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Canary Island proverb
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FEBRUARY
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Touch Base Thursdays features Interview with Jonathan Roumie on the Cost of playing Jesus in The Chosen - 3:30 pm
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Touch Base Thursdays Movie - "The Way" with Martin Sheen 2:00 pm
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Presidents' Day - Convent Offices closed
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Ash Wednesday
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Touch Base Thursdays - 3 episodes of The Chosen Adventures (animated and created for children/family) - 3:30 pm
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Silent Prayer Hour
Ursuline Center Chapel- 5:00-6:00 p.m.
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Council Meeting
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What Lent Tells Us
by Sr. Joan Chittister, OSB
Life thrives in two kinds of light: direct light and refracted light. When the light of life around us is direct, when we live in the sunshine of life, when there is nothing between us and the thing we seek – or fear – or disapprove of – or disdain, then making decisions, plotting our plans, stating our choice is clear. Unimpeded. Obvious.
But when the light is with us but dimmed by distance or refracted through another medium – glass or water or colored lenses or air or people or situations or events – the lines of life are not nearly as sharp as we would like them to be or are tempted to think they are.
The spiritual life, Lent tells us, is about eliminating the distractions that dim and distance light for us, too. It is about looking at life through the prism that is Jesus. Nothing else. It is about making time in our lives to sit in the Light and be changed by it. Once this happens, life is no longer about adding up the things we get or do not get. It’s not about what arguments we win or do not win; what we understand or do not understand. It is about finding the Light of our lives. Once this happens, we will never be in the dark again.
Journey Into Lent, Joan Chittister
Catholic Sisters Week is nationally recognized annually March 8-14th. To celebrate, women religious communities in the Toledo Diocese will host “Stuff the Truck,” a food drive to support the Toledo SeaGate Food Bank, on Friday, March 13, from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Walt Churchill’s Market, 3320 Briarfield Blvd., Maumee. This is the sixth year the Catholic sisters have hosted a food drive for Toledo SeaGate Food Bank.
Can’t make it to Walt Churchill’s on March 13? Food and monetary donations may also be dropped off at the Ursuline Convent Offices any day leading up to the Food Drive. The Convent Offices are open Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. All donations collected at the Convent Offices will be brought to Walt Churchill’s the day of the event.
Thank you for supporting the Catholic Sisters Week Food Drive and those in our community who are in need of food.