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I received a card from my beloved sister Jean. A memo came to me besides her card: She who bends to herself a joy Doth the winged life destroy But she who kisses  the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sunrise.  I put this memo in my journal note: I will meditate on it. Joy exists between a desire to attain and a willingness to let go....
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잔치커피    김수열 섬사람들은 장례식장에서도  잔치 커피를 마신다  달짝지근한 믹스커피를  섬사람들은 잔치 커피라고 하는데  장례식장에 조문 가서 식사를 마치면  부름씨*하는 사람이 와서 묻는다  녹차? 잔치 커피?  잔치 커피, 하고 주문을 하는 순간  장례식장의 '장' 자는 휙 날아가고  예식장 식당으로 탈바꿈한다  명복을 비는 마음이야 어디 가겠느냐만  왁지지껄 흥성스러운 잔치판이 된다  보내는 상주도 떠나는 망자도 조금은 덜 슬퍼진다  섬에서는  죽음도 축제가 되고  섬에서 죽으면  죽어서 떠나는 날이 그야말로 잔칫날이다  망자를 데리러 온 저승사자도  달콤한 잔치 커피에 은근슬쩍 중독이 된다 이 시에는 마침표가 없다. 그래서 장례식장과 예식장의 경계가 없다. 달달한 잔치 커피 사는 게 뭐 있나, 그저 남 한테 피해 안 주는 은근슬쩍한 중독을 즐기는 거지. 사랑하기, 좋은 일 하기, 그러나 시간 가는 것은 알기...

new book on the emerging religious life in the 21st century

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Conversation over the Coffee Table: Young Sisters Forum

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The younger sisters in the Bay Area will gather together on Oct. 26 at 9:30, the California Room at the Holy Names University.  Three sisters will share their experience while we create a network, and vision for the future together. Any sister who is interested in religious life in the 21st century is welcomed! Snack and coffee will be provided. Bring your wonderful spirit! Speakers: Christian Cahil ( SNJM in the US), sr. Daniella Dung ( Vietnam),  sr. Dana Dorcakova (BDMF) If you have any questions, please contact with Sophia Park (park@hnu.edu)

invitation to "sharing the new wine" conference

A DAY OF REFLECTION ON VOWED RELIGIOUS IN THE POST MODERN ERA The date will be March 31, 2012. at 9:00 am-5:00 p.m. The place will be Locatelli Room in Locatelli Active Center at Santa Clara University, CA. The current reality of the World and Church presents a new landscape for religious today. We desire to come together for a day of reflecting and envisioning religious life in this challenging present and future.   We invite all who are interested in religious life: members of religious orders or in discernment for religious life, people who value religious life as a reality in the Church, and especially all those who carry questions about religious life in these times. We face many challenges. Globalization and cultural diversity, fragmentation and discrimination, secularization contrasted with an increasing new fundamentalism, growing injustice and poverty, neo-liberalism and ecological destruction, never-ending landscapes of war and abuse- scandals. These are only so