alas even when we have constrained him to abide with us do we not too often forget his presence and not only fail to offer him the best we have but sometimes even refuse him what he asks for how can we expect to know him in the breaking of the bread if we have not entertained him with the feast of sacrifice how can we expect that he will manifest himself to us at table if we have not carefully prepared for his entertainment let us learn from the disciples how to invite jesus and how to entertain him when we have invited him they invite him by earnestness and they entertain him by love 2nd point the disciples find jesus in the ordinary duties of life if we only sought for him as we should do in these duties how blessedly we should find him then indeed we should truly know him in the breaking of bread then our hearts would be constantly expecting it what duty has he not hallowed what employment has he not sanctified if we walk we may unite our steps to the steps of jesus at passiontide to his suffering steps at easter to his glorified steps at christmas to his infant steps and in the long weeks of pentecost to his weary steps if we think we may unite our thoughts to his suffering thoughts his infant thoughts his glorified thoughts if we sleep we may unite our sleep to his sleep in mary s arms his sleep in the boat on the sea of galilee or to his last sleep on earth why do we not unite our life to his life it is our privilege it should be our consolation and our only joy 3rd point consider how we may glorify the risen heart of jesus manifesting himself at table may we not try to do so in two ways first by endeavoring to unite ourself to the like actions of jesus in every duty and employment and by seeking to find him and converse with him in all and secondly by seeking to know him in the breaking of bread jesus is our life he gives himself to us in the sacrament of the altar and he has said himself he that eateth me same also shall live by me s john vi 58 this then is our life oh let us seek it let us love it let us live on it and seek more and more in receiving it that we may be incorporated into it until like the apostle we may say i live yet not i but christ who liveth in me aspiration body of my risen jesus be my life m f cusack meditations for advent and easter 1866 posted by susan rose francois csjp at 9 33 am 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels hospitality jesus mac fridays margaret anna cusack 9 24 2014 theology quotes rosemary radford reuther i m digging back into the research for my ma thesis my working title is human trafficking as social sin an ethic of resistance next week i am going to start writing but for now i m finishing up reading on social sin one of my sources led me to look back at rosemary radford reuther s classic text sexism and god talk toward a feminist theology she of course is writing rightly specifically about the social sin of sexism but it applies to all isms and forms of social sin i especially appreciate how she both draws distinctions and makes the connection between individual responsibility and the systemic nature of social sin change begins with us here and now in our relationships with god self and other through our choices and identity as authentic human persons posted by susan rose francois csjp at 12 02 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels theology theology quotes women 9 20 2014 global sisters report critical yeast for this crucial time my latest column has been posted for the global sisters report the publication schedule means that my columns tend to be published about a month or so after i write them consequently it s always an interesting exercise to re read now what i thought then and see what still resonates this month s column is religious life focused and offers a metaphor that i have found useful from john paul lederach s book the moral imagination the art soul of building peace namely critical yeast often times when we find ourselves facing supposed impossibility it is because we do not think that we have the critical mass needed to overcome the situation lederach offers an alternative image to critical mass that he names critical yeast instead of asking a question about quantity how many people lederach challenges us to ask who which people in this situation would have a capacity if they were mixed and held together to make things grow exponentially beyond their numbers pg 91 put another way what mix of people might make the good stuff of life grow and spread as i ponder the present reality and my hopes for the future of religious life i find myself returning again and again to lederach s metaphor of critical yeast it has been especially helpful in imagining the path forward as we face a time of rapid demographic change and the small scaling of north american religious life you can read my entire column at the global sisters report i also really recommend lederach s book it s almost 10 years old but it is so fresh and offers real creative invitations for thinking and acting in ways that build peace in the midst of our complex global realty re reading my column now that it s posted having just come back from an incredible 3 weeks with community where the life energy and passion was palpable as we pondered ways to engage the needs of today in new ways through our charism of peace through justice i find myself smiling in many ways what we were about was embracing the power of critical yeast now to move forward together as community for mission and make the vision real posted by susan rose francois csjp at 1 38 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels community future of religious life global sisters report religious life 9 17 2014 our 22nd general chapter ends another chapter begins the 22nd general chapter of the congregation of the