Keep Some Room in your Heart for the Unimaginable

Keep Some Room in your Heart for the Unimaginable

Photo by Sr. Rosalind   Keep Some Room in your Heart for the Unimaginable¹ Claire Sokol, OCD Creative Hope for the future of Contemplative Life Published in LCWR Occasional Papers, Winter, 2022   Recently, I had the opportunity to spend some quiet days of...
History of Reno Carmel

History of Reno Carmel

Carmel of Reno WHO WE ARE & HOW WE CAME TO RENO As Carmelite Sisters we stand in our time and place, but we also stand on a continuum, which stretches  back to myth and history. We are the spiritual descendants of the pilgrims who remained in the Holy Land after...
Awakening Hope

Awakening Hope

Photo: Kelley Mooneyham    So many voices speaking..competing to capture our attentionWe seem to endlessly seek a voicethat speaks deeply to our own. There was a time when the rhythm and breath of our lifewas united with the life force of all creation.. Farmer...
Breaking Into Silence – Surging Into Prayer

Breaking Into Silence – Surging Into Prayer

Breaking Into Silence Surging Into Prayer Photo: Kelley Mooneyham      “The heart can think of no devotion greater than being shore to ocean” – Robert Frost What if a wave had no place to releaseand let go of the momentumand energy it...