An Ecumenical Heart
This photo really speaks to me! Two friends look at each other with mutual esteem and affection. Two friends who seem to be seeing something deeper; it is as if each of them sees in the other the Presence which […]
Becoming light
I was 18 when I heard the Lord’s voice for the first time. I was studying at the time. It was a lot of work, and I was bored with it. I wanted to get away from my studies by […]
Change of view
Our view on things often requires us to adapt, to change, or to move…It’s a challenge, but it’s also a moment where we can make a new beginning. The Little Sisters of Vienna (Austria) recently had just such an experience. […]
Great in All the Earth
During this month of prayer for creation, here is the testimony of a little sister who shares with us a rather unique volunteer experience… This work, very different from anything she has done before, is a hymn to creation. When […]
The desert will bloom
In 1939 L.Sr. Magdeleine laid out the palm grove at the very first fraternity, in Touggourt, Algeria. She dreamed of soon being able to survive on the dates, plus asparagus and apricots…She wrote to her mother, “Since we talked about […]
The Hill of the Eternal
Today we’re going to introduce you to the fraternity of Kabarondo, in eastern Rwanda. Welcome to our neighborhood, known as “the Hill of the Eternal,” “umusozi w’Uwiteka” in Kinyarwanda. It is on the edges of the city. Here people comfortably […]
Sunday market
Every first Sunday of the month we get up very early, load the last containers into our car and speed off to Campello sul Clitunno. Our destination is neither a parish, nor a local church but the flea market that […]
Contemplatives in the world
