Still bearing fruit when they are old 20/08/2023
The end of life is approaching, it’s a reality I can’t escape. I’m trying to adapt to it…” Still bearing fruit when they are old” says the psalm. I hope so! I take advantage and enjoy everything life offers me day by day. I’ve never felt as happy as I do right now, despite my [...]
A surprise “rendez-vous” 10/08/2023
What happens when women from different religious traditions meet up? It was after Mass one Sunday in April that a friend of ours told us with a smile that he and his wife were going to have a blind date that evening. We looked at him, puzzled. A blind date? Then he explained that they [...]
A woman’s journey 29/07/2023
When my mother asked me: “What do you want to be when you grow up?”, I answered without a moment’s hesitation: “A Mom!” But then, after a moment’s reflection I asked : “But do you have to get married to be a mother?” My mother replied, “Yes, of course”. And I said, “But I want [...]
A wonderfully complicated life 15/07/2023
“Desire gives you the capacity”. What St Augustine says about desire captures what we experienced anew during the time we recently spent together. At the beginning of July, 22 brothers and sisters from the big Charles de Foucauld family met together in northern Italy. What a gift to spend a few days together to deepen [...]
Spiritual Starvation 11/06/2023
The Pioneer Home, which had been built as a large hotel, was transformed into a Senior Home l.srs. Nobuko and Damiene and I are now living there. It is being remodeled with new floors, new wall coverings, and new bathrooms, with very modern fixtures and with new furniture. The floor where we lived and where [...]
The ear of the heart 02/06/2023
“A sincere desire knows how to touch deeply the chords of our being, which is why it is not extinguished in the face of difficulties or setbacks. Pope Francis In this Easter season, in this time of joy, the Little Sisters of the Biel Fraternity have taken the time to share on the Pope’s catechesis [...]
A simple day 15/05/2023
Many people live Br Charles’ intuitions: it’s what L Sr Norma from the community in Havana, Cuba discovers. « Lord, open my lips, and my mouth shall declare your praise… ». It’s with these words that we begin our prayer each morning, just as all kinds of noises surge surround us: the voice of the bread vendor, [...]
A few sweets… 01/05/2023
For the past two years I’ve been working in an industrial laundry, an Austrian business located here in Bratislava (Slovakia). There are about 120 of us employees. It’s a very modern laundry, and a large part of our work involves running different machines. My job, though, involves folding by hand—bathrobes, fitted sheets, hospital gowns, etc.—to [...]
Risking a dream 26/04/2023
It can sometimes happen that a certitude takes root in your heart…. And then, without being aware of it, without even realizing it, that certitude grows and affirms itself. You can no longer hide it, drown it out nor reduce it to silence. And this takes place even though reason might dictate otherwise, even though it [...]