sisters of st joseph of peace has come to an end for the past 10 days we have been gathered outside of seattle to break open our chapter theme deeper and wider the challenge of peace it is both humbling and amazing to realize that this was the 22nd time since our founding in 1884 that the community has come together to discern our future direction and elect new leadership we certainly stand on the shoulders of incredible women of faith who trusted deeply in god s abiding love and took risks in order to serve god s people in need and meet the needs of the day the atmosphere during our gathering was buzzing with energy love and passion for our charism of peace through justice and a deep desire to move together as community for mission to meet the needs of today one of my csjp sisters often speaks about the sneaky holy spirit and i think that is a good description for the ways the spirit was nudging even disturbing us to embrace this new moment in our community history we celebrated the profession of vows of four sisters during the early days of our gathering sister dorothy professed perpetual vows while sisters juliana katrina and sheena professed their first vows as sisters of st joseph of peace this was the first time we have celebrated profession of vows during a congregation chapter the joyful hope was palpable our congregation leader sister margaret byrne invited us to seize this particular moment as a new opportunity to begin again she actually used the word again 23 times in her address which was grounded in our rich community history as well as the present call of pope francis to move beyond structures that give us a false sense of security in order to witness to the gospel with our lives and reach out to those on the periphery of society fr anthony gittins spoke to us of radial discipleship and sr gail worcelo reflected on living on the edge during this moment of grace we also heard the deep desires of the seven sisters who have entered during the past decade myself included to move forward together as community for mission in many ways it seemed as if the holy spirit was weaving together all of these threads in creative ways which culminated in our chapter call disturbed by the spirit we recommit ourselves to jesus way of radical hospitality we are called to a deeper and wider living of community for mission in company with poor and marginalized people our contemplative discernment pushes us individually and as congregation to action deeper mutual support enables us to take risks for justice peace and the integrity of creation as disciples of jesus we respond anew to the call of mother clare to be brave noble large minded courageous souls we will be living into and out of this call during the next 6 years and starting in january i will be living this call in a particular way as i respond to the call of the chapter to serve in elected leadership as part of our congregation leadership team this will certainly be a new chapter in my own life but first i am sitting now in the departures lounge at the seattle airport getting ready to head back to chicago where i will spend the next 3 months finishing up my studies one benefit of moving into this new leadership role is that as i was saying goodbye to the csjp sisters and associates i have spent the past weeks with i know that i will have an opportunity to see them all again soon and that my friends is a blessing posted by susan rose francois csjp at 11 04 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels chapter community csjp history leadership 9 11 2014 13 years later praying for peace thirteen years ago today my heart was both broken and awoken to my call to seek peace in our wounded world i ve written before on the blog about how i became a peace activist thirteen years ago on september 11 2001 in many ways the seeds of my vocation as a sister of st joseph of peace were also planted in my heart that day although it took a few years for my head and feet to catch up and now on this 13th anniversary i am at the half way point of the 22nd general chapter of the sisters of st joseph of peace today is a free day but i have invited some of my sisters and associates to pray with me at 11am in our meditation chapel this morning this morning i brought to prayer president obama s speech last night detailing plans to ramp up our military involvement in syria and iraq in the next phase of our war on terror i also brought to prayer this morning the families of all those who lost their lives on 9 11 and the war and violence that has followed and continues to follow and lie before us until and unless we choose the path of peace and so i pray for peace in our troubled world for an awakened heart and conscience on the part of our political leaders and indeed on the part of the american people that we may accept the responsibility of what has been done in our name and commit all our efforts instead to building true peace upon the foundations of justice i pray for all the lives lost and forever changed through terrorism and the wars on terror i pray for dialogue and diplomacy not bombs and death i pray in hope and gratitude for people of good will from every nation race creed and way of being that peace may come that we may help to bring about that peace pope leo xiii considered the father of catholic social teaching and perhaps not coincidentally the pope who blessed mother francis clare s new community st joseph s sisters of peace wrote this o lord you see how everywhere the winds have burst forth and the sea is convulsed with the great violence of the rising waves command we beseech you who alone are able both the winds and the sea restore to humankind the true peace of your name that peace which the world cannot give and the calm of social 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