Awakening and deepening faith

So this is our mission statement as Cenacle Sisters 'to awaken and deepen faith with and for the people of our time'. I've been reflecting on what that means: faith.

Well, faith is about belief but it's also about the capacity to be faithful.
It's about keeping your promises.
Surely it's about who you love, and why you love them and how you love them, day by day.
I want to say that faith begins and ends in love.

We are committed to awakening and deepening faith in others, with others, for others.
We want to help them know a God who loves them no matter what, on good days and bad. This is a God who wants them to be happy, to be free, to live out their true potential.
One thing I know for sure is that awakening and deepening faith means to tell people that God believes in them whoever they are.

That means you.
You know what?
God loves you, just as you are, right now.
God wants you to be happy, which means to be free to be the person you are destined to be: to be deeply, truly you.
God believes in you.
Isn't that more important than anything?

Your embrace

I am pulled into your embrace
once, twice, three times a day
and it seals me tight to your heart.

Here I can dare to be who I am.
Safe in your arms,
healed of all that ails me,
secure in your presence.

Bind me close now. Never let me go.
All else is death.

Remain in my love

John ch 15
As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you. Remain in my love ... just as I remain in his love. I have told you this so that my own joy may be in you and your joy be complete. Love one another, as I have loved you. ... You are my friends. ... I call you friends.
I am called to be part of this amazing circle of love and life that is the Trinity. In the power and strength of the Holy Spirit I am drawn into such a depth of compassionate, overflowing love. Dwelling in the heart of this 'holy friendship' nurtures me, graces me, sends me out to proclaim a gospel of joy. True friendship builds me up, stretches me and turns me towards the other.

Because

Because
you never know
when it might be your time.
Seize it.

Never let go of the love.

Retreat Echoes 4

It was like a rose opening
sweet to the sun
and it was gift.
It was gentleness, and fullness
of love lost and regained.
My gift to you.
All for you.


Gentle me with kindness,
love me into life,
for in you is all joy found.

Retreat Echoes 1

Let go of what destroys
and let the love in.
Yes.
Let in the love.

I am enveloped in kindness,
held in love.

You are here
and I feel such profound relief,
such warmth at the core of me.