by Sister Mary Cora Uryase, RSM | ~ All ~, Featured, Mercy Origins
How can you grow in your spiritual life? How can you integrate that growth with your everyday experiences, choices, and relationships? Venerable Catherine McAuley not only taught this, but she exemplified how to do so by taking one step at a time towards growing in...
by Sister Mary Cora Uryase, RSM | ~ All ~, Mercy Origins
The spirituality of Catherine McAuley was formed in part by the difficult times in which she lived. As in our own time, political decisions on matters of religious expression had earlier created a society of intolerance and persecution. At the time, English monarchs...
by Sister Mary Cora Uryase, RSM | ~ All ~, Mercy Origins
In these last weeks of our liturgical year when the Church focuses on the Four Last Things, i.e., death, judgment, Heaven and Hell, it is interesting to look at how unafraid Venerable Catherine was and to reflect on her hopeful and peaceful anticipation of the...