Heartbeats
04/10/2021
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Living Angela’s Creative Spirit
It is our hope that our Heart to Heart newsletter is a catalyst inviting reflection on Angela’s charism as we are experiencing it and living it in today’s world.
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12/05/2021
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St. Angela Merici, Woman of Unityand Harmony
These words from Angela’s Last Counsel have been guiding our reflections: “My last word to you, by which I implore you even with my blood, is that you live in harmony, united together, all of one heart and one will. Be bound to one another by the bond of charity..."
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These words from Angela’s Last Counsel have been guiding our reflections: “My last word to you, by which I implore you even with my blood, is that you live in harmony, united together, all of one heart and one will. Be bound to one another by the bond of charity..."
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14/04/2021
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St. Angela Merici, Woman of Unityand Harmony
This month’s Heartbeats on St. Angela as a woman of unity and harmony centers around the theme for Earth Day 2021, Restore Our Earth. After her initial reflections, Sr. Mary Lapping has invited her colleagues and friends from the St. Louis Intercommunity Ecological Council to share their reflections on this theme.
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18/03/2021
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St. Angela Merici, Woman of Unityand Harmony
As Ursuline Sisters of the Roman Union, Angela’s spirit of unity and harmony is at the heart of our identity and our mission. This issue of Heartbeats welcomes reflections from Sisters in our international Roman Union community.
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17/02/2021
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St. Angela Merici, Woman of Unityand Harmony
As Heartbeats continues to explore “St. Angela Merici, Woman of Unity and Harmony,” juniors and seniors at Ursuline schools reflect on how the schools strive, through their efforts towards diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging, to create communities where being united, together in one heart (Insieme), and accepting each one’s differences with respect is a lived reality.
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18/01/2021
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St. Angela Merici, Woman of Unity and Harmony
“My last word to you, by which I implore you even with my blood, is that you live in harmony, united together, all of one heart and one will. Be bound to one another by the bond of charity, esteeming each other, helping each other, bearing with each other in Jesus Christ".
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21/12/2020
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“You Are Full of Grace”
This Advent I think we all need to hear the words of the angel to Mary in this Sunday’s Gospel, but we need to hear those words spoken to each of us: “You are full of grace. The Lord is with you.”
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13/12/2020
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Rejoice!
Today, the Scripture readings call us to joy. The Third Sunday of Advent known as “Gaudete (Rejoice) Sunday” is that break in our Advent preparation where we move into a brighter day, a day of “Welcoming the Light.”
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11/12/2020
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People of Hope Today
As 2020 draws to a close, we continue to dwell in the throes of a worldwide pandemic. Winter darkness envelops many parts of the globe, and our Church has begun a “New Year” with the Hope of Advent.
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06/12/2020
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Live in Harmony
In our first reading for the Second Sunday of Advent, Isaiah proclaims: “A voice cries out in the desert: prepare the way of our God! Make straight in the wasteland a highway for our God…The rugged land shall be made a plain, the rough country, a broad valley.”
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