Our Indonesian Sisters planned today's morning prayer and liturgy. Both were very beautiful! I was moved to tears by a brief video portion of morning prayer "Will you hold this sign for me?" in which Jesus gives his cross to a youth to hold until he returns. Indonesian dress, movement, and songs lifted our spirits and drew us into prayer. At Mass, readings, responses and songs were all in the Indonesian language - so captivating, while the homily was in English (much appreciated since we had copies of the readings in English but would have missed the entire meaning of the homily if it were in Indonesian.) The homily challenged us to choose to be "rich towards God" rather than rich in merely accumulating and hoarding goods for ourselves.
In our language groups, we met to give our response to the first draft of our General Chapter Direction Statement. We will continue to refine it until it is what we want to say and it is clear in all of our languages.
This afternoon we will have a chance to tour the museum of the Sisters who run the facility where we are staying and meeting. We've seen sneak previews in all of the Spanish artifacts artistically arranged through the building. After that we will return to our meetings and move along towards the election of a General Minister and General Council members.
On a lighter (and warmer) note, all are rejoicing that they turned on the heat in our building as the temperatures have been dropping pretty low overnight lately. Overall though, the weather has been near-perfect - especially on our outing days (yesterday and last Sunday).
If my sister Theresa is reading this, she will be glad to know that I stopped to pet a friendly German Shepherd dog at La Foresta yesterday. That was one of the four places those of us who went to the Rieti Valley visited. We saw where Francis wrote a "tau" on the wall in Fonte Columbo, where he set up a Christmas crib scene in Greccio (and where many countries have sent cribs that are on display), where Francis had his eye "surgery" and where he went to recover afterwards.
Peace and every good blessing be yours,
Nancy Miller
In our language groups, we met to give our response to the first draft of our General Chapter Direction Statement. We will continue to refine it until it is what we want to say and it is clear in all of our languages.
This afternoon we will have a chance to tour the museum of the Sisters who run the facility where we are staying and meeting. We've seen sneak previews in all of the Spanish artifacts artistically arranged through the building. After that we will return to our meetings and move along towards the election of a General Minister and General Council members.
On a lighter (and warmer) note, all are rejoicing that they turned on the heat in our building as the temperatures have been dropping pretty low overnight lately. Overall though, the weather has been near-perfect - especially on our outing days (yesterday and last Sunday).
If my sister Theresa is reading this, she will be glad to know that I stopped to pet a friendly German Shepherd dog at La Foresta yesterday. That was one of the four places those of us who went to the Rieti Valley visited. We saw where Francis wrote a "tau" on the wall in Fonte Columbo, where he set up a Christmas crib scene in Greccio (and where many countries have sent cribs that are on display), where Francis had his eye "surgery" and where he went to recover afterwards.
Peace and every good blessing be yours,
Nancy Miller
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