On Pilgrimage-10
Now in Rome, Italy, we six pilgrims will be walking ancient roads to see St. Peter’s Basilica and many of the Church’s holy places. On Sunday, some of us made it to Pope Francis’s window on time for the noon Angelus prayer and his blessing. Though the Church is beset with sinful people, her holiness […]
On Pilgrimage-9
Travel from Germany to Italy kept me from the computer for a couple of days, so now that I have reached the center in Rome for the Sisters of Notre Dame, I would like to extend the thoughts of the previous post. St. Julie gave us her great appreciation for God’s goodness, so manifest in […]
On Pilgrimage-8
From Mulhausen, we took a trip to Namur, Belgium, a very special excursion for us. Here is where St. Julie Billiart began her community of Sisters of Notre Dame of Namur in 1804. Julie’s spirit is at a deepest root of our spirituality, because forty years after her death, her rule of life came to […]
On Pilgrimage-6
Our weekend was spent soaking in the rich history of our beginnings in Coesfeld. We spent time walking the places our first sisters walked from Suring Street where the first house for the neglected children was situated, to the famous Way of the Cross that circles 10km from St. Lambert’s Church. After 160 some years, […]
On Pilgrimage-2
Today in Vechta, we who are visitors are drinking in some Westphalian beauty, and seeing the schools and children’s home that our Sisters have here. They are of excellent calibre and true descendents of our foundress’s heart that was so turned toward children and their education. As Hilligonde grew into a young adult in this […]