Wednesday Morning Staff Prayer

This morning we had staff prayer. This is offered every two weeks for anyone who works at the Motherhouse. Because last week was national migration week, our prayer was for migrants and refugees. Sister Rose who works in office of The Literacy Connection http://www.csjboston.org/litcon.htm was leader for this week’s prayer. There was a lovely cloth in the middle of the table. It was a gift to The Literacy Connection from one of their Vietnamese students. Sister Ann Marie told an interesting story of how Asian people often give gifts for the family or home because home is where the heart is. It occurred to me that to use this cloth on our prayer table reinforces the fact that prayer is at the heart of all we do. Even the closing part of the prayer suggested this: We praise you and give you thanks for the family you have called together from so many people. We see in this human family a reflection of the divine unity of the one most Holy Trinity…”

Now I’m off to our Archdiocesan Pastoral Center to take pictures of two of our sisters who have edited and designed a book about sisters in the Archdiocese of Boston.