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Dear Sisters,\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>

We have each walked a unique path this 2024 Lenten season to these days of the Triduum and of the Resurrection.\u00a0 The prayers of Holy Week bring us together whether they are celebrated amid special rituals led by our own Sisters in rural areas of our regions, whether prayed together in our convent where no priest is available, whether joined together with fellow parishioners in a nearby church, or prayed with solemnity, song and grand ritual within our own chapels.\u00a0 We have come to the most sacred season of our year and we prepare now to sing ALLELUIA<\/strong> as one.<\/p>

What have we heard our foundress say to us during this Lenten season\u2019s walk?\u00a0 On Holy Saturday she noted: \u201cOh, how necessary is a life of mortification and prayer\u2026., in order to remain steadfast on the path of virtue. \u201c<\/em><\/strong> On Wednesday of Holy Week she said, \u201cOur main activities must always be to work and to endure and to renounce all in the service of God\u2026. I tell you again and again, everything for God and the well-being of our neighbor.\u201d<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 On Ash Wednesday we all began Lent hearing: \u201cHumility and poverty sustain us and our Congregation.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>

When we hear these admonitions and others from her maxims we notice that some seem to have more than a hint of asceticism to them.\u00a0 Do we sometimes turn to another day\u2019s maxim to substitute a bit more positive element?\u00a0 I think if we are honest, we all prefer to hear Katherine speak of hope, confidence in God, desiring the good.\u00a0<\/p>

With this Easter season, a lens for us to understand our Foundress\u2019s spirituality a bit more might be a special gift or an illuminating focus.\u00a0 We try to provide this with our letter now.\u00a0 Today\u2019s 21st<\/sup> century spirituality is often described as eco-spirituality or a new cosmology or mystical or social or service-oriented or mindful — or any number of ways.\u00a0 It seems often that today\u2019s spirituality and Katherina\u2019s have their differences.<\/p>

St Katherina had few books but the one she most treasured was by Thomas a Kempis, The Imitation of Christ<\/em>.\u00a0 Thomas was a 15th century monk (1380 \u2013 1471) who wrote this four-part text for his novices.\u00a0 He stressed\u00a0asceticism rather than mysticism as well as moderate\u2014not extreme\u2014austerity.\u00a0 His emphasis was on grace and he believed that the more we work on our interior, the less individualistic we become and the more we grow in communion with one another.\u00a0<\/p>

His style is simple and the emphasis is on the spiritual rather than materialistic life, affirming the rewards of Christ-centeredness with communion as a means to strengthen faith.\u00a0 \u201cWho purifies the heart makes room for God,\u201d<\/strong><\/em> he wrote.\u00a0 \u00a0“A poor peasant who serves God is better than a proud philosopher who . . . ponders the courses of the stars.”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>

Other key themes in The Imitation<\/em> include renouncing one’s own will, simplicity, humility, and doing the divine will.\u00a0 Thomas noted, \u201cIf you wilt receive profit, read with humility, simplicity and faith and seek not at any time the fame of being learned.\u201d<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 Can we hear our Foundress as we read these words and themes?<\/p>

We know that in addition to St Katharina valuing Thomas a Kempis\u2019s words others who treasured them were Sir Thomas Moore, Ignatius of Loyola, John Wesley, Teresa of Avila and even Agatha Christie who liked to read a chapter each night.<\/p>

While our God is unchanging, God is also inscrutable.\u00a0 God moves through time and helps us appreciate that we find and describe with different words God present amid the changes of epochs, histories, cultures and circumstances.\u00a0 New descriptions in new times allow us to appreciate the many dimensions of God. Various spiritualties help name these dimensions.\u00a0 Perhaps our own Lenten journey brought us to new ways of speaking of God, new understandings?<\/p>

We in General Leadership present these thoughts to you as our Easter offering.\u00a0 May we grow in appreciation of our Foundress\u2019 spirituality.\u00a0 May we grow to appreciate the journey to God we are each on and the journey of our one Congregation together.\u00a0 When we are not each at the same spiritual spot at the same time, we can each trust that God speaks to our hearts.\u00a0 We can together as one sing ALLELUIA for the richness of diversity and the oneness of grace.<\/p>

Saint Katharina says to us this Easter day what she told her assistants in 1870:\u00a0 \u201cI have nothing more special to tell you, only that I desire with all my heart, that we all work and live as Handmaids of\u00a0 Christ to achieve our own holiness as servants of the Lord.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>

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