Reflections
THOUGHTS FROM OUR SISTERS
DISCERNING GOD’S WORD
Read our Sisters’ reflections on vocations, the spiritual life, the New Evangelization, the Person of Christ and many other faith topics.
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Why not skip Lent this year?
February 28, 2022 / Featured
Ash Wednesday is this week. In the busyness of life, we can be tempted to dismiss Lent as unimportant...
RELICS! AND STATUES! AND FURNITURE? OH MY!
February 23, 2022 / Blessed Is She / Reflection
By Sr. Maria Fatima, O.P.
Like Moses on the cusp of the Promised Land, we can trust in God’s goodness
February 22, 2022 / Detroit Catholic / Reflection
By Sr. Maria Veritas Marks, O.P.
Christ doesn’t eliminate suffering, but brings meaning from it
February 12, 2022 / Detroit Catholic / Reflection
By Sr. Mary Martha Becnel, O.P.
Celebrating the mysterious light of consecrated life
January 26, 2022 / Detroit Catholic / Reflection
By Sr. Maria Veritas Marks, O.P.
Where does the dignity of life come from?
January 20, 2022 / Featured
Human life, created by God to be a composite of body and soul, is spectacularly wonderful – a thing only God can accomplish.
Our prayers are powerful, even when we don’t know for whom we’re praying
January 7, 2022 / Detroit Catholic / Reflection
By Sr. Maria Veritas Marks, O.P.
FOLLOWING THE LONGING OF OUR HEARTS
January 4, 2022 / Blessed Is She / Reflection
By Sr. Maria Fatima, O.P.
First Things First – Honoring Our Mother
January 3, 2022 / Featured
The Blessed Virgin, by becoming the mother of God, received a kind of infinite dignity because God is infinite; this dignity therefore is such a reality that a better one is not possible, just as nothing can be better than God."
— St. Thomas Aquinas
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