Wisdom Companion #13 – Living “Woke” Is A Holy Pursuit
Hello everyone, this is the latest news and wisdom from Sr Rita, who is on a journey with cancer. You will find the twelve previous “Wisdom Companion” pieces from Sr. Rita by searching this site. This essay speaks to me in many ways. I’ve been unsettled for a long time by attacks and accusations of…
Read MoreWisdom Companion #12 – Random thoughts at the one-year mark
Hello everyone, this is the latest news and wisdom from Sr Rita, who is on a journey with cancer. You will find the eleven previous “Wisdom Companion” pieces from Sr. Rita by searching this site. From Sr. Rita: One year ago, today my liver lit up the MRI, confirming the presence of cancer. I left…
Read MoreWisdom Companion #11 – A CIRCUMSCRIBED LIFE
Hello everyone, this is the latest news and wisdom from Sr Rita, who is on a journey with cancer. You will find the ten previous “Wisdom Companion” pieces from Sr. Rita by searching this site. I love this reflection and am grateful for what it teaches me. Just this morning I was doing tonglen meditation,…
Read MoreWisdom Companion #10 – The Great Asceticism: Life on Life’s Terms.
Hello everyone, this is the latest news and wisdom from Sr Rita, who is on a journey with cancer. You will find the nine previous “Wisdom Companion” pieces from Sr. Rita by searching this site. In this reflection, Sr. Rita talks about what it means to find oneself at a place in the journey where…
Read MoreAuthentic Consent – Wisdom Companion #9
Hello everyone, this is the latest news and wisdom from Sr Rita, who is on a journey with cancer. You will find the eight previous “Wisdom Companion” pieces from Sr. Rita by searching this site. I apologize for taking so long to update all of you. The CAT scan was late coming back but worth…
Read MoreNo Magic Solution To Criticism: In Conversation with Sr. Rita Woehlcke
As you know, my dear friend Sr. Rita is undergoing chemo for cancer, a disease she calls her “Wisdom Companion.” She has written, and continues to write, about the wisdom she is receiving as she is on this journey. You can read her essays on this blog. Just look in the search engine. The other…
Read MoreEulogy For My Brother, Ronnie.
My brother, Bernie, died from suicide, the result of alcoholism and depression on Easter Sunday, April 6, 1996. My brother, Ronnie, died from suicide, the result of addiction and depression on Good Friday, April 10, 2008. I have written about that here, in an essay called, April is the Cruelest Month. Every April I try…
Read MoreAbout Doubt – Conversation with Sr. Rita Woehlcke
As you know, my dear friend Sr. Rita is undergoing chemo for cancer, a disease she calls her “Wisdom Companion.” She has written, and continues to write, about the wisdom she is receiving as she is on this journey. You can read her essays on this blog. Just look in the search engine. The other…
Read MoreMother of Sorrows – the Universal Dark Mother
I was fascinated by my friend, Sr. Rita’s, take on Jesus’s mother, Mary, which she wrote about here. Two things struck me most – first, her resistance to what she called the 1950s version of Mary: all pastels and rosy cheeks and purity so complete as to be bloodless; and second, her reminder that Mary,…
Read MoreAbout Mary – Conversation with Sr. Rita Woehlcke
As you know, my dear friend Sr. Rita is undergoing chemo for cancer, a disease she calls her “Wisdom Companion.” She has written, and continues to write, about the wisdom she is receiving as she is on this journey. You can read her essays on this blog. Just look in the search engine. The other…
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