by Linda Cherek | Dec 8, 2021 | Featured Image
In the last few days I have been decorating our tree and house to make it festive and exciting for our grandchildren with lots of Santa Bears, mangers that can be explored and played with, stockings hung on the mantle and placing all the angel ornaments on our special...
by Joanne Dehmer | Oct 21, 2021 | Featured Image
There is an ancient form of prayer called Benevolent Gazing. It’s a wordless, silent prayer done with the eyes. It is to look with love wherever we look—at the painted evening sunset, at the man who helps me carry my groceries to my car, at the face of the one in the...
by Susanna Bertelsen | Feb 15, 2021 | Featured Image
Recent blog entries from Loyola colleagues about the need to nurture compassion, mercy and love invite me to contemplate the role of compassion in my own life and within the communities where I live and serve. Acutely, I become aware of the lack of compassion within...
by Mary Noble Garcia | Jan 13, 2021 | Uncategorized
“This is not who we are” has been spoken numerous times since the attack on the Capitol. In fact, what happened on January 6 is part of who we are as a nation. This is important because we can only understand and change what is acknowledged. My anger...
by Linda Cherek | Dec 22, 2020 | Featured Image
Wild Geese You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the...
