by Sister Mary Sarah Macht, RSM, MSN, FNP-BC | ~ All ~, In His Image
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.”[i] “For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on...
by Sister Mary Sarah Macht, RSM, MSN, FNP-BC | ~ All ~, Healing Language of Beauty
The Liturgies of Advent, including the music, ring with the theme of staying awaking and watchful, ever ready to respond to the voice of the Bridegroom who is coming. In 1731, Bach wrote this cantata for the Mass for the 27th Sunday after Trinity. The cantata has...
by Sister Mary Sarah Macht, RSM, MSN, FNP-BC | ~ All ~, Healing Language of Beauty
Come Lord and help your people, bought with the price of your own blood, and bring us with your saints to glory everlasting.[i] In our last post, we wrote about the importance of recovering the capacity to see. With the philosopher Josef Pieper we considered the...
by Sister Mary Sarah Macht, RSM, MSN, FNP-BC | ~ All ~, A Living Sacrifice of Praise
“Because this coming lies between the other two, it is like a road on which we travel from the first coming to the last…” We glean this line from the Office of Readings for Wednesday from the first week of Advent. Saint Bernard speaks about the “three comings of...
by Sister Mary Sarah Macht, RSM, MSN, FNP-BC | ~ All ~, Healing Language of Beauty
As human beings, all knowledge is received through our senses. These may be our external senses (sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch) or internal senses (imagination, memory, estimative power, or common sense, which “coordinates” the information).[i] We “know”...
