From Sister Jean Louise

We stand on the threshold of a new season. The Feast of the Baptism of Jesus marks the end of the Christmas season. As we cross into the season of Ordinary Time we are beckoned to ponder other passages we may be making. The thresholds of our lives serve as places to choose, to discern, to sort out what we consider important and where we feel called to go. We may find ourselves at a threshold by choice or by circumstance, arriving by our own design or landing there by events seemingly beyond our control. Whether or not it seems sacred at first, a threshold can become a holy place of new beginnings as we tend it, wait within it, and discern the path beyond…I come to understand the ways that the holy is born only as I enter the mysteries of Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany again and again. Each passage offers visions in the darkness. Each threshold offers signs for the way.

We do not all choose

the same place

of beginning:

not all doorways

are meant for entry.

And so

When silence falls

across the threshold

I have meant for welcome,

may You,

guardian of every passage,

cast your shadow

at my door.

—Jan Richardson, Night Visions

Sister Jean Louise Bachetti, IHM

Director of IHM Associate Relationship

 

 

 

Which passage will you take? 

What does each room hold?

What do you see as you look out the window of each room?