Pandemic 2020 We are lost but not lost We wait but can't see We sit we trust Not knowing Knowing no one knows All in the same boat Part of a bigger picture It makes our world smaller Begging to stay alive Not knowing Simply not knowing Collective angst In overwhelming times Cry of the people From the depths And God waits as we wait We all wait together
Our personal lives and our community lives have been turned upside down by the dreadful situation of the pandemic and the lockdown which has since ensued. We have also been stripped of our ideal ‘me’, our community ‘me’ and perhaps more deeply our religious ‘me’. The pandemic has exposed as never before the interdependence which binds us to every human being on the planet. Please click on the link below: Corona virus - Letter to the Congrégation[2093]
(This is not a translation from the French article, but rather a letter, in English, from the Congregation for the Institutes of Consecrated Life) Please click on the link below. ciclsal_letter re coronavirus
In these troubled times let us take time…for a bit of poetry and interiority, like this little child. Breakfast with God! A little boy wanted to meet God. He knew that to make it to where God lived he would have to go on a long trip; so he stuffed his suitcase with cookies and six cans of soda and he set out. After having walked three blocks with houses he met an old man. He was sitting in the park staring at the pigeons. The kid…